May 31, 1971: 53 years ago, May 31 1971, 50 people organized by the Intercommunal [...]

53 years ago, May 31 1971, 50 people organized by the Intercommunal Survival Committee to Combat Fascism (an official white auxiliary organization of the Black Panther Party) cleared a vacant lot in Berkeley to build a park. It remains to this day as Berkeley Way Mini-Park

The ISCFF was one of the National Committees to Combat Fascism, which were founded after the Panthers’ United Front Against Fascism conference in 1969. The committees were multiracial, but many chapters were almost entirely white, including Berkeley’s
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Many members of the Berkeley ISCCF lived communally in their community center, which provided free bike repair, medical aid, childcare, and other services. The committee lasted for years, winning many small neighborhood-level fights around parks, traffic lights, and libraries

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