#  @leftinthebay Left in the Bay Left in the Bay posts on X about black, strike, in the, police the most. They currently have [-----] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours. ### Engagements: [---] [#](/creator/twitter::1277358477644455936/interactions)  - [--] Week [-----] +290% - [--] Month [-----] -76% - [--] Months [------] -11% - [--] Year [-------] -86% ### Mentions: [--] [#](/creator/twitter::1277358477644455936/posts_active)  - [--] Year [--] -84% ### Followers: [-----] [#](/creator/twitter::1277358477644455936/followers)  - [--] Week [-----] -0.04% - [--] Month [-----] -0.44% - [--] Months [-----] +0.41% - [--] Year [-----] +4.10% ### CreatorRank: [---------] [#](/creator/twitter::1277358477644455936/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence **Social category influence** [countries](/list/countries) 7.92% [stocks](/list/stocks) 1.98% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 1.98% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 0.99% [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) 0.99% [nfl](/list/nfl) 0.99% **Social topic influence** [black](/topic/black) 13.86%, [strike](/topic/strike) #3021, [in the](/topic/in-the) 10.89%, [police](/topic/police) 6.93%, [native](/topic/native) 5.94%, [history](/topic/history) 5.94%, [matter](/topic/matter) 4.95%, [panther](/topic/panther) 4.95%, [to the](/topic/to-the) 3.96%, [the most](/topic/the-most) 3.96% **Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by** [@sfchronicle](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [ZIM Integrated Shipping Services Ltd. (ZIM)](/topic/$zim) [Hayward Holdings, Inc. (HAYW)](/topic/$hayw) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "55 years ago August [--] [----] 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson stormed the Marin County Hall of Justice during the trial of San Quentin prisoner James McClain. After taking hostages and demanding freedom for the Soledad Brothers including his brother George Jackson he was killed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1953524811365257720) 2025-08-07T18:33Z [----] followers, 53.7K engagements "58 years ago February [--] [----] inmates at San Quentin State Prison went on strike declaring a "Convict Unity Holiday." Outside [---] demonstrators held a solidarity festival at which the Grateful Dead played. The strike escalated throughout the week leading to a total lockdown" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2023183484735660373) 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Peace & Freedom Party organized support rallies every day of the weeklong "holiday." As bands played demonstrators hung flowers on San Quentin's gates and sent multicolored balloons bearing peace signs over the walls. That week a solidarity strike began at Folsom Prison" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2023183505505898780) 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Zim Integrated Shipping Services vessel was successfully turned around when ILWU Local [--] workers refused to cross picket lines formed at the port gates. The Block the Boat port protests were organized in response to the brutal Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip that summer" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1956836339565129969) 2025-08-16T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "57 years ago February [--] [----] a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Concerned Citizens Peace Center in downtown Palo Alto. It was the second attack on the peace center within a few months and connected to a string of bombings targeting left organizations in the peninsula" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2021711958408646991) 2026-02-11T22:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In January [----] a "race riot" almost broke out in San Quentin which many inmates felt was the result of animosities intentionally stoked by prison authorities. With clandestine support from Berkeley radicals they began illegally printing "The Outlaw" an underground newspaper" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2023183492440625609) 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Hand-inked with the use of stencils the Outlaw combined articles about abuses at San Quentin with vicious satire of guards and other authorities. After attempts to crack down on the paper failed it published a list of grievances and called for a strike in February" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2023183500044849497) 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "By the 20th both San Quentin and Folsom were on total lockdown achieving strikers' goal of a complete work stoppage. San Quentin's associate warden announced that the prison was a victim of "a new type of insurrection involving a coalition of prisoners and. the New Left"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2023183510618718669) 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Inspired by the occupation's militancy creativity and hopefulness Native people poured into Alcatraz. Some stayed for a short time some for months. At its peak the island housed hundreds of Indian people who set up schools kitchens clinics and a radio station" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1991581251653013795) 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "After over a year on the island supplies and support dwindled tensions among occupiers became more pronounced and negotiations with authorities came to nothing. It ended in a federal raid in June [----] by which point barely more than a dozen occupiers remained on Alcatraz" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1991581260142244045) 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "IOAT followed the Alcatraz occupation with an occupation of an abandoned Nike missile base in Tilden Park. Although a center was not built the action dramatically escalated and energized the movement for Native American rights and self-determination" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1991581268358885789) 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "207 years ago November [--] [----] French-born Argentine pirate Hyppolyte Bouchard launched an attack against Spanish outposts in the Monterey Bay. His crew burned down the Monterey Presidio and raised the Argentinian flag over the city of Monterey for six days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1993033571364450563) 2025-11-24T19:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "That same day the padres of Mission Santa Cruz fled to San Jose anticipating an attack. The Awasas Ohlone imprisoned there revolted and briefly took control of the mission while Bouchard camped out on a Santa Cruz beach" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1993033574250062086) 2025-11-24T19:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Three days after the longshoremen resumed work their supporters organized a rally that drew [---] demonstrators to Berkeleys Sproul Plaza. Berkeleys Socialist mayor Gus Newport encouraged students to engage in civil disobedience. They were joined by the ILWUs Howard Taylor" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1993066819461300618) 2025-11-24T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Students marched to University Hall where a brief sit-in ended in three dozen arrests. The following spring a massive student occupation movement swept the country ultimately leading to divestment from South Africa at many major universities" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1993066827073962146) 2025-11-24T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "57 years ago November [--] [----] members of San Francisco State's Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids Unincorporated (FUCK U) which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1994587914664382839) 2025-11-29T02:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "FUCK U was founded in the early days of the SF State Third World Liberation Front student strike which established Ethnic Studies at SFSU. ICSA members wanted to bridge the gap between radical Asian students and the mostly poor Chinatown community [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University began the longest student strike in US history spawning the departments of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies at SFSU and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley https://t.co/CggfiF9Uuv [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1994587918359482769) 2025-11-29T02:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "10 years ago December [--] [----] 26-year-old Mario Woods was shot to death by five SFPD officers in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco generating a surge in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in the Bay and around the country" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1995994816883372111) 2025-12-02T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A wave of demos took place in the aftermath of his death including a march of over [---] people to interrupt the opening day of the [----] Super Bowl in San Francisco. Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick cited the murder of Woods as a cause for his activism in the NFL" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1995994826085728625) 2025-12-02T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Xmas day headline in The Black Panther 1971" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2004269951478387090) 2025-12-25T19:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service 🎁" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2004271876642951298) 2025-12-25T19:23Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements "47 years ago December [--] [----] over [----] marched through downtown San Francisco carrying an effigy of the shah to the Iranian consulate. The anti-shah protest was led by the Iranian Students Association which had just held their convention at the Oakland Civic Auditorium" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2005474368969908627) 2025-12-29T03:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "17 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to Occupy and Black Lives Matter" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2006743022655201562) 2026-01-01T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "After celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco Grant had been heading home to Hayward on BART. Around 2AM a fight broke out on the train and police were called. When they arrived the fight had already been broken up by other passengers" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2006743025335287913) 2026-01-01T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "55 years ago January [--] [----] the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free Breakfast Program Benefit featuring the Black Panther Party band The Lumpen at the Erwin & Taylor Memorial Hall in East Oakland. The benefit funded several jointly run BPP and CRP free breakfast programs" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2009683877716210014) 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Chicano Revolutionary Party/El Partido Revolutionario Chicano began organizing in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood in [----]. Inspired by and working with the panthers they ran various community programs and a free breakfast programs for children and organized police patrols" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2009683883277864995) 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In [----] the CRP began publishing their own community newspaper out of East Oakland La Chispa. Their office in Fruitvale became a social hub for militant action community meetings and events like joint concert with the Black Panther Party" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2009683889925829122) 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "14 years ago January [--] [----] organizers with Occupy Oakland's Labor Solidarity Council joined a picket of striking workers at Union City's American Licorice factory. Occupiers physically blocked multiple vans carrying scabs from entering the factory which produces Red Vines" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2009849927535628453) 2026-01-10T04:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "11 years ago August [--] [----] thousands of people converged at the Port of Oakland to block an Israeli-owned container ship from docking and unloading at the port as part of a wider "Block the Boat" campaign. Similar protests took place in Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver that week" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1956836330295493067) 2025-08-16T21:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "14 years ago November [--] [----] police violently raided Occupy Cal's encampment at UC Berkeley making [--] arrests. Students had established the camp earlier that day to demand free public education announcing: "We disagree with the idea that this. land is property of the UC"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1987700491703431370) 2025-11-10T01:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "55 years ago January [--] [----] [---] anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by former Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at Stanford University. The University used the incident as a pretext to suspend professor Bruce Franklin a leader of the Maoist group Venceremos" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2010510102491730138) 2026-01-12T00:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "51 years ago January [--] [----] the Weather Underground bombed the Department of Defense offices in the Federal Building in Oakland and the State Department building in D.C. in response to President Ford's escalation of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2016677960762441946) 2026-01-29T01:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "92 years ago January [--] [----] the San Leandro Post of the American Legion announced a $25 bounty for information leading to the capture of communists working in Civilian Conservation Corps camps for fear they would "stir up revolts and strike for the abolition of discipline"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2016683021035065387) 2026-01-29T01:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "58 years ago February [--] [----] OPD officer Walter Gibbons murdered 23-year-old Charles "Pinky" Dominic De Baca while he fled on foot from a traffic stop. His death was a focal point in the radical Chicano movement in Oakland and led to the formation of United Latins for Justice" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2019447940062847436) 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "After De Baca's death family members and community activists formed ULJ launching campaigns seeking justice for De Baca and others murdered and brutalized by cops. They held community town halls occupied city hall in Oakland and Hayward and demanded for killer cops to be tried" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2019447944932434078) 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The ULJ worked on several campaigns with militants from organizations like the Brown Berets and the Chicano Revolutionary Party. They also formed a community newspaper to document police brutality and report on their organizing campaigns in the East Bay called La Hormiga" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/2019447955372057081) 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "44 years ago Apr [--] [----] a gunfight at the People's Food System's San Francisco Cooperating Warehouse left one dead & one (PFS & San Quentin [--] member Willie Tate) critically wounded. The shootout is regarded as having spelled the end for the People's Food System's co-op network" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1386721410161254407) 2021-04-26T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "42 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1395867069573263361) 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "By the time the march reached city hall thousands had joined the crowd and new chants emerged: "Kill Dan White" and "Dump Diane." As cops arrived to city hall many of whom had contributed to White's defense fund the crowd began smashing windows of the hall and battling pigs" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1395867077999611906) 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A police line pushed back the crowd and people began moving throughout the streets and lighting cop cars on fire several of which exploded. As cops headed toward the Castro a police captain told a reporter "We lost the battle at City Hall. We arent going to lose this one."" