Nov. 24. 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. 1992: Eighty-seven nations meet in Copenhagen, Denmark and agree to accelerate their schedules for phasing out ozone-depleting CFC (chlorofluorocarbon) chemicals by 1996. The US opposes the agreement.

Nov. 26. 1968: UN passes Resolution Against Capital Punishment. Guess who ignored it? 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.

Nov. 29. 1947: Birth of German Green Party leader, feminist and ecologist pioneer Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria. 1972: United Nations General Assembly condemns stocking of napalm (commonly used by the US at the time in Vietnam) and other fire weapons.

Nov. 30. 1624: Richard Cornish is executed for violating Virginia's anti-sodomy law. That sucks. 1999: Despite police counterattacks, World Trade Organization meetings shut down by at least 50,000 protesters in the streets of Seattle.

Dec. 1. 1946: Oakland general strike begins, Over one hundred thousand walk off jobs in East Bay for six days. 1997: A silent march of women, protesting conscription, is met by a police attack and the arrest of 37 women. Khartoum, Sudan.

Dec. 2. 1964: Sproul Hall sit-in, Berkeley, California. Joan Baez sings on Sproul Hall steps. Free Speech Movement holds an overnight sit-in protesting the disciplining of four students who took part in the October police car sit-in; 800 arrests result.

Dec. 3. 1964: Police arrest 773 to end Free Speech Movement occupation of Sproul Hall on the University of California-Berkeley Campus. A student strike the next day closes the school. 1969: Protesters destroy files at eight New York draft boards.

Dec. 4. 1865: Mississippi becomes the only state to reject ratification of the 13th Amendment, prohibiting slavery. Two days later Georgia would become the last needed state to ratify the amendment anyway. Mississippi eventually did ratify the 13th Amendment--in 1995. (They're a red state.) 1914: Zapata meets with Villa and agrees to join forces to occupy Mexico City two days later.

Dec. 5. 1921: Forty thousand slaughterhouse workers in Chicago, Kansas City, and Omaha go on strike. 1997: Conference on elimination of landmines opens, without US participation. Ottawa, Canada.

Dec. 6. 1904: "Roosevelt Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine asserts the US right to serve as international policemen anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. 1984: Children picket to demand release of their political prisoner parents by the US-backed Marcos dictatorship, Mendiola Bridge, Philippines.

Dec. 7. 1929: Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky. 1995: Up to 1.75 million striking French workers demonstrate in marches shutting down the country as part of an escalating series of general strikes protesting government cutbacks and global exploitation of workers.