Reclaim Our History
Feb. 14. 1997: Last remaining Jahalin Bedoin families, who had been living
in the Abu-Dis area of Palestine for over 40 years, are forcibly removed to
make way for new Jewish settlements (illegal under the Oslo accords).
Feb. 15. 1933: Signing of original 11-state master trucking agreement,
involving 200,000 truckers, which formed the basis for the Teamsters Union.
Feb. 16. 1916: Emma Goldman arrested in New York for lecturing on birth
control. 1965: A plot by the Black Liberation Front to blow up the Statue
of Liberty is foiled.
Feb. 17. 1975: Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the
construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police respond with water
cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the
occupation, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have
been the first such plant occupation in the world.
Feb. 18. 1867: Nonviolent resistance to Austrian oppression results in
separate constitution, Hungary. 1997: Political prisoner Osman Murat Ulke
is one of 12 Turkish activists charged with "alienating the people from the
military."
Feb. 19. 1997: 1,200 rally in support of striking musicians union, forcing
cancellation of opening night Disney production of "Beauty and the Beast"
at 5th Ave. Theater in Seattle.
Feb. 20. 1725: First recorded instance of scalping: perpetrated against
Indian victims by Capt. Lovewell and troops at Wakefield, New Hampshire.
1942: Norweigan teachers begin successful nonviolent strike against
Nazification of schools.
Feb. 21. 1972: Beginning of the trial of Fr. Philip Berrigan and six other
nonviolent activists (The "Harrisburg Seven") in Harrisburg, PA for an
alleged plot to kidnap Henry Kissinger. Proceedings later end in a
mistrial.
Feb. 22. 1943: Sophie Scholl, a 22-year-old activist at Munich University,
is executed after being convicted of urging students to rise up and
overthrow the Nazi government. 1997: Nearly 100,000 march in Paris against
new anti-immigration bill sponsored by fascist far right.
Feb. 23. 1883: American Anti-Vivisection Society formed in Pennsylvania.
Feb. 24. 1965: District 1199 Health Care Workers becomes first U.S. labor
union to oppose war in Vietnam. 1966: David Miller and Russell Wills become
first Seattle residents to refuse induction into armed forces to protest
Vietnam war. Wills is later sentenced to two years in prison for his
refusal.
Feb. 25. 1986: Mass demonstrations overthrow Marcos dictatorship, Manila,
Philippines.
Feb. 26. 1976: Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash,
in a murder never prosecuted but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in
rural South Dakota. 1991: U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot,"
drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi personnel on
the Basra road from Kuwait.
Feb. 27. 1973: Village of Wounded Knee, SD, occupied by American Indian
Movement activists in response to campaign of terror by tribal and FBI
officials.
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