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1395867082084950022) 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "13 years ago Jan [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1477401986404335617) 2022-01-01T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "53 years ago Jan [--] [----] students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Front a coalition of Black Mexican-American Asian-American and Native American student groups the strike led to the creation of the Ethnic Studies Department" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1485069751487447040) 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "32 years ago Jan [--] [----] Berkeley Copwatch held its first community meeting. Formed to directly observe and document police abuses of the homeless community in the Telegraph area Copwatch later developed into an international network of activist police monitors" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1487522978833305603) 2022-01-29T20:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "5 years ago Feb [--] [----] far-right internet personality Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley for an event hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. A crowd of thousands filled Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue and shut down the event" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1488640962632970240) 2022-02-01T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "19 years ago Mar [--] [----] tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America's invasion of Iraq which had begun that day. Police made around [----] arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1505691252905369601) 2022-03-20T23:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "marching for abortion in San Francisco November [----] free on demand without apology forever" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1521313909617086464) 2022-05-03T02:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "56 years ago [----] people marched in Oakland against racist hiring and construction practices by BART. The march was organized by Justice on Bay Area Rapid Transit (JOBART) who charged that BART construction deliberately entrenched segregation and demolished Black homes" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1533470225290743808) 2022-06-05T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "53 years ago Oct [--] [----] the Strategic Anarchy Command celebrated Halloween by holding mock "war games" in Berkeley. The games turned into real street fighting with police after the crowd spontaneously ripped down the People's Park fence and destroyed its alarm system" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1587271368353099776) 2022-11-01T02:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "54 years ago Nov [--] [----] members of San Francisco State's Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids Unincorporated (FUCK U) which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1597434149539020802) 2022-11-29T03:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "55 years ago April [--] [----] Oakland police murdered 17-year-old Black Panther Party member Lil Bobby Hutton the partys first recruit and treasurer just weeks before his 18th birthday" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1644010843338579971) 2023-04-06T16:15Z [----] followers, 57.2K engagements "46 years ago May [--] [----] Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group Environmental Life Force marked May Day by firebombing five planes used for pesticide application in Salinas in what was likely the first left-wing environmentalist bombing in American history" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1653107401623748608) 2023-05-01T18:41Z [----] followers, 39.4K engagements "56 years ago May [--] [----] the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense published their Ten-Point Program. Titled "What We Want Now What We Believe" the program was published in every consecutive issue of the Black Panther newspaper" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1658271172583387137) 2023-05-16T00:40Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements "44 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1660326036146470912) 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 207.1K engagements "Once the verdict was announced several hundred gathered in the Castro to chants of "No justice no peace" and "Out of the bars into the streets." After a moving speech from Cleve Jones friend and student intern of Milk a march and candlelight vigil was led to city hall" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1660326043708694529) 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements "By the time the march reached city hall thousands had joined the crowd and new chants emerged: "Kill Dan White" and "Dump Diane." As cops arrived to city hall many of whom had contributed to White's defense fund the crowd began smashing windows of the hall and battling cops" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1660326054064447490) 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 23K engagements "A police line pushed back the crowd and people began moving throughout the streets and lighting cop cars on fire several of which exploded. As cops headed toward the Castro a police captain told a reporter "We lost the battle at City Hall. We arent going to lose this one"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1660326060863389698) 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "we'd like to wish a very happy 80th birthday to Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas probably the most influential and possibly the greatest visual artist in the history of the Bay Area Left" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1661589384666435592) 2023-05-25T04:25Z [----] followers, 22.7K engagements "89 years ago July [--] [----] San Francisco police opened fire on striking maritime workers leaving two dead. The day which became known as Bloody Thursday was the immediate catalyst for the San Francisco General Strike which saw almost all work in the city cease for [--] days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1676733678926569474) 2023-07-05T23:23Z [----] followers, 24.2K engagements "54 years ago Nov [--] [----] [--] Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island. The occupation led by an ad-hoc group calling itself Indians of All Tribes continued for nineteen months" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1726818897998045487) 2023-11-21T04:24Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements "85 years ago Dec [--] [----] thousands of mostly Chinese demonstrators marched to the San Francisco waterfront to picket the loading of scrap iron onto a Greek freighter bound for Japan. Longshoremen with ILWU Local [--] refused to cross the picket and ceased work for several days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1736114416989413580) 2023-12-16T20:01Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements "Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1739368964944199844) 2023-12-25T19:34Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements "15 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1741922528371560926) 2024-01-01T20:41Z [----] followers, 28.5K engagements "55 years ago January [--] [----] students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Front a coalition of Black Mexican-American Asian-American and Native American student groups the strike led to the creation of the Ethnic Studies Department" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1749592259044032770) 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, 17.6K engagements "UC will consider banning political statements on its websites by faculty and others https://t.co/IlslVPNQJA UC will consider banning political statements on its websites by faculty and others https://t.co/IlslVPNQJA" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1750714666668392496) 2024-01-26T02:57Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements "7 years ago February [--] [----] far-right internet personality Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley for an event hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. A crowd