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January 2, 2014: 10 years ago, January 1 2014, hundreds marched and rallied in the Mission [...]

10 years ago, January 1 2014, hundreds marched and rallied in the Mission against gentrification and policing in the neighborhood after business owners launched an anti-homeless “Clean Up the Plaza” campaign. Flyers circulated on the street read “Cops & Condos Go Hand in Hand”

January 1, 2009: 15 years ago, January 1 2009, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle [...]

15 years ago, January 1 2009, BART police officer Johannes Mehserle murdered Oscar Grant III at Oakland’s Fruitvale Station. Outrage over the killing and Mehserle’s lenient sentence sparked the 2009 anti-police terror movement, a precursor to the Black Lives Matter movement After celebrating New Year’s Eve in San Francisco, Grant …

A revolutionary New Year’s message from Timothy Leary published in the [...]

A revolutionary New Year’s message from Timothy Leary published in the Berkeley Barb, January 1971, during his exile in Algieria with Eldridge Cleaver following his Weather Underground-assisted prison break (note: this post not to be read as an LITB endorsement of Timothy Leary) We are leaving misspellings of “Algeria” in …

26th annual convention of the Iranian Students Association at the Oakland [...]

26th annual convention of the Iranian Students Association at the Oakland Civic Auditorium, 1978