January 9, 1971: 51 years ago, Jan 9 1971, the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free [...]

51 years ago, Jan 9 1971, the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free Breakfast Program Benefit featuring the Black Panther Party band, The Lumpen, at the Erwin & Taylor Memorial Hall in East Oakland. The benefit funded several jointly run BPP and CRP free breakfast programs The Chicano Revolutionary Party …

January 11, 1971: 53 years ago, January 11 1971, 150 anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by [...]

53 years ago, January 11 1971, 150 anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by former Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at Stanford University. The University used the incident as a pretext to suspend professor Bruce Franklin, a leader of the Maoist group Venceremos Students shouted “fascist pig,” …

February 1, 1971: 51 years ago, Feb 1 1971, students at Oakland's Merritt College began a [...]

51 years ago, Feb 1 1971, students at Oakland’s Merritt College began a strike by occupying the administration building. The “Revolutionary People’s Occupation Forces,” led by Black Panther Doug Miranda, demanded the community college stay in the Black, working class flatlands The decision to move Merritt from North Oakland to …

February 2, 1971: 53 years ago, Feb 1 1971, students at Oakland's Merritt College began a [...]

53 years ago, Feb 1 1971, students at Oakland’s Merritt College began a strike by occupying the administration building. The “Revolutionary People’s Occupation Forces,” led by Black Panther Doug Miranda, demanded the community college stay in the Black, working class flatlands The decision to move Merritt from North Oakland to …

February 8, 1971: 53 years ago, February 8 1971, the Coalition Against the War in Indochina [...]

53 years ago, February 8 1971, the Coalition Against the War in Indochina organized an anti-war rally in Stanford’s White Plaza. 700 students then marched into and temporarily occupied the Graduate School of Business to confront school president Lyman and the board of trustees