Apr. 7. 1872: Birth of Dr. Marie Equi (1872-1952), New Bedford, Mass. Lesbian anarchist and labor organizer. Found guilty of sedition during WWI (as were countless others opposing American involvement in one of Europe's bloodiest wars) under a newly amended Espionage Act.

Apr. 8. 563 BC: Birth of Gautama Siddhartha, Buddha; Kapalivastu, India. 1999: Three thousand unarmed Zapatistas retake San Andres from Mexican Army.

Apr. 9. 1995: Over 100,000 at Rally for Women's Lives, Washington DC. 1995: Former Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara acknowledges that "we were terribly wrong" to prosecute war in Vietnam.

Apr. 10. 1981: UN approves world treaty assuring no civilians should be attacked with "napalm, mines, or booby-traps." Defeated by US veto. 2003: Baghdad falls to invading US/UK army. Widespread looting begins.

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. 1913: Georges Cochon, a tapestry maker and the anarchist secretary of the Federation of Tenants, leads several thousand homeless in an invasion of the town hall in Paris.

Apr. 13. 1934: Twenty thousand US students in one day strike against all wars. 1996: Israeli Defense Force missiles kill two women and four children in ambulance as "legitimate target," southern Lebanon.

Apr. 14. 1775: First abolition society in the US organized in Philadelphia, PA. 1812: England: Luddite Sheffield food riot--mainly women and boys--seized potatoes and vegetables and attacked militia arms store.

Apr. 15. 1919: Start of victorious six-day strike across New England by first women-led US union, Telephone Operators Department of IBEW.

Apr. 16. 1985: Univ. of California-Berkeley police arrest over 160 anti-apartheid demonstrators at Biko plaza sit-in. 2000: Some 20,000 global justice activists blockade meetings of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund. Washington DC.

Apr. 17. 618: Scotland: Fifty-three monks are burned alive in their refectory by a gang of armed women seeking revenge for being cheated out of their pasture rights, on the island of Eigg. 2001: Protesters throughout Brazil mark the 1996 killings of landless protesters, planting crosses in city squares to honor the victims, blocking bridges and tossing McEggs at McDonald's McRestaurants. Coordinated by the Farmworkers Movement, which is pressuring the government for speedier land reforms.

Apr. 18. 1941: Bus companies in New York City agree to hire black workers after a four-week boycott. 1998: Labor organizations from across Latin America converge on Santiago, Chile, in a mass protest of Bill Clinton's free trade visit and Free Trade Area of the Americas negotiations there.

Apr. 19. 1952: Thirty-five Operation Gandhi supporters picket Aldermaston spy base, Britain. 1978: California Gov. Jerry Brown refuses a request from South Dakota to extradite American Indian Movement leader Dennis Banks to South Dakota to stand trial.

Apr. 20. 1985: Some 250,000 march in Washington DC to protest US policy in Central America. 2002: More than 75,000 march in Washington DC to protest War on Terror, globalization, and US policies in the Middle East.