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‘Events like this keep spirit of resistance burning’
HUNDREDS of Mancunians and Lancastrians held an “illegal picnic” at the steps of the new Peterloo Massacre memorial on Saturday.
Scores of demonstrators marching from towns and cities across Lancashire and Greater Manchester massed at the site of the 1819 massacre in which 18 protesters demanding the vote were murdered.
The latter-day protesters had a picnic during which people were encouraged to take part in an open-microphone session.
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