Nov. 19. 1973: Unanimous US Supreme Court decision supports Puyallup tribal fishing rights vs. State of Washington.

Nov. 20. 1910: Leo Tolstoy, 82, author, Christian, anarchist, pacifist (and Gandhi's inspiration) dies of pneumonia contracted when he flees from his wife of 48 years and heads for the Caucasus, accompanied only by his doctor and his youngest daughter Alexandra.

Nov. 21. 1984: TransAfrica's Randall Robinson, congressional delegate Walter Fauntroy, and US Civil Rights Commissioner Mary Frances Berry arrested at a sit-in at the South African Embassy in Washington, DC. Their demonstration against apartheid spreads to New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, and elsewhere, involving such notables as Jesse Jackson, Arthur Ashe, Harry Belafonte, and Stevie Wonder. Their efforts play a large part in the passage of the Antiapartheid Act of 1986, imposing economic sanctions against South Africa.

Nov. 22. 1967: UN adopts Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. 1998: Seven thousand march on School of the Americas at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia; 2,319 arrested for symbolic trespass.

Nov. 23. 1170 BC: First recorded strike for better working conditions and pay takes place in Egypt. 1774: Minute Men organized for revolutionary uprising.

Nov. 24. 1874: US patent granted for barbed wire, perhaps the single most destructive development in the despoiling of western North America. 1970: Fourteen American students meet with Vietnamese in Hanoi to plan "Peoples' Peace Treaty."

Nov. 25. 1973: Student sit-ins begin in opposition to Greek military junta; 20 are killed, but the dictator is forced out.

Nov. 26. 1920: Makhno's anarchist commanders in the Crimea, fresh from victories over General Wrangel's right-wing White army, met with Trotsky's left-wing Red Army under a flag of truce. They were seized and immediately shot. 1970: American Indian Movement (AIM) activists celebrate Thanksgiving by occupying Plymouth Rock, MA.

Nov. 27. 1969: Seven hundred US Army medics stationed in Pleiku stage a fast to protest the Vietnam War. 1992: Activists across the US seize abandoned buildings in housing and homelessness protest.

Nov. 28. 1970: The Black Panther-sponsored Revolutionary People's Constitutional Convention assembles in Washington, DC. 1989: Czechoslovakia announces it will adopt new constitution, and Hungary announces first free election.

Nov. 29. 1947: Birth of German Green Party leader, feminist and ecologist pioneer Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria. 1985: Thirty-four black unions unite to form 500,000 member Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), in Durban.

Nov. 30. 1624: Richard Cornish executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. That sucked. 1999: Despite police counterattacks, World Trade Organization meetings are 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. 1937: Marijuana is made illegal in the United States. 1955: Arrest of Rosa Parks sets off successful year-long bus boycott by blacks. Montgomery, Alabama.

Dec. 2. 1919: General strike in Italy to protest killing of socialist MP for refusing to hear king's address. 1978: Chanting "Allah is great," anti-Shah protesters pour through Tehran.