Mar. 1. 1943: Huge rally calls on U.S. government to reconsider its refusal to offer sanctuary to Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany. Madison Square, New York City. 1954: Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from visitors' galley of U.S. Congress.

Mar. 2. 1955: Months before Rosa Parks, teenager Claudette Colvin is arrested in Montgomery, AL, for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white person. 1995: Proposal to reinstate death penalty loses in Iowa.

Mar. 3. 1913: Over 5,000 women march on Washington to demand right to vote. In early guerrilla theater, women and children stage "Suffrage Tableau" on U.S. Capitol steps. 1991: African-American Rodney King is videotaped being beaten by Los Angeles police officers.

Mar. 4. 1962: U.S. nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica. 1978: 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo, Netherlands.

Mar. 5. 1871: Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish leader in German Socialist and anti-war movements. 1927: U.S. Marines land in China.

Mar. 6. 1836: Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. 1933: Pres. Roosevelt closes all U.S. banks.

Mar. 7. 1860: 6,000 shoemakers joined by 20,000 other workers in strike in Lynn, Mass. 1972: Urban Indians form the National American Indians Council. Omaha, Nebraska.

Mar. 8. 1908: Strike by U.S. garment workers (all women) becomes the basis for International Women's Day. 1971: Members of the "Citizens Committee to Investigate the F.B.I." break into an F.B.I. office in suburban Philadelphia, and later publish files revealing the existence of the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO program to harass domestic political dissidents.

Mar. 9. 1986: 100,000 march in Washington, D.C. for freedom of choice and reproductive rights.

Mar. 10. 1913: Death of Harriet Tubman, self-liberated slave and Underground Railroad organizer. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

Mar. 11. 1973: Formation of independent Oglala Sioux Nation proclaimed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1988: Beginning of ten days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. The event is almost completely ignored by mainstream media.

Mar. 12. 295 A.D.: Maximilian beheaded for refusing military service, Thevesta, North Africa. 1979: Grenadan revolution begins.

Mar. 13. 1962: Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental U.S.

Mar. 14. 1968: Commission report publishes evidence of large-scale extermination of tribes (poisoning and machine-gunning) by Brazil's Indian Protection Service. Nearly 30 years later, such attacks are still alarmingly common.