December 2, 2015: 8 years ago, December 2 2015, 26-year-old Mario Woods was shot to death by [...]
8 years ago, December 2 2015, 26-year-old Mario Woods was shot to death by five SFPD officers in the Bayview neighborhood of San Francisco, creating a surge in the BLM movement and protests against police in the Bay during a tidal moment for anti-police struggles in the country A wave …
February 1, 2017: Milo Yiannopoulos Berkeley Talk Shut Down
February 1 2017, far-right internet personality Milo Yiannopoulos was scheduled to speak at UC Berkeley for an event hosted by the Berkeley College Republicans. A crowd of thousands filled Sproul Plaza and Telegraph Avenue and shut down the event.
April 16, 2017: 7 years ago, April 15 2017, antifascists clashed with far-right & [...]
7 years ago, April 15 2017, antifascists clashed with far-right & white supremacist demonstrators (including members of the Oath Keepers, Identity Evropa, and the neo-nazi Rise Above Movement) in Berkeley’s MLK Jr. Civic Center Park (Provo Park) There were 20 arrests and 11 reported injuries, most famously the assault by …
August 27, 2017: Berkeley Rally Against Hate
August 27 2017, thousands of people came to Berkeley for the Rally Against Hate, organized in response to the far-right No to Marxism demonstration, one in a series of right-wing events held that year after antifascists shutdown a Milo Yiannopoulos speech at UC Berkeley.