Dec. 22. 1815: Jose Maria Morelos dies. Mexican revolutionary priest executed by Spaniards. 1982: Congress passes first version of the Boland amendment (411-0) which prohibited covert efforts by the President to overthrow the Nicaraguan government. So he ordered someone else to do it.

Dec. 23. 1938: Spanish insurgents launch Catalonia drive. 1972: About 350 anti-war protesters march through stores in the downtown Seattle shopping district.

Dec. 24. 1924: Costa Rica withdraws from League of Nations to protest Monroe Doctrine. 1990: Gulf Peace Team sets up camp, Judayyidat Ar'ar, Iraq.

Dec. 25. 1875: Jessie Wallace Hughan, founder of War Resisters League, born. 1926: Nicaraguan rebel Augusto C. Sandino obtains arms and ammunition with the help of prostitutes.

Dec. 26. 1913: Writer and scathing social critic Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary"), travelling with Pancho Villa's army in Mexico, writes his last letter and is never heard from again. 1971: Two dozen Vietnam Veterans Against the War "liberate" the Statue of Liberty with a sit-in to protest resumed bombings in Vietnam, and fly an inverted US flag from the crown as a signal of distress.

Dec. 27. 1913: Mass rebellion by IWW workers in Edmonton, Alberta forces city to house 400 unemployed during winter. 1914: Founding of International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR), multi-faith peace group, Cambridge, Great Britain.

Dec. 28. 1831: Thirty thousand slaves in Jamaica begin armed insurrection. 1969: ACLU charges police in nine cities are illegally harassing members of the Black Panther Party.

Dec. 29. 1939: Madeleine Pelletier dies. French doctor and feminist, member of the Socialist Party, later a Communist, then an anarchist. A pioneer of abortion rights, she was condemned in 1939 for practicing abortions--declared irresponsible for her acts and committed to a mental asylum, where she died. Ironically, she had begun her career as a psychiatrist.

Dec. 30. 1930: Birth of Odetta, leftist folksinger. 1946: Birth of singer/poet Patti Smith. 1971: Daniel Ellsburg indicted by a federal grand jury for releasing Pentagon Papers to news media.

Dec. 31. 1930: Troops of the Sandinista head Miguel Angel Ortez ambushes a patrol of marines in Achuapa, El Salvador. 1948: Sixty thousand Puerto Rican men refuse to register for the draft. Eight are prosecuted.

Jan. 1. 1800: Socialist planner Robert Owen assumes control of mills at New Lanark, Scotland. 1942: "Uncle Joe" Stalin proclaimed "Time" magazine's "Man of the Year." 1955: US begins training South Vietnamese army. How well they do.

Jan. 2. 1905: Conference of Industrial Unionists in Chicago forms the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW), fondly known as The Wobblies. 1996: An estimated 100,000 Bangladeshi women travel from the countryside to attend a rally in Dacca, the capital, to protest Islamic clerics' attacks on women's education and employment.

Jan. 3. 1781: Inca Rebellion. Inca beseige Cuzco (Peru) in attempt to dislodge Spanish. 1964: Five hundred thousand New York pupils stay at home in protest against racial segregation.

Jan. 4. 1872: Birth of Selena Butler, an African American leader of interracial cooperation. 1939: British author George Orwell signs Breton/Rivera manifesto, "Towards a Free Revolutionary Art."