July 14, 1998: 25 years ago, July 14 1998, members of Food Not Bombs stormed police [...]
25 years ago, July 14 1998, 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
April 25, 1999: 25 years ago, April 24 1999, over 20,000 people marched in San Francisco, [...]
25 years ago, April 24 1999, over 20,000 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 70 and is still imprisoned Many students …
November 4, 1999: 23 years ago, Oakland City Council named a small, previously unnamed [...]
23 years ago, Oakland City Council named a small, previously unnamed street in Old Oakland after Irish republican leader Gerry Adams. The Ireland-born Oakland resident who requested the name change argued that “West Oakland has a lot in common with West Belfast”
March 30, 2001: 23 years ago, March 30 2001, San Francisco squatters held the “Grand [...]
23 years ago, March 30 2001, San Francisco squatters held the “Grand Opening” of the 949 Market squat (or “The Cathedral of Doo Doo”). Evicted that June, it functioned as an arts space and “temporary autonomous zone,” offering free food and room to relax to local houseless people @NeeedlesEye source …
March 21, 2003: 21 years ago, March 20 2003, tens of thousands of people took to the [...]
21 years ago, March 20 2003, 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 1500 arrests as demonstrators disrupted traffic across the city in dozens of coordinated actions