Dec. 23. 1972: About 350 anti-war protesters march through stores in the downtown Seattle shopping district.

Dec. 24. 1990: Gulf Peace Team sets up camp, Judayyidat Ar'ar, Iraq.

Dec. 25. 0: Apocryphal birth of Jesus of Nazareth. 1990: Mass demonstration in India to protest dam building and flooding of thousands of farms. Project is eventually significantly reduced, proving that the IMF and World Bank don't always succeed in keeping the rabble in line.

Dec. 26. 1862: 39 Santee Lakota simultaneously hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history. Mankato, Minn. 1971: Two dozen Vietnam Veterans Against the War "liberate" the Statue of Liberty and fly an inverted U.S. flag from the crown.

Dec. 27. 1913: Mass rebellion by IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta forces city to house 400 unemployed during winter.

Dec. 28. 1996: Three arrested at Capital Hill post office in Seattle for refusing to leave after attempting to mail humanitarian supplies to Iraq in defiance of U.S.-led embargo.

Dec. 29. 1890: Several hundred Lakota men, women, and children massacred by U.S. troops at Wounded Knee, in the new state of South Dakota. 1994: A state court rejects property rights advocates and reaffirms the fishing harvest rights of 15 Indian tribes in Washington state.

Dec. 30. 1971: Daniel Ellsburg indicted by a federal grand jury for releasing Pentagon Papers to news media.

Dec. 31. 1970: U.S. Congress repeals the Gulf of Tonkin resolution.

Jan. 1. 1804: Haitian slaves, led by Jean Jacques Desalines, declare independence. Haiti becomes first free black nation-state in the world; U.S. refuses to recognize Haiti for the next 70 or so years. 1986: Arrest of ten anti-nuclear activists for trespassing at Nevada Test Site culminates a 54-day encampment at the main Test Site gate. The camp establishes momentum for what became a movement of over 10,000 arrests in numerous Test Site protests over the following years.

Jan. 2. 1996: An estimated 100,000 Bangladeshi women travel from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capital, to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on women's education and employment.

Jan. 3. 1781: Inca Rebellion. Inca beseige Cuzco (Peru) in attempt to dislodge Spanish. 1964: 500,000 New York pupils stay at home in protest against racial segregation.

Jan. 4. 1932: Mohandas Gandhi arrested in India for restarting satyagraha campaign. 1997: 80,000 rally in Ogoni portions of Nigeria against military dictatorship and Shell Oil's plans to destroy Ogoni land. Nigerian Army opens fire on peaceful demonstration, wounding four.

Jan. 5. 1869: First black labor convention in U.S. 1991: 19 arrested in "Homes Not War" protest, Tucson, Arizona.