of thousands filled Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue and shut down the event" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1753105771993440755) 2024-02-01T17:19Z [----] followers, 101K engagements "need waymo of this happening NOW in SF. Waymo car vandalized & lit on fire 🤯@sfchronicle https://t.co/OEZYFiy6mv happening NOW in SF. Waymo car vandalized & lit on fire 🤯@sfchronicle https://t.co/OEZYFiy6mv" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1756761826493452412) 2024-02-11T19:27Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements "53 years ago March [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the Revolutionary Intercommunal Day of Solidarity in Oakland. Officially a fundraiser for four Black political prisoners the event was an attempt by Huey P. Newton to consolidate support amidst a major split in the party" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765224918302548164) 2024-03-06T03:56Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements "21 years ago March [--] [----] tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America's invasion of Iraq which had begun that day. Police made around [----] arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1770612821421969727) 2024-03-21T00:46Z [----] followers, 196.5K engagements "38 years ago March [--] [----] activists demanding UC Berkeley divest from apartheid South Africa built a shantytown on Sproul Plaza which they had renamed "Biko Plaza." Police destroyed the shacks that night making [--] arrests while students pelted their cars with rocks and eggs" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1774550382867251243) 2024-03-31T21:32Z [----] followers, 92.9K engagements "56 years ago April [--] [----] Oakland police murdered 17-year-old Black Panther Party member Lil Bobby Hutton the partys first recruit and treasurer just weeks before his 18th birthday" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1776673035585724708) 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, 56.9K engagements "Come to Sproul :)" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1782517651056836945) 2024-04-22T21:11Z [----] followers, 30.8K engagements "Beautiful day in San Francisco for two new Gaza Solidarity Encampments to pop off at SF State and USF 🌞" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785054371648278791) 2024-04-29T21:11Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements "47 years ago May [--] [----] Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group Environmental Life Force marked May Day by firebombing five planes used for pesticide application in Salinas in what was likely the first left-wing environmentalist bombing in American history" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785741236051251552) 2024-05-01T18:41Z [----] followers, 12.4K engagements "UC Santa Cruz Encampment finally up :)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785744862698222000) 2024-05-01T18:55Z [----] followers, 156.2K engagements "57 years ago May [--] [----] [--] armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786058574869012648) 2024-05-02T15:42Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements "Cops raided Berkeley's occupation for South African divestment in April [----] arresting [---]. Students reoccupied and declared a strike. [-----] joined. Occupations started again in the fall. The camp was raided and rebuilt again until they won. This isn't over. It's barely begun" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786118846308569301) 2024-05-02T19:41Z [----] followers, 189.6K engagements "RIP GARY FLOYD OF THE DICKS SAN FRANCISCO (VIA TEXAS) GAY COMMIE PUNK ICON THEY CAN KILL US AND WELL BE BACK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1786553301376418250) 2024-05-04T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "64 years ago May [--] [----] hundreds of students battled cops on the steps of City Hall during the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on communist subversion in San Francisco. The protest against HUAC marked the beginning of a new student movement in the Bay" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1790233022496948432) 2024-05-14T04:09Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements "45 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1792939983780876797) 2024-05-21T15:26Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements "34 years ago May [--] [----] a pipe bomb exploded in Earth First and IWW organizer Judi Bari's station wagon as she drove through Oakland with her comrade Darryl Cherney injuring both passengers. Authorities unsuccessfully attempted to pin the bombing on the activists themselves" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1794060735053791337) 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements "55 years ago June [--] [----] former Black Panther William Lee Brent hijacked Trans World Airlines flight [---] from Oakland to New York redirecting it to Cuba. Brent was fleeing prison time stemming from a San Francisco shootout that injured three police in November 1968" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1802917022763831497) 2024-06-18T04:11Z [----] followers, 27.5K engagements "90 years ago July [--] [----] San Francisco police opened fire on striking maritime workers leaving two dead. The day which became known as Bloody Thursday was the immediate catalyst for the San Francisco General Strike which saw almost all work in the city cease for [--] days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1809252737357668489) 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements "10 years ago August [--] [----] thousands of people converged at the Port of Oakland to block an Israeli-owned container ship from docking and unloading at the port as part of a wider "Block the Boat" campaign. Similar protests took place in Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver that week" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1824579237170516219) 2024-08-16T22:49Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements "58 years ago October [--] [----] Huey Newton & Bobby Seale radical students at Oakland's Merritt College formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Inspired by SNCC's Lowndes County Freedom Organization the BPP would have an enormous impact on global revolutionary politics" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846253335122530696) 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, 17.2K engagements "56 years ago November [--] [----] San Francisco State University fired English Instructor (& Black Panther Party Minister of Education) George Murray. Outrage over Murray's firing sparked the Third World Liberation Front strike leading to the creation of Black & Ethnic Studies" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1852407956832506190) 2024-11-01T17:50Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements "55 years ago November [--] [----] [--] Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island. The occupation led by an ad-hoc group calling itself Indians of All Tribes continued for nineteen months" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1859306001184456923) 2024-11-20T18:41Z [----] followers, 25.9K engagements "Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service 🎁" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1872045534967689271) 2024-12-25T22:23Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements "16 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to Occupy and Black Lives Matter" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1874545320954372434) 2025-01-01T19:56Z [----] followers, 51.7K engagements "53 years ago January [--] [----] [--] inmates at San Quentin State Prison led by the San Quentin [--] (who were being tried for the alleged escape attempt that left George Jackson dead) began a hunger strike demanding sanitary food and other basic rights including the freedom to read" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1881769180699255065) 2025-01-21T18:21Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements "39 years ago March [--] [----] activists demanding UC Berkeley divest from apartheid South Africa built a shantytown on Sproul Plaza which they had renamed "Biko Plaza." Police destroyed the shacks that night making [--] arrests while students pelted their cars with rocks and