Nov. 25. 1985: Lt. Col. Oliver North fired by Reagan White House for being too obvious. 1992: 87 nations meet in Copenhagen, Denmark and agree to accelerate their schedules for phasing out ozone-depleting CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) chemicals by 1996. The U.S. opposes the agreement.

Nov. 26. 1868: Ignoring orders to kill only warriors, a U.S. Army contingent led by Gen. Custer massacres 103 sleeping Cheyenne--including Black Kettle, survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre--in the so-called "Battle of the Washita," Oklahoma Territory.

Nov. 28. 1864: A U.S. army regiment under Col. Chivington, acting on orders from Colorado's Governor, John Evans, massacres sleeping Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians camped under a U.S. flag in one of the most brutal atrocities in U.S. history. Virtually all of the 500 victims, mostly women and children, were tortured and scalped. Sand Creek, Colorado.

Nov. 29. 1854: Umpqua and Kalapuyan tribes sign treaty ceding Oregon lands to U.S. 1990: U.N. Security Council votes 12-2 in favor of war in Persian Gulf.

Nov. 30. 1930: Death of radical labor organizer Mary Harris, aka Mother Jones. 1936: Birth of anti-war protester and Yippie Abbie Hoffman. 1980: Death of Dorothy Day, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.

Dec. 1. 1955: Arrest of Rosa Parks sets off successful year-long bus boycott by blacks. Montgomery, Alabama. 1966: Seattle police shoot and kill a black youth suspected of car theft. 1997: A silent march of women, protesting conscription, is met by a police attack and the arrest of 37 women. Khartoum, Sudan.

Dec. 2. 1842: Birth of Russian anarchist Peter Kropotkin. 1859: John Brown executed by state of Virginia for his leadership of a plot to incite slave rebellion. 1970: Fred Hampton and one other Black Panther activist, Mark Clarke, murdered by Chicago police. 1990: U.S.-backed Guatemalan army kills fourteen civilians at Santiago Atitlan.

Dec. 3. 1805: William Clark reaches Pacific Ocean after floating down the Snake and Columbia Rivers. Clark's journal entries noted an appalling lack of enormous hydroelectric dams. 1866: Textile strikers win ten-hour work day, Fall River, Mass. 1946: Start of three-day general strike of more than 130,000 workers in Alameda County (Oakland) CA, opposing police brutality and in support of striking Oakland department store workers. 1984: Accident at Union Carbide fertilizer plant in Bhopal, India, causes up to 10,000 deaths. U.S. blocks extradition of Union Carbide officials facing criminal prosecution in India.

Dec. 7. 1929: Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky. 1975: With U.S. and British assistance, Indonesia invades and annexes East Timor. The resulting decades of occupation have resulted in the genocide of an estimated one-third of the East Timorese population. 1987: Beginning of Intifada uprising in occupied Palestine. 1995: Up to 1.75 million striking French workers demonstrate in marches shutting down the country as part of an escalating series of general strikes protesting government cutbacks and global exploitation of workers.