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 …
May 12, 1984: 40 years ago, May 12 1984, hundreds of people gathered and marched through [...]
40 years ago, May 12 1984, hundreds of people gathered and marched through the Mission at the Processed World magazine organized “End of the World’s Fair,” a satirical anti-war event planned to coincide with the beginning of the World’s Fair in New Orleans Political organizations like the anti-nuke Livermore Action …
May 10, 1969: 55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed [...]
55 years ago, May 10 1969, the Committee for Homosexual Freedom picketed the Safeway at 30th and Mission in San Francisco in solidarity with the United Farm Workers’ Delano Grape Strike. Safeway had refused to stop selling grapes picked by strikebreakers The CHF had been founded in April (2 months …
May 9, 1934: 90 years ago, May 9 1934, 15,000 West Coast longshoremen walked off their [...]
90 years ago, May 9 1934, 15,000 West Coast longshoremen walked off their jobs to demand closed shops and union-controlled hiring halls. Locally, the strike would last into the summer, eventually culminating in the 4-day San Francisco General Strike The next day, clashes broke out as bosses used armored cars …