Feb. 26. 1998: An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed either to confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor, WA nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons were pretty damn high.

Feb. 27. 1976: The Inuit Tapirisat of Canada presents claim to immense area in Canada's Arctic.

Feb. 28. 1989: Nevada-Semipalatnisk Movement to Stop All Nuclear Testing founded in USSR. 1991: Three soldiers seek sanctuary as objectors to Gulf War in Riverside Church, New York City.

Mar. 1. 1943: Huge rally calls on US government to reconsider its refusal to offer sanctuary to Jewish refugees of Nazi Germany. Madison Square, New York City. 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. 1901: The Platt Amendment is passed by Congress. The amendment informs Cuba that US troops will not be withdrawn. Cuba unofficially becomes a protectorate of the US. 1992: Rally against ethnic barricades, Sarajevo, Bosnia.

Mar. 3. 1875: Illegal act of Congress removes lands from Oregon Coast Reservation, despite opposition by Coos and other tribes. Alsea Reservation, Oregon, is returned to public domain. 1968: Chicano students stage walkout of Los Angeles high schools, calling for an end to racist policies.

Mar. 4. 1917: Jeanette Rankin of Montana, first US Congresswoman, begins term. Rankin becomes the only Congressperson to vote against US entry into both World War I and World War II. 1978: 40,000 demonstrate against uranium enrichment plant, Almelo, Netherlands.

Mar. 5. 1871: Birth of Rosa Luxemburg, Jewish Polish leader in German Socialist and anti-war movements. 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.

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. 1908: Strike by US garment workers (all women) becomes the basis for International Women's Day. 1983: La Ragnatela (Spider's Web) Women's Peace Camp created at Comiso, Sicily, Italy, the first overseas site for US cruise missiles.

Mar. 9. 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. 1845: Birth of Hallie Quinn Brown, women's rights activist. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

Mar. 11. 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.