June 21, 1974: Flotilla Protests Chilean Torture Ship
June 21 1974, Chilean tall ship La Esmeralda, which had been used as a prison and torture chamber by the Pinochet government, docked in Oakland on a goodwill mission, where it was met by a protest flotilla organized by the Chilean solidarity movement. A wide array of actions were taken …
July 13, 1974: 49 years ago, July 12 1974, San Francisco police illegally raided a [...]
49 years ago, July 12 1974, San Francisco police illegally raided a Haight-Ashbury headquarters of the White Panther Party, a left-wing revolutionary counterculture group, leading to a shootout that ended with the building destroyed by fire The White Panther party was founded in 1968 by white midwestern radicals allied with …
September 11, 1974: Weather Underground Bomb the Anaconda Mining Company in Oakland
50 years ago, September 11 1974, 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.
January 23, 1975: 49 years ago, January 23 1975, Ruchell "Cinque" Magee was sentenced to [...]
49 years ago, January 23 1975, Ruchell “Cinque” Magee was sentenced to life in prison at Santa Clara County Courthouse in San Jose for his role in the 1970 attack on the Marin County Hall of Justice led by Jonathan Jackson. He was the longest-serving political prisoner in America Jackson …
January 28, 1975: 49 years ago, January 28 1975, the Weather Underground bombed the [...]
49 years ago, January 28 1975, 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 Four floors of the State Dept. building were damaged. …