Mar. 9. 1965: Reverend James Reeb, a Boston minister who had traveled to Selma to join demonstrators, is viciously beaten by a white gang and dies two days later. 1996: In first mass demonstration under independence, women from around Lithuania gather at Ignalia to commemorate Chernobyl victims and demand an accelerated timetable (by 2005) for decommissioning the plant.

Mar. 10. 1913: Death of Harriet Tubman, self-liberated slave and Underground Railroad organizer. 1987: United Nations recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right.

Mar. 11. 1950: American Airlines maintenance workers win nationwide strike, gaining first severance pay clause in industry and limits on subcontracting. 1968: Polish students battle Communist police in Warsaw. 1973: Formation of independent Oglala Sioux Nation proclaimed at Wounded Knee, South Dakota. 1988: Beginning of ten days of direct actions at Nevada Test Site which result in over 2,200 arrests, the largest number of arrests at a political protest outside Washington, D.C. in U.S. history. The event is almost completely ignored by mainstream media.

Mar. 12. 295 A.D.: Maximilian beheaded for refusing military service, Thevesta, North Africa. 1912: Shingle workers strike in Raymond, Wash. 1971: Fourteen-hour vigil for abolition of NATO, Ministry of Defense, London, Britain. 1978: 150,000 demonstrate against nuclear reactor. Lemoniz, Spain. 1979: Grenadan revolution begins.

Mar. 13. 1962: Wing Luke becomes the first non-white to be elected to the Seattle City Council, and the highest Asian-American elected official in the continental U.S. 1968: Clouds of nerve gas drift outside the Army's Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah, poisoning 6,400 sheep in nearby Skull Valley. 1997: 580 people detained around the country in protests as former Chilean dictator Gen. Augusto Pinochet is made "Senator-for-Life."

Mar. 14. 1879: Birth of Albert Einstein, scientist and pacifist. 1912: IWW agrees to terms granting over 20% wage increases, successfully ending 32,000-person "Bread and Roses" strike against wool mills precipitated by wage cuts. Lawrence, Massachusetts. 1990: Sixteen disabled rights activists arrested at the U.S. Capitol demanding passage of what would become the Americans With Disabilities Act.

Mar. 15. 1917: U.S. Supreme Court approves Eight-Hour Act under threat of railway strike. 1966: A day-long riot in the Watts section of Los Angeles leaves two dead. 1970: 78 protesters are arrested during a second attempt by Native American activists to occupy Fort Lawton, demanding that Seattle give the unused facility back to Native Americans. 1993: United Nations "Truth Commission" concludes that most of the human rights abuses in El Salvador during its civil war had been committed by the U.S.-backed Salvadoran government. 1997: Activists across Britain stage supermarket protests against genetically engineered foods.