Dec. 2. 1970: Fred Hampton and one other Black Panther activist, Mark Clarke, murdered by Chicago police. 1980: The Russell Tribunal, an international human rights body, finds the U.S., Canada, and several Latin American countries guilty of cultural and physical genocide in their present-day treatment of Indian populations.

Dec. 3. 1866: Textile strikers win ten-hour work day, Fall River, Mass. 1946: Beginning of three-day general strike of more than 130,000 workers in Alameda County (Oakland) CA, opposing police brutality and in support of striking Oakland department store workers. 1969: Protesters destroy files at eight New York draft boards. 1984: Industrial accident at Union Carbide fertilizer plant in Bhopal, India, causes up to 10,000 deaths. U.S. blocks extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India.

Dec. 4. 1981: Pres. Ronald Reagan authorizes CIA to conduct domestic surveillance. 1991: In a gesture that renders the phrase "Too Little, Too Late" pitifully inadequate, Congress declares 1992 to be the "Year of the Indian."

Dec. 5. 1955: The Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott begins, lasting over a year until buses are integrated. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president. 1972: Australia abolishes military conscription.

Dec. 6. 1869: Meeting of first national black labor group, the Colored National Labor Convention, in Washington, D.C. 1918: U.S. Dept. of War abolishes the practice of manacling defiant prisoners to the walls of their cells in solitary confinement, which was used to torture conscientious objectors in U.S. prisons during World War I. 1957: The Navy-built Vanguard, bearing what was to be the first U.S. satellite in space, explodes on the launch pad. 1981: 2,000 women march in Tokyo in remembrance of the day Japan bombed Pearl Harbor with a banner, "We Will Not Allow The Way To War." 1989: Fourteen female students are assassinated at a L'ecole Polytechnique in Montreal by a man vowing to kill feminists.

Dec. 7. 1682: "Great Law" abolishes war in colony of Pennsylvania. Except, of course, against Indians. 1918: 100,000 textile workers strike in Lancashire, England. 1929: Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky. 1931: 1,000 national hunger marchers arrive in Washington, D.C. 1995: Up to 1.75 million striking French workers demonstrate in marches shutting down the country as part of an escalating series of general strikes protesting government cutbacks and global exploitation of workers. 1997: Eighteen Australian activists and one East Timorese refugee arrested inside Canungra Land Warfare Centre, south of Brisbane, Australia, in a protest on the anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. Canungra serves as a training center for Indonesian and other Southeast Asian militaries.

Dec. 8. 1941: Representative Jeanette Rankin casts the only vote in Congress against American entry into World War II. 1969: Los Angeles police raid local Black Panther Party offices.