Apr. 9. 1981: Members of Big Stone Cree end a 250 mile march to Edmonton, Alberta, to highlight economic plight of Big Stone Cree in northern Alberta. 1995: Over 100,000 at Rally for Women's Lives, Washington DC.

Apr. 10. 1848: Mass meeting of Chartists, campaigning for civil rights. Kennington Common, Surrey, Britain. A procession to the House of Commons to present a petition for civil rights was prevented by authorities.

Apr. 11. 1996: Treaty of Pelindaba signed in Cairo, making Africa a nuclear free continent and at least in theory making the entire southern hemisphere a nuclear-free zone.

Apr. 12. 1935: 60,000 college students around the US go on strike against war.

Apr. 13. 1980: La Donna Harris, running mate of Barry Commoner, becomes first Native American running a major campaign for US Vice President. (Winona LaDuke, 1996 and 2000 VP candidate with Ralph Nader, would be the second.) 1995: 5 Catholic Worker activists are arrested for resistance at the headquarters of the World Bank in Washington, DC.

Apr. 14. 1994: 2 US fighter jets shoot down 2 US helicopters over Iraq. 2000: Seattle police shoot and kill David Walker, a mentally disturbed African-American suspected of shoplifting at a Safeway. The killing enrages Seattle's African-American community.

Apr. 15. 1889: Black labor leader and peace activist A. Philip Randolph born. 1967: First mass draft card burning while 400,000 march in New York City and 80,000 in San Francisco opposing Vietnam War.

Apr. 16. 1971: US military veterans hurl medals onto White House lawn, Washington DC. 2000: Some 20,000 global justice activists blockade meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Washington DC.

Apr. 17. 1960: As a response to the Greensboro sit-in, 140 black students form Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Apr. 18. 1970: Native Americans start five-day sit-ins at several Bureau of Indian Affairs offices across the country. 1998: Labor organizations from across Latin America converge on Santiago, Chile, in a mass protest of Bill Clinton's free trade visit and negotiations there.

Apr. 19 1943: Jews in Warsaw, Poland, begin revolt against Nazi tyranny. 1971: Several hundred Vietnam Veterans Against the War begin an encampment on Capitol Hill, Washington, DC.

Apr. 20. 1966: 6 US pacifists, including Barbara Deming and 82-year-old A.J. Muste, deported for anti-war protests, Saigon, South Vietnam. 1985: Some 250,000 march in Washington to protest US policy in Central America.

Apr. 21. 1898: US uses sinking of battleship Maine as rallying cry, declaring war on Spain in a (successful) attempt to acquire colonies attempting to win independence from Spain. The US under Pres. William McKinley picked up, among other new properties, Puerto Rico and the Philippines in the deal, and used its new presence in the Pacific as an excuse for annexing the independent nation of Hawai'i later that year. (McKinley is said to be a major role model for George W. Bush.)

Apr. 22. 1915: Franco-Belgian border, WWI: Germans use first modern poison gas weapon. 1968: Tlatelolco treaty for denuclearizing Latin America comes into force.