Aug. 17. 1985: Hormel meat-packing strike begins in Austin, Minn. The Hormel strike, generally regarded as labor's first major grass roots revolt against corporate downsizing, is suppressed after nearly a year by Hormel in cooperation with both the state and the workers' own national union.

Aug. 18. 1977: Steve Biko, leading student apartheid resister, arrested. He is later murdered while in custody. Port Elizabeth, South Africa.

Aug. 19. 1958: NAACP youth council begins sit-ins to desegregate lunch counters in Oklahoma. 1969: Black Panther Party leader Bobby Seale is arrested in San Francisco and charged with murder.

Aug. 20. 1619: First black slaves land at Jamestown, Virginia. 1860: National Labor Union formed. 1981: Crow Indians barricade Hwy. 313 near Hardin, Montana, to protest non-Indian fishing on Bighorn River in Crow Reservation.

Aug. 21. 1831: Nat Turner leads slave revolt in Virginia. 1971: Black liberation activist George Jackson and five others are assassinated by prison guards, San Quentin, California. 1991: Mass demonstrations overcome attempted coup, Moscow, USSR.

Aug. 22. 1791: Slave revolt begins Haitian revolution. In 1804, Haiti becomes first free black country in the world. Due to pressure from Southern slaveholders, U.S. refuses recognition of Haiti until 1865. 1971: FBI arrests twenty in Camden, New Jersey, and five in Buffalo, New York, for attempting to steal and destroy draft records.

Aug. 23. 1927: Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, anarchist political prisoners, executed, Massachusetts. 1933: Vigilantes assault 200 migrant workers in Yakima.

Aug. 24. 1945: Congress passes Communist Control Act. 1967: Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin throw 300 one-dollar bills from balcony onto floor of New York Stock Exchange, creating instant bedlam.

Aug. 25. 1689: 1,200 Iroquois warriors attack Montreal. 1948: Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors founded in Philadelphia.

Aug. 26. 1920: Ratification of 19th Amendment in U.S., extending right to vote to women. 1969: The Quinault close reservation beaches to non-Indians. Washington State responds that ownership is in question. The beaches are still closed, although the resort hotels at Moclips literally go right up to the reservation border.

Aug. 27. 1949: Anticommunist mob breaks up Paul Robeson concert in Peekskill, N.Y. 1986: Congress reinstates Klamath, Modoc, and Yahuskin band of Snake Indians of Oregon.

Aug. 28. 1955: Emmett Till, a Detroit teenager visiting relatives in Mississippi, is tortured and killed for allegedly talking to a white woman in an "improper" way. 1976: 60,000 join Peace People demonstrations, Belfast and Dublin, Ireland.

Aug. 29. 1758: First Indian reservation established. 1961: SNCC voter registration drive begins in South. 1970: Three die in East Los Angeles when an anti-war march turns into a riot during Chicano National Moratorium.

Aug. 30. 1964: Democratic Party convention refuses to seat black protest delegation in place of all-white delegation from state of Mississippi. Outside, 200 protesters rally to oppose Vietnam War. Atlantic City, NJ.