Nov. 10. 1924: Society for Human Rights, first gay rights organization in the US, founded in Chicago. 2001: Despite an official ban on such demonstrations, tens of thousands of Germans participate in four days of protests and direct actions to block the shipment of high-level nuclear waste from France across the country to a storage site at Gorleben.

Nov. 11. 1967: Three US POWs returned by North Vietnam. Tom Hayden and 30 Americans had met with North Vietnamese in Czechoslovakia in September. He 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. 1996: UN votes 138-3 to urge US to end cruel and illegal blockade of Cuba. The three dissenters: Israel, Uzbekistan, and the US.

Nov. 13. 1933: First sit-down strike in US history begins at Hormel meat-packing plant, Austin, Minn.

Nov. 14. 1930: General strike of 250,000 in Madrid, Spain, after police fire into crowd at workers' funeral. 1993: CIA role in Haitian drug trade disclosed. US media yawns; US government declines to investigate itself.

Nov. 15. 1825: Birth of African American feminist Sarah Jane Woodson, Chillicothe, Ohio.

Nov. 16. 1805: Birth of Thomas Burrows, founder of free public schools. 1997: After a silent, half-mile long "funeral procession" attempts to enter the base, 601 are arrested at School of the Americas.

Nov. 17. 1978: Two FBI agents testify before the House Select Committee on Assassinations that the bureau's long-term surveillance of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was based solely on FBI head J. Edgar Hoover's "hatred of the civil rights leader" and not on the civil right's leader's alleged communist influences or linkages with radical groups. 1989: 10-20,000 teens try to march to Wenceslas Square in Prague, Czechoslovakia; 400 injured. Begins a series of mass demonstration that leads to downfall of regime, splitting of country.

Nov. 18. 1989: Czechoslovakian government starts to crumble: strikes at schools, invitations of forbidden speakers, town meetings start; Civic Forum formed. 2001: In London, 100,000 march against the US/British attacks against Afghanistan.

Nov. 19. 1812: Third US attempt to invade Canada during War of 1812 collapses. American troops refuse to leave New York State and force Gen. Henry Dearborn to return them to Pittsburgh. 1961: In a primitive form of capitalist accumulation, Michael Rockefeller eaten by cannibals.

Nov. 20. 1910: Mexican Revolution Day, commemorates revolt of people against poverty and dictatorship. 1987: SANE and FREEZE merge at their first combined convention in Cleveland, becoming the largest US peace organization.

Nov. 21. 1866: Birth of Egyptian pan-Africanist Duse Mohammed Effendi. 1989: Czechoslovakia: One million demonstrators over next week; movement becomes general strike.

Nov. 22. 1967: UN adopts Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal from occupied territories. 1972: Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Sweden meet in Copenhagen to demand self-government and control over Arctic land and resources.

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