Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 4 | True Anon
Posted on July 29, 2024
We’re join True Anon again to talk about the People’s Food System shootout and the end of the Thumb.
Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 3 | True Anon
Posted on July 24, 2024
We’re joined by Left in the Bay once again to talk Tribal Thumb — federal infiltration, murder, crime, and communiques.
Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 2 | True Anon
Posted on July 19, 2024
Part two of our discussion of Tribal Thumb, the obscure 1970s radical group in the Bay Area with eerie parallels to the Manson Family & the SLA. Matt and Matt from Left in the Bay join us to talk about the radical energy percolating through California in the 1970s and the twists and turns of the Symbionese Liberation Army saga.
Lawyers, Guns, and Tummies: Tribal Thumb Pt. 1 | True Anon
Posted on July 16, 2024
We join True Anon to talk about Tribal Thumb. We start by laying out the history of the Prisoners Movement in California and the radical ferment of the 1960s & ’70s.
How South African Solidarity Encampments Worked | Sad Francisco Podcast
Posted on May 30, 2024
LEFT IN THE BAY exposes histories of the Bay Area that explain how we got our ideological reputation. Two from the collective, Matt Ray and Matt Wranovics, speak on their recent piece covering the Bay’s protests in the 1980s against South African apartheid, and connections to the movement against genocide in Palestine.
Who Owns Peoples' Park? Berkeley's Historic Struggle | Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals
Posted on January 30, 2024
This month, the University of California-Berkeley administration sent a small army of police to secure Peoples’ Park in the south side of campus. The police cleared the park of the people living there, and established walls of shipping containers surrounding the park.The university plans to build 1,100 new units of student housing and 125 units of supportive housing for unhoused people.
In the late 1960s, the park was established by neighborhood locals, cultural revolutionaries and political radicals to be “stone lobbed at the ongoing gentrification” of Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay Area. The struggle to Save Peoples Park has been ongoing for over fifty years.
We talk with Green & Red about the history and current events of Peoples’ Park. We get into how the movement to establish and save the park grew out of the long history of Bay Area political radicalism and has come to symbolize peoples’ struggle against ongoing corporate gentrification.