Sep. 1. 1987: During a nonviolent protest at Concord Naval Weapons Station, a Navy munitions train runs over blockader Brian Willson. Willson loses both legs but has remained an active and articulate leader in the anti-military movement.

Sep. 2. 1957: Arkansas governor Orval Faubus calls out the National Guard to bar African-American students from entering a Little Rock High School. 1987: Hundreds trash ROTC headquarters at Univ. of Calif.-Berkeley.

Sep. 3. 1752: This day never happened--nor the next 10--as England adopts the Gregorian Calendar. People riot, thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives. True, but it was more days than that. 1970: Representatives from 27 African nations, the Caribbean nations, four South American countries, Australia, and the US meet in Atlanta, Georgia for the first Congress of African People.

Sep. 4. 1982: Three thousand protest against arrival of nuclear-powered ship, Japan.

Sep. 5. 1882: Thirty thousand workers march in the first US Labor Day parade in New York City. 1957: Publication of Jack Kerouac's "On the Road," an inspiration for a generation of restless spirits.

Sep. 6. 1966: Five nights of racial rioting begin in Atlanta. Stokely Carmichael arrested for "inciting riot" along with over 100 others. 1974: Housing occupations and barricade of San Bailio neighborhood of Rome, Italy, leads to legalized squatting.

Sep. 7. 1917: Birth of Jacob Lawrence, Atlantic City, NJ. A leading painter in chronicling African-American history and urban life. Among his most celebrated works are the historical panels "The Life of Toussaint-Louverture" and "The Life of Harriet Tubman."

Sep. 8. 1941: Workers strike against diversion of milk to military use by the Nazis, Norway. 1978: Three thousand unarmed demonstrators killed by Shah's troops, Teheran, Iran.

Sep. 9. 1934: Birth of black radical poet Sonia Sanchez. 1980: Eight activists from the Atlantic Life Community hammer nose cone of missile at GE plant in King of Prussia, PA, in the first of what would become an international movement of many dozens of "Plowshares" anti-nuclear direct actions.

Sep. 10. 1980: Manila, Philippines: 10,000 people defy government order and hold "Freedom March"; US-supported Marcos dictatorship government kills eight. 1996: First weekly issue of "Eat the State!" published in Seattle, WA.

Sep. 11. 1773: Benjamin Franklin writes, "There never was a good war or bad peace." 1895: India: birth of Vinoba Bhave, land reformer.

Sep. 12. 1909: A young man, Emiliano Zapata, is elected to head the town council by villagers of Anenecuneo, Mexico. 1932: Unemployed workers, near starvation after county authorities cut off relief, march on grocery stores and take food, Toledo, OH.

Sep. 13. 1858: Students at Oberlin College free fugitive slave from slave catchers. 1983: First accompaniment group from Peace Brigades International arrives in Guatemala to provide nonviolent witness and protection for indigenous leaders.

Sep. 14. 1923: Murder of Ito Noe, Japanese anarchist and feminist. 2001: About 2,000 gather in New York's Union Square, near the site of a horrific terrorist attack three days earlier, to call for peace, the first such large public rally in the US. Within days, scores of other cities follow suit.