Reclaim Our History
Nov. 10. 1995: Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight other human rights activists are executed by the illegal military government of Nigeria. Clinton administration refuses to pursue sanctions.
Nov. 11. 1887: Haymarket martyrs--August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel--executed, Chicago. The first labor activists to be executed in America. Prosecutors found no evidence they threw the bomb. 250,000 people line Chicago's streets during Parson's funeral procession.
Nov. 12. 1972: Chicano protesters storm the Seattle City Council after it rejects a lease for a proposed Chicano community center on an unused Beacon Hill School site. The site is later approved as El Centro de la Raza.
Nov. 13. 1969: In New York, bombs have exploded over the past several days in the RCA building, Rockefeller Center, the GM building on 5th Avenue, the Chase Manhattan Plaza, the United Fruit Company pier, the Criminal Courts building, the Marine Midland Grace Trust Company, and several other Federal and Corporate buildings, to protest government/corporate Vietnam War policy.
Nov. 14. 1916: Margaret Sanger arrested for operating a birth control clinic. 1972: Filipino activist Bob Santos leads a multiracial march demanding more federal housing aid in Seattle.
Nov. 15. 1864: Sherman burns Atlanta. Later, they made a movie about how distressing this was to slaveholders. 1957: US Committee for a Sane Nuclear Policy (SANE), the precursor of SANE/FREEZE (now Peace Action), founded.
Nov. 16. 1983: Federal District Court Judge Jack Tanner orders Washington State to pay female employees their "comparable worth."
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.
Nov. 18. 1978: Farmers plow site of proposed nuclear power station, Torness, Scotland. 1989: Czechoslovakian government starts to crumble: strike at schools, invitations of forbidden speakers, town meetings start; Civic Forum formed.
Nov. 19. 1792: French revolutionary convention offers aid to all those wishing to overthrow their government.
Nov. 20. 1934: Plan by Wall Street financiers to set up fascist regime in US made public. 1993: Alliance for Animals members protest at Wisconsin's Devils Lake State Park on the opening day of deer-hunting season. The activists spent part of last night hiking through woods in the area so their scent would scare deer away from the macho killing ritual.
Nov. 21. 1969: Senate turns down first US Supreme Court nominee (Nixon's) since 1930, Clement Haynsworth. Haynsworth was widely criticized as a segregationist, but he failed to win Congressional approval only after it was revealed he engaged in insider trading. 1989: Czechoslovakia: One million demonstrators over next week; movement becomes general strike.
Nov. 22. 1998: Seven thousand march on School of the Americas at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia; 2,319 arrested for symbolic trespass.
Nov. 23. 1170 BC: First recorded strike for better working conditions and pay takes place in Egypt. 1774: Minute Men organized for revolutionary uprising.
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