eggs" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1906874761226969357) 2025-04-01T01:02Z [----] followers, 60.8K engagements "58 years ago May [--] [----] [--] armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1918381705758740913) 2025-05-02T19:06Z [----] followers, 17.6K engagements "58 years ago May [--] [----] the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense published their Ten-Point Program. Titled "What We Want Now What We Believe" the program was published in every consecutive issue of the Black Panther newspaper" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1923128430276583426) 2025-05-15T21:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "119 years ago June [--] [----] Ktoku Shsui co-founded the Shakai Kakumeito (Social Revolutionary Party) in Berkeley. The party included over [--] other Japanese radicals and printed a bilingual paper Kakumei (Revolution) promoting the IWW and the overthrow of the Japanese emperor" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1929245588748411089) 2025-06-01T18:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA https://t.co/p2iVDUbEIL Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA https://t.co/p2iVDUbEIL" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1931881084536664281) 2025-06-09T01:08Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements "San Francisco take notes ✍ Waymo suspends service in DTLA amid protests over ICE raids https://t.co/6lLo04n6v9 Waymo suspends service in DTLA amid protests over ICE raids https://t.co/6lLo04n6v9" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1932156292086579671) 2025-06-09T19:22Z [----] followers, 13K engagements "58 years ago August [--] [----] installation began on a stoplight at 55th & Market St in Oakland the result of a campaign led early on by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1951351801921544309) 2025-08-01T18:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "54 years ago August [--] [----] incarcerated revolutionary theorist and Black Panther Party leader George Jackson was shot to death in San Quentin State Prison during an alleged escape attempt. The following week thousands attended his funeral in Oakland" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1958566279973150883) 2025-08-21T16:26Z [----] followers, 49.5K engagements "36 years ago August [--] [----] Huey Newton cofounder of the Black Panther Party was murdered in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. Tyrone Robinson of the Black Guerilla Family was arrested and charged with his murder" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1958970477910925726) 2025-08-22T19:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "33 years ago August [--] [----] anarchist People's Park activist Rosebud Denovo was shot to death by police in the home of UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-lin Tien. She had broken into the house with a machete and a note reading "We are willing to die for this piece of land. Are you"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1960056654281756709) 2025-08-25T19:08Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements "54 years ago August [--] [----] over [----] people attended the funeral of George Jackson slain leader of the Black Panther Party's San Quentin Branch at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland. Jackson was killed [--] days prior by prison guards during an alleged escape attempt" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1961114046859784237) 2025-08-28T17:09Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"55 years ago August [--] [----] 17-year-old Jonathan Jackson stormed the Marin County Hall of Justice during the trial of San Quentin prisoner James McClain. After taking hostages and demanding freedom for the Soledad Brothers including his brother George Jackson he was killed"
X Link 2025-08-07T18:33Z [----] followers, 53.7K engagements
"58 years ago February [--] [----] inmates at San Quentin State Prison went on strike declaring a "Convict Unity Holiday." Outside [---] demonstrators held a solidarity festival at which the Grateful Dead played. The strike escalated throughout the week leading to a total lockdown"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Peace & Freedom Party organized support rallies every day of the weeklong "holiday." As bands played demonstrators hung flowers on San Quentin's gates and sent multicolored balloons bearing peace signs over the walls. That week a solidarity strike began at Folsom Prison"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Zim Integrated Shipping Services vessel was successfully turned around when ILWU Local [--] workers refused to cross picket lines formed at the port gates. The Block the Boat port protests were organized in response to the brutal Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip that summer"
X Link 2025-08-16T21:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"57 years ago February [--] [----] a bomb exploded at the headquarters of the Concerned Citizens Peace Center in downtown Palo Alto. It was the second attack on the peace center within a few months and connected to a string of bombings targeting left organizations in the peninsula"
X Link 2026-02-11T22:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In January [----] a "race riot" almost broke out in San Quentin which many inmates felt was the result of animosities intentionally stoked by prison authorities. With clandestine support from Berkeley radicals they began illegally printing "The Outlaw" an underground newspaper"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Hand-inked with the use of stencils the Outlaw combined articles about abuses at San Quentin with vicious satire of guards and other authorities. After attempts to crack down on the paper failed it published a list of grievances and called for a strike in February"
X Link 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"By the 20th both San Quentin and Folsom were on total lockdown achieving strikers' goal of a complete work stoppage. San Quentin's associate warden announced that the prison was a victim of "a new type of insurrection involving a coalition of prisoners and. the New Left""
X Link 2026-02-15T23:51Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Inspired by the occupation's militancy creativity and hopefulness Native people poured into Alcatraz. Some stayed for a short time some for months. At its peak the island housed hundreds of Indian people who set up schools kitchens clinics and a radio station"
X Link 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"After over a year on the island supplies and support dwindled tensions among occupiers became more pronounced and negotiations with authorities came to nothing. It ended in a federal raid in June [----] by which point barely more than a dozen occupiers remained on Alcatraz"
X Link 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"IOAT followed the Alcatraz occupation with an occupation of an abandoned Nike missile base in Tilden Park. Although a center was not built the action dramatically escalated and energized the movement for Native American rights and self-determination"
X Link 2025-11-20T18:55Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"207 years ago November [--] [----] French-born Argentine pirate Hyppolyte Bouchard launched an attack against Spanish outposts in the Monterey Bay. His crew burned down the Monterey Presidio and raised the Argentinian flag over the city of Monterey for six days"
X Link 2025-11-24T19:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"That same day the padres of Mission Santa Cruz fled to San Jose anticipating an attack. The Awasas Ohlone imprisoned there revolted and briefly took control of the mission while Bouchard camped out on a Santa Cruz beach"
X Link 2025-11-24T19:06Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Three days after the longshoremen resumed work their supporters organized a rally that drew [---] demonstrators to Berkeleys Sproul Plaza. Berkeleys Socialist mayor Gus Newport encouraged students to engage in civil disobedience. They were joined by the ILWUs Howard Taylor"
X Link 2025-11-24T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Students marched to University Hall where a brief sit-in ended in three dozen arrests. The following spring a massive student occupation movement swept the country ultimately leading to divestment from South Africa at many major universities"
