March 26, 2009: 15 years ago, March 25 2009, the Uhuru Movement led a march against police [...]
15 years ago, March 25 2009, the Uhuru Movement led a march against police brutality in remembrance of Lovelle Mixon. Mixon, a Black Oaklander, died in a shootout after killing four Oakland cops on March 21st The Mixon shootout took place in the context of an ongoing anti-police terror movement …
March 26, 1888: Brewery Workmen’s Union Strike
March 26 1888, the National Brewers Association fired its union workers in San Francisco, triggering a successful 9-month strike by the Brewery Workmen’s Union, founded by socialist German immigrants in 1886. The new union contract guaranteed workers free beer.
“Headquarters For Radical Dope” in Revolt. San Francisco, March 23 1912
“Headquarters For Radical Dope” in Revolt. San Francisco, March 23 1912
March 25, 1914: 110 years ago, March 25 1914, Indian revolutionary Lala Hardayal was [...]
110 years ago, March 25 1914, Indian revolutionary Lala Hardayal was arrested in San Francisco for violating the Anarchist Exclusion Act of 1903. He fled to Switzerland after posting bail Hardayal came to California in 1911. After serving as secretary of the local IWW branch, Dayal founded an anarchist organization …
March 25, 1973: 51 years ago, March 24 1973, Chicano residents of Alviso, a community [...]
51 years ago, March 24 1973, Chicano residents of Alviso, a community which was absorbed into San Jose in 1968, set up a makeshift tollbooth on the Gold Street Bridge. They charged motorists 25¢ apiece to call attention to San Jose’s systematic underfunding of the neighborhood