Feb. 11. 1937: Forty-eight thousand General Motors workers win 44-day sit-down strike in Flint, Michigan.

Feb. 12. 1947: Between 400 and 500 veterans and conscientious objectors from World Wars I and II burn their draft cards in two demonstrations, in front of the White House in Washington DC and at the Labor Temple in New York City, in protest of a proposed universal conscription law. First draft card burning in US.

Feb. 13. 1967: Carrying huge photos of napalmed Vietnamese children, 2,500 members of the group Women Strike for Peace storm the Pentagon, demanding to see "the generals who send our sons to Vietnam." WSP members always dressed neatly and appeared as they were: middle-class homemakers. When Pentagon guards locked the main-entrance doors, the women took off their shoes and banged on the doors with their heels. They were finally allowed inside, but Defense Secretary Robert McNamara would not meet with them.

Feb. 14. 1967: Treaty banning nuclear weapons in Latin America signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico.

Feb. 15. 2003: In the single largest day of protests in world history, millions on 6 continents demonstration against US/UK plans to invade Iraq. Reported totals include 1 to 2 million in London and Rome; 1.3 million in Barcelona, Spain (a city of 1.5 million); 500,000 in Berlin, Paris, Madrid, and New York. Smaller demonstrations are held in over 600 cities and towns across the US, including tens of thousands in several cities and 150,000 the following day in San Francisco.

Feb. 16. 1936: Spain: Election and formation of the Popular Front government against the fascist Franco. Anarchists, socialists, communists, republicans, and labor groups form a republic.

Feb. 17. 1975: Several hundred residents of Wyhl, Germany, occupy the construction site of a nuclear power plant. Police responded with water cannons and arrests; by the following week, 28,000 had joined the occupation, and police withdrew for over a year. This is believed to have been the first such plant occupation in the world.

Feb. 18. 1688: Pennsylvania Quakers make first formal protest against slavery.

Feb. 19. 1986: Farm Labor Organizing Committee signs agreement with Campbell Soup Co., ending seven-year boycott.

Feb. 20. 1984: Faroes Islands' Parliament declares country a nuclear-free zone.

Feb. 21. 1828: Premier issue of the "Cherokee Phoenix" published. First US newspaper in a native language, it uses the Cherokee syllabary, developed by Sequoyah, who assigned symbols to 86 Cherokee syllables. The Phoenix will appear weekly until May 1834.

Feb. 22. 1966: Barry Bondhus dumps 10 pounds of his own shit on draft files. 1989: UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud."

Feb. 23. 1970: In a costume action by the Los Angeles Gay Liberation Front, his Holiness Pope Morris the First goes to First Congregational Church and tacks an invoice for 90 billion dollars on the door. The amount represents 10,000 dollars for each of the nine million known executions of gay people at the instigation of clergy.

Feb. 24. 1848: Revolution of 1848 begins in France, overthrowing French monarchy and inspiring revolts across Europe.