Apr. 7. 1968: 9,000 attend a Seattle memorial for Martin Luther King, Jr., slightly fewer than would attend the April 1994 memorial following the death of Kurt Cobain.

Apr. 8. 563 BC: Birth of Gautama Buddha. 1712: Slave revolt, New York City. 1898: Birth of Paul Robeson, actor, singer, and black liberation fighter. 1973: A Harris Poll reports 51% in U.S. support the American Indian Movement protestors occupying Wounded Knee, S.D.; 21% support the federal government.

Apr. 9. 1865: End of U.S. Civil War. Total of over 500,000 dead (out of 35 million population). 1947: First day of Freedom Ride, sponsored by CORE and FOR, with white and black activists riding (otherwise) segregated buses through four southern states. 1995: Over 100,000 at Rally For Women's Lives, Washington DC.

Apr. 10. 1919: Peasant leader Emiliano Zapata ambushed and assassinated by Mexican federal troops. 1971: 90-year-old Jeanette Rankin, the first U.S. Congresswoman and and only member of Congress to vote against U.S. entry to both World Wars, leads 8,000 women in March on Pentagon to protest war in Southeast Asia.

Apr. 11. 1986: 17 arrested on felony riot charges after police tear-gas striking Hormel meatpacking workers in Austin, Minn. 6,000 (in a city of 20,000) demonstrate the next day. The Hormel strike, generally regarded as the first major grass roots revolt against corporate downsizing, is eventually suppressed by Hormel in cooperation with both the state and the workers' own national union.

Apr. 12. 1935: 60,000 college students across U.S. go on strike against war. 1989: Abbie Hoffman dies in Pennsylvania.

Apr. 13. 1743: Birth of Thomas Jefferson, radical dude. 1995: Five Catholic Worker activists are arrested in protest at World Bank headquarters, Washington DC.