Nov. 24. 1859: Evolutionary theorist Charles Darwin's "Origin of the Species" published. 1947: Twenty-two-month Chicago newspaper printers' anti-Taft-Hartley strike begins.

Nov. 25. 1883: Ten thousand black and white workers march together in labor parade, New Orleans. 1988: Two thousand march in New York City to protest sale of furs. Over 50 other cities hold demonstrations.

Nov. 26. 1970: American Indian Movement (AIM) activists celebrate Thanksgiving by occupying Plymouth Rock, Mass. 1991: Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York high school students.

Nov. 27. 1900: US troops coax information from Filipino town president by forcing salt water down his throat from 100-gallon tank. Then they burned the town. 1992: Activists across the US seize abandoned buildings in housing and homelessness protest.

Nov. 28. 1960: Richard Wright dies in exile, in Paris. Postal worker, novelist and short-story writer, among the first American black writers to protest white treatment of blacks, notably in his novel "Native Son" (1940). In 1932 he joined the Communist Party and was executive secretary of the local John Reed Club of leftist writers and authors of Chicago. Moved to New York City; left the Communist Party in 1944 because of personal and political differences and settled in Paris, where he was invited by Gertrude Stein.

Nov. 29. 1947: Birth of German Green Party leader, feminist and ecologist pioneer Petra Kelly, Gunzburg, Bavaria.

Nov. 30. 1812: Twice, General "Apocalypse" Smythe orders his troops to cross the Niagara River to invade Canada, and twice his courage fails and he calls off the attack. As the soldiers clamber from their boats the second time, they turn their weapons upon their commander's tent; Smythe turns tail and flees to Virginia. 1835: Birth of Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens), American humorist, social critic, and opponent of US militarism, Florida, Missouri.

Dec. 1. 1955: Arrest of Rosa Parks sets off successful year-long bus boycott by blacks. Montgomery, Alabama. 1970: Five thousand protest South Vietnamese Vice President Ky's visit to San Francisco.

Dec. 2. 1919: General strike in Italy to protest killing of socialist MP for refusing to hear king's address.

Dec. 3. 1910: Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) Brotherhood of Timber Workers Union organized. 1969: Protesters destroy files at eight New York draft boards.

Dec. 4. 1867: Grange is organized to protect farmers' interests. 1914: Zapata meets with Villa and agrees to join forces to occupy Mexico City two days later.

Dec. 5. 1944: Wildcat strike at Dodge truck plant, Detroit, Michigan. One of many "illegal" wartime strikes. 1955: The Montgomery (Alabama) bus boycott begins, lasting over a year (54 weeks) until buses are integrated.

Dec. 6. 1984: Children picket to demand release of their political prisoner parents by the US-backed Marcos dictatorship, Mendiola Bridge, Philippines.

Dec. 7. 1970: Rube Goldberg dies, New York City. Not entirely clear how his coffin was lowered into the ground. 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.