#  @leftinthebay Left in the Bay Left in the Bay posts on X about san, black, murder, in the 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) [finance](/list/finance) [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) [currencies](/list/currencies) [stocks](/list/stocks) [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) [fashion brands](/list/fashion-brands) [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) [mlb](/list/mlb) [nfl](/list/nfl) **Social topic influence** [san](/topic/san) #3392, [black](/topic/black), [murder](/topic/murder), [in the](/topic/in-the), [francisco](/topic/francisco), [april](/topic/april), [strike](/topic/strike) #1977, [led](/topic/led), [newton](/topic/newton), [number of](/topic/number-of) **Top assets mentioned** [April (APRIL)](/topic/april) [Rally (RLY)](/topic/rally) [Civic (CVC)](/topic/civic) ### Top Social Posts Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours "7 years ago in San Franciscos Union Square" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1465037390712553482) 2021-11-28T19:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The first day of the strike saw scuffles break out as strikers interrupted classes. Students walked out along with a number of teachers affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Tensions ratcheted up the following day as an unknown person firebombed Wheeler Hall" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1485069762833043458) 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "In addition to SF State and UC Berkeley students and workers took strike action at Oakland's Merritt College San Jose State UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco's Mission High in the following weeks. In February Gov. Reagan declared a state of "extreme emergency" in Berkeley" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1485069772509302795) 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "48 years ago Jun [--] [----] [---] Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh Park (Willard Park) to honor the slain members of the Symbionese Liberation Army who had died in May during a police siege of their Los Angeles hideout. Connections made at the rally helped the SLA to regroup" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1532562356928225295) 2022-06-03T03:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "40 years ago Aug [--] [----] the torch for the first Gay Games was carried across the Golden Gate bridge into San Francisco by Sue Walker completing a 70-day [----] mile long journey from the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Over [---] runners and cyclists helped carry the torch" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1561868362984062982) 2022-08-23T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "A major point of friction between Bari and other EF leaders was Bari's rejection of tree spiking an eco-sabotage technique that nearly resulted in the death of one logger. She argued that strategic nonviolence was key in building solidarity between workers and environmentalists" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1661541839378460672) 2023-05-25T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "For her work Bari had received numerous death threats. Despite this and clear evidence the bombing was an assassination attempt Oakland police and the FBI arrested Cherney and Bari (who was still recovering in Highland Hospital) on suspicion of transporting explosives" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1661541841140088832) 2023-05-25T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "25 years ago July [--] [----] members of Food Not Bombs stormed police barricades in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza that had been set up to prevent unhoused people from sitting on newly-planted grass. Several were arrested" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1679984421821382656) 2023-07-14T22:41Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements "Police and guards opened fire on the van resulting in the deaths of Jackson Haley McClain and Christmas. Magee and Thomas were severely injured and prosecutor Gary Thomas was paralyzed. Magee and Angela Davis whose name the guns were registered under were placed on trial" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1688602189248278528) 2023-08-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Angela Davis's trial was nationally showcased elevating her name and a Free Angela movement across the country. Prosecutors sought the death sentence for her felony charges. She was held as a political prisoner for over a year before being acquitted and cleared on all counts" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1688602196764413953) 2023-08-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "79 years ago Aug [--] [----] [--] Black sailors chose to face mutiny charges rather than load munitions at Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Contra Costa County after a disastrous munitions explosion in July left [---] dead most of whom were Black enlisted men" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1690152605857849344) 2023-08-12T00:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "52 years ago Aug [--] [----] over [----] mourners 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 by prison guards during an alleged escape attempt [--] days earlier" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1696203641894453571) 2023-08-28T16:50Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements "49 years ago Sep [--] [----] the Weather Underground bombed the Oakland offices of the Anaconda mining company in retaliation for their "decisive role in the US-sponsored fascist coup in Chile" one year earlier after the socialist Allende government had nationalized copper mines" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1701337300561449254) 2023-09-11T20:49Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements "53 years ago Sep [--] [----] the Gay Liberation Front began picketing Oakland's White Horse Inn after the iconic gay bar banned a number of GLF members and stopped them from distributing their newspaper on the premises. GLF soon won a number of demands from White Horse management" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1701444375706849406) 2023-09-12T03:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "As it became clear the ship would not be stopped from deploying dozens of sailors took refuge in Berkeley's University Lutheran Church. Berkeley City Council passed a law offering sanctuary to sailors who refused to deploy (organizers estimated as many as [---] did not sail)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1701707387332362687) 2023-09-12T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "SOS organizing continued at sea with sailors holding antiwar rallies in Hawaii and the Philippines (with hundreds of Filipinos in attendance). SOS members also undertook a sabotage campaign pretending to repair planes briefly "crippling the efficiency" of the USS Coral Sea" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1701707393359585654) 2023-09-12T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "12 years ago Oct [--] [----] activists inspired by the Occupy Wall St movement set up camp in Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza which they immediately renamed Oscar Grant Plaza. The founding of Occupy Oakland was timed to coincide with Indigenous People's Day" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1711810503159222471) 2023-10-10T18:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "57 years ago Oct [--] [----] the Hunters Point Tenants Union which represented ten families living in public housing managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority called a rent strike. Denouncing "deplorable conditions" the strike soon spread to the entire SFHA system" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1712276016574722557) 2023-10-12T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "74 years ago Oct [--] [----] two workers at Oakland's Rose-Waterman Drug Store were murdered. The killings were pinned on Black teenager Jerry Newson who was sentenced to death. The verdict was reversed after a campaign by the Communist Party's East Bay Civil Rights Congress" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1716855451420176492) 2023-10-24T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "12 years ago Oct [--] [----] police raided Occupy Oakland's two-week-old encampments at Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank Ogawa Plaza) & Snow Park leading to a day of protests & violent clashes between themselves and occupiers who declared a "general strike" planed for Nov 2nd in response" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1717313968207716365) 2023-10-25T22:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "57 years ago October [--] [----] Students for a Democratic Society hosted the "Black Power and its Challenges" conference at UC Berkeley. Governor Brown and then-candidate Ronald Reagan unsuccessfully attempted to prevent Stokely Carmichael from speaking at the conference" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1718674900024484186) 2023-10-29T17:03Z [----] followers, 23.5K engagements "54 years ago October [--] [----] the Strategic Anarchy Command (SAC) 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/1719536077826895972) 2023-11-01T02:05Z [----] followers, 10K engagements "53 years ago November [--] [----] the Black Panther Partys house band The Lumpen played their first big San Francisco show headlining a free benefit concert at the Sportsmans Inn" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1719872690033508370) 2023-11-02T00:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The occupation of Alcatraz and the recently established Navajo Community College in Arizona created an urgent desire for an indigenous college in California. As debate ensued about where it might be built a 647-acre army comms. facility was decommissioned 7-miles from UC Davis" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1720562366616621220) 2023-11-03T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Once it became army surplus land David Risling Jack Forbes Carl Gorman and others from the Native American Studies Program at UC Davis established a board of trustees and filed an application to use the land for the construction of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl (D-Q) University" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1720562369242251411) 2023-11-03T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/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/anyuser/status/1736114416989413580) 2023-12-16T20:01Z [----] followers, 27.6K engagements "57 years ago Dec [--] [----] San Francisco anarchist street theater and community group the Diggers held a parade on Haight St announcing "the Death of Money." After the police arrested two participants hundreds of marchers stormed the SFPD's Park Station demanding their release" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1736467298087559458) 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Emmett Grogan and Billy Murcott radical artists from New York began the Diggers in the Fall of [----]. At first the two mostly produced avant-garde broadsides but the police murder of Matthew Johnson in Hunters Point inspired them to take a more action-oriented approach" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1736467300893536640) 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "During the riots after Johnson's murder the Diggers produced posters urging people to violate the curfew. Days later they began holding Free Food gatherings in Golden Gate Park's Panhandle and producing radical street theater. In November they opened a "Free Store" on Page St" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1736467308724293923) 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "45 years ago Dec [--] [----] 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 was holding their 26th annual convention at the Oakland Civic Auditorium" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1740430520381763940) 2023-12-28T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Some cars got smashed on route to the consulate where the effigy was burned. "Death to the Shah" and "U.S. keep your bloody hands off Iran" echoed in the streets. One girl interviewed said she wanted the shah "in little pieces. The march concluded the convention in Oakland" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1740430527851544814) 2023-12-28T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "26th annual convention of the Iranian Students Association at the Oakland Civic Auditorium 1978" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1740536363118936262) 2023-12-29T00:53Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements "A revolutionary New Years message from Timothy Leary published in the Berkeley Barb January [----] during his exile in Algieria with Eldridge Cleaver following his Weather Underground-assisted prison break (note: this post not to be read as an LITB endorsement of Timothy Leary)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1741623288072372489) 2024-01-01T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "We are leaving misspellings of Algeria in [----] 😤😤😤" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1741626453899526254) 2024-01-01T01:04Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/status/1741922528371560926) 2024-01-01T20:41Z [----] followers, 28.5K engagements "As Grant pleaded with the officers not to use their tasers Pirone knelt on his neck. While attempting to handcuff Grant Officer Mehserle unholstered his gun and shot him in the back. Grant yelled "You shot me I got a four-year-old daughter"" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1741922547048886301) 2024-01-01T20:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements "The next week saw a wave of protests and riots which escalated into the [----] anti-police movement a precursor to Occupy Oakland and Black Lives Matter. Mehserle was later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was released from prison in 2011; Pirone never faced charges" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1741922555395559684) 2024-01-01T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "9 years ago Jan [--] [----] Black Lives Matter activists from dozens of groups kicked off "96 Hours of Action to Reclaim King's Legacy" [--] days of actions across the Bay Area called by the Anti-Police Terrorism Project. In Oakland activists blocked the Federal Building for [--] hours" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1747390679997620732) 2024-01-16T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "That same day demonstrators disrupted a home auction in Oakland & the morning commute at Downtown San Francisco BART stations. Others stormed Mayor Schaff's office to demand an end to police harassment & murder Oakland's relationship with Israel and underfunding of libraries" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1747390682942116268) 2024-01-16T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "33 years ago Jan [--] [----] about [-----] people took to the streets in San Francisco to protest Operation Desert Storm which began that day. Demonstrators burned a California Highway Patrol car and in one of the earliest uses of the tactic blockaded both sides of the Bay Bridge" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1747395716853485834) 2024-01-16T23:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "83 years ago January [--] [----] two sailors cut down the Nazi flag from the 10th story window of San Francisco's German consulate. The sailors who were arrested and later disciplined by military authorities in Washington were cheered on by a crowd of thousands" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1748157497779638758) 2024-01-19T01:36Z [--] followers, [----] engagements "St. Augustines was led by Father Earl Neil who offered the church for Panther meetings and community programs after a parishioner (famed dancer Ruth Beckford) brought him to visit Huey Newton in jail. In return the BPP gave him the title of Minister of Religion [--] years ago January [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the first Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland https://t.co/MOlipDnMJ6 [--] years ago January [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the first Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1748784681632358776) 2024-01-20T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] 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/anyuser/status/1749592259044032770) 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, 17.6K engagements "Berkeley students were inspired by the then-ongoing Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State University. Berkeley TWLF's key demand was for a "Third World College" to include student-led departments of Black Asian and Chicano studies [--] 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 and UC Berkeley https://t.co/GM706pRj4M [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1749592262185541906) 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The first day of the strike saw scuffles break out as strikers interrupted classes. Students walked out along with a number of teachers affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Tensions ratcheted up the following day as an unknown person firebombed Wheeler Hall" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1749592270095945921) 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In addition to SF State and UC Berkeley students and workers took strike action at Oakland's Merritt College San Jose State UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco's Mission High in the following weeks. In February Gov. Reagan declared a state of "extreme emergency" in Berkeley" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1749592279008895421) 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "49 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/1751648927722389957) 2024-01-28T16:50Z [----] followers, 34.5K engagements "34 years ago January [--] [----] 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/1752027795427881342) 2024-01-29T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Copwatch was founded by Susanne Pegas Danielle Storer & Andrea Prichett who was inspired by community police patrols she had seen in South Africa. They were unaware of East Bay Black Power activists' like Black Panthers use of the tactic in the 1960s In what would serve as a direct inspiration to the BPP ODAC also performed police patrols following cops and monitoring their behavior. When ODAC witnessed a person being unjustly arrested they would accompany them to the police station and pay their bail https://t.co/OmAIOGMdrW In what would serve as a direct inspiration to the BPP ODAC also" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1752027797323731094) 2024-01-29T17:55Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/status/1753105771993440755) 2024-02-01T17:19Z [----] followers, 101K engagements "47 years ago Feb [--] [----] the New World Liberation Front (NWLF) blew up the car of San Francisco DA Joseph Freitas Jr. while it was parked in front of his home. The bomb went off [--] hours after an SF Grand Jury returned a 12-count indictment against NWLF courier Jacques Rogiers" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1754308356670464341) 2024-02-05T00:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "56 years ago Feb [--] [----] thousands rallied at the Oakland Auditorium on Huey Newton's birthday to call for his freedom. It widely covered across the county and internationally drastically raising the profile of the Black Panther Party and popularizing the slogan "Free Huey" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1758944881249305068) 2024-02-17T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The rally featured three of SNCC's national leaders Stokely Carmichael H. Rap Brown and James Forman. Each was introduced with new BPP officer titles and Eldridge Cleaver announced a "SNCC-BPP" merger. Carmichael was given the temporary title of prime minister of the BPP" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1758944889482686601) 2024-02-17T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "56 years ago Feb [--] [----] San Francisco police attacked an impromptu street festival in the Haight-Ashbury for "impeding traffic" bearing down on the crowd with batons and teargas. The crowd [---] of whom were arrested responded with bottles eggs and two molotov cocktails" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1759402949107654895) 2024-02-19T02:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The Peace and Freedom Party held a community meeting at the Straight Theater the next day at which Digger leader Emmett Grogan proclaimed: "San Francisco is a free city and no matter what the police do. we will defend the free city with our lives and with our deaths."" