Merry Xmas to you and yours! (Western Worker, San Francisco. Jan 1 1932) [...]
Merry Xmas to you and yours! (Western Worker, San Francisco. Jan 1 1932) The actions, promoted on the Bay of Rage website, were planned in response to massive budget cuts announced earlier that year by then-mayor Jean Quan which mainly targeted social services, including the proposal to close 14 public …
Xmas day headline in The Black Panther, 1971
Xmas day headline in The Black Panther, 1971
December 19, 1933: 90 years ago, Dec 19 1933, the Communist Party held at a protest at the [...]
90 years ago, Dec 19 1933, the Communist Party held at a protest at the German Consulate in San Francisco, demanding the Nazi government free the communists it had charged with burning the Reichstag. 3 party members were arrested for painting red hammer & sickles on the consulate One of …
December 17, 1966: 57 years ago, Dec 17 1966, San Francisco anarchist street theater and [...]
57 years ago, Dec 17 1966, San Francisco anarchist street theater and community group the Diggers held a parade on Haight St announcing “the Death of Money.” After the police arrested two participants, hundreds of marchers stormed the SFPD’s Park Station, demanding their release Emmett Grogan and Billy Murcott, radical …
December 16, 1938: 85 years ago, Dec 16 1938, thousands of mostly Chinese demonstrators [...]
85 years ago, Dec 16 1938, thousands of mostly Chinese demonstrators marched to the San Francisco waterfront to picket the loading of scrap iron onto a Greek freighter bound for Japan. Longshoremen with ILWU Local 10 refused to cross the picket and ceased work for several days The pickets were …