Sep. 9. 1739: Slave revolt in Stono, South Carolina. 1873: Swinomish Reservation created for Lower Skagit and other tribes. 1973: Beginning of five days of riots at Attica State Prison, New York. 43 killed. 1980: Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community hammer nose cone of missile at GE plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in the first of what would become an international movement of many dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.

Sep. 10. 1897: Nineteen striking miners killed, 40 wounded by sheriff's deputies at Latimer, Penn. 1941: Trade union leaders shot by German firing squads in reprisal for workers' strike, Norway.

Sep. 11. 1906: Gandhi begins nonviolent resistance campaign, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1973: CIA overthrows democratically elected government of Chile, assassinating President Salvador Allende, folk singer Victor Jara, and many others. Sixteen years of repressive military rule follows. 1988: The Innu of North West River in Labrador, Canada, begin protesting low-altitude training at NATO base near Goose Bay, citing environmental damage. The ongoing campaign has included numerous runway occupations by the Innu, and solidarity actions across Western Europe, but has received little attention in the U.S., which funds much of the base operations.

Sep. 12. 1891: Birth of Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement. 1932: Unemployed march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, Ohio. 1970: Comandos Armados Liberacion bombs U.S. governors convention, San Juan, Puerto Rico.

Sep. 13. 1663: First serious recorded slave organizing in colonial America in Gloucester County, Virginia. 1971: New York state police murder 37 prisoners, ending Attica Prison uprising, Attica, New York. 1972: 40 pissed off Indians take over BIA office in Pawnee, Okla. 1993: Israel and PLO agree to "limited" self-rule for Palestine.

Sep. 14. 1883: Birth control advocate Margaret Sanger born. 1918: Eugene Debs imprisoned for opposing U.S. entry into World War I. 1959: Landrum-Griffin Act passed, further limiting trade union activities in U.S. 1991: South African government, African National Congress and Inkatha Freedom Party sign the National Peace Accord, leading to multi-racial elections and the end of South Africa's apartheid system in 1994.

Sep. 15. 1845: Female cotton workers strike for the 10-hour day. 1963: Six children attending Sunday School are killed in a Ku Klux Klan bombing of Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. 1981: Blockade starts at nuclear power plant construction site, Diablo Canyon, California. Over two weeks, 1,901 are arrested in the largest occupation of a nuclear power site in U.S. history. 1986: Vietnam Veterans Duncan Murphy and Brian Willson join Charles Liteky and George Mizo in the Fast For Life, opposing U.S. support of the contra war against Nicaragua. 1996: 6,000 rally and 1,033 are arrested near the Headwaters Grove in rural Carlotta, Calif., in a protest against the logging of one of the last large unlogged redwood stands in the world.