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1759402952358269097) 2024-02-19T02:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "45 years ago Feb [--] [----] about [---] people mostly Japanese-American gathered at Tanforan Park Shopping Center in San Bruno for a Day of Remembrance commemorating the survivors of the Japanese internment camp which stood on the site in 1942" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1759763952773599626) 2024-02-20T02:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The action was planned by the Tanforan Committee who organized car caravans from San Francisco and was coordinated with similar actions across the West Coast. One speaker recalled interment at Tanforan as "just like a bad dream" [--] years ago Apr [--] [----] scores of Japanese and Japanese-American San Franciscans were rounded up and relocated by force to internment camps. Contemporary reports estimated the number of total forced evacuations from the Bay Area at around [----] https://t.co/Q8VsDEMjR4 [--] years ago Apr [--] [----] scores of Japanese and Japanese-American San Franciscans were rounded up and" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1759763955688607875) 2024-02-20T02:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "106 years ago Feb [--] [----] 16-year-old San Francisco socialist Hazel Stewart refused to pledge allegiance to the American flag in opposition to US involvement in World War I. Her suspension led to a wave of student anti-war protest triggering a crisis for the SF school board" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1760026297084854296) 2024-02-20T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "56 years ago Feb [--] [----] Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her first public speech since the murder of her husband Malcolm X. She was escorted by an armed phalanx of [--] men from two different new organizations both called the Black Panther Party" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1760439973407273029) 2024-02-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Shabazz had been invited to San Francisco for a three-day memorial to Malcolm X in Hunters Point that was organized by the Black Panther Party of Northern California an armed group affiliated with the local chapter of the Revolutionary Action Movement RAM began in [----] as a study group in Philadelphia (with roots in an Ohio chapter of SDS). Inspired by Robert F. Williams an NAACP leader who was exiled to Cuba after advocating armed Black self-defense they promoted the idea of revolutionary urban guerrilla warfare https://t.co/3P5wWUvghm RAM began in [----] as a study group in Philadelphia (with" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1760439981003211267) 2024-02-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The SLA a highly unusual group led by Cinque Mtume (suspected by many to be an agent provocateur) had kidnapped Patty Hearst earlier that month. They demanded the Hearst family organize grocery handouts in poor neighborhoods throughout California [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army an eccentric urban revolutionary group founded by former LAPD informant Cinque Mtume. Hearst later claimed the SLA brainwashed her into joining https://t.co/cpiOKU7Ksi [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1760805743224344790) 2024-02-22T23:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Against the protests of Gov Reagan the Hearsts cooperated with the SLA's demands setting up grocery distribution points in [--] sites including Richmond East Palo Alto and San Francisco. In East Oakland the Nation of Islam's Shabazz Bakery was chosen as a delivery site" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1760805745749373043) 2024-02-22T23:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "47 years ago February [--] [----] unknown gunmen fired shots into Bread & Roses Bookshop a Communist Party-affiliated bookstore in San Jose. B&R management believed the attack was retaliation for the store's role as a center for refugees fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1761837540242567278) 2024-02-25T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "14 years ago March [--] [----] thousands of students and educational workers in San Francisco Oakland Berkeley Vallejo Concord & Napa staged walkouts and demonstrations to protest budget cuts tuition hikes layoffs & other austerity measures as part of a national day of action" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1764823338017243488) 2024-03-05T01:20Z [----] followers, [----] 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/anyuser/status/1765224918302548164) 2024-03-06T03:56Z [----] followers, 11.2K engagements "The split in the BPP between Huey Newton's Oakland leadership and Eldridge Cleaver's faction which enjoyed support in New York and in Cleaver's Algeria-based "International Section" had split into the open shortly after Newton was freed from prison in August 1970" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765224921230159943) 2024-03-06T03:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "58 years ago March [--] [----] a dynamite explosion destroyed the San Francisco national headquarters of the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs a Communist Party-affiliated youth group less than [--] hours after the federal government demanded the Clubs register as a "communist front"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765423959355621635) 2024-03-06T17:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "While huge demos took place and riots broke out in large cities like New York and Los Angeles San Franciscos participation was escorted by the chief of police and deemed a failure by its organizers. Another march to start something was announced for the following week Today is the 94th anniversary of the first International Unemployment Day which saw massive marchesand bruising fights with the policearound the world including in Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee Boston and New York. You can listen to the story here: https://t.co/9aYL08z7us https://t.co/bXFOtFsSWr Today is the 94th anniversary of" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765465099261837489) 2024-03-06T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "55 years ago March [--] [----] the Red Dragon Party announced its formation in the Berkeley Barb newspaper. The Red Dragons who soon changed their name to the Red Guard were a group of young working class Chinese-American revolutionaries from San Franciscos Chinatown" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765956931229999152) 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The official announcement of the Party on March [--] was occasioned by a brutal police riot that had recently occurred at the Chinese New Year Parade during which Chinatown youths clashed directly with SFPD" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765956944869851611) 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Their first project was organizing community support for the Third World Liberation Front student strike at San Francisco State University which led to the creation of SFSUs Ethnic Studies Department [--] 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 and UC Berkeley https://t.co/GM706pRj4M [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1765956947642327429) 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The march was led by the San Francisco Mime Troupes rag-tag Gorilla Band a [--] member radical musical crew that included flag-bearing majorettes a chorus a brass section and a man who hummed through a comb. A goal of the march was to bring collective arts into the streets" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1766655996464976319) 2024-03-10T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "After reaching the Polo Grounds a massive party began featuring speeches from Kathleen Cleaver and several other Peace & Freedom Party representatives and musical performances by Allmen Joy Celestial Hysteria Creedence Clearwater Revival the Santana Blues Band and others" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1766656012961140949) 2024-03-10T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Read the full text:" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1768067951624867966) 2024-03-14T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "60 years ago March [--] [----] [---] civil rights demonstrators were arrested at the Cadillac Showroom on San Franciscos auto row in an action organized by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination against auto row employers' refusal to hire Black workers" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1768317239349150218) 2024-03-14T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Letter from Siberian Red Army soldiers to political prisoners in San Quentin response by Tom Mooney published [--] years ago in Western Worker" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1768735771274432575) 2024-03-15T20:27Z [----] followers, [----] 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/anyuser/status/1770612821421969727) 2024-03-21T00:46Z [----] followers, 196.5K engagements "110 years ago March [--] [----] Indian revolutionary Lala Hardayal was arrested in San Francisco for violating the Anarchist Exclusion Act of [----]. He fled to Switzerland after posting bail" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1772300289824989555) 2024-03-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "136 years ago March [--] [----] the National Brewers Association fired its union workers in San Francisco triggering a successful 9-month strike by the Brewery Workmens Union founded by socialist German immigrants in [----]. The new union contract guaranteed workers free beer" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1772794080436920754) 2024-03-27T01:13Z [----] followers, 36.6K 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/anyuser/status/1774550382867251243) 2024-03-31T21:32Z [----] followers, 92.9K engagements "Earlier in the day an anti-apartheid rally (at which Richie Havens performed) brought over [----] people to the plaza. After a bitter struggle which lasted over a year and saw more than [---] arrests UC Berkeley finally divested billions of dollars from South Africa in July 1986" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1774550388101836897) 2024-03-31T21:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "39 years ago April [--] [----] San Jose City Council voted 10-1 to ban city investment in any firm doing business in apartheid South Africa. By the end of the year San Francisco Oakland Palo Alto and Richmond all passed similar divestment resolutions" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1775300048164696248) 2024-04-02T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "56 years ago April [--] [----] thousands of people gathered in San Francisco's Civic Center to mourn Martin Luther King Jr who had been murdered the previous day. Following the memorial nearly two thousand police were deployed downtown to Market St where a riot ensued" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1776287396361052538) 2024-04-05T16:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "On April [--] cops filled the streets of West Oakland following a day of riots over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting was also reported in East Palo Alto Oakland and Berkeley where several businesses on Shattuck Ave were looted. The International Longshoremen's And Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) announced that day that they would close all Bay Area ports to honor King https://t.co/8tC0o7owgf Rioting was also reported in East Palo Alto Oakland and Berkeley where several businesses on Shattuck Ave were looted. The International Longshoremen's And Warehousemen's Union (ILWU)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1776673037976547444) 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "They came upon three carloads of Black Panthers including Hutton and leaders Eldridge Cleaver and David Hilliard who were keeping an eye on cops after the riot. Police attack their cars and a shootout quickly erupted. The Panthers took cover at a house at [----] 28th St" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1776673045756993803) 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "A poem for the moon by the Bay Areas great revolutionary poet Diane Di Prima published in the Berkeley Tribe 1969" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1777403351287595364) 2024-04-08T18:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "54 years ago April [--] [----] the Black Panther Party hosted a Peoples Free Festival in San Franciscos Fillmore to provide free activities for the community. There were childrens games like Pop the Pig art exhibitions film screenings local bands and Free Food for Days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1778585716727144512) 2024-04-12T00:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "56 years ago Apr [--] [----] the Peace & Freedom Party led a Lil Bobby Hutton memorial march to the Alameda County Courthouse where Huey P. Newton was being held on charges of murdering a policeman. The demonstrators were saluted with V signs by courthouse prisoners" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1779193687446315325) 2024-04-13T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "7 years ago April [--] [----] antifascists clashed with far-right & white supremacist demonstrators (including members of the Oath Keepers Identity Evropa and the neo-nazi Rise Above Movement) in Berkeleys MLK Jr. Civic Center Park (Provo Park)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1780076970229010679) 2024-04-16T03:33Z [----] followers, 17.7K engagements "34 years ago April [--] [----] dualing Cambodian demos of pro and anti-Khmer Rouge occupied UN Plaza in San Francisco on the 15th anniversary of CPK rule in Cambodia" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1780634709783085421) 2024-04-17T16:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "55 years ago April [--] [----] hundreds of "straight and freaky people" in Berkeley showed up on Sunday afternoon to a vacant lot of university-owned land between Dwight and Haste to begin constructing People's Park" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1781743786529546666) 2024-04-20T17:56Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements "63 years ago April [--] [----] the Fair Play for Cuba Committee organized a march in San Francisco in response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Hundreds gathered marching from Market St. to Union Square and the Federal Building to demand an end to the U.S. invasion of Cuba" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782227236315336732) 2024-04-22T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "52 years ago April [--] [----] a coalition of over [--] Bay Area organizations mobilized a [-----] person demonstration leading a march from Baker and Fell through the Panhandle to Kezar Stadium where a rally and "peace festival were held calling for an end to the war in Vietnam" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782457022468035033) 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The march rally and peace festival were planned by the Bay Area April [--] Coalition which formed in response to Nixons escalation of the war the April [--] bombing of Hanoi and a call to action from the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782457032689209738) 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The programming at the rally included a music by Country Joe MacDonald a recorded message from Nguyen Thi Binh foreign minister of the PRG speeches from Jane Fonda and Dick Gregory and a solidarity statement from Angela Davis read by her sister Fania Jordan" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782457041241751624) 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Massive demonstrations were simultaneously held in New York where [------] rallied and Los Angeles where [-----] people gathered. Protests were also held in dozens of other cities including Middleton N.J. where an attempt was made to block the sailing of a Navy munitions ship" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782457044982956525) 