March 12, 1912: 112 years ago, March 11 1912, Richmond Chief of Police James P. Arnold [...]
112 years ago, March 11 1912, Richmond Chief of Police James P. Arnold ordered all members of the Industrial Workers of the World, who had been agitating for free speech across the Bay Area, to leave town or be “jailed and [kept] in jail” In the early 1910s, the IWW …
March 10, 1916: 108 years ago, March 10 1916, anarchist Reb Raney distributed 5,000 pro- [...]
108 years ago, March 10 1916, anarchist Reb Raney distributed 5,000 pro-birth control pamphlets at a solidarity rally for Emma Goldman in San Francisco, kickstarting a local birth control campaign by Italian anarchists Gruppo Anarchico Volontá At the meeting, which about 300 attended, Raney distributed pro-birth control literature to the …
March 10, 1975: 49 years ago, March 10 1975, the Frente de Liberacion Chicano (Chicano [...]
49 years ago, March 10 1975, the Frente de Liberacion Chicano (Chicano Liberation Front) committed a series of bombings against the Safeway corporation in in San Francisco, San Jose, and Piedmont in retaliation for their “non-recognition of the United Farm Workers of America” Bombs exploded at a Safeway in San …
March 10, 1968: 56 years ago, March 9 1968, the Peace and Freedom Movement inaugurated the [...]
56 years ago, March 9 1968, the Peace and Freedom Movement inaugurated the “Freedom Festival Week” with a parade of ten thousand people marching from the Peace and Freedom Party HQ at 55 Colton St, weaving through the Haight, out to the Polo Grounds of Golden Gate Park The march …
Happy International Women’s Day! While there is some dispute about when [...]
Happy International Women’s Day! While there is some dispute about when “the first” IWD took place, the holiday was adopted and promoted by socialist movements around the world following the March 8, 1917 Women’s March for Bread & Peace in Russia The earliest IWD celebrations in the Bay Area were …