Mar. 15. 1970: 78 protesters are arrested during a second attempt by Native American activists to occupy Fort Lawton, demanding that Seattle give the unused facility back to Native Americans.

Mar. 16. 1998: In response to reported Serbian massacres in Drenica, in the ethnically Albanian province of Kosovo, 12,000 women, carrying loaves of bread, attempt to march 50 km to Drenica from the capital of Prishtina. They are turned back by police.

Mar. 17. 1775: Richard Henderson, a North Carolina judge, buys a vast tract of Cherokee land for the Transylvania Land Co.; purchase is later declared invalid but land cession is not reversed. 1996: 30,000 march in Villahermosa, Mexico, in support of a campaign to blockade state-owned oil wells that had displaced thousands of poor people.

Mar. 18. 1963: U.S. Supreme Court rules that states must provide free legal counsel for indigents. 1964: Several Cocama tribal villages in Amazon Basin of Peru strafed and napalmed by government planes.

Mar. 19. 1965: 49 arrested in New York City for protesting Chase Manhattan Bank loans to South Africa. 1978: 50,000 march in Amsterdam to protest U.S. deployment of the neutron bomb in Europe.

Mar. 20. 1985: Bolivian Army crushes general strike. 1996: Twenty-five arrested at Dept. of Justice in Washington, D.C., and 27 others in San Francisco, during protests demanding freedom for Leonard Peltier.

Mar. 21. 1919: 22 Puerto Ricans killed in demonstrations for independence from U.S. 1995: The state of Mississippi ratifies the thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, outlawing slavery.

Mar. 22. 1942: Manifesto against Nazi control of education read in most churches, Norway. 1980: 30,000 march in Washington, D.C. against reintroduction of draft registration.

Mar. 23. 1970: President Nixon declares national emergency, orders 30,000 troops to New York City to break Postal Wildcat Strike.

Mar. 24. 1956: Danilo Dolci and 22 others are tried in a Sicily court for the nonviolent direct action of attempting to repair an old road without proper government authorization.

Mar. 25. 1911: 146 immigrant sweatshop workers killed in the Triangle Shirt Waist fire, New York City. Incident leads to widespread reforms in working conditions.

Mar. 26. 1986: U.S. Supreme Court upholds a ruling that an Oklahoma law permitting the dismissal of teachers for speaking out on gay rights is unconstitutional. 1993: Soviet cosmonaut Serge Krikalev returns to the planet's surface after over 300 days in orbit. While he was away, the USSR dissolved.

Mar. 27. 1953: Dashiell Hammett's novels banned from State Dept.'s overseas libraries. 1966: 20,000 Buddhists in silent march for peace, Hue, South Vietnam.

Mar. 28. 1915: Emma Goldman arrested for telling first U.S. audience how to use contraceptives; chooses 15 days in jail over $100 fine. 1969: Anna Louise Strong, former Seattle School Board member and organizer of the 1919 Seattle General Strike, dies in Beijing, China.