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Happy Earth Day The first Earth Day was [--] years ago April [--] [----]. A group calling itself Environmental Vigilantes celebrated by dumping crankcase oil in the reflecting pool of Standard Oil's San Francisco offices in protest of a recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782465923737415817) 2024-04-22T17:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "53 years ago April [--] [----] a bomb blew through the ceiling of Stanford president Richard Lyman's office. That same night a sniper shot five rounds into the oil-cooling drums of the transformer at the Panama Street electrical substation nearly shutting off all Stanford's power" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1782913223169323240) 2024-04-23T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "34 years ago April [--] [----] [--] members of Earth First were arrested while attempting to unfurl a banner during rush hour traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. The 130-foot banner read: "Save This Planet. Defend Ancient Forests. Fossil Fuel Prohibited. Earth First"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1783202404307251240) 2024-04-24T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "25 years ago April [--] [----] over [-----] people marched in San Francisco and the ILWU shut down all West Coast ports to call for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The demonstration was planned to coincide with Mumia's 45th birthday. Today he turned [--] and is still imprisoned" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1783316497966018568) 2024-04-25T02:06Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements "Around 10:30 PM the man threw a firebomb through the front door of the office. The wick went out and the bomb shattered but did not explode. Berkeley Solidarity Committee member Owen Fitzsimmons chased him down the street when the man opened fire hitting Fitzsimmons in the leg" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1783607729137037762) 2024-04-25T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This was just one of a number of attacks on movement spaces in the 1960s and early '70s. Reactionary vigilantes who shot up (and wrecked equipment at) San Diego's left-wing Street Journal offices later admitted to having operated at the behest of the FBI and local police" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1783607735982141939) 2024-04-25T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "47 years ago April [--] [----] a gunfight at the People's Food System's San Francisco Cooperating Warehouse left one dead & one (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/1783996254684659864) 2024-04-26T23:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "55 years ago April [--] [----] a large Free Huey rally was held in San Francisco's Fillmore ahead of Huey Newton's bail hearing. [---] cops instigated a riot attacking the crowd and filling the streets with tear gas after raiding the Black Panther Party office arresting [--] Panthers" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1784781292678398289) 2024-04-29T03:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Inspired by explosion of Gaza solidarity encampments we wrote about the (remarkably successful) anti-apartheid occupation movement at Berkeley for @NotesFrom_Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785031763846389867) 2024-04-29T19:41Z [----] followers, 10.8K 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/anyuser/status/1785054371648278791) 2024-04-29T21:11Z [----] followers, 35.9K engagements "49 years ago April [--] [----] Berkeley erupted in jubilation at news of National Liberation Fronts victory in Vietnam. Many spontaneous marches snaked through the city as marchers sang The Internationale. One reveler said: For all our fuck ups we really helped do something" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785457813206208823) 2024-04-30T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "In the following decades May Day celebrations faced increasing police repression. While large conflictual May Day parades unfolded in cities like Seattle & New York the Bay remained relatively quiet as a heavy police presence (and preemptive arrests) stifled activity" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785710446013788660) 2024-05-01T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Things began to change in [----] when communists defied a police order not to march in Oakland. As the marchers attempted to form lines they were attacked by "a special detail of [--] policemen." In the ensuing brawl marchers were brutally beaten and their banners destroyed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785710453244694897) 2024-05-01T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "55 years ago May [--] [----] [---] Stanford students associated with the April 3rd Movement occupied Encina Hall (which they renamed the "Huey P. Newton Institute for the Study of War Racism and Capitalism") demanding an end to university involvement with war research" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1785755175556096509) 2024-05-01T19:36Z [----] followers, 10.4K 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/anyuser/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/anyuser/status/1786553301376418250) 2024-05-04T00:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "July 18th [----] the UC Regents met in Santa Cruz and voted to divest $3.1 billion from South Africa-related stocks and bonds the largest campus divestment of the anti-apartheid movement We wrote about the student movement that made them @NotesFrom_Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1787336528093663244) 2024-05-06T04:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "55 years ago May [--] [----] the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed the Safeway at 30th and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with the United Farm Workers' Delano Grape Strike. Safeway had refused to stop selling grapes picked by strikebreakers" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1789047673464779072) 2024-05-10T21:39Z [----] 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/anyuser/status/1790233022496948432) 2024-05-14T04:09Z [----] followers, 11.5K engagements "A block from Peoples Park the empty UC Berkeley-owned Anna Head Alumnae Hall has been occupied and renamed Hinds House Come support and bring supplies [----] Channing Way Berkeley" [X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1790910889417469993) 2024-05-16T01:03Z [----] followers, 91.8K 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/anyuser/status/1792939983780876797) 2024-05-21T15:26Z [----] followers, 83.4K engagements "When they were bombed Bari and Cherney were making their way from Berkeley to Santa Cruz where they planned to rally UC students to participate in Earth First's upcoming Redwood Summer a series of mass direct actions to protect Northern Californian old-growth redwood forests" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1794060741571481770) 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Redwood Summer which was modeled on SNCC's [----] Mississippi Freedom Summer marked a departure from earlier EF actions which had been characterized by a more conservative masculinist middle-class politics concerned almost exclusively with militant wilderness conservation" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1794060747540165017) 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "52 years ago May [--] [----] the Afro-American Liberation Army (also known as the Black Liberation Army) claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing at San Francisco's Portuguese consulate carried out in solidarity with the liberation struggles in Angola and Mozambique" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1796292807692534092) 2024-05-30T21:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "50 years ago June [--] [----] [---] Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh Park (Willard Park) to honor the slain members of the Symbionese Liberation Army who died that May during a police siege of their Los Angeles hideout. Connections made at the rally helped the SLA to regroup" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1797314364753559704) 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The rally was organized by Kathy Soliah a friend of slain SLA member Angela Atwood who would go on to become an active member of the group. It was held about three blocks from the Berkeley apartment that Patty Hearst had been kidnapped from in February [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army an eccentric urban revolutionary group founded by former LAPD informant Cinque Mtume. Hearst later claimed the SLA brainwashed her into joining https://t.co/cpiOKU7Ksi [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1797314366896841172) 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson spoke at the rally denouncing the "murder" of the SLA militants. One year later Jackson himself would be murdered by members of Tribal Thumb a group with a number of strange similarities to the SLA Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla warfare mysticism and sexual liberation politics (inspired by German psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich) had already infiltrated the prisoners' movement going so far as to murder United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson https://t.co/Zrq44j2Kng Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1797314370751406448) 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "50 years ago June [--] [----] [----] nurses went on strike across [--] clinics and hospitals in the Bay Area. The California Nurses' Association (CNA) held their national convention in San Francisco during the [--] day strike which won workers an 11% raise but few other concessions" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1799117950705963267) 2024-06-07T16:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "106 years ago June [--] [----] a judge denied a divorce to Percival Jackson a wireless operator in Marshall Marin County. He had filed for divorce on the grounds that his wife Mary "attended anarchist meetings read anarchist publications and adopted anarchist philosophy."" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1799155396327965152) 2024-06-07T19:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "47 years ago June [--] [----] over [----] people took to the streets of San Francisco in a spontaneous protest of the city of Miami's decision to repeal a gay rights ordinance. The leaderless group marched to Union Square where they ran a "red 'Gay Revolution' flag" up the flagpole" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1799220511039508908) 2024-06-07T23:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "42 years ago June [--] [----] over a thousand people mostly Palestinian Lebanese and Jewish demonstrated in front of San Francisco's Federal Building against Israel's invasion of Lebanon demanding an immediate Israeli withdrawal" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1799855179778453582) 2024-06-09T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "48 years ago June [--] [----] 27-year-old Jose Barlow Benavidez was murdered by OPD cop Michael Colgey on International Blvd. In the wake of his death the Barlow Benavidez Justice Committee formed and organized a wave a protests during the height of Oakland's Chicano Power movement" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800632697913548952) 2024-06-11T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "You can hear more about the anti-police struggles surrounding the murder of Benavidez and the rise of the Chicano power movement on @ebyesterday: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/it-wasnt-part-of-my-childhood/ https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/it-wasnt-part-of-my-childhood/" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800632701164159092) 2024-06-11T20:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "53 years ago June [--] [----] federal marshals raided Alcatraz Island removing the last few remaining occupiers. Hundreds of Native people from across North America led by the Indians of All Tribes had occupied the former prison island during the previous nineteen months" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800714263197303112) 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Since [----] there had been numerous symbolic attempts by Indian activists to reclaim Alcatraz. An ad-hoc group largely led by Native student activists like LaNada Means and Richard Oakes succeeded in establishing a protest encampment on the island on November [--] 1969" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800714273053954113) 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "They formed the Indians of All Tribes as an ad-hoc group to organize the occupation and issued a statement declaring the island Indian land and announcing an intention to construct a Native American Studies Center a Spiritual Center an Ecology Center and a Training School" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800714281790702041) 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "42 years ago June [--] [----] [-----] people marched in San Francisco to call for an end to the nuclear arms race. Coinciding with the opening of disarmament talks at the U.N. demos were held across the country including a protest of one million people in New York's Central Park" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800893011418914983) 2024-06-12T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A massive rally was held in Civic Center Plaza where the chant "Choose Life Choose Life Choose Life" echoed through the crowd" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1800893018641441003) 2024-06-12T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "31 years ago June [--] [----] in an action led by Homes Not Jails [---] activists and homeless youth seized a vacant building owned by the federal government in San Francisco. HNJ who demanded the conversion of vacant properties into public housing held the building for [--] days" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1801300577910984789) 2024-06-13T17:08Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "Next month were cohosting an event with @ShapingSF to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the [----] San Francisco General Strike. Please join us to discuss the history and relevance of the Big Strike to todays landscape of labor struggles in the Bay Area and beyond" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1802902666529341475) 2024-06-18T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Four years later the Esmeralda returned on a similar mission. This time the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) followed COYOTE's example refusing to unload Chilean cargo in protest of the torture ship's arrival" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1804211723525574892) 2024-06-21T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "This boycott was just one in a number of similar actions against oppressive governments by the ILWU who at the urging of international solidarity movements also refused to unload cargo from apartheid South Africa and most recently cargo from Israeli ships" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1804211729317994645) 2024-06-21T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "46 years ago June [--] [----] the first Rainbow Flags were flown at the Gay Freedom Day parade in San Francisco. Designed by Gilbert Baker and created with the help of others the flag representing the rainbow of humanity quickly became an international symbol of gay liberation" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1805662853468504508) 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Baker who co-chaired the Decorations Committee for the event was tasked by Harvey Milk and others with creating a new symbol for the gay community. The rainbow design was chosen to highlight diversity in the community. We have gays of all colors one organizer remarked" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1805662860812353719) 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Harvey Milk the first openly gay elected official in California who was sworn in as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that year campaigned against Prop [--] across the state and publicly debated Briggs. In November Prop [--] failed to pass" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1805662901035790580) 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Later that month Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White. After their deaths demand for the rainbow flag greatly increased. The flag began to be mass produced and was taken up as a militant symbol of gay liberation" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1805662910120660995) 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Police began began firing on the crowd. One contemporary newspaper account describes an officer "firing his shotgun into the ranks of strikers until it was empty and then emptying his pistol." Scores were wounded and [--] strikers Howard Sperry and Nicholas Bordoise were killed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1809252754415902912) 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The next day workers created a memorial in chalk reading "POLICE MURDER" at Steuart & Mission where the two men had been killed. When officers erased the chalk workers recreated the memorial with paint. Five days later up to [-----] mourners attended the slain workers' funeral" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1809252761361674280) 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "At some point in the shootout several eyewitnesses said they saw the police fire a canister into the Page St house after which a fire broke out. SFPD claimed the fire resulted from a molotov cocktail dropped by a Panther but no evidence of one was ever recovered" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1811896423191052780) 2024-07-12T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Many residents of the Haight remarked on the attacks similarity to the raid on the Symbionese Liberation Army in Los Angeles two months prior during which a shootout also ended in fire after police shot gas canisters into the house leaving six SLA members dead" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1811896433257402461) 2024-07-12T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "26 years ago July [--] [----] members of Food Not Bombs stormed police barricades