Feb. 24. 1912: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn leads Bread and Roses textile strike rally of 20,000 women, Lowell, Massachusetts. 1965: District 1199 Health Care Workers becomes first U.S. labor union to oppose war in Vietnam. 1966: David Miller and Russel Wills become first Seattle residents to refuse induction into armed forces to protest Vietnam War. Wills is later sentenced to two years in prison for his refusal.

Feb. 25. 1874: Skokomish reservation established (near Shelton, Wash.). 1913: Passage of the 16th Amendment to U.S. Constitution, authorizing the federal government to tax income. 1986: Mass demonstrations overthrow Marcos dictatorship, Manila, Philippines. 1994: Jewish settler opens fire, kills dozens of Palestinians praying in a mosque in Hebron, Israel. For some reason, Israeli government does not rush to declare martial law and bulldoze Jewish homes in response.

Feb. 26. 1969: Minority students occupy President's office at Seattle Central Community College. 1976: Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never prosecuted but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota. 1991: U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi personnel on the Basra road from Kuwait. 1998: An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed to either confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor (Wash.) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the existence of such heinous weapons were highly likely.

Feb. 27. 1973: Village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota occupied by American Indian Movement activists in response to campaign of terror by tribal and FBI officials. 1976: The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada presents claim to immense area in Canada's Arctic.

Feb. 28. 1877: U.S. Government seizes Black Hills from Lakota Sioux in violation of treaty. 1919: Gandhi launches satyagraha campaign, India. 1939: Sit-down strikes outlawed by Supreme Court. 1989: Nevada-Semipalatnisk Movement to Stop All Nuclear Testing founded in USSR. 1991: Three soldiers seek sanctuary as objectors to Gulf War in Riverside Church, New York City. 1998: Even though the imminent threat of military strikes had been averted by a U.N. agreement, 5,000 rally in New York City protesting U.S. war and sanctions against Iraq. Demonstrations also held in at least 30 other cities.

Feb. 29. 1968: The summary report of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders faults excessive police force in U.S. ghettos.

Mar. 1. 1790: First U.S. Census count includes slave and free Negroes. Indians were not included. 1954: Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from visitors' galley of U.S. Congress. 1997: 15,000 demonstrate in Lunesburg, Germany, against shipment of French nuclear waste to site in Gorleben. Over the next several days hundreds of thousands would participate in demonstrations and direct actions along the shipping route.