January 22, 1976: 47 years ago, Jan 22 1976, San Jose police murdered unarmed Chicano [...]
47 years ago, Jan 22 1976, San Jose police murdered unarmed Chicano 26-year-old Danny Trevino, whom they claimed had pointed a gun at them. Sustained community pressure eventually culminated in the removal of the police chief, but not in the prosecution of the killer cops
December 4, 1969: 53 years ago, Dec 4 1969, Students for a Democratic Society held a protest [...]
53 years ago, Dec 4 1969, Students for a Democratic Society held a protest against General Electric recruitment at Stanford University. When a right-wing student group began taking photos of the demonstrators, radical high school students beat them and stole their camera
December 4, 1932: 90 years ago, Dec 4 1932, brutal rioting broke out as hundreds of striking [...]
90 years ago, Dec 4 1932, brutal rioting broke out as hundreds of striking tree pruners organized by the Communist Party’s Cannery & Agricultural Workers’ Industrial Union marched to the Vacaville Library to hold a mass meeting about police brutality against strikers The next day, masked vigilantes stormed the jail …
December 3, 1964: 58 years ago, Dec 2 1964, after a demo in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza at [...]
58 years ago, Dec 2 1964, after a demo in UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza at which Mario Savio gave his famous “bodies upon the gears” speech, thousands of students occupied Sproul Hall (which they declared the “Free University of California”) to protest the expulsion of four students The 4 students …
Celebrate the 76th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike at a picket [...]
Celebrate the 76th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike at a picket line near you https://t.co/T3oFCefA20