in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza that had been set up to prevent unhoused people from sitting on newly-planted grass. Several were arrested" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1812553840874696884) 2024-07-14T18:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "49 years ago July [--] [----] a bomb exploded at the ATF bureau office on the 34th floor of the Tishman building on Market St in San Francisco. The Red Guerrilla Family issued a communiqu claiming responsibility for the bombing done in retaliation for the murder of Popeye Jackson" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1815090472614027369) 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "While unclear who was responsible for the killing of Jackson the RGF suspected that the ATF had played a major role. Less than a week before he was killed the SF head of the ATF announced that [---] new agents would deploy to the West Coast for counter-insurgency operations" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1815090490930286870) 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "It was later discovered that Tribal Thumb a group heavily suspected of having various links to the FBI was involved in the murder of Popeye Jackson. In [----] Tribal Thumb member Richard London was found guilty of murdering Jackson and Sally Voye Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla warfare mysticism and sexual liberation politics (inspired by German psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich) had already infiltrated the prisoners' movement going so far as to murder United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson https://t.co/Zrq44j2Kng Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1815090493447160222) 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In early [----] the IWW had been engaged in "free speech fights" in Oakland openly flouting local laws against "treasonable" speech. These fights were often attacked by police resulting in arrest and injury" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820601168927551938) 2024-08-05T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "On March 3rd the police broke up an IWW rally on 9th St in downtown Oakland. IWW members decamped to their headquarters on 7th St and about [---] returned to the streets with placards and red banners. This second gathering was also attacked; wobblies were beaten and arrested" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820601177769234563) 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As they left the scene of the downtown riot some wobblies gathered in front of Hamilton Hall on 13th St where the Socialist Party of America was having a meeting. The Oakland branch of the SPA was associated with the party's "left wing" and was very friendly with the IWW" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820601182831718591) 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Wobblies and socialists at Hamilton Hall jeered and hissed at passing policemen. Without an official order police raided the hall indiscriminately beating attendees at the meeting who were not given an opportunity to leave" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820601187562885616) 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "57 years ago August [--] [----] SFPD brutally raided a benefit party in the Mission for the San Francisco Draft Resistance Union on 15th & Dolores. Ten were arrested and collectively charged with [--] felonies including PLP candidate for the city Board of Supervisors John Ross" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820880000150859923) 2024-08-06T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "58 years ago August [--] [----] over [-----] people marched through San Francisco in protest of the Vietnam War on the 21st anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Hiroshima Day March ended at Civic Center with speeches from war veterans and peace activists" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1820965555412857225) 2024-08-06T23:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "87 years ago August [--] [----] the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) issued a charter for the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union officially founding the ILWU. Today the ILWU represents over [-----] workers on the Pacific West Coast and in Hawaii" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1822819249993228603) 2024-08-12T02:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "One of the most progressive unions in the country the ILWU's early political origins include organizing with the IWW whose famous slogan An injury to one is an injury to all the union would adopt and the [----] San Francisco General Strike [--] years ago May [--] [----] [-----] West Coast longshoremen walked off their jobs to demand closed shops and union-controlled hiring halls. Locally the strike would last into the summer eventually culminating in the 4-day San Francisco General Strike https://t.co/hJc1KVcaLD [--] years ago May [--] [----] [-----] West Coast longshoremen walked off their jobs to demand closed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1822819252857881062) 2024-08-12T02:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "12 years ago August [--] [----] a group of activists began to occupy the vacant building that previously housed the Miller Avenue Library Branch and Emiliano Zapata Street Academy High School in East Oakland transforming the space into the Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1823417705380147231) 2024-08-13T17:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Organizers many connected to Occupy Oakland cleaned the space constructed a peoples library and began to build a community garden in the buildings yard. They named the library after the poet and teacher Victor Martinez who passed away in 2011" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1823417712439087480) 2024-08-13T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "49 years ago August [--] [----] the New World Liberation Front (NWLF) blew up a cop car in the parking lot of the Emeryville police station. The NWLF communique claiming responsibility for the bombing references the death of Jonathon Jackson and other victims of police murder" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1823509651347980514) 2024-08-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Included among the names of those killed by police listed in the communique is Tyrone Guyton a 14-year-old West Oakland resident who was murdered by Emeryville police in [----]. A week later a grand jury refused to indict the three officers responsible for his murder" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1823509657979400479) 2024-08-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/status/1824579237170516219) 2024-08-16T22:49Z [----] followers, 13.4K engagements "42 years ago August [--] [----] the torch for the first Gay Games was carried across the Golden Gate bridge into San Francisco by Sue Walker completing a 70-day [----] mile journey from the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Over [---] runners and cyclists helped carry the torch" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1826746904329552111) 2024-08-22T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "A marching band dancers and hundreds of people cheered on Walker as she completed the journey and a 50-car motorcade led the crowd to 18th and Castro where the torch was held in preparation for the start of the games which opened the following weekend at Kezar Stadium" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1826746911254347809) 2024-08-22T22:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "35 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/1826817809344856117) 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "His funeral was held six days later on August [--] at the Allen Temple Baptist Church with a crowd of over [----] people gathered within and outside of the church. His ashes are interred at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1826817816818860233) 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Due to the work of his wife Federika Newton and the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation a bust of Huey was placed last year in the spot where he was killed and a portion of 9th Street was commemoratively named Dr. Huey P. Newton Way" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1826817826822459804) 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Civil Rights groups such as CORE SNCC and the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination had been leading campaigns against racist hiring practices at local businesses. By recruiting participants on campus they created problems for the university with the business community The Ad Hocs were formed by members of the Du Bois Clubs a Communist Party-based youth group. Inspired by CORE and SNCC they led demonstrations and sit-ins against discriminatory hiring practices at several Bay Area businesses beginning with Mels Drive-In in San Francisco https://t.co/WtK3zRXgYW The Ad Hocs were formed by" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1841197607278035124) 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "The day before the ban was announced the Ad Hocs held a rally on campus to raise support for their ongoing sit-in at the Oakland Tribune. Many participants felt that the "no politics" rule was a direct result of pressure on the UC from Tribune ownership" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1841197612562813254) 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Free Speech Movement was ultimately successful in its fight to remove the ban on political speech creating space for the rapid and open development of student radicalism in Berkeley" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1841197619839975445) 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "13 years ago Oct [--] [----] activists inspired by the Occupy Wall St movement set up camp in Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza which they immediately renamed Oscar Grant Plaza. The founding of Occupy Oakland was timed to coincide with Indigenous People's Day" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1844527716302749803) 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Early in the afternoon a group of Ohlone activists who had recently occupied Sogorea Te a sacred site in Vallejo spoke: "This land isn't the city of Oakland's. it's not just Ohlone land anymore it's all of our land and we have the right to be here to occupy this land" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1844527724666253595) 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Oakland soon established itself as the Occupy movement's militant edge placing a much greater weight on anti-racist anti-police and anti-state politics than most other camps. Many participants had been active in the [----] anti-police movement following the murder of Oscar Grant" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1844527732425740664) 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "58 years ago October [--] [----] the Hunters Point Tenants Union which represented ten families living in public housing managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority called a rent strike. Denouncing "deplorable conditions" the strike soon spread to the entire SFHA system" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1844799309172085230) 2024-10-11T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "56 years ago October [--] [----] the GI's & Vets March for Peace saw over [-----] people including nearly [---] active duty soldiers fill the streets of San Francisco to march from the Panhandle to Civic Center where a massive anti-war rally was held" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1845246283889397931) 2024-10-12T23:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "The holiday began with a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz after which the American Indian Movement disrupted a planned reenactment of Columbus's landing. Later hundreds gathered on Sproul Plaza where Indigenous rap group With0ut Rezervation performed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1845258893682933960) 2024-10-13T00:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Two years later Santa Cruz joined Berkeley as the second American city to officially recognize Indigenous People's Day. It would be another two decades before more cities and the federal government would follow" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1845259223694967153) 2024-10-13T00:24Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/status/1846253335122530696) 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, 17.2K engagements "Inspired by what he had seen in Lowndes Comfort asked SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) for permission to start a Black Panther Party in California to which Carmichael replied: "It's the people's. We ain't got a patent. If local conditions indicate go for it" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846253419545481358) 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In Oakland Comfort worked to spread the Panther name and symbol. According to Ture by late [----] [--] to [--] groups were using the name in California along with groups in Detroit Cleveland and Chicago. An attempt by Carmichael to merge these groups in Oakland failed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846253425925017754) 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "⚡IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT⚡ A couple months ago we quietly made an account on Patreon. Now were sharing it publicly https://www.patreon.com/LeftintheBayutm_campaign=creatorshare_creator https://www.patreon.com/LeftintheBayutm_campaign=creatorshare_creator" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846360808155959326) 2024-10-16T01:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In [----] we started digging up stories in archives old newspapers books and anywhere else we can find scraps of information and posting them on our social media feeds mostly in the form of on-this-day posts. But in the past year our output has grown quite a bit" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846360811226464328) 2024-10-16T01:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Next week were hosting a panel with Shaping SF on the history of Anti-Apartheid organizing in the Bay Area and its relevance to the struggle for freedom in Palestine Come through 🚩" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1846773021790687331) 2024-10-17T04:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements "Newson who worked at a shoeshine stand lived in West Oakland's Harbor Homes housing project a nearly all-Black community that had been built to house workers during World War II. A week before the murders he had robbed Harbor Homes' office with his Uncle James' empty pistol" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642022938034380) 2024-10-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Oakland cops arrested Newson for the Harbor Homes robbery to which he immediately confessed. Police then announced that Newson was being held as the chief suspect in the unrelated drug store murders despite a near-total lack of evidence falsely claiming that he had confessed" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642028378063359) 2024-10-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The Civil Rights Congress organized an aggressive community-based defense of Newson. They provided lawyers free of charge ran countless stories about Newson on their KTIM radio show "Civil Rights in the News" and distributed thousands of copies of a pamphlet on Newson" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642038817644626) 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "The CRC's defense committee mobilized hundreds of volunteers in West Oakland "especially Negro women" and money and volunteers poured in from the Bay Area's progressive unions particularly the ILWU and the staunchly anti-racist Marine Cooks & Stewards Union" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642048179368284) 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "In San Quentin Newson participated in a sit-down strike of death row inmates led by Wesley Robert Wells. Wells (who had initially been jailed for stealing a car battery but found himself on death row after throwing a spit bucket a guard) was also saved from execution by the CRC" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642058996383981) 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "Eventually the Civil Rights Congress fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court where the execution verdict was reversed. Despite this Newson was still forced to serve a [--] year sentence for armed robbery (a typical sentence being 2-3 years)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849642064822272050) 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "13 years ago October [--] [----] police raided Occupy Oakland's two-week-old encampments at Oscar Grant Plaza and Snow Park leading to a day of protests and violent clashes between themselves and occupiers who declared a "general strike" planed for November [--] in response" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849966519482232859) 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements "At 4pm about [----] protestors gathered at the Oakland Public Library to denounce the raid. The rally was supported by several labor unions. Teachers' unions & SEIU provided portapotties and the Alameda Labor Council decried the attempt to "silence the voices of the people"" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849966535944831403) 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "As demonstrators marched police repeatedly attacked them with tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions. Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen suffered severe brain injuries after being shot directly in the head at close range with a beanbag (Oakland would later pay him $4.5 million)" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1849966541548499380) 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements "55 years ago October [--] [----] the Committee for Homosexual Freedom/Gay Liberation Front protested outside the San Francisco Examiner offices in response to homophobic articles. Examiner workers attacked them with bags of newsprint ink which they smeared on the building's walls" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1852136791203287153) 2024-10-31T23:53Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements "The CHF a revolutionary San Francisco gay rights group was in the process of becoming a chapter of the GLF a similar group founded in New York after the Stonewall Riots. They demanded the Examiner fire Robert Patterson a virulently homophobic writer The CHF had been founded in April (2 months before the Stonewall Riots) by gay activists in San Francisco who had become frustrated with the "timid uptight conservative" single-issue gay rights groups that existed at the time such as the Society for Individual Rights https://t.co/ASrlXgRgBf The CHF had been founded in April (2 months before the" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1852136794726502903) 2024-10-31T23:53Z [----] followers, [---] 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/anyuser/status/1852407956832506190) 2024-11-01T17:50Z [----] followers, 15.6K engagements "The occupation of Alcatraz and the recently established Navajo Community College in Arizona created an urgent desire for an indigenous college in California. As debate ensued about where it might be built a 647-acre army comms. facility was decommissioned 7-miles from UC Davis" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1853162583383286255) 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "Once it became army surplus land David Risling Jack Forbes Carl Gorman and others from the Native American Studies Program at UC Davis established a board of trustees and filed an application to use the land for the construction of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl (D-Q) University" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1853162594875670633) 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements "UC Davis filed a competing application though never properly submitted it. While applications were under review Senator George Murphy eagerly and prematurely announced that the land would be granted to UC Davis for a primate research center and rice farming" [X Link](https://x.com/leftinthebay/status/1853162597408964650) 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
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"7 years ago in San Franciscos Union Square"
