April 20, 1969: 55 years ago, April 20 1969, hundreds of "straight and freaky people" in [...]
55 years ago, April 20 1969, hundreds of “straight and freaky people” in Berkeley showed up on Sunday afternoon to a vacant lot of university-owned land between Dwight and Haste to begin constructing People’s Park Dirt was shoveled, sod was laid down, and trees were planted with flower and vegetable …
April 19, 1969: 55 years ago, April 19 1969, a conference on revolutionary unionism, [...]
55 years ago, April 19 1969, a conference on revolutionary unionism, called for by the UAW Black Panther Caucus, was held at the Black church on 42nd St. and Grove (MLK) in Oakland to negotiate an alliance between the panthers and the League of Revolutionary Black Workers
April 19, 1968: 56 years ago, April 18 1968, marked the end of a 3-day insurrection at the [...]
56 years ago, April 18 1968, marked the end of a 3-day insurrection at the El Pueblo housing project in Pittsburg. After police arrested several Black men for shooting dice, a crowd attacked them with rocks and bottles. When reinforcements arrived, they were met with sniper fire For those three …
Revolutionary Letter #15 by the Bay Area’s great revolutionary poet Diane [...]
Revolutionary Letter #15 by the Bay Area’s great revolutionary poet Diane Di Prima. “When you seize Columbia… take what you need, ‘it’s free because it’s yours’”
April 18, 1969: 55 years ago, April 18 1969, the Berkeley Barb published a notice by [...]
55 years ago, April 18 1969, the Berkeley Barb published a notice by “Robin Hood’s Park Commissioner” calling readers to come to a UC-owned vacant lot between Dwight & Haste that Sunday, where “a park will be built.” Robin Hood’s Park was immediately renamed People’s Park Robin Hood’s Park Commissioner …