May 14, 2012: 12 years ago, May 14 2012, University of California police raided and [...]
12 years ago, May 14 2012, University of California police raided and destroyed an occupation of Albany’s Gill Tract, a 104-acre UC-owned property, arresting nine people. For a month, Occupy the Farm held and farmed the land, which was slated to be sold for private development Activists had fought since …
May 14, 1960: 64 years ago, May 13 1960, hundreds of students battled cops on the steps [...]
64 years ago, May 13 1960, hundreds of students battled cops on the steps of City Hall during the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) hearings on “communist subversion” in San Francisco. The protest against HUAC marked the beginning of a new student movement in the Bay HUAC had already held …