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"The first day of the strike saw scuffles break out as strikers interrupted classes. Students walked out along with a number of teachers affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Tensions ratcheted up the following day as an unknown person firebombed Wheeler Hall"
X Link 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"In addition to SF State and UC Berkeley students and workers took strike action at Oakland's Merritt College San Jose State UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco's Mission High in the following weeks. In February Gov. Reagan declared a state of "extreme emergency" in Berkeley"
X Link 2022-01-23T01:59Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"48 years ago Jun [--] [----] [---] Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh Park (Willard Park) to honor the slain members of the Symbionese Liberation Army who had died in May during a police siege of their Los Angeles hideout. Connections made at the rally helped the SLA to regroup"
X Link 2022-06-03T03:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"40 years ago Aug [--] [----] the torch for the first Gay Games was carried across the Golden Gate bridge into San Francisco by Sue Walker completing a 70-day [----] mile long journey from the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Over [---] runners and cyclists helped carry the torch"
X Link 2022-08-23T00:10Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"A major point of friction between Bari and other EF leaders was Bari's rejection of tree spiking an eco-sabotage technique that nearly resulted in the death of one logger. She argued that strategic nonviolence was key in building solidarity between workers and environmentalists"
X Link 2023-05-25T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"For her work Bari had received numerous death threats. Despite this and clear evidence the bombing was an assassination attempt Oakland police and the FBI arrested Cherney and Bari (who was still recovering in Highland Hospital) on suspicion of transporting explosives"
X Link 2023-05-25T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"25 years ago July [--] [----] members of Food Not Bombs stormed police barricades in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza that had been set up to prevent unhoused people from sitting on newly-planted grass. Several were arrested"
X Link 2023-07-14T22:41Z [----] followers, 11.1K engagements
"Police and guards opened fire on the van resulting in the deaths of Jackson Haley McClain and Christmas. Magee and Thomas were severely injured and prosecutor Gary Thomas was paralyzed. Magee and Angela Davis whose name the guns were registered under were placed on trial"
X Link 2023-08-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Angela Davis's trial was nationally showcased elevating her name and a Free Angela movement across the country. Prosecutors sought the death sentence for her felony charges. She was held as a political prisoner for over a year before being acquitted and cleared on all counts"
X Link 2023-08-07T17:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"79 years ago Aug [--] [----] [--] Black sailors chose to face mutiny charges rather than load munitions at Port Chicago Naval Magazine in Contra Costa County after a disastrous munitions explosion in July left [---] dead most of whom were Black enlisted men"
X Link 2023-08-12T00:05Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"52 years ago Aug [--] [----] over [----] mourners 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 by prison guards during an alleged escape attempt [--] days earlier"
X Link 2023-08-28T16:50Z [----] followers, 15.3K engagements
"49 years ago Sep [--] [----] the Weather Underground bombed the Oakland offices of the Anaconda mining company in retaliation for their "decisive role in the US-sponsored fascist coup in Chile" one year earlier after the socialist Allende government had nationalized copper mines"
X Link 2023-09-11T20:49Z [----] followers, 12.2K engagements
"53 years ago Sep [--] [----] the Gay Liberation Front began picketing Oakland's White Horse Inn after the iconic gay bar banned a number of GLF members and stopped them from distributing their newspaper on the premises. GLF soon won a number of demands from White Horse management"
X Link 2023-09-12T03:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"As it became clear the ship would not be stopped from deploying dozens of sailors took refuge in Berkeley's University Lutheran Church. Berkeley City Council passed a law offering sanctuary to sailors who refused to deploy (organizers estimated as many as [---] did not sail)"
X Link 2023-09-12T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"SOS organizing continued at sea with sailors holding antiwar rallies in Hawaii and the Philippines (with hundreds of Filipinos in attendance). SOS members also undertook a sabotage campaign pretending to repair planes briefly "crippling the efficiency" of the USS Coral Sea"
X Link 2023-09-12T21:20Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"12 years ago Oct [--] [----] activists inspired by the Occupy Wall St movement set up camp in Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza which they immediately renamed Oscar Grant Plaza. The founding of Occupy Oakland was timed to coincide with Indigenous People's Day"
X Link 2023-10-10T18:26Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"57 years ago Oct [--] [----] the Hunters Point Tenants Union which represented ten families living in public housing managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority called a rent strike. Denouncing "deplorable conditions" the strike soon spread to the entire SFHA system"
X Link 2023-10-12T01:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"74 years ago Oct [--] [----] two workers at Oakland's Rose-Waterman Drug Store were murdered. The killings were pinned on Black teenager Jerry Newson who was sentenced to death. The verdict was reversed after a campaign by the Communist Party's East Bay Civil Rights Congress"
X Link 2023-10-24T16:33Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"12 years ago Oct [--] [----] police raided Occupy Oakland's two-week-old encampments at Oscar Grant Plaza (Frank Ogawa Plaza) & Snow Park leading to a day of protests & violent clashes between themselves and occupiers who declared a "general strike" planed for Nov 2nd in response"
X Link 2023-10-25T22:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"57 years ago October [--] [----] Students for a Democratic Society hosted the "Black Power and its Challenges" conference at UC Berkeley. Governor Brown and then-candidate Ronald Reagan unsuccessfully attempted to prevent Stokely Carmichael from speaking at the conference"
X Link 2023-10-29T17:03Z [----] followers, 23.5K engagements
"54 years ago October [--] [----] the Strategic Anarchy Command (SAC) 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 2023-11-01T02:05Z [----] followers, 10K engagements
"53 years ago November [--] [----] the Black Panther Partys house band The Lumpen played their first big San Francisco show headlining a free benefit concert at the Sportsmans Inn"
X Link 2023-11-02T00:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The occupation of Alcatraz and the recently established Navajo Community College in Arizona created an urgent desire for an indigenous college in California. As debate ensued about where it might be built a 647-acre army comms. facility was decommissioned 7-miles from UC Davis"
X Link 2023-11-03T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Once it became army surplus land David Risling Jack Forbes Carl Gorman and others from the Native American Studies Program at UC Davis established a board of trustees and filed an application to use the land for the construction of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl (D-Q) University"
X Link 2023-11-03T22:03Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"57 years ago Dec [--] [----] San Francisco anarchist street theater and community group the Diggers held a parade on Haight St announcing "the Death of Money." After the police arrested two participants hundreds of marchers stormed the SFPD's Park Station demanding their release"
X Link 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Emmett Grogan and Billy Murcott radical artists from New York began the Diggers in the Fall of [----]. At first the two mostly produced avant-garde broadsides but the police murder of Matthew Johnson in Hunters Point inspired them to take a more action-oriented approach"
X Link 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"During the riots after Johnson's murder the Diggers produced posters urging people to violate the curfew. Days later they began holding Free Food gatherings in Golden Gate Park's Panhandle and producing radical street theater. In November they opened a "Free Store" on Page St"
X Link 2023-12-17T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"45 years ago Dec [--] [----] 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 was holding their 26th annual convention at the Oakland Civic Auditorium"
X Link 2023-12-28T17:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Some cars got smashed on route to the consulate where the effigy was burned. "Death to the Shah" and "U.S. keep your bloody hands off Iran" echoed in the streets. One girl interviewed said she wanted the shah "in little pieces. The march concluded the convention in Oakland"
X Link 2023-12-28T17:52Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"26th annual convention of the Iranian Students Association at the Oakland Civic Auditorium 1978"
X Link 2023-12-29T00:53Z [----] followers, 11.6K engagements
"A revolutionary New Years message from Timothy Leary published in the Berkeley Barb January [----] during his exile in Algieria with Eldridge Cleaver following his Weather Underground-assisted prison break (note: this post not to be read as an LITB endorsement of Timothy Leary)"
X Link 2024-01-01T00:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"We are leaving misspellings of Algeria in [----] 😤😤😤"
X Link 2024-01-01T01:04Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"As Grant pleaded with the officers not to use their tasers Pirone knelt on his neck. While attempting to handcuff Grant Officer Mehserle unholstered his gun and shot him in the back. Grant yelled "You shot me I got a four-year-old daughter""
X Link 2024-01-01T20:41Z [--] followers, [---] engagements
"The next week saw a wave of protests and riots which escalated into the [----] anti-police movement a precursor to Occupy Oakland and Black Lives Matter. Mehserle was later found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and was released from prison in 2011; Pirone never faced charges"
X Link 2024-01-01T20:41Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"9 years ago Jan [--] [----] Black Lives Matter activists from dozens of groups kicked off "96 Hours of Action to Reclaim King's Legacy" [--] days of actions across the Bay Area called by the Anti-Police Terrorism Project. In Oakland activists blocked the Federal Building for [--] hours"
X Link 2024-01-16T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"That same day demonstrators disrupted a home auction in Oakland & the morning commute at Downtown San Francisco BART stations. Others stormed Mayor Schaff's office to demand an end to police harassment & murder Oakland's relationship with Israel and underfunding of libraries"
X Link 2024-01-16T22:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"33 years ago Jan [--] [----] about [-----] people took to the streets in San Francisco to protest Operation Desert Storm which began that day. Demonstrators burned a California Highway Patrol car and in one of the earliest uses of the tactic blockaded both sides of the Bay Bridge"
X Link 2024-01-16T23:09Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"83 years ago January [--] [----] two sailors cut down the Nazi flag from the 10th story window of San Francisco's German consulate. The sailors who were arrested and later disciplined by military authorities in Washington were cheered on by a crowd of thousands"
X Link 2024-01-19T01:36Z [--] followers, [----] engagements
"St. Augustines was led by Father Earl Neil who offered the church for Panther meetings and community programs after a parishioner (famed dancer Ruth Beckford) brought him to visit Huey Newton in jail. In return the BPP gave him the title of Minister of Religion [--] years ago January [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the first Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in Oakland https://t.co/MOlipDnMJ6 [--] years ago January [--] [----] the Black Panther Party held the first Free Breakfast for School Children Program at St. Augustine's Episcopal Church in"
X Link 2024-01-20T19:08Z [----] followers, [----] 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
"Berkeley students were inspired by the then-ongoing Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State University. Berkeley TWLF's key demand was for a "Third World College" to include student-led departments of Black Asian and Chicano studies [--] 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 and UC Berkeley https://t.co/GM706pRj4M [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The first day of the strike saw scuffles break out as strikers interrupted classes. Students walked out along with a number of teachers affiliated with the American Federation of Teachers. Tensions ratcheted up the following day as an unknown person firebombed Wheeler Hall"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In addition to SF State and UC Berkeley students and workers took strike action at Oakland's Merritt College San Jose State UC Santa Cruz and San Francisco's Mission High in the following weeks. In February Gov. Reagan declared a state of "extreme emergency" in Berkeley"
X Link 2024-01-23T00:37Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"49 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 2024-01-28T16:50Z [----] followers, 34.5K engagements
"34 years ago January [--] [----] 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 2024-01-29T17:55Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Copwatch was founded by Susanne Pegas Danielle Storer & Andrea Prichett who was inspired by community police patrols she had seen in South Africa. They were unaware of East Bay Black Power activists' like Black Panthers use of the tactic in the 1960s In what would serve as a direct inspiration to the BPP ODAC also performed police patrols following cops and monitoring their behavior. When ODAC witnessed a person being unjustly arrested they would accompany them to the police station and pay their bail https://t.co/OmAIOGMdrW In what would serve as a direct inspiration to the BPP ODAC also"
X Link 2024-01-29T17:55Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"47 years ago Feb [--] [----] the New World Liberation Front (NWLF) blew up the car of San Francisco DA Joseph Freitas Jr. while it was parked in front of his home. The bomb went off [--] hours after an SF Grand Jury returned a 12-count indictment against NWLF courier Jacques Rogiers"
X Link 2024-02-05T00:58Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"56 years ago Feb [--] [----] thousands rallied at the Oakland Auditorium on Huey Newton's birthday to call for his freedom. It widely covered across the county and internationally drastically raising the profile of the Black Panther Party and popularizing the slogan "Free Huey"
X Link 2024-02-17T20:01Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The rally featured three of SNCC's national leaders Stokely Carmichael H. Rap Brown and James Forman. Each was introduced with new BPP officer titles and Eldridge Cleaver announced a "SNCC-BPP" merger. Carmichael was given the temporary title of prime minister of the BPP"
X Link 2024-02-17T20:01Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"56 years ago Feb [--] [----] San Francisco police attacked an impromptu street festival in the Haight-Ashbury for "impeding traffic" bearing down on the crowd with batons and teargas. The crowd [---] of whom were arrested responded with bottles eggs and two molotov cocktails"
X Link 2024-02-19T02:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The Peace and Freedom Party held a community meeting at the Straight Theater the next day at which Digger leader Emmett Grogan proclaimed: "San Francisco is a free city and no matter what the police do. we will defend the free city with our lives and with our deaths.""
