April 22, 1972: 52 years ago, April 22 1972, a coalition of over 50 Bay Area organizations [...]
52 years ago, April 22 1972, a coalition of over 50 Bay Area organizations mobilized a 25,000 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 The …
May 30, 1972: 52 years ago, May 30 1972, the Afro-American Liberation Army (also known [...]
52 years ago, May 30 1972, 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 4 members of the AALA were soon arrested by the …
March 25, 1973: 51 years ago, March 24 1973, Chicano residents of Alviso, a community [...]
51 years ago, March 24 1973, Chicano residents of Alviso, a community which was absorbed into San Jose in 1968, set up a makeshift tollbooth on the Gold Street Bridge. They charged motorists 25¢ apiece to call attention to San Jose’s systematic underfunding of the neighborhood
June 13, 1973: Pat Chenoweth Acquitted of Sabotage on Treasure Island
June 13 1973, a Navy court martial on Treasure Island acquitted anti-war sailor Pat Chenoweth of sabotage charges for which he had been facing 30 years in prison. The campaign for his freedom was led by Vietnam Veterans Against the War/Winter Soldier Organization. Chenoweth had been accused of dropping bolts …
November 2, 1973: 49 years ago, Nov 1 1973, Black 14-year-old Tyrone Guyton was murdered by [...]
49 years ago, Nov 1 1973, Black 14-year-old Tyrone Guyton was murdered by plainclothes Emeryville police in Oakland. A coalition of left groups, including the Black Panthers as well as Trotskyists, Maoists, Pan-Africanists, and labor unions fought to convict the cops responsible Guyton, who lived in Oakland, had been hanging …