Nov. 22. 1909: New York female garment workers strike in "Uprising of the 20,000." Judge tells arrested picketers "You are on strike against God." 1967: U.N. adopts Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories.

Nov. 23. 1170 BC: First recorded strike for better working conditions and pay takes place in Egypt.

Nov. 24. 1986: Fifteen activists, including renowned anti-war protester Abbie Hoffman, are arrested for occupying a Univ. of Massachusetts building as part of a protest against CIA recruitment on campus. Following a trial detailing CIA crimes, all were acquitted of charges. Amherst, Mass.

Nov. 25. 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. 1968: U.N. passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment.

Nov. 27. 1969: Seven hundred U.S. Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War.

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. 1980: Floodgates on the Tellico Dam on Little Tennessee River begin to flood 16,000 acres of Cherokee religious grounds.

Nov. 30. 1930: Death of radical labor organizer Mother Jones. 1980: Death of Dorothy Day, co-founder of Catholic Worker movement, New York City.

Dec. 1. 1966: Comedian Dick Gregory is convicted in Olympia, WA, for his participation in Native American fishing rights protests. 1997: A silent march of women, protesting conscription, is met by a police attack and the arrest of 37 women. Khartoum, Sudan.

Dec. 2. 1980: The Russell Tribunal, an international human rights body, finds the U.S., Canada, and several Latin American countries guilty of cultural and physical genocide in their present-day treatment of Indian populations.

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.

Dec. 4. 1970: Cesar Chavez jailed for twenty days for refusing to call off United Farm Workers lettuce boycott, Salinas, California. 1981: Pres. Ronald Reagan authorizes CIA to conduct domestic surveillance.

Dec. 5. 1955: The Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott begins, lasting over a year until buses are integrated. The Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA) is formed to coordinate the boycott, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is elected president.