X Link 2024-02-19T02:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"45 years ago Feb [--] [----] about [---] people mostly Japanese-American gathered at Tanforan Park Shopping Center in San Bruno for a Day of Remembrance commemorating the survivors of the Japanese internment camp which stood on the site in 1942"
X Link 2024-02-20T02:16Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The action was planned by the Tanforan Committee who organized car caravans from San Francisco and was coordinated with similar actions across the West Coast. One speaker recalled interment at Tanforan as "just like a bad dream" [--] years ago Apr [--] [----] scores of Japanese and Japanese-American San Franciscans were rounded up and relocated by force to internment camps. Contemporary reports estimated the number of total forced evacuations from the Bay Area at around [----] https://t.co/Q8VsDEMjR4 [--] years ago Apr [--] [----] scores of Japanese and Japanese-American San Franciscans were rounded up and"
X Link 2024-02-20T02:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"106 years ago Feb [--] [----] 16-year-old San Francisco socialist Hazel Stewart refused to pledge allegiance to the American flag in opposition to US involvement in World War I. Her suspension led to a wave of student anti-war protest triggering a crisis for the SF school board"
X Link 2024-02-20T19:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"56 years ago Feb [--] [----] Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her first public speech since the murder of her husband Malcolm X. She was escorted by an armed phalanx of [--] men from two different new organizations both called the Black Panther Party"
X Link 2024-02-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Shabazz had been invited to San Francisco for a three-day memorial to Malcolm X in Hunters Point that was organized by the Black Panther Party of Northern California an armed group affiliated with the local chapter of the Revolutionary Action Movement RAM began in [----] as a study group in Philadelphia (with roots in an Ohio chapter of SDS). Inspired by Robert F. Williams an NAACP leader who was exiled to Cuba after advocating armed Black self-defense they promoted the idea of revolutionary urban guerrilla warfare https://t.co/3P5wWUvghm RAM began in [----] as a study group in Philadelphia (with"
X Link 2024-02-21T23:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The SLA a highly unusual group led by Cinque Mtume (suspected by many to be an agent provocateur) had kidnapped Patty Hearst earlier that month. They demanded the Hearst family organize grocery handouts in poor neighborhoods throughout California [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army an eccentric urban revolutionary group founded by former LAPD informant Cinque Mtume. Hearst later claimed the SLA brainwashed her into joining https://t.co/cpiOKU7Ksi [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty"
X Link 2024-02-22T23:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Against the protests of Gov Reagan the Hearsts cooperated with the SLA's demands setting up grocery distribution points in [--] sites including Richmond East Palo Alto and San Francisco. In East Oakland the Nation of Islam's Shabazz Bakery was chosen as a delivery site"
X Link 2024-02-22T23:16Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"47 years ago February [--] [----] unknown gunmen fired shots into Bread & Roses Bookshop a Communist Party-affiliated bookstore in San Jose. B&R management believed the attack was retaliation for the store's role as a center for refugees fleeing the Pinochet dictatorship in Chile"
X Link 2024-02-25T19:36Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"14 years ago March [--] [----] thousands of students and educational workers in San Francisco Oakland Berkeley Vallejo Concord & Napa staged walkouts and demonstrations to protest budget cuts tuition hikes layoffs & other austerity measures as part of a national day of action"
X Link 2024-03-05T01:20Z [----] followers, [----] 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
"The split in the BPP between Huey Newton's Oakland leadership and Eldridge Cleaver's faction which enjoyed support in New York and in Cleaver's Algeria-based "International Section" had split into the open shortly after Newton was freed from prison in August 1970"
X Link 2024-03-06T03:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"58 years ago March [--] [----] a dynamite explosion destroyed the San Francisco national headquarters of the W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs a Communist Party-affiliated youth group less than [--] hours after the federal government demanded the Clubs register as a "communist front""
X Link 2024-03-06T17:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"While huge demos took place and riots broke out in large cities like New York and Los Angeles San Franciscos participation was escorted by the chief of police and deemed a failure by its organizers. Another march to start something was announced for the following week Today is the 94th anniversary of the first International Unemployment Day which saw massive marchesand bruising fights with the policearound the world including in Detroit Cleveland Milwaukee Boston and New York. You can listen to the story here: https://t.co/9aYL08z7us https://t.co/bXFOtFsSWr Today is the 94th anniversary of"
X Link 2024-03-06T19:50Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"55 years ago March [--] [----] the Red Dragon Party announced its formation in the Berkeley Barb newspaper. The Red Dragons who soon changed their name to the Red Guard were a group of young working class Chinese-American revolutionaries from San Franciscos Chinatown"
X Link 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The official announcement of the Party on March [--] was occasioned by a brutal police riot that had recently occurred at the Chinese New Year Parade during which Chinatown youths clashed directly with SFPD"
X Link 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Their first project was organizing community support for the Third World Liberation Front student strike at San Francisco State University which led to the creation of SFSUs Ethnic Studies Department [--] 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 and UC Berkeley https://t.co/GM706pRj4M [--] years ago November [--] [----] the Black Student Union and the Third World Liberation Front at San"
X Link 2024-03-08T04:25Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The march was led by the San Francisco Mime Troupes rag-tag Gorilla Band a [--] member radical musical crew that included flag-bearing majorettes a chorus a brass section and a man who hummed through a comb. A goal of the march was to bring collective arts into the streets"
X Link 2024-03-10T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"After reaching the Polo Grounds a massive party began featuring speeches from Kathleen Cleaver and several other Peace & Freedom Party representatives and musical performances by Allmen Joy Celestial Hysteria Creedence Clearwater Revival the Santana Blues Band and others"
X Link 2024-03-10T02:43Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Read the full text:"
X Link 2024-03-14T00:13Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"60 years ago March [--] [----] [---] civil rights demonstrators were arrested at the Cadillac Showroom on San Franciscos auto row in an action organized by the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination against auto row employers' refusal to hire Black workers"
X Link 2024-03-14T16:44Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Letter from Siberian Red Army soldiers to political prisoners in San Quentin response by Tom Mooney published [--] years ago in Western Worker"
X Link 2024-03-15T20:27Z [----] followers, [----] 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
"110 years ago March [--] [----] Indian revolutionary Lala Hardayal was arrested in San Francisco for violating the Anarchist Exclusion Act of [----]. He fled to Switzerland after posting bail"
X Link 2024-03-25T16:31Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"136 years ago March [--] [----] the National Brewers Association fired its union workers in San Francisco triggering a successful 9-month strike by the Brewery Workmens Union founded by socialist German immigrants in [----]. The new union contract guaranteed workers free beer"
X Link 2024-03-27T01:13Z [----] followers, 36.6K 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
"Earlier in the day an anti-apartheid rally (at which Richie Havens performed) brought over [----] people to the plaza. After a bitter struggle which lasted over a year and saw more than [---] arrests UC Berkeley finally divested billions of dollars from South Africa in July 1986"
X Link 2024-03-31T21:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"39 years ago April [--] [----] San Jose City Council voted 10-1 to ban city investment in any firm doing business in apartheid South Africa. By the end of the year San Francisco Oakland Palo Alto and Richmond all passed similar divestment resolutions"
X Link 2024-04-02T23:11Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"56 years ago April [--] [----] thousands of people gathered in San Francisco's Civic Center to mourn Martin Luther King Jr who had been murdered the previous day. Following the memorial nearly two thousand police were deployed downtown to Market St where a riot ensued"
X Link 2024-04-05T16:34Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"On April [--] cops filled the streets of West Oakland following a day of riots over the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Rioting was also reported in East Palo Alto Oakland and Berkeley where several businesses on Shattuck Ave were looted. The International Longshoremen's And Warehousemen's Union (ILWU) announced that day that they would close all Bay Area ports to honor King https://t.co/8tC0o7owgf Rioting was also reported in East Palo Alto Oakland and Berkeley where several businesses on Shattuck Ave were looted. The International Longshoremen's And Warehousemen's Union (ILWU)"
X Link 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"They came upon three carloads of Black Panthers including Hutton and leaders Eldridge Cleaver and David Hilliard who were keeping an eye on cops after the riot. Police attack their cars and a shootout quickly erupted. The Panthers took cover at a house at [----] 28th St"
X Link 2024-04-06T18:07Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"A poem for the moon by the Bay Areas great revolutionary poet Diane Di Prima published in the Berkeley Tribe 1969"
X Link 2024-04-08T18:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"54 years ago April [--] [----] the Black Panther Party hosted a Peoples Free Festival in San Franciscos Fillmore to provide free activities for the community. There were childrens games like Pop the Pig art exhibitions film screenings local bands and Free Food for Days"
X Link 2024-04-12T00:47Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"56 years ago Apr [--] [----] the Peace & Freedom Party led a Lil Bobby Hutton memorial march to the Alameda County Courthouse where Huey P. Newton was being held on charges of murdering a policeman. The demonstrators were saluted with V signs by courthouse prisoners"
X Link 2024-04-13T17:03Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"7 years ago April [--] [----] antifascists clashed with far-right & white supremacist demonstrators (including members of the Oath Keepers Identity Evropa and the neo-nazi Rise Above Movement) in Berkeleys MLK Jr. Civic Center Park (Provo Park)"
X Link 2024-04-16T03:33Z [----] followers, 17.7K engagements
"34 years ago April [--] [----] dualing Cambodian demos of pro and anti-Khmer Rouge occupied UN Plaza in San Francisco on the 15th anniversary of CPK rule in Cambodia"
X Link 2024-04-17T16:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"55 years ago April [--] [----] hundreds of "straight and freaky people" in Berkeley showed up on Sunday afternoon to a vacant lot of university-owned land between Dwight and Haste to begin constructing People's Park"
X Link 2024-04-20T17:56Z [----] followers, 12.6K engagements
"63 years ago April [--] [----] the Fair Play for Cuba Committee organized a march in San Francisco in response to the failed Bay of Pigs invasion. Hundreds gathered marching from Market St. to Union Square and the Federal Building to demand an end to the U.S. invasion of Cuba"
X Link 2024-04-22T01:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"52 years ago April [--] [----] a coalition of over [--] Bay Area organizations mobilized a [-----] person demonstration leading a march from Baker and Fell through the Panhandle to Kezar Stadium where a rally and "peace festival were held calling for an end to the war in Vietnam"
X Link 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The march rally and peace festival were planned by the Bay Area April [--] Coalition which formed in response to Nixons escalation of the war the April [--] bombing of Hanoi and a call to action from the National Peace Action Coalition (NPAC)"
X Link 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The programming at the rally included a music by Country Joe MacDonald a recorded message from Nguyen Thi Binh foreign minister of the PRG speeches from Jane Fonda and Dick Gregory and a solidarity statement from Angela Davis read by her sister Fania Jordan"
X Link 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Massive demonstrations were simultaneously held in New York where [------] rallied and Los Angeles where [-----] people gathered. Protests were also held in dozens of other cities including Middleton N.J. where an attempt was made to block the sailing of a Navy munitions ship"
X Link 2024-04-22T17:10Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Happy Earth Day The first Earth Day was [--] years ago April [--] [----]. A group calling itself Environmental Vigilantes celebrated by dumping crankcase oil in the reflecting pool of Standard Oil's San Francisco offices in protest of a recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico"
X Link 2024-04-22T17:46Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"53 years ago April [--] [----] a bomb blew through the ceiling of Stanford president Richard Lyman's office. That same night a sniper shot five rounds into the oil-cooling drums of the transformer at the Panama Street electrical substation nearly shutting off all Stanford's power"
X Link 2024-04-23T23:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"34 years ago April [--] [----] [--] members of Earth First were arrested while attempting to unfurl a banner during rush hour traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. The 130-foot banner read: "Save This Planet. Defend Ancient Forests. Fossil Fuel Prohibited. Earth First""
X Link 2024-04-24T18:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"25 years ago April [--] [----] over [-----] people marched in San Francisco and the ILWU shut down all West Coast ports to call for the freedom of Mumia Abu-Jamal. The demonstration was planned to coincide with Mumia's 45th birthday. Today he turned [--] and is still imprisoned"
X Link 2024-04-25T02:06Z [----] followers, 10.7K engagements
"Around 10:30 PM the man threw a firebomb through the front door of the office. The wick went out and the bomb shattered but did not explode. Berkeley Solidarity Committee member Owen Fitzsimmons chased him down the street when the man opened fire hitting Fitzsimmons in the leg"
