Oct. 28. 1932: U.S. Dept. of Interior removes Papago tribal land, Arizona, from mineral exploration. This is rescinded two years later by the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. 1971: Alberta Indians begin sit-in at Indian Affairs office in Edmonton, Alberta, protesting conditions at reserve schools. The sit-in would last six months. 1989: Police attack 10,000 pro-democracy demonstrators, Prague, Czechoslovakia.

Oct. 29. 1962: Cuban missile crisis ends when USSR agrees to withdraw missiles from Cuba. 1966: National Organization for Women founded, Washington, D.C. The 30 attendees elect Betty Friedan as NOW's first president. 1979: "Up Against The Wall Street Journal" direct actions disrupt New York Stock Exchange and financial district on 50th Anniversary of the stock market crash of 1929. Over 1,000 arrested.

Oct. 30. 1967: Martin Luther King, Jr., is arrested and jailed in Birmingham, Alabama, on charges stemming from demonstrations in 1963. 1995: Over 80 people, including former U.S. Rep. Jim Jontz, arrested at Sugarloaf Mountain, Oregon, during massive direct action to prevent corporate clearcutting of old growth forests on public land.

Oct. 31. 1873: Oto chiefs, including Medicine Horse and Stand-By, come to Washington D.C. asking permission to hold one last buffalo hunt; they are denied. 1978: Canadian government and Inuit sign pact granting control of 37,000 square miles in western Arctic to Inuit. Of course, the Inuit used to have ALL of it...

Nov. 1. 1797: First African Free School established in New York. 1952: U.S. detonates world's first hydrogen bomb, equivalent to 700 Hiroshimas, at Eniwetok Atoll, South Pacific. 1961: 50,000 women join in protests across the U.S. against resumption of atmospheric nuclear tests, leading to founding of Women Strike for Peace. 1961: Interstate Commerce Commission bans segregation on interstate buses.

Nov. 2. 1811: Weavers and knitters smash job-displacing new machines at Sutton and Ashfield, England, as part of the "Luddite" rebellion. 1920: Imprisoned anti-war activist Eugene Debs receives over one million votes for U.S. President. 1972: 500 protesters from "Trail of Broken Treaties" Native American march occupy Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, Washington D.C., for six days. 1989: U.S. nun Diana Ortiz is kidnapped, beaten, raped and tortured near Guatemala City by U.S.-backed Guatemalan military. The U.S. Embassy claims Ortiz staged her own abduction and rape.

Nov. 3. 1883: U.S. Supreme Court rules that a Indian is by birth "an alien and a dependent." 1896: Idaho grants suffrage to women by popular vote. 1917: Bolshevik revolution takes power in Moscow, Russia. 1979: Four members of the Communist Workers Party are murdered when their anti-Klan rally is attacked by Ku Klux Klan and Nazi Party thugs in Greensboro, North Carolina. Two subsequent juries acquit the murderers.