Nov. 5. 1875: Susan B. Anthony and friends arrested for attempting to vote, Rochester, NY.

Nov. 6. 1918: Revolt in shipyards in Kiel and Hamburg, and the creation of Workers' Councils. In three days, Berlin follows suit and the Bavarian monarchy is overthrown, marking the beginning of the Red Bavaria Revolution.

Nov. 7. 1972: After nine tries, Congress finally passes War Powers legislation, over Pres. Nixon's veto. It limits President's power to commit armed forces to hostilities abroad without Congressional approval. It has been routinely ignored ever since.

Nov. 8. 1972: "Trail of Broken Treaties" march occupies Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), Washington DC.

Nov. 9. 1984: U.S. peace activists sail shrimp boat into Port of Corinto to confront US warships threatening Nicaragua. 2002: Somewhere between 450,000 and a million protesters (estimates varied) descend upon Florence, Italy during a European summit meeting to protest the threatened US invasion of Iraq.

Nov. 10. 1924: Llacer and Montejo, members of the Spanish anarcho-syndicalist union CNT, executed for their role in the Spanish uprisings sparked by the revolt in Vera de Bidassoa.

Nov. 11. 1914: Birth of Howard Fast, screenwriter, radical, publisher, novelist, McCarthy/HUAC victim. 1967: Three US POWs returned by North Vietnam. Tom Hayden and 30 Americans had met with North Vietnamese in Czechoslovakia in September. Hayden then went on to North Vietnam and helped effect their release.

Nov. 12. 1983: Washington, DC: Twenty-five thousand protest invasion of Grenada and US intervention in Central America.

Nov. 13. 1887: Police charge a crowd of unemployed protesters in Trafalgar Square, London, killing three and arresting over 300. The "Bloody Sunday" incident becomes a turning point in British struggles for free speech rights.

Nov. 14. 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic. 1990: Thirteen squats on Berlin's Mainzer Strausse evicted by 4,000 cops with helicopters and tanks.

Nov. 15. 1969: Over 500,000 people march on Washington, rallying in front of the White House, to protest Vietnam War, while Pres. Nixon watches football on TV. The rally concludes nearly 40 hours of continuous reading of known US deaths (to that date) in Vietnam War.

Nov. 16. 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested again for her birth control clinic, Brownsville, New York. 1980: Hundreds arrested at Women's Pentagon Action to protest patriarchy and its war making.

Nov. 17. 1915: The Scottish "Great Rent Strike" culminates in a huge demonstration in Glasgow. 1992: After a 14-year battle with cancer, self-described "Black lesbian, mother, warrior, poet" Audre Lorde, dies in St. Croix, Virgin Islands. Her battle with cancer is examined in "The Cancer Journals" (1980), which also contains a feminist critique of the medical profession.

Nov. 18. 1910: Hundreds of suffragists march on House of Commons, London, with reinforcements arriving to replace the "fallen" and arrested. Protesting government inaction on Conciliation Bill, they are brutally repulsed by police, leading to a public outcry. 1951: Former Cubs first baseman and future TV star of "Rifleman," Chuck Connors, is first baseball player to oppose the draft.