X Link 2024-04-25T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This was just one of a number of attacks on movement spaces in the 1960s and early '70s. Reactionary vigilantes who shot up (and wrecked equipment at) San Diego's left-wing Street Journal offices later admitted to having operated at the behest of the FBI and local police"
X Link 2024-04-25T21:23Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"47 years ago April [--] [----] a gunfight at the People's Food System's San Francisco Cooperating Warehouse left one dead & one (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 2024-04-26T23:07Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"55 years ago April [--] [----] a large Free Huey rally was held in San Francisco's Fillmore ahead of Huey Newton's bail hearing. [---] cops instigated a riot attacking the crowd and filling the streets with tear gas after raiding the Black Panther Party office arresting [--] Panthers"
X Link 2024-04-29T03:06Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Inspired by explosion of Gaza solidarity encampments we wrote about the (remarkably successful) anti-apartheid occupation movement at Berkeley for @NotesFrom_Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down"
X Link 2024-04-29T19:41Z [----] followers, 10.8K 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
"49 years ago April [--] [----] Berkeley erupted in jubilation at news of National Liberation Fronts victory in Vietnam. Many spontaneous marches snaked through the city as marchers sang The Internationale. One reveler said: For all our fuck ups we really helped do something"
X Link 2024-04-30T23:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"In the following decades May Day celebrations faced increasing police repression. While large conflictual May Day parades unfolded in cities like Seattle & New York the Bay remained relatively quiet as a heavy police presence (and preemptive arrests) stifled activity"
X Link 2024-05-01T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Things began to change in [----] when communists defied a police order not to march in Oakland. As the marchers attempted to form lines they were attacked by "a special detail of [--] policemen." In the ensuing brawl marchers were brutally beaten and their banners destroyed"
X Link 2024-05-01T16:38Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"55 years ago May [--] [----] [---] Stanford students associated with the April 3rd Movement occupied Encina Hall (which they renamed the "Huey P. Newton Institute for the Study of War Racism and Capitalism") demanding an end to university involvement with war research"
X Link 2024-05-01T19:36Z [----] followers, 10.4K 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
"July 18th [----] the UC Regents met in Santa Cruz and voted to divest $3.1 billion from South Africa-related stocks and bonds the largest campus divestment of the anti-apartheid movement We wrote about the student movement that made them @NotesFrom_Below https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down https://notesfrombelow.org/article/theyre-watching-you-dont-let-them-down"
X Link 2024-05-06T04:20Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"55 years ago May [--] [----] the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed the Safeway at 30th and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with the United Farm Workers' Delano Grape Strike. Safeway had refused to stop selling grapes picked by strikebreakers"
X Link 2024-05-10T21:39Z [----] 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
"A block from Peoples Park the empty UC Berkeley-owned Anna Head Alumnae Hall has been occupied and renamed Hinds House Come support and bring supplies [----] Channing Way Berkeley"
X Link 2024-05-16T01:03Z [----] followers, 91.8K 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
"When they were bombed Bari and Cherney were making their way from Berkeley to Santa Cruz where they planned to rally UC students to participate in Earth First's upcoming Redwood Summer a series of mass direct actions to protect Northern Californian old-growth redwood forests"
X Link 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Redwood Summer which was modeled on SNCC's [----] Mississippi Freedom Summer marked a departure from earlier EF actions which had been characterized by a more conservative masculinist middle-class politics concerned almost exclusively with militant wilderness conservation"
X Link 2024-05-24T17:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"52 years ago May [--] [----] the Afro-American Liberation Army (also known as the Black Liberation Army) claimed responsibility for an attempted bombing at San Francisco's Portuguese consulate carried out in solidarity with the liberation struggles in Angola and Mozambique"
X Link 2024-05-30T21:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"50 years ago June [--] [----] [---] Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh Park (Willard Park) to honor the slain members of the Symbionese Liberation Army who died that May during a police siege of their Los Angeles hideout. Connections made at the rally helped the SLA to regroup"
X Link 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The rally was organized by Kathy Soliah a friend of slain SLA member Angela Atwood who would go on to become an active member of the group. It was held about three blocks from the Berkeley apartment that Patty Hearst had been kidnapped from in February [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army an eccentric urban revolutionary group founded by former LAPD informant Cinque Mtume. Hearst later claimed the SLA brainwashed her into joining https://t.co/cpiOKU7Ksi [--] years ago Feb [--] [----] newspaper heiress Patty"
X Link 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson spoke at the rally denouncing the "murder" of the SLA militants. One year later Jackson himself would be murdered by members of Tribal Thumb a group with a number of strange similarities to the SLA Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla warfare mysticism and sexual liberation politics (inspired by German psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich) had already infiltrated the prisoners' movement going so far as to murder United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson https://t.co/Zrq44j2Kng Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla"
X Link 2024-06-02T17:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"50 years ago June [--] [----] [----] nurses went on strike across [--] clinics and hospitals in the Bay Area. The California Nurses' Association (CNA) held their national convention in San Francisco during the [--] day strike which won workers an 11% raise but few other concessions"
X Link 2024-06-07T16:35Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"106 years ago June [--] [----] a judge denied a divorce to Percival Jackson a wireless operator in Marshall Marin County. He had filed for divorce on the grounds that his wife Mary "attended anarchist meetings read anarchist publications and adopted anarchist philosophy.""
X Link 2024-06-07T19:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"47 years ago June [--] [----] over [----] people took to the streets of San Francisco in a spontaneous protest of the city of Miami's decision to repeal a gay rights ordinance. The leaderless group marched to Union Square where they ran a "red 'Gay Revolution' flag" up the flagpole"
X Link 2024-06-07T23:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"42 years ago June [--] [----] over a thousand people mostly Palestinian Lebanese and Jewish demonstrated in front of San Francisco's Federal Building against Israel's invasion of Lebanon demanding an immediate Israeli withdrawal"
X Link 2024-06-09T17:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"48 years ago June [--] [----] 27-year-old Jose Barlow Benavidez was murdered by OPD cop Michael Colgey on International Blvd. In the wake of his death the Barlow Benavidez Justice Committee formed and organized a wave a protests during the height of Oakland's Chicano Power movement"
X Link 2024-06-11T20:54Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"You can hear more about the anti-police struggles surrounding the murder of Benavidez and the rise of the Chicano power movement on @ebyesterday: https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/it-wasnt-part-of-my-childhood/ https://eastbayyesterday.com/episodes/it-wasnt-part-of-my-childhood/"
X Link 2024-06-11T20:54Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"53 years ago June [--] [----] federal marshals raided Alcatraz Island removing the last few remaining occupiers. Hundreds of Native people from across North America led by the Indians of All Tribes had occupied the former prison island during the previous nineteen months"
X Link 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Since [----] there had been numerous symbolic attempts by Indian activists to reclaim Alcatraz. An ad-hoc group largely led by Native student activists like LaNada Means and Richard Oakes succeeded in establishing a protest encampment on the island on November [--] 1969"
X Link 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"They formed the Indians of All Tribes as an ad-hoc group to organize the occupation and issued a statement declaring the island Indian land and announcing an intention to construct a Native American Studies Center a Spiritual Center an Ecology Center and a Training School"
X Link 2024-06-12T02:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"42 years ago June [--] [----] [-----] people marched in San Francisco to call for an end to the nuclear arms race. Coinciding with the opening of disarmament talks at the U.N. demos were held across the country including a protest of one million people in New York's Central Park"
X Link 2024-06-12T14:08Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A massive rally was held in Civic Center Plaza where the chant "Choose Life Choose Life Choose Life" echoed through the crowd"
X Link 2024-06-12T14:08Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"31 years ago June [--] [----] in an action led by Homes Not Jails [---] activists and homeless youth seized a vacant building owned by the federal government in San Francisco. HNJ who demanded the conversion of vacant properties into public housing held the building for [--] days"
X Link 2024-06-13T17:08Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"Next month were cohosting an event with @ShapingSF to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the [----] San Francisco General Strike. Please join us to discuss the history and relevance of the Big Strike to todays landscape of labor struggles in the Bay Area and beyond"
X Link 2024-06-18T03:14Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Four years later the Esmeralda returned on a similar mission. This time the International Longshore & Warehouse Union (ILWU) followed COYOTE's example refusing to unload Chilean cargo in protest of the torture ship's arrival"
X Link 2024-06-21T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"This boycott was just one in a number of similar actions against oppressive governments by the ILWU who at the urging of international solidarity movements also refused to unload cargo from apartheid South Africa and most recently cargo from Israeli ships"
X Link 2024-06-21T17:56Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"46 years ago June [--] [----] the first Rainbow Flags were flown at the Gay Freedom Day parade in San Francisco. Designed by Gilbert Baker and created with the help of others the flag representing the rainbow of humanity quickly became an international symbol of gay liberation"
X Link 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Baker who co-chaired the Decorations Committee for the event was tasked by Harvey Milk and others with creating a new symbol for the gay community. The rainbow design was chosen to highlight diversity in the community. We have gays of all colors one organizer remarked"
X Link 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Harvey Milk the first openly gay elected official in California who was sworn in as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors that year campaigned against Prop [--] across the state and publicly debated Briggs. In November Prop [--] failed to pass"
X Link 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Later that month Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White. After their deaths demand for the rainbow flag greatly increased. The flag began to be mass produced and was taken up as a militant symbol of gay liberation"
X Link 2024-06-25T18:02Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Police began began firing on the crowd. One contemporary newspaper account describes an officer "firing his shotgun into the ranks of strikers until it was empty and then emptying his pistol." Scores were wounded and [--] strikers Howard Sperry and Nicholas Bordoise were killed"
X Link 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The next day workers created a memorial in chalk reading "POLICE MURDER" at Steuart & Mission where the two men had been killed. When officers erased the chalk workers recreated the memorial with paint. Five days later up to [-----] mourners attended the slain workers' funeral"
X Link 2024-07-05T15:47Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"At some point in the shootout several eyewitnesses said they saw the police fire a canister into the Page St house after which a fire broke out. SFPD claimed the fire resulted from a molotov cocktail dropped by a Panther but no evidence of one was ever recovered"
X Link 2024-07-12T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Many residents of the Haight remarked on the attacks similarity to the raid on the Symbionese Liberation Army in Los Angeles two months prior during which a shootout also ended in fire after police shot gas canisters into the house leaving six SLA members dead"
X Link 2024-07-12T22:52Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"26 years ago July [--] [----] members of Food Not Bombs stormed police barricades in San Francisco's Civic Center Plaza that had been set up to prevent unhoused people from sitting on newly-planted grass. Several were arrested"
X Link 2024-07-14T18:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"49 years ago July [--] [----] a bomb exploded at the ATF bureau office on the 34th floor of the Tishman building on Market St in San Francisco. The Red Guerrilla Family issued a communiqu claiming responsibility for the bombing done in retaliation for the murder of Popeye Jackson"
X Link 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"While unclear who was responsible for the killing of Jackson the RGF suspected that the ATF had played a major role. Less than a week before he was killed the SF head of the ATF announced that [---] new agents would deploy to the West Coast for counter-insurgency operations"
X Link 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"It was later discovered that Tribal Thumb a group heavily suspected of having various links to the FBI was involved in the murder of Popeye Jackson. In [----] Tribal Thumb member Richard London was found guilty of murdering Jackson and Sally Voye Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla warfare mysticism and sexual liberation politics (inspired by German psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich) had already infiltrated the prisoners' movement going so far as to murder United Prisoners Union leader Popeye Jackson https://t.co/Zrq44j2Kng Tribal Thumb who taught a strange mix of urban guerrilla"
X Link 2024-07-21T18:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In early [----] the IWW had been engaged in "free speech fights" in Oakland openly flouting local laws against "treasonable" speech. These fights were often attacked by police resulting in arrest and injury"
