Feb. 10. 1961: Voice of Nuclear Disarmament pirate radio station begins operation off shore of Britain. 1971: National protests against U.S. invasion of Laos include 1,500 protesters and nine arrests at the Univ. of Washington.

Feb. 11. 1805: Sacajawea gives birth to Jean-Baptist Charbonneau while leading Lewis & Clark Expedition. 1919: Seattle General Strike ends. 1937: General Motors workers win 44-day sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan. 1971: Treaty on non-militarization of sea bed signed, London, Moscow and Washington. 1978: "Longest Walk" begins, 300 Native Americans start march from San Francisco to Washington D.C. 1990: Nelson Mandela released after being held 27 years in prison without trial by the U.S.-supported apartheid government of South Africa.

Feb. 12. 1909: Founding of The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) by W.E.B. DuBois and others. 1947: Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from World Wars I and II burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House in Washington and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in U.S. 1974: After ten years of direct actions to claim treaty fishing rights, Washington state tribes win court decision giving them 50% of allowable salmon catch. Legislators have sought to undermine or overturn the ruling ever since.

Feb. 13. 1641: Iroquois Confederacy begins war against Canada. 1913: Silk workers strike in Paterson, New Jersey. 1945: Over 50,000 killed in Allied firebombing of Dresden, Germany.

Feb. 14. 1779: Captain Cook killed by native Hawai'ians after taking hostages. 1817: Birth as a slave of Frederick Douglass, black abolitionist and founder of the influential The North Star newspaper in Rochester, New York. 1903: Western Federation of Miners strikes for eight-hour day. 1967: Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico.

Feb. 15. 1820: Birth of Susan B. Anthony, early feminist and suffragist. 1966: Nisqually tribe engages in protest "fish-in" to demand treaty fishing rights. 1991: U.S. planes bomb civilian shelter, killing at least 500, Baghdad, Iraq. 1997: In "Railway Tracks Action Day," some 15,000 in Wendland, Germany block and dismantle railroad lines scheduled to be used for shipment of nuclear waste.

Feb. 16. 1848: Seneca Falls (New York) Women's Rights Convention. 1916: Emma Goldman arrested in New York for lecturing on birth control. 1942: Conscientious objectors arrested after walking out of work camp, Merom, Indiana. 1965: A plot by the Black Liberation Front to blow up the Statue of Liberty is foiled. 1996: Thousands attend peace rallies throughout Northern Ireland.