Oct. 8. 1998: A CIA report reveals that in the 1980s the CIA ignored importation of cocaine into the US by Nicaraguan "Contra" rebels who were trained and funded by the CIA.

Oct. 9. 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. 1609: Birth of Diggers founder Gerrard Winstanley, England. 1957 Fire at an English nuclear facility causes radiation leakage and contaminates milk in a 200-mile radius with Iodine-131. The contaminated milk was dumped into the Irish Sea.

Oct. 11. 1987: Over 750,000 gays, lesbians and bisexuals descend upon Washington, DC for a march to demand civil rights. Now celebrated each year as National Coming Out Day.

Oct. 12. 1992: Rallies, protests, and arrests throughout the Western Hemisphere mark the 500th anniversary of the beginning of the European invasion of the Americas and genocide of its native peoples.

Oct. 13. 1812: US attempt to invade Canada was unsuccessful when General Stephen Van Rensselaer fails to persuade militia under his command to cross the border; instead, they calmly watched as a small detachment of regulars which had entered Canada was shot down and forced to surrender. 1925: Birth of radical comedian and social rebel Lenny Bruce. "If you can't say FUCK, you can't say FUCK THE GOVERNMENT."

Oct. 14. 1981: Dock workers in Darwin, Australia, begin 7-day strike, refusing to load uranium on board "Pacific Sky" for eventual use by US military. After a week, the ship is forced to leave without its cargo.

Oct. 15. 1969: An estimated 2 million or more in US participate in first national moratorium against Vietnam War. Later, a declassified Kissinger file reveals that these protests discouraged a plan by Nixon to use nuclear weapons in Vietnam.

Oct. 16. 1919: Deportation Act for anarchist aliens enacted. Thousands, including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman, jailed and deported. Harbinger of US government anti-labor and anti-Red attacks in the 1920s.

Oct. 17. 1915: Birth of playwright Arthur Miller. Best known for "Death of a Salesman," Miller was blacklisted and denied a passport to attend the Brussels premiere of his 1953 McCarthyist allegory "The Crucible." 1966: Anarchist collective "The Diggers" holds its first free street feed in San Francisco.

Oct. 18. 1991: Massive public opposition known as the "Nevada Movement"--after the grass roots protests at the Nevada Test Site which inspired it--forces permanent closure of the primary Soviet nuclear test site at Semipalatinsk in Central Asia.

Oct. 19. 1850: Mountain climber Annie Peck plants a "vote for women" sign atop the summit of 21,083-foot Coropuna, Peru. 1905: Bertha von Suttner becomes the first woman Nobel Peace laureate, Oslo, Norway.

Oct. 20. 1990: Rallies against mobilization for the Gulf War in 22 US cities.

Oct. 21. 1929: Ursula LeGuin born, Berkeley, California. Science fiction/fantasy novelist, anarchist, feminist. 1981: Pacific Sky sails without uranium after seven-day dockers' strike, Darwin, Australia.