February 22, 1967: 56 years ago, Feb 21 1967, Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her [...]
56 years ago, Feb 21 1967, Betty Shabazz arrived in San Francisco for her first public speech since the murder of her husband Malcolm X. She was escorted by an armed phalanx of 14 men from two different new organizations, both called the Black Panther Party Shabazz had been invited …
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January 28, 2012: 11 years ago, Jan 28 2012, Occupy Oakland battled police as the movement [...]
11 years ago, Jan 28 2012, Occupy Oakland battled police as the movement attempted to take over the vacant Henry J. Kaiser Convention Center to set up a social center. Hundreds were arrested as police kettled demonstrators; some burned a flag they stole from City Hall in protest
January 26, 1917: 106 years ago, Jan 25 1917, a delegation of 300 San Francisco sex workers [...]
106 years ago, Jan 25 1917, a delegation of 300 San Francisco sex workers confronted anti-prostitution crusader Rev. Paul Smith at his Tenderloin church. Explaining that they had turned to sex work due to low wages, one woman asked Smith: “Why don’t you attack those conditions?”
January 25, 1972: 51 years ago, Jan 24 1972, hundreds of students at Stanford University [...]
51 years ago, Jan 24 1972, hundreds of students at Stanford University occupied the Old Union and took over the Faculty Club, where they held a “people’s banquet” with stolen food in solidarity with recently fired English professor H. Bruce Franklin of the Maoist group Venceremos Franklin, an open and …