Nov. 11. 1831: Slave revolt leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. 1918: Armistice ending World War I ("the war to end all wars") signed, Compiegne, France. 1919: Centralia Massacre of IWW labor organizers. 1978: Gay San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk and mayor George Moscone assassinated by ex-supervisor Dan White. White is convicted of the lightest charge possible in the infamous "Twinkie defense," that White was depressed because of overconsumption of junk food.

Nov. 12. 1815: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, prominent American feminist and suffragist, born. 1921: Disarmament conference opens, Washington D.C. 1972: Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on the unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza. 1997: Six East Timorese and three British supporters arrested at British Aerospace factory in a protest of export of arms to Indonesia. Warton, England.

Nov. 13. 1518: Velasquez obtains Crown authority to colonize the new countries in the Americas. 1839: First U.S. anti-slavery political party (Liberal Party) established. 1974: Karen Silkwood, anti-nuclear activist, murdered en route to meet a New York Times reporter, Oklahoma.

Nov. 14. 1903: Women's Trade Union League formed. 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic. 1957: 150,000 metalworkers rally against re-armament, Baden-Wuerttemberg, West Germany. 1968: Italian students lead a nationwide general strike. 1992: 200,000 Germans protest in Bonn against racist neo-Nazi violence and the deportation of asylum seekers. 1993: CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S. media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate itself.

Nov. 15. 1881: American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed. 1942: Completion of arrests of entire Jewish population (2,300) in Nazi-occupied Norway. 1991: Brazil's Pres. Collor signs decree returning original lands to Yanomani Indians. Unfortunately, the decree means little as gold miners and ranchers continue stealing land and murdering the Yanomani.

Nov. 16. 1972: Baton Rouge, Louisiana police kill two black student protesters at Southern University. 1980: Hundreds arrested at Women's Pentagon Action, protesting patriarchy and its war making. 1983: Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner orders Washington State to pay female employees their "comparable worth." 1988: Palestine National Council declares Palestinian government in exile; over 100 nations offer recognition. 1989: Six Jesuit priests, their housekeeper and her daughter are brutally murdered by U.S.-supported death squads, El Salvador. 1997: After a silent, half-mile long "funeral procession" attempts to enter the School of the Americas (a.k.a. School of Assassins), 601 are arrested, Fort Benning, Georgia.

Nov. 17. 1909: U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua. 1960: Anti-integration demonstrators riot in New Orleans. 1989: Mass demonstration leads to downfall of regime, Wenceslas Square, Prague, Czechoslovakia.