Aug. 31. 1925: U.S. Marines end 11-year occupation of Haiti. The dictatorship they leave in place continues to pillage and murder Haitians for another 60 years, rendering destitute what was once the wealthiest country in the Western Hemisphere. 1962: 20,000 call for general strike in the event of civil war, Algeria.

Sep. 1. 1996: Sixteen activists in Stuttgart, Germany are arrested at EUROCOM, the U.S. Armed Forces command HQ for Europe, Africa, and the Middle East (and central NATO command), in a protest of NATO expansion into Eastern Europe. 1997: Kurdish and British activists blockade an arms trade exhibition outside London. 89 arrested.

Sep. 2. 1921: Mine owners bomb striking West Virginia miners by plane. 1965: Mao Zedong launches "Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution" in China.

Sep. 3. 1838: Frederick Douglass, famous African-American abolitionist, escapes from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland to freedom in the north. 1969: Vietnamese revolutionary leader Ho Chi Minh, 79, dies of natural causes in Hanoi.

Sep. 4. 1626: First patent in American history, for device to restrain natives, to W. Claiborne in Jamestown, Virginia. 1982: 10,000 dance on nuclear reactor site, Gorleben, West Germany.

Sep. 5. 1877: Crazy Horse assassinated at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, during an attempt to confine him in a guardhouse. 1917: In 48 coordinated raids across the country, federal agents seize records and arrest hundreds of IWW (Wobbly) activists for the crime of labor organizing and "obstructing" World War I.

Sep. 6. 1988: Seven arrested in protests at uranium processing plant, Fernald, Ohio. The Fernald plant was later revealed to be among the worst polluters in the entire U.S. nuclear industry.

Sep. 7. 1958: First meeting of the New York Daughters of Bilitis, pioneer lesbian organization. 1990: RCMP moves in on First Nations encampment in southern Alberta, ending a month-long native attempt to protect sacred land by diverting the Old Man River around a partially completed dam.

Sep. 8. 1760: The Capitulation of Montreal. British give Indians right to remain on lands they occupy, recognizing previous French agreements. 1763: Stepan Glotlov lands on Kodiak Island, Alaska, and attempts to persuade natives to pay tribute to Imperial government. They refuse and attack the Russians.

Sep. 9. 1980: Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community hammer nose cone of missile at GE plant in King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, in the first of what would become an international movement of many dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.

Sep. 10. 1897: Nineteen striking miners killed, 40 wounded by sheriff's deputies at Latimer, Penn.

Sep. 11. 1906: Gandhi begins nonviolent resistance campaign, Johannesburg, South Africa. 1990: U.S. anthropologist Myma Mack murdered by U.S.-paid Guatemalan military.

Sep. 12. 1891: Birth of Albizu Campos, leader of the Puerto Rican independence movement. 1932: Unemployed march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, Ohio.

Sep. 13. 1663: First serious recorded slave organizing in colonial America in Gloucester County, Virginia. 1972: 40 pissed-off Indians take over BIA office in Pawnee, Okla.