X Link 2025-11-24T21:18Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"57 years ago November [--] [----] members of San Francisco State's Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids Unincorporated (FUCK U) which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown"
X Link 2025-11-29T02:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"FUCK U was founded in the early days of the SF State Third World Liberation Front student strike which established Ethnic Studies at SFSU. ICSA members wanted to bridge the gap between radical Asian students and the mostly poor Chinatown community [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San Francisco State University began the longest student strike in US history spawning the departments of Black Studies and Ethnic Studies at SFSU and Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley https://t.co/CggfiF9Uuv [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union"
X Link 2025-11-29T02:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"10 years ago December [--] [----] 26-year-old Mario Woods was shot to death by five SFPD officers in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco generating a surge in the ongoing Black Lives Matter protests against police violence in the Bay and around the country"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A wave of demos took place in the aftermath of his death including a march of over [---] people to interrupt the opening day of the [----] Super Bowl in San Francisco. Former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick cited the murder of Woods as a cause for his activism in the NFL"
X Link 2025-12-02T23:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Xmas day headline in The Black Panther 1971"
X Link 2025-12-25T19:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service 🎁"
X Link 2025-12-25T19:23Z [----] followers, 14.9K engagements
"47 years ago December [--] [----] over [----] marched through downtown San Francisco carrying an effigy of the shah to the Iranian consulate. The anti-shah protest was led by the Iranian Students Association which had just held their convention at the Oakland Civic Auditorium"
X Link 2025-12-29T03:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"17 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to Occupy and Black Lives Matter"
X Link 2026-01-01T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"After celebrating New Year's Eve in San Francisco Grant had been heading home to Hayward on BART. Around 2AM a fight broke out on the train and police were called. When they arrived the fight had already been broken up by other passengers"
X Link 2026-01-01T15:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"55 years ago January [--] [----] the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free Breakfast Program Benefit featuring the Black Panther Party band The Lumpen at the Erwin & Taylor Memorial Hall in East Oakland. The benefit funded several jointly run BPP and CRP free breakfast programs"
X Link 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Chicano Revolutionary Party/El Partido Revolutionario Chicano began organizing in Oakland's Fruitvale neighborhood in [----]. Inspired by and working with the panthers they ran various community programs and a free breakfast programs for children and organized police patrols"
X Link 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] the CRP began publishing their own community newspaper out of East Oakland La Chispa. Their office in Fruitvale became a social hub for militant action community meetings and events like joint concert with the Black Panther Party"
X Link 2026-01-09T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"14 years ago January [--] [----] organizers with Occupy Oakland's Labor Solidarity Council joined a picket of striking workers at Union City's American Licorice factory. Occupiers physically blocked multiple vans carrying scabs from entering the factory which produces Red Vines"
X Link 2026-01-10T04:48Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"11 years ago August [--] [----] thousands of people converged at the Port of Oakland to block an Israeli-owned container ship from docking and unloading at the port as part of a wider "Block the Boat" campaign. Similar protests took place in Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver that week"
X Link 2025-08-16T21:51Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"14 years ago November [--] [----] police violently raided Occupy Cal's encampment at UC Berkeley making [--] arrests. Students had established the camp earlier that day to demand free public education announcing: "We disagree with the idea that this. land is property of the UC""
X Link 2025-11-10T01:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"55 years ago January [--] [----] [---] anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by former Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at Stanford University. The University used the incident as a pretext to suspend professor Bruce Franklin a leader of the Maoist group Venceremos"
X Link 2026-01-12T00:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"51 years ago January [--] [----] the Weather Underground bombed the Department of Defense offices in the Federal Building in Oakland and the State Department building in D.C. in response to President Ford's escalation of the war in Vietnam and Cambodia"
X Link 2026-01-29T01:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"92 years ago January [--] [----] the San Leandro Post of the American Legion announced a $25 bounty for information leading to the capture of communists working in Civilian Conservation Corps camps for fear they would "stir up revolts and strike for the abolition of discipline""
X Link 2026-01-29T01:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"58 years ago February [--] [----] OPD officer Walter Gibbons murdered 23-year-old Charles "Pinky" Dominic De Baca while he fled on foot from a traffic stop. His death was a focal point in the radical Chicano movement in Oakland and led to the formation of United Latins for Justice"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"After De Baca's death family members and community activists formed ULJ launching campaigns seeking justice for De Baca and others murdered and brutalized by cops. They held community town halls occupied city hall in Oakland and Hayward and demanded for killer cops to be tried"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The ULJ worked on several campaigns with militants from organizations like the Brown Berets and the Chicano Revolutionary Party. They also formed a community newspaper to document police brutality and report on their organizing campaigns in the East Bay called La Hormiga"
X Link 2026-02-05T16:28Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"44 years ago Apr [--] [----] a gunfight at the People's Food System's San Francisco Cooperating Warehouse left one dead & one (PFS & San Quentin [--] member Willie Tate) critically wounded. The shootout is regarded as having spelled the end for the People's Food System's co-op network"
X Link 2021-04-26T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"42 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots"
X Link 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"By the time the march reached city hall thousands had joined the crowd and new chants emerged: "Kill Dan White" and "Dump Diane." As cops arrived to city hall many of whom had contributed to White's defense fund the crowd began smashing windows of the hall and battling pigs"
X Link 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A police line pushed back the crowd and people began moving throughout the streets and lighting cop cars on fire several of which exploded. As cops headed toward the Castro a police captain told a reporter "We lost the battle at City Hall. We arent going to lose this one.""
X Link 2021-05-21T22:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"13 years ago Jan [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement"
X Link 2022-01-01T22:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"53 years ago Jan [--] [----] students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Front a coalition of Black Mexican-American Asian-American and Native American student groups the strike led to the creation of the Ethnic Studies Department"
