Big thanks to @blackhawk_exile for this piece of 1970s Bay Area [...]
Big thanks to @blackhawk_exile for this piece of 1970s Bay Area situationist ephemera !!
May 11, 1968: 55 years ago, May 11 1968, Black housewives organized by the Blacks For [...]
55 years ago, May 11 1968, Black housewives organized by the Blacks For Justice Committee led a boycott of Oakland’s Housewives Market. They hoped to force the Retail Downtown Merchants Association to pressure the Oakland Police to indict the officers who killed Bobby Hutton The boycott was organized after downtown …
Happy International Workers' Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in [...]
Happy International Workers’ Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in 1890 was celebrated with a picnic in Emeryville’s Shellmound Park, organized by the carpenters’ and joiners’ unions. These unions, who were already powerful locally, demanded (and promptly won) an 8-hour day In the following decades, May Day …
April 29, 1971: 52 years ago, April 28 1971, about 450 prisoners at Santa Rita [...]
52 years ago, April 28 1971, about 450 prisoners at Santa Rita Rehabilitation Center in Pleasanton went on strike in response to authorities attempting to stoke racial tensions. Inmates refused both work and food for one day, and presented a list of demands for better conditions
April 28, 1969: 54 years ago, April 28 1969, a large Free Huey rally was held in San [...]
54 years ago, April 28 1969, a large Free Huey rally was held in San Francisco’s Fillmore ahead of Huey Newton’s bail hearing. 160 cops instigated a riot, attacking the crowd and filling the streets with tear gas after raiding the Black Panther Party office, arresting 16 Panthers