X Link 2024-08-05T23:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"On March 3rd the police broke up an IWW rally on 9th St in downtown Oakland. IWW members decamped to their headquarters on 7th St and about [---] returned to the streets with placards and red banners. This second gathering was also attacked; wobblies were beaten and arrested"
X Link 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As they left the scene of the downtown riot some wobblies gathered in front of Hamilton Hall on 13th St where the Socialist Party of America was having a meeting. The Oakland branch of the SPA was associated with the party's "left wing" and was very friendly with the IWW"
X Link 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Wobblies and socialists at Hamilton Hall jeered and hissed at passing policemen. Without an official order police raided the hall indiscriminately beating attendees at the meeting who were not given an opportunity to leave"
X Link 2024-08-05T23:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"57 years ago August [--] [----] SFPD brutally raided a benefit party in the Mission for the San Francisco Draft Resistance Union on 15th & Dolores. Ten were arrested and collectively charged with [--] felonies including PLP candidate for the city Board of Supervisors John Ross"
X Link 2024-08-06T17:49Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"58 years ago August [--] [----] over [-----] people marched through San Francisco in protest of the Vietnam War on the 21st anniversary of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima. The Hiroshima Day March ended at Civic Center with speeches from war veterans and peace activists"
X Link 2024-08-06T23:29Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"87 years ago August [--] [----] the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) issued a charter for the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union officially founding the ILWU. Today the ILWU represents over [-----] workers on the Pacific West Coast and in Hawaii"
X Link 2024-08-12T02:15Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"One of the most progressive unions in the country the ILWU's early political origins include organizing with the IWW whose famous slogan An injury to one is an injury to all the union would adopt and the [----] San Francisco General Strike [--] years ago May [--] [----] [-----] West Coast longshoremen walked off their jobs to demand closed shops and union-controlled hiring halls. Locally the strike would last into the summer eventually culminating in the 4-day San Francisco General Strike https://t.co/hJc1KVcaLD [--] years ago May [--] [----] [-----] West Coast longshoremen walked off their jobs to demand closed"
X Link 2024-08-12T02:15Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"12 years ago August [--] [----] a group of activists began to occupy the vacant building that previously housed the Miller Avenue Library Branch and Emiliano Zapata Street Academy High School in East Oakland transforming the space into the Biblioteca Popular Victor Martinez"
X Link 2024-08-13T17:53Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Organizers many connected to Occupy Oakland cleaned the space constructed a peoples library and began to build a community garden in the buildings yard. They named the library after the poet and teacher Victor Martinez who passed away in 2011"
X Link 2024-08-13T17:53Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"49 years ago August [--] [----] the New World Liberation Front (NWLF) blew up a cop car in the parking lot of the Emeryville police station. The NWLF communique claiming responsibility for the bombing references the death of Jonathon Jackson and other victims of police murder"
X Link 2024-08-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Included among the names of those killed by police listed in the communique is Tyrone Guyton a 14-year-old West Oakland resident who was murdered by Emeryville police in [----]. A week later a grand jury refused to indict the three officers responsible for his murder"
X Link 2024-08-13T23:59Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"42 years ago August [--] [----] the torch for the first Gay Games was carried across the Golden Gate bridge into San Francisco by Sue Walker completing a 70-day [----] mile journey from the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Over [---] runners and cyclists helped carry the torch"
X Link 2024-08-22T22:22Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"A marching band dancers and hundreds of people cheered on Walker as she completed the journey and a 50-car motorcade led the crowd to 18th and Castro where the torch was held in preparation for the start of the games which opened the following weekend at Kezar Stadium"
X Link 2024-08-22T22:22Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"35 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 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"His funeral was held six days later on August [--] at the Allen Temple Baptist Church with a crowd of over [----] people gathered within and outside of the church. His ashes are interred at Oakland's Evergreen Cemetery"
X Link 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Due to the work of his wife Federika Newton and the Dr. Huey P. Newton Foundation a bust of Huey was placed last year in the spot where he was killed and a portion of 9th Street was commemoratively named Dr. Huey P. Newton Way"
X Link 2024-08-23T03:04Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Civil Rights groups such as CORE SNCC and the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination had been leading campaigns against racist hiring practices at local businesses. By recruiting participants on campus they created problems for the university with the business community The Ad Hocs were formed by members of the Du Bois Clubs a Communist Party-based youth group. Inspired by CORE and SNCC they led demonstrations and sit-ins against discriminatory hiring practices at several Bay Area businesses beginning with Mels Drive-In in San Francisco https://t.co/WtK3zRXgYW The Ad Hocs were formed by"
X Link 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"The day before the ban was announced the Ad Hocs held a rally on campus to raise support for their ongoing sit-in at the Oakland Tribune. Many participants felt that the "no politics" rule was a direct result of pressure on the UC from Tribune ownership"
X Link 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Free Speech Movement was ultimately successful in its fight to remove the ban on political speech creating space for the rapid and open development of student radicalism in Berkeley"
X Link 2024-10-01T19:24Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"13 years ago Oct [--] [----] activists inspired by the Occupy Wall St movement set up camp in Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza which they immediately renamed Oscar Grant Plaza. The founding of Occupy Oakland was timed to coincide with Indigenous People's Day"
X Link 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Early in the afternoon a group of Ohlone activists who had recently occupied Sogorea Te a sacred site in Vallejo spoke: "This land isn't the city of Oakland's. it's not just Ohlone land anymore it's all of our land and we have the right to be here to occupy this land"
X Link 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oakland soon established itself as the Occupy movement's militant edge placing a much greater weight on anti-racist anti-police and anti-state politics than most other camps. Many participants had been active in the [----] anti-police movement following the murder of Oscar Grant"
X Link 2024-10-10T23:57Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"58 years ago October [--] [----] the Hunters Point Tenants Union which represented ten families living in public housing managed by the San Francisco Housing Authority called a rent strike. Denouncing "deplorable conditions" the strike soon spread to the entire SFHA system"
X Link 2024-10-11T17:56Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"56 years ago October [--] [----] the GI's & Vets March for Peace saw over [-----] people including nearly [---] active duty soldiers fill the streets of San Francisco to march from the Panhandle to Civic Center where a massive anti-war rally was held"
X Link 2024-10-12T23:32Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"The holiday began with a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz after which the American Indian Movement disrupted a planned reenactment of Columbus's landing. Later hundreds gathered on Sproul Plaza where Indigenous rap group With0ut Rezervation performed"
X Link 2024-10-13T00:22Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Two years later Santa Cruz joined Berkeley as the second American city to officially recognize Indigenous People's Day. It would be another two decades before more cities and the federal government would follow"
X Link 2024-10-13T00:24Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"Inspired by what he had seen in Lowndes Comfort asked SNCC leader Stokely Carmichael (Kwame Ture) for permission to start a Black Panther Party in California to which Carmichael replied: "It's the people's. We ain't got a patent. If local conditions indicate go for it"
X Link 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In Oakland Comfort worked to spread the Panther name and symbol. According to Ture by late [----] [--] to [--] groups were using the name in California along with groups in Detroit Cleveland and Chicago. An attempt by Carmichael to merge these groups in Oakland failed"
X Link 2024-10-15T18:14Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"âš¡IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTâš¡ A couple months ago we quietly made an account on Patreon. Now were sharing it publicly https://www.patreon.com/LeftintheBayutm_campaign=creatorshare_creator https://www.patreon.com/LeftintheBayutm_campaign=creatorshare_creator"
X Link 2024-10-16T01:21Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In [----] we started digging up stories in archives old newspapers books and anywhere else we can find scraps of information and posting them on our social media feeds mostly in the form of on-this-day posts. But in the past year our output has grown quite a bit"
X Link 2024-10-16T01:21Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Next week were hosting a panel with Shaping SF on the history of Anti-Apartheid organizing in the Bay Area and its relevance to the struggle for freedom in Palestine Come through 🚩"
X Link 2024-10-17T04:39Z [----] followers, [----] engagements
"Newson who worked at a shoeshine stand lived in West Oakland's Harbor Homes housing project a nearly all-Black community that had been built to house workers during World War II. A week before the murders he had robbed Harbor Homes' office with his Uncle James' empty pistol"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Oakland cops arrested Newson for the Harbor Homes robbery to which he immediately confessed. Police then announced that Newson was being held as the chief suspect in the unrelated drug store murders despite a near-total lack of evidence falsely claiming that he had confessed"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:39Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The Civil Rights Congress organized an aggressive community-based defense of Newson. They provided lawyers free of charge ran countless stories about Newson on their KTIM radio show "Civil Rights in the News" and distributed thousands of copies of a pamphlet on Newson"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"The CRC's defense committee mobilized hundreds of volunteers in West Oakland "especially Negro women" and money and volunteers poured in from the Bay Area's progressive unions particularly the ILWU and the staunchly anti-racist Marine Cooks & Stewards Union"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"In San Quentin Newson participated in a sit-down strike of death row inmates led by Wesley Robert Wells. Wells (who had initially been jailed for stealing a car battery but found himself on death row after throwing a spit bucket a guard) was also saved from execution by the CRC"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"Eventually the Civil Rights Congress fought the case all the way up to the Supreme Court where the execution verdict was reversed. Despite this Newson was still forced to serve a [--] year sentence for armed robbery (a typical sentence being 2-3 years)"
X Link 2024-10-25T02:40Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"13 years ago October [--] [----] police raided Occupy Oakland's two-week-old encampments at Oscar Grant Plaza and Snow Park leading to a day of protests and violent clashes between themselves and occupiers who declared a "general strike" planed for November [--] in response"
X Link 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, 10.6K engagements
"At 4pm about [----] protestors gathered at the Oakland Public Library to denounce the raid. The rally was supported by several labor unions. Teachers' unions & SEIU provided portapotties and the Alameda Labor Council decried the attempt to "silence the voices of the people""
X Link 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"As demonstrators marched police repeatedly attacked them with tear gas and other "less lethal" munitions. Iraq War veteran Scott Olsen suffered severe brain injuries after being shot directly in the head at close range with a beanbag (Oakland would later pay him $4.5 million)"
X Link 2024-10-26T00:09Z [----] followers, [---] engagements
"55 years ago October [--] [----] the Committee for Homosexual Freedom/Gay Liberation Front protested outside the San Francisco Examiner offices in response to homophobic articles. Examiner workers attacked them with bags of newsprint ink which they smeared on the building's walls"
X Link 2024-10-31T23:53Z [----] followers, 14.4K engagements
"The CHF a revolutionary San Francisco gay rights group was in the process of becoming a chapter of the GLF a similar group founded in New York after the Stonewall Riots. They demanded the Examiner fire Robert Patterson a virulently homophobic writer The CHF had been founded in April (2 months before the Stonewall Riots) by gay activists in San Francisco who had become frustrated with the "timid uptight conservative" single-issue gay rights groups that existed at the time such as the Society for Individual Rights https://t.co/ASrlXgRgBf The CHF had been founded in April (2 months before the"
X Link 2024-10-31T23:53Z [----] followers, [---] 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
"The occupation of Alcatraz and the recently established Navajo Community College in Arizona created an urgent desire for an indigenous college in California. As debate ensued about where it might be built a 647-acre army comms. facility was decommissioned 7-miles from UC Davis"
X Link 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"Once it became army surplus land David Risling Jack Forbes Carl Gorman and others from the Native American Studies Program at UC Davis established a board of trustees and filed an application to use the land for the construction of Deganawidah-Quetzalcoatl (D-Q) University"
X Link 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
"UC Davis filed a competing application though never properly submitted it. While applications were under review Senator George Murphy eagerly and prematurely announced that the land would be granted to UC Davis for a primate research center and rice farming"
X Link 2024-11-03T19:49Z [----] followers, [--] engagements
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