Sep. 27. 1983: Five members of Puget Sound Women's Peace Camp enter Boeing's Cruise missile production plant in Seattle, leaflet workers, and are arrested.

Sep. 28. 1829: David Walker issues, on his birthday, his publication, "An Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World, but in Particular and Very Expressly to those of the United States of America." The south will put a price on his head for such endearments as urging slaves to rise up and "Slit their oppressors' throats from ear to ear."

Sep. 29. 1969: 2,000 welfare protesters take over the state capitol building in Madison, Wisconsin. 1988: 80,000 in West Berlin protest IMF policies, 400 arrested.

Sep. 30. 1962: After deployment of 12,000 federal troops to quell segregationist violence, troops escort James Meredith as he--on his fourth try--becomes the first African-American student to register at the University of Mississippi.

Oct. 1. 1918: Beginning of street fighting in Berlin leading to the November revolution--councils of workers, soldiers, intellectuals, and artists take over governing at the end of WWI.

Oct. 2. 1800: Birth of Nat Turner, leader of Virginia slave rebellion.

Oct. 3. 1849: During electioneering in Baltimore, Edgar Allan Poe is kept drunk by a gang of political hacks who have him vote repeatedly at the polls; in four days he is dead.

Oct. 4. 1816: Birth of Eugene Potter, Paris. Poet, revolutionist. Participant in the Revolution of 1848 and Paris Commune of 1881, when he writes the Internationale, which is put to music by Pierre de Geyter in 1888.

Oct. 5. 1934: 40,000 miners and iron workers strike, seizing towns around Gijon, Spain. 3,000 killed. 1995: In a protest of proposed Medicare and Medicaid cuts, 31 people are arrested for occupying King County Republican Party headquarters in Seattle. Related demonstrations take place in Bellingham, Tacoma, Everett, and Yakima.

Oct. 6. 1967: Haight-Ashbury hippies throw funeral to mark the end of hippies. Death of Hippie, Loyal Son of Media, birth of free man. A few actually still survive, but most remaining hippies today are hatchery-bred by commercial hippie farmers, and the genetic diversity ensured by the truly wild hippie is in danger of being lost due to excessive logging and commercial marketing.

Oct. 7. 1920: H.G. Wells, author/socialist, on a trip to Russia, is invited to address the Petrograd Soviet. 1967: Nationwide demonstrations and riots in Japan begin against Viet Nam War and government policies.

Oct. 8. 1969: Weathermen's "Days of Rage" in Chicago, October 8-11. Three will be shot, 300 arrested.

Oct. 9. 1823: Birth of Mary Ann Shadd, Wilmington, Delaware. Publisher of Canada's first anti-slavery newspaper, "The Provincial Freeman," and the first woman in North America to publish and edit a newspaper. 1906: Birth of Leopold Senghor, poet and co-founder of the Negritude movement in African art and literature, Senegal, French West Africa. Spent two years in Nazi concentrations camps where he wrote some of his best poetry. Inducted in the Academie Francaise in 1984, the first black member.

Oct. 10. 1967: Treaty demilitarizing outer space comes into force.