X Link 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"32 years ago Jan [--] [----] Berkeley Copwatch held its first community meeting. Formed to directly observe and document police abuses of the homeless community in the Telegraph area Copwatch later developed into an international network of activist police monitors"
X Link 2022-01-29T20:28Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"5 years ago Feb [--] [----] far-right internet personality Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley for an event hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. A crowd of thousands filled Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue and shut down the event"
X Link 2022-02-01T22:30Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"19 years ago Mar [--] [----] tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America's invasion of Iraq which had begun that day. Police made around [----] arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions"
X Link 2022-03-20T23:42Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"marching for abortion in San Francisco November [----] free on demand without apology forever"
X Link 2022-05-03T02:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"56 years ago [----] people marched in Oakland against racist hiring and construction practices by BART. The march was organized by Justice on Bay Area Rapid Transit (JOBART) who charged that BART construction deliberately entrenched segregation and demolished Black homes"
X Link 2022-06-05T15:26Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"53 years ago Oct [--] [----] the Strategic Anarchy Command celebrated Halloween by holding mock "war games" in Berkeley. The games turned into real street fighting with police after the crowd spontaneously ripped down the People's Park fence and destroyed its alarm system"
X Link 2022-11-01T02:32Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"54 years ago Nov [--] [----] members of San Francisco State's Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids Unincorporated (FUCK U) which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown"
X Link 2022-11-29T03:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"55 years ago April [--] [----] Oakland police murdered 17-year-old Black Panther Party member Lil Bobby Hutton the partys first recruit and treasurer just weeks before his 18th birthday"
X Link 2023-04-06T16:15Z [----] followers, 57.2K engagements
"46 years ago May [--] [----] Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group Environmental Life Force marked May Day by firebombing five planes used for pesticide application in Salinas in what was likely the first left-wing environmentalist bombing in American history"
X Link 2023-05-01T18:41Z [----] followers, 39.4K engagements
"56 years ago May [--] [----] the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense published their Ten-Point Program. Titled "What We Want Now What We Believe" the program was published in every consecutive issue of the Black Panther newspaper"
X Link 2023-05-16T00:40Z [----] followers, 29.1K engagements
"44 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots"
X Link 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 207.1K engagements
"Once the verdict was announced several hundred gathered in the Castro to chants of "No justice no peace" and "Out of the bars into the streets." After a moving speech from Cleve Jones friend and student intern of Milk a march and candlelight vigil was led to city hall"
X Link 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 10.1K engagements
"By the time the march reached city hall thousands had joined the crowd and new chants emerged: "Kill Dan White" and "Dump Diane." As cops arrived to city hall many of whom had contributed to White's defense fund the crowd began smashing windows of the hall and battling cops"
X Link 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, 23K engagements
"A police line pushed back the crowd and people began moving throughout the streets and lighting cop cars on fire several of which exploded. As cops headed toward the Castro a police captain told a reporter "We lost the battle at City Hall. We arent going to lose this one""
X Link 2023-05-21T16:45Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"we'd like to wish a very happy 80th birthday to Black Panther Party Minister of Culture Emory Douglas probably the most influential and possibly the greatest visual artist in the history of the Bay Area Left"
X Link 2023-05-25T04:25Z [----] followers, 22.7K engagements
"89 years ago July [--] [----] San Francisco police opened fire on striking maritime workers leaving two dead. The day which became known as Bloody Thursday was the immediate catalyst for the San Francisco General Strike which saw almost all work in the city cease for [--] days"
X Link 2023-07-05T23:23Z [----] followers, 24.2K engagements
"54 years ago Nov [--] [----] [--] Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island. The occupation led by an ad-hoc group calling itself Indians of All Tribes continued for nineteen months"
X Link 2023-11-21T04:24Z [----] followers, 40.3K engagements
"85 years ago Dec [--] [----] thousands of mostly Chinese demonstrators marched to the San Francisco waterfront to picket the loading of scrap iron onto a Greek freighter bound for Japan. Longshoremen with ILWU Local [--] refused to cross the picket and ceased work for several days"
X Link 2023-12-16T20:01Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements
"Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service"
X Link 2023-12-25T19:34Z [----] followers, 16.9K engagements
"15 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement"
X Link 2024-01-01T20:41Z [----] followers, 28.5K engagements
"55 years ago January [--] [----] students at UC Berkeley began a three-month strike. Led by the Third World Liberation Front a coalition of Black Mexican-American Asian-American and Native American student groups the strike led to the creation of the Ethnic Studies Department"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, 17.6K engagements
"UC will consider banning political statements on its websites by faculty and others https://t.co/IlslVPNQJA UC will consider banning political statements on its websites by faculty and others https://t.co/IlslVPNQJA"
X Link 2024-01-26T02:57Z [----] followers, 12.5K engagements
"7 years ago February [--] [----] far-right internet personality Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley for an event hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. A crowd of thousands filled Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue and shut down the event"
X Link 2024-02-01T17:19Z [----] followers, 101K engagements
"need waymo of this happening NOW in SF. Waymo car vandalized & lit on fire 🤯@sfchronicle https://t.co/OEZYFiy6mv happening NOW in SF. Waymo car vandalized & lit on fire 🤯@sfchronicle https://t.co/OEZYFiy6mv"
X Link 2024-02-11T19:27Z [----] followers, 15.9K engagements
"53 years ago March [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the Revolutionary Intercommunal Day of Solidarity in Oakland. Officially a fundraiser for four Black political prisoners the event was an attempt by Huey P. Newton to consolidate support amidst a major split in the party"
X Link 2024-03-06T03:56Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements
"21 years ago March [--] [----] tens of thousands of people took to the streets of San Francisco to protest America's invasion of Iraq which had begun that day. Police made around [----] arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions"
X Link 2024-03-21T00:46Z [----] followers, 196.5K engagements
"38 years ago March [--] [----] activists demanding UC Berkeley divest from apartheid South Africa built a shantytown on Sproul Plaza which they had renamed "Biko Plaza." Police destroyed the shacks that night making [--] arrests while students pelted their cars with rocks and eggs"
X Link 2024-03-31T21:32Z [----] followers, 92.9K engagements
"56 years ago April [--] [----] Oakland police murdered 17-year-old Black Panther Party member Lil Bobby Hutton the partys first recruit and treasurer just weeks before his 18th birthday"
X Link 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, 56.9K engagements
"Come to Sproul :)"
X Link 2024-04-22T21:11Z [----] followers, 30.8K engagements
