Nov. 20. 1936: Buenaventura Durruti, the famous Spanish anarchist, shot in the lung the day before, dies. Durruti's body was taken to Barcelona, where he was buried in a ceremony attended by over 500,000 people. All his belongings when he died were a few clothes, two pistols, sunglasses, and a pair of binoculars.

Nov. 21. 1831: Silk workers' strike in Lyon, France, district de la Croix Rousse. The whole city rises in insurrection when Nationale guard kills several workers. 1921: IWW picketing miners massacred in Columbine, Colorado. Yes, that Columbine.

Nov. 22. 1831: Revolt of the silk workers in Lyon escalates, as workers seize arms and take on the military. Approximately 100 die and 263 wounded on the military side, 69 dead and 140 wounded on the civilian side.

Nov. 23. 1831: In the Lyon Silk Workers' Revolt, workers occupy the Town Hall, and an attempt at an insurrectionary government is made. For lack of a clear politics, the workers lose control of the city 9 days later.

Nov. 24. 1936: Pacifist/anti-fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, awarded Nobel Peace Prize.

Nov. 25. 1997: During a traditional town "reenactment" of the Thanksgiving myth, Plymouth, MA, police attack Native American demonstrators, beating and pepper-spraying several and arresting 25.

Nov. 26. 1792: Birth of American anti-slavery and suffragist activist Sarah Grimke.

Nov. 27. 1969: Seven hundred US Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War.

Nov. 28. 1911: Emiliano Zapata enacts Plan de Ayala for land rights in Mexico. 1970: The Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention assembles in Washington, DC.

Nov. 29. 1935: Henry Plummer Cheatham, a two-term congressman from North Carolina, dies in Oxford, NC. The only African-American member of Congress during the 1890 term and the last elected to Congress for 3 decades, as Jim Crow laws were tightened and voting rights for blacks gutted.

Nov. 30. 1999: Despite police counterattacks, World Trade Organization meetings shut down by at least 50,000 peaceful protesters in the streets of Seattle, throwing the future of the WTO into disarray and galvanizing a new generation of global justice activists in North America and Europe.

Dec. 1. 1976: The Sex Pistols, following their first single, "Anarchy in the UK," appear on British TV's "Today Show," a replacement for Queen. Interviewer Bill Grundy taunts them for their "nasty" reputation, provokes bass player Glenn Matlock to say "fuck" on the air. In the resulting uproar, they are banned from all but 5 cities of their first UK tour. By next month, no club or concert hall in Great Britain will book them.

Dec. 2. 1980: Two US Maryknoll nuns, an Ursuline nun, and a lay missionary are raped and murdered in El Salvador by US-trained troops. 1983: Convention prohibiting inhumane weapons comes into force. Widely ignored.

Dec. 3. 1976: Seven gunman spray bullets into Bob Marley's house in Kingston, Jamaica, where he and the Wailers are rehearsing. The shots hit Marley, his wife Rita, a friend, and Wailer manager Don Taylor. None are severely hurt. The shooters are never caught.