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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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