Dec. 23. 1972: 350 anti-war protesters march through stores in downtown Seattle shopping district.

Dec. 24. 1913: 72 miners' children killed in panic caused by company stooge at Calumet, Michigan.

Dec. 25. 0: Apocryphal birth of Jesus of Nazareth. 1990: Mass demonstration in India to protest dam building and flooding of thousands of farms. Project is eventually reduced, proving that the IMF and World Bank can't always keep the rabble in line.

Dec. 26. 1862: 39 Santee Lakota hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Mankato, Minn. 1972: A study rates conditions in half of Washington State's prisons to be "inhuman."

Dec. 27. 1913: Mass rebellion by IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta forces city to house 400 unemployed during winter.

Dec. 28. 1936: Sit-down strike against General Motors begins at Fisher Body plant in Cleveland. 1996: Three arrested at Capitol Hill post office, Seattle, for refusing to leave after attempting to mail humanitarian supplies to Iraq in defiance of U.S.-led embargo. Two of the three--Bert Sachs and Rev. Randall Mullens--recently returned from delivering supplies personally.

Dec. 29. 1890: Several hundred Lakota men, women, and children massacred by U.S. troops at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. 1994: A Washington state court rejects property rights advocates and reaffirms the fishing harvest rights of 15 Indian tribes.

Jan. 1. 1986: Arrest of 10 anti-nuclear activists at Nevada Test Site culminates a 54-day encampment at the main NTS gate. The camp establishes momentum for a movement with over 10,000 arrests in numerous protests over the following years.

Jan. 2. 1996: 100,000 Bangladeshi women traveled from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capitol, to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on women's education and employment.