June 8. 1990: U.S. citizen Michael Devine kidnapped and murdered by CIA-paid Guatemalan military officials, led by ex-School of the Americas two-time graduate Col. Julio Alpirez.

June 9. 1950: Two of Hollywood Ten imprisoned for refusing to cooperate with House Un-American Activities Committee. 1993: Police ban vigil of Women in Black, Belgrade, Serbia.

June 10. 1975: Release of Rockefeller Commission report detailing a secret CIA-sponsored domestic program, CHAOS, that monitored over 300,000 anti-war dissidents and organizations in the United States. 1990: 50,000 attend first March for the Animals in Washington, D.C.

June 11. 1971: Nineteen-month occupation by Native American protesters of Alcatraz Island, in San Francisco Bay, ends.

June 12. 1964: Nelson Mandela sentenced to life imprisonment after conviction for "sabotaging" South African government. 1971: Mexican police and death squads kill 43 student protesters in Mexico City.

June 13. 1977: 200 indigenous peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland and Siberia convene the first Inuit Circumpolar Conference in Barrow, Alaska, urging the ban of all weapons testing and disposal in the Arctic.

June 14. 1928: Ernesto "Che" Guevara born, Cuba. 1988: American-Soviet peace walk to San Francisco leaves Washington, D.C.

June 15. 1962: Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) meeting prepares the "Port Huron Statement," a manifesto which helps inspire much of the 60's student protest movement. 1963: Rev. Mance Jackson leads 1,000 from Mt. Zion Baptist Church to Westlake Mall in Seattle's first civil rights march.

June 16. 1958: Hungarian reform leader Imre Nagy is executed by Soviet occupation forces in Hungary. 1976: Soweto Massacre, South Africa. 700 black children killed while protesting requirement to learn Afrikaans language in their schools.

June 17. 1977: International Indian Treaty Council announces its intention to provide Soviet Union with a list of U.S. human rights abuses against its indigenous peoples. 1997: Washington state voters narrowly approve public financing of a new football stadium for billionaire Paul Allen, in the first U.S. election ever directly financed by an individual for his own benefit.

June 18. 1934: Indian Reorganization Act passed against the virtually unanimous opposition of U.S. Indians, who generally felt they'd already been reorganized enough. 1981: Europarliament calls for abolition of death penalty throughout Europe.

June 19. 1754: Benjamin Franklin introduces Albany Plan of Union, based on the Iroquois Confederacy. Plan was rejected, but its essential elements are adopted 25 years later as the U.S. Constitution. 1865: Slaves declared free in state of Texas. Celebrated each year in Texas, mostly by people of color, as the holiday "Juneteenth."

June 20. 1967: Boxing champion Muhammad Ali--who, three years after his conversion to Islam, white media still insisted on calling Cassius Clay--is convicted of refusing draft. Ali is stripped of his boxing titles.

June 21. 1921: Sovereignty dispute settled with demilitarization, Aland Islands, Finland. 1968: Approximately 100 Indians from Poor People's Campaign demonstrate outside Bureau of Indian Affairs offices in Washington, D.C. 1997: 100,000 march in solidarity with striking newspaper workers in Detroit.