May 11. 1952: Thousands demonstrate against re-militarization, Bonn and Essen, West Germany. 1981: Jamaican singer and revolutionary Bob Marley dies of brain cancer. Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, Miami.

May 12. 1847: Freedom fighter Tiburcio Vasquez fights Anglo invaders in California.

May 13. 1888: Brazil, which imported more African slaves than any other Western Hemisphere country (including the US), abolishes slavery. 1989: Greens gain balance of power in House of Assembly, Tasmania (Australia).

May 14. 1945: Plutonium is injected intravenously into a human subject in an experiment carried out by the Los Alamos scientific laboratory. In all, 18 people were similarly tested between 1945 and 1946. 1984: US returns Waadah and Tatoosh Islands, off the Olympic Peninsula, to the Makah Nation.

May 15. 1870: Julia Ward Howe declares the first Mother's Day as an anti-war holiday. 1935: National Labor Relations Act passed, recognizing workers' right to organize and bargain collectively.

May 16. 1792: Denmark becomes first Western country to outlaw slave trade. 1974: Mohawk people reclaim part of homeland in upstate New York.

May 17. 1961: Fidel Castro offers to trade Bay of Pigs prisoners to US for bulldozers. 1970: 100 protesters stage a "die-in" in downtown Seattle to protest shipment through Seattle of Army nerve gas being transported from Okinawa to the Umatilla Army Depot in eastern Oregon.

May 18. 1969: The Klamath tribe wins $4.1 million for loss of Oregon lands during fraudulent government surveys in 1880s. 1980: Widespread civilian uprising for democracy begins in Kwangju, South Korea.

May 19. 1622: Sultan of Turkey strangled by his own troops in insurrection. 1997: First annual "Art and Revolution" anti-corporate procession unexpectedly parades through downtown Seattle with hundreds of dancers, giant puppets, stilt-walkers, street theatre participants, and general spectacle.

May 20. 1776: Mohawks, under Joseph Brandt, defeat Americans at the Battle of the Cedars. 1972: Twenty-one thousand acres in Gifford Pinchot National Forest returned to Yakama tribe.

May 21. 1945: The "Little Wagner Act" is signed in the American territory of Hawaii, guaranteeing pineapple and sugar workers the right to bargain collectively. The workers, mainly Asian Americans, soon go on strike for higher wages and a 40-hour week. 28,000 striking laborers shut down 33 of Hawaii's 34 plantations. After a long and bitter 79-day strike, the workers win decisively--the first time in history that Hawaiian employers were unable to fracture workers into non-cohesive ethnic groups.

May 22. 1703: British author Daniel Defoe is fined, imprisoned, and later pilloried for his ill-timed satire, "The Shortest Way with Dissenters." 1978: Four thousand protesters occupy Trident nuclear submarine base site, Bangor, Kitsap County, WA.

May 23. 1982: 400,000 demonstrate for peace and disarmament, Tokyo. 1984: Right-wing Contra fascist Eden Pastora admits receiving illegal CIA aid during Reagan administration.

May 24. 1941: Birth of songwriter and anti-war folk singer Robert Zimmerman. 1968: Pinnacle of French general strike; perhaps 10 million were involved. City of Nantes and surrounding area is completely controlled by workers for a week, with farmers setting up roadblocks to the area in solidarity.