Feb. 28. 1939: Sit-down strikes outlawed by Supreme Court. 1967: Radical human rights activist Ramsey Clark named as U.S. Attorney General by President Johnson.

Mar. 1. 1943: Huge rally calls on U.S. government to reconsider its refusal to offer sanctuary to Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany. Madison Square, New York City.

Mar. 2. 1964: Marlon Brando and Bob Satiacum are arrested at a "fish-in" at Frank's Landing, Washington, in support of Native American fishing rights. 1971: Oriental Student Union protesters occupy Seattle Central Community College.

Mar. 3. 1913: Over 5,000 women march on Washington to demand right to vote. In early guerrilla theatre, women and children stage "Suffrage Tableau" on U.S. Capitol steps. 1968: Chicano students stage walkout of Los Angeles high schools, calling for an end to racist policies.

Mar. 4. 1962: U.S. nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica. 1968: Dr. King announces he will lead a Poor People's March on Washington in April.

Mar. 5. 1770: Free black Crispus Attucks becomes first American killed in revolution. 1970: Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty comes into force.

Mar. 6. 1836: Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. 1933: Pres. Roosevelt closes all U.S. banks.

Mar. 7. 1988: Activists sit in to protest refusal of the Albany (New York) City Council to pass legislation prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation.

Mar. 8. 1971: Members of the "Citizens Committee to Investigate the F.B.I." break into an F.B.I. office in suburban Philadelphia, and later publish files revealing the existence of the F.B.I.'s COINTELPRO program harassing domestic political dissidents. 1983: 40,000 rally against war in Lebanon, organized by Peace Now, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mar. 9. 1986: 100,000 march in Washington, D.C. for freedom of choice and reproductive rights. 1996: In first mass demonstration under independence, women from around Lithuania gather at Ignalia to commemorate Chernobyl victims and demand an accelerated timetable (by 2005) for decommissioning the plant.

Mar. 10. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

Mar. 11. 1973: Formation of independent Oglala Sioux Nation proclaimed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1988: Beginning of ten days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. The event is almost completely ignored by mainstream media.

Mar. 12. 295 A.D.: Maximilian beheaded for refusing military service, Thevesta, North Africa. 1971: Fourteen-hour vigil for abolition of NATO, Ministry of Defense, London, Britain.

Mar. 13. 1962: Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental U.S. 1988: 500 Palestinian police resign in protest of Israeli policies in occupied territory.