May 3, 1966: 58 years ago, May 2 1966, dozens of students and faculty picketed the [...]
58 years ago, May 2 1966, dozens of students and faculty picketed the Assistant Provost for Research’s office at Stanford to protest the school’s classified contracts with the CIA, which was involved in various military and parapsychology research projects at the university Students handed out fliers detailing the department of …
May 2, 1967: 57 years ago, May 2 1967, 26 armed members of the Oakland-based Black [...]
57 years ago, May 2 1967, 26 armed members of the Oakland-based Black Panther Party for Self-Defense entered the California State Assembly Hall to protest the Mulford Act, a piece of legislation intended to disarm them. News coverage of the action made them internationally famous The Panthers were joined in …
May 1, 1969: 55 years ago, May 1 1969, 200 Stanford students associated with the April [...]
55 years ago, May 1 1969, 200 Stanford students associated with the April 3rd Movement occupied Encina Hall (which they renamed the “Huey P. Newton Institute for the Study of War, Racism, and Capitalism”), demanding an end to university involvement with war research The movement, which began with a 9-day …
UC Santa Cruz Encampment finally up :)
UC Santa Cruz Encampment finally up :)
May 1, 1977: 47 years ago, May 1 1977, Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group [...]
47 years ago, May 1 1977, Santa Cruz-based ecological guerrilla group Environmental Life Force marked May Day by firebombing five planes used for pesticide application in Salinas, in what was likely the first left-wing environmentalist bombing in American history ELF, led by UC Santa Cruz research boat pilot John Hanna, …