March 8, 1969: 55 years ago, March 7 1969, the Red Dragon Party announced its formation [...]
55 years ago, March 7 1969, the Red Dragon Party announced its formation in the Berkeley Barb newspaper. The Red Dragons, who soon changed their name to the Red Guard, were a group of young working class Chinese-American revolutionaries from San Francisco’s Chinatown The Party was formed out of a …
March 7, 1964: 60 years ago, March 7 1964, the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination won [...]
60 years ago, March 7 1964, the Ad Hoc Committee to End Discrimination won a major victory against the SF Hotel Employers Association. After a 20-hour sit-in at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel, which saw 167 demonstrators jailed, the Association agreed to hire non-white workers The Ad Hocs were formed by members …
March 7, 1968: 56 years ago, March 6 1968, Buddy Clark and Richard Kunst, of antiwar [...]
56 years ago, March 6 1968, Buddy Clark and Richard Kunst, of antiwar group The Resistance, refused induction at the military’s Oakland Induction Center. After passing out his statement, Clark was beaten by 4 inductees in the toilet of the bus from Santa Rosa to Oakland In Oakland, Clark and …
March 6, 1952: 72 years ago, Mar 6 1952, a group of volunteers organized by the Communist [...]
72 years ago, Mar 6 1952, a group of volunteers organized by the Communist Party’s East Bay Civil Rights Congress confronted a racist mob in Rollingwood, Contra Costa County, which was attempting to drive a Black family called the Garys out of the otherwise all-white neighborhood Wilbur Gary, Vice-Commander of …
Coincidentally, the bombing of the San Francisco W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs [...]
Coincidentally, the bombing of the San Francisco W.E.B. Du Bois Clubs occurred 18 years to the day after the California Labor School, a Communist Party-led institution, held an honorary banquet for Du Bois in San Francisco, at which he gave a lecture https://t.co/Er7QngYvbE In this interview transcript, communist union leader …