Mar. 6. 1836: Mexican troops defend their country's abolitionist constitution, defeat foreign slaveholders. San Antonio, Texas. Remember the Alamo. 1933: Pres. Roosevelt closes all US banks. Alas, they reopened.

Mar. 7. 1799: John Fries launches a rebellion in Pennsylvania against the imposition of the "direct tax" enacted by Congress the previous year on lands, houses, and slaves. Fries' mob was dispersed by the militia after a march on Bethlehem. Fries was arrested and sentenced to be hanged for treason, before being pardoned by the President.

Mar. 8. 1782: Glikhikan, a Delaware warrior, was murdered and scalped by "white savages" under Col. D. Williamson. 1971: Members of the "Citizens Committee to Investigate the FBI" break into an FBI office in suburban Philadelphia, and later publish files revealing the existence of the FBI's COINTELPRO program harassing domestic political dissidents.

Mar. 9. 1986: One hundred thousand march in Washington, DC for freedom of choice and reproductive rights.

Mar. 10. 1987: United Nations Human Rights Commission recognizes conscientious objection to military service as a human right. Meanwhile, over the last 30 years it has become increasingly difficult for U.S. military personnel to qualify for CO status.

Mar. 11. 1811: England: Luddites attack machines designed to replace them in the weaving of wool. 1812: Luddites suffer first defeat at Rawkolds Mill, Great Britain.

Mar. 12. 1917: Russia: Abolition of the death penalty. Yup. 1930: Gandhi's Salt March begins; march from Ahmadabad to Delhi, India, in protest against salt tax.

Mar. 13. 1864: First contingent of 14,030 Navajo reach Fort Sumner, New Mexico during the Long Walk of the Navajo, a 400-mile forced march in which thousands died. 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 US.

Mar. 14. 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.

Mar. 15. 1869: First federal women's suffrage amendment ever introduced in US Congress. 1997: Activists across Britain stage supermarket protests against genetically engineered foods.

Mar. 16. 1921: War Resisters International founded, London. 1965: Alice Herz, an 82-year-old Quaker pacifist (and Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany), immolates herself on a Detroit street corner to protest Vietnam War. She dies 11 days later.

Mar. 17. 1960: Pres. Eisenhower authorizes secret training of Cuban exiles for invasion of Cuba. Mar. 18. 1871: One thousand women successfully blockade cannons in what becomes the "Paris Commune," Paris, France. Starts as resistance to occupying German troops and betrayal by big bourgeois. The Commune was the first real experiment in worker self-management. The uprising is suppressed two months later.

Mar. 19. 2003: United States and U.K., in defiance of international law, the United Nations, and global opinion, launch an unprovoked invasion of Iraq. Massive protests immediately begin worldwide. In one day, over 1,500 people are arrested in San Francisco, and civil disobedience actions also paralyze downtown highways in Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and numerous other US cities.