Feb. 27. 1973: Village of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, occupied by American Indian Movement activists in response to campaign of terror by tribal and FBI officials. 1976: The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada presents claim to immense area in Canada's Arctic.

Feb. 28. 1903: Japanese and Chicanos form labor organization against growers. 1939: Sit-down strikes outlawed by Supreme Court.

Feb. 29. 1968: The summary report of the Kerner Commission on Civil Disorders faults excessive police force in US ghettos.

Mar. 1. 1847: Michigan becomes first state to abolish death penalty. 1997: 15,000 demonstrate in Lunesburg, Germany, against shipment of French nuclear waste to site in Gorleben. Over the next several days hundreds of thousands would participate in demonstrations and direct actions along the shipping route.

Mar. 2. 1899: Congress allows railroad companies blanket approval for rights-of-way through Indian lands. 1992: Rally against ethnic barricades, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Mar. 3. 1913: Over 5,000 women march on Washington to demand right to vote. In early guerrilla theater, women and children stage "Suffrage Tableau" on US Capitol steps. 1961: Village Council in Inuit town of Point Hope, in far northwestern Alaska, objects in letter to President Kennedy to chain explosion of five atomic bombs in nearby above-ground "Project Chariot" tests.

Mar. 4. 1962: US nuclear reactor begins operating, Antarctica. 1978: 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo, Netherlands.

Mar. 5. 1770: Free black Crispus Attucks becomes first American killed in revolution. 1871: Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish leader in German Socialist and anti-war movements.

Mar. 6. 1836: Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. 1978: Supreme Court rules that Squamish tribal courts do not have jurisdiction over crimes committed by non-Indians on reservations, a major blow to protection of inherent sovereignty.

Mar. 7. 1860: 6,000 shoemakers joined by 20,000 other workers in strike in Lynn, Mass. 1988: A Federal Court rules that a peace group must have the same access to students at high school career days as military recruiters. Atlanta, Georgia.

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

Mar. 9. 1965: Reverend James Reeb, a Boston minister who had traveled to Selma to join demonstrators, is viciously beaten by a white gang and dies two days later.

Mar. 10. 1913: Death of Harriet Tubman, self-liberated slave and Underground Railroad organizer. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

Mar. 11. 1959: Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun opens, transforming American theater. 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, DC in US history. The event is almost completely ignored by mainstream media.