January 16, 1991: 33 years ago, Jan 16 1991, about 10,000 people took to the streets in San [...]
33 years ago, Jan 16 1991, about 10,000 people took to the streets in San Francisco to protest Operation Desert Storm, which began that day. Demonstrators burned a California Highway Patrol car and, in one of the earliest uses of the tactic, blockaded both sides of the Bay Bridge
January 16, 2015: 9 years ago, Jan 16 2015, Black Lives Matter activists from dozens of [...]
9 years ago, Jan 16 2015, Black Lives Matter activists from dozens of groups kicked off “96 Hours of Action to Reclaim King’s Legacy,” 4 days of actions across the Bay Area called by the Anti-Police Terrorism Project. In Oakland, activists blocked the Federal Building for 4 hours That same …
January 15, 1916: 108 years ago, January 15 1916, Alexander Berkman published the first [...]
108 years ago, January 15 1916, Alexander Berkman published the first issue of San Francisco anarchist magazine The Blast! A highly influential organ of the revolutionary left, the magazine was shut down by the state in 1917 for advocating resistance to the draft
January 14, 1968: 56 years ago, Jan 14 1968, Martin Luther King Jr spoke against the Vietnam [...]
56 years ago, Jan 14 1968, Martin Luther King Jr spoke against the Vietnam War outside Santa Rita Prison Farm in Pleasanton, where he had been visiting anti-draft demonstrators (including Joan Baez) who had been arrested in Oakland in December. He was murdered seven weeks later You can listen to …
January 11, 1971: 53 years ago, January 11 1971, 150 anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by [...]
53 years ago, January 11 1971, 150 anti-war hecklers shut down a speech by former Ambassador to South Vietnam Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. at Stanford University. The University used the incident as a pretext to suspend professor Bruce Franklin, a leader of the Maoist group Venceremos Students shouted “fascist pig,” …