Happy International Workers' Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in [...]
Happy International Workers’ Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in 1890 was celebrated with a picnic in Emeryville’s Shellmound Park, organized by the carpenters’ and joiners’ unions. These unions, who were already powerful locally, demanded (and promptly won) an 8-hour day In the following decades, May Day …
April 30, 1975: 49 years ago, April 30 1975, Berkeley erupted in jubilation at news of [...]
49 years ago, April 30 1975, Berkeley erupted in jubilation at news of National Liberation Front’s victory in Vietnam. Many spontaneous marches snaked through the city as marchers sang “The Internationale.” One reveler said: “For all our fuck ups, we really helped do something”
April 30, 1919: 105 years ago, April 30 1919, California governor William Stephens signed [...]
105 years ago, April 30 1919, California governor William Stephens signed the Criminal Syndicalism Act into law, along with acts criminalizing the “teaching of sabotage” and the displaying of red flags or “symbols of anarchy.” The acts were explicitly targeted at the IWW The Criminal Syndicalism Act soon became one …
April 29, 1876: Antioch Chinese Pogrom
April 29 1876, a white mob in Antioch forcibly evicted all Chinese residents from the town after rumors proliferated that Chinese sex workers had spread venereal diseases to a handful of men. The next day, after Sunday services, Antioch’s Chinatown was burned down. As early as the late 1840s, hundreds …
Beautiful day in San Francisco for two new Gaza Solidarity Encampments to [...]
Beautiful day in San Francisco for two new Gaza Solidarity Encampments to pop off at SF State and USF 🌞 @StephenFDiamond @NotesFrom_Below Grow up Stephen