Nov. 8. 1892: 20,000 black and white workers stage general strike, New Orleans. 1960: Washington state voters refuse to repeal "Alien Land Law" provision of the state constitution barring Asians from owning property.

Nov. 9. 1935: John L. Lewis forms the Council of Industrial Organizations (CIO). 1982: Computer error causes six-minute "nuclear war alert" in U.S.

Nov. 10. 1898: 400 Democratic Party activists in Wilmington, North Carolina storm through the black section of town, assassinating black political officeholders. 30 blacks die in the massacre. 1924: Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in the U.S., founded in Chicago.

Nov. 11. 1831: Slave revolt leader Nat Turner hanged, Jerusalem, Virginia. 1919: Centralia Massacre of IWW labor organizers.

Nov. 12. 1972: Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on the unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza. 1991: Occupying Indonesian troops murder 150 nonviolent demonstrators in Santa Cruz Massacre, Dili, East Timor.

Nov. 13. 1887: Police charge a crowd of unemployed protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, killing three and arresting over 300. The "Bloody Sunday" incident was a turning point in British struggles for free speech rights.

Nov. 14. 1969: 3,500 march in Seattle against the Vietnam War. 1972: Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a multiracial march demanding more federal housing aid in Seattle. 1993: CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. U.S. media yawns; U.S. government declines to investigate itself.

Nov. 15. 1598: Juan de Onate declares possession of Hopi land (northern Arizona) in name of Spanish crown. 400 years later, the Hopi have still never signed a treaty with any non-Indian nation.

Nov. 16. 1983: Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner orders Washington State to pay female employees their "comparable worth." 1988: Palestine National Council declares Palestinian government in exile; over 100 nations offer recognition.

Nov. 17. 1991: 1,603 African-American women protest Clarence Thomas's appointment to U.S. Supreme Court after Senate confirmation hearings deride testimony of Thomas's long-standing pattern of sexual harassment.

Nov. 18. 1936: Union organizing in General Motors plants begins with Atlanta sit-down strike. 1978: Farmers plow site of proposed nuclear power station, Torness, Scotland.

Nov. 19. 1973: Unanimous U.S. Supreme Court decision supports Puyallup tribal fishing rights vs. State of Washington.

Nov. 20. 1816: First use of the term "scab," by the Albany (N.Y.) Typographical Society. 1969: American Indian Movement activists occupy Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay, offering to purchase the island from the federal government for $24 worth of beads.

Nov. 21. 1945: 200,000 United Auto Workers strike against General Motors. 1993: Congress passes North American Free Trade Agreement. President Clinton signs immediately so that the treaty can take effect by the new year.