"Beautiful day in San Francisco for two new Gaza Solidarity Encampments to pop off at SF State and USF 🌞"
X Link 2024-04-29T21:11Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements
"47 years ago May [--] [----] Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group Environmental Life Force marked May Day by firebombing five planes used for pesticide application in Salinas in what was likely the first left-wing environmentalist bombing in American history"
X Link 2024-05-01T18:41Z [----] followers, 12.4K engagements
"UC Santa Cruz Encampment finally up :)"
X Link 2024-05-01T18:55Z [----] followers, 156.2K engagements
"57 years ago May [--] [----] [--] armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous"
X Link 2024-05-02T15:42Z [----] followers, 23.9K engagements
"Cops raided Berkeley's occupation for South African divestment in April [----] arresting [---]. Students reoccupied and declared a strike. [-----] joined. Occupations started again in the fall. The camp was raided and rebuilt again until they won. This isn't over. It's barely begun"
X Link 2024-05-02T19:41Z [----] followers, 189.6K engagements
"RIP GARY FLOYD OF THE DICKS SAN FRANCISCO (VIA TEXAS) GAY COMMIE PUNK ICON THEY CAN KILL US AND WELL BE BACK IN A COUPLE OF DAYS"
X Link 2024-05-04T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"64 years ago May [--] [----] hundreds of students battled cops on the steps of City Hall during the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on communist subversion in San Francisco. The protest against HUAC marked the beginning of a new student movement in the Bay"
X Link 2024-05-14T04:09Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements
"45 years ago May [--] [----] over a dozen cop cars burned as thousands marched and rioted in San Francisco after word broke that Dan White received the most lenient verdict for murdering George Moscone and Harvey Milk. The evening would become known as the White Night riots"
X Link 2024-05-21T15:26Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements
"34 years ago May [--] [----] a pipe bomb exploded in Earth First and IWW organizer Judi Bari's station wagon as she drove through Oakland with her comrade Darryl Cherney injuring both passengers. Authorities unsuccessfully attempted to pin the bombing on the activists themselves"
X Link 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, 14.2K engagements
"55 years ago June [--] [----] former Black Panther William Lee Brent hijacked Trans World Airlines flight [---] from Oakland to New York redirecting it to Cuba. Brent was fleeing prison time stemming from a San Francisco shootout that injured three police in November 1968"
X Link 2024-06-18T04:11Z [----] followers, 27.5K engagements
"90 years ago July [--] [----] San Francisco police opened fire on striking maritime workers leaving two dead. The day which became known as Bloody Thursday was the immediate catalyst for the San Francisco General Strike which saw almost all work in the city cease for [--] days"
X Link 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements
"10 years ago August [--] [----] thousands of people converged at the Port of Oakland to block an Israeli-owned container ship from docking and unloading at the port as part of a wider "Block the Boat" campaign. Similar protests took place in Seattle Tacoma and Vancouver that week"
X Link 2024-08-16T22:49Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements
"58 years ago October [--] [----] Huey Newton & Bobby Seale radical students at Oakland's Merritt College formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Inspired by SNCC's Lowndes County Freedom Organization the BPP would have an enormous impact on global revolutionary politics"
X Link 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, 17.2K engagements
"56 years ago November [--] [----] San Francisco State University fired English Instructor (& Black Panther Party Minister of Education) George Murray. Outrage over Murray's firing sparked the Third World Liberation Front strike leading to the creation of Black & Ethnic Studies"
X Link 2024-11-01T17:50Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements
"55 years ago November [--] [----] [--] Native American activists occupied Alcatraz Island. The occupation led by an ad-hoc group calling itself Indians of All Tribes continued for nineteen months"
X Link 2024-11-20T18:41Z [----] followers, 25.9K engagements
"Some holiday art from Emory Douglass in The Black Panther Community News Service 🎁"
X Link 2024-12-25T22:23Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements
"16 years ago January [--] [----] BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland's Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle's lenient sentence sparked the [----] anti-police terror movement a precursor to Occupy and Black Lives Matter"
X Link 2025-01-01T19:56Z [----] followers, 51.7K engagements
"53 years ago January [--] [----] [--] inmates at San Quentin State Prison led by the San Quentin [--] (who were being tried for the alleged escape attempt that left George Jackson dead) began a hunger strike demanding sanitary food and other basic rights including the freedom to read"
X Link 2025-01-21T18:21Z [----] followers, 13.5K engagements
"39 years ago March [--] [----] activists demanding UC Berkeley divest from apartheid South Africa built a shantytown on Sproul Plaza which they had renamed "Biko Plaza." Police destroyed the shacks that night making [--] arrests while students pelted their cars with rocks and eggs"
X Link 2025-04-01T01:02Z [----] followers, 60.8K engagements
"58 years ago May [--] [----] [--] armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous"
X Link 2025-05-02T19:06Z [----] followers, 17.6K engagements
"58 years ago May [--] [----] the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense published their Ten-Point Program. Titled "What We Want Now What We Believe" the program was published in every consecutive issue of the Black Panther newspaper"
X Link 2025-05-15T21:28Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"119 years ago June [--] [----] Ktoku Shsui co-founded the Shakai Kakumeito (Social Revolutionary Party) in Berkeley. The party included over [--] other Japanese radicals and printed a bilingual paper Kakumei (Revolution) promoting the IWW and the overthrow of the Japanese emperor"
X Link 2025-06-01T18:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA https://t.co/p2iVDUbEIL Multiple Waymo vehicles set ablaze here in LA https://t.co/p2iVDUbEIL"
X Link 2025-06-09T01:08Z [----] followers, 20.1K engagements
"San Francisco take notes ✍ Waymo suspends service in DTLA amid protests over ICE raids https://t.co/6lLo04n6v9 Waymo suspends service in DTLA amid protests over ICE raids https://t.co/6lLo04n6v9"
X Link 2025-06-09T19:22Z [----] followers, 13K engagements
"58 years ago August [--] [----] installation began on a stoplight at 55th & Market St in Oakland the result of a campaign led early on by the Black Panther Party for Self Defense"
X Link 2025-08-01T18:38Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"54 years ago August [--] [----] incarcerated revolutionary theorist and Black Panther Party leader George Jackson was shot to death in San Quentin State Prison during an alleged escape attempt. The following week thousands attended his funeral in Oakland"
X Link 2025-08-21T16:26Z [----] followers, 49.5K engagements
"36 years ago August [--] [----] Huey Newton cofounder of the Black Panther Party was murdered in the Lower Bottoms neighborhood of West Oakland. Tyrone Robinson of the Black Guerilla Family was arrested and charged with his murder"
X Link 2025-08-22T19:12Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"33 years ago August [--] [----] anarchist People's Park activist Rosebud Denovo was shot to death by police in the home of UC Berkeley Chancellor Chang-lin Tien. She had broken into the house with a machete and a note reading "We are willing to die for this piece of land. Are you""
X Link 2025-08-25T19:08Z [----] followers, 12.1K engagements
"54 years ago August [--] [----] over [----] people attended the funeral of George Jackson slain leader of the Black Panther Party's San Quentin Branch at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland. Jackson was killed [--] days prior by prison guards during an alleged escape attempt"
X Link 2025-08-28T17:09Z [----] followers, 18.6K engagements
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