November 29, 1968: 54 years ago, Nov 28 1968, members of San Francisco State's [...]
54 years ago, Nov 28 1968, members of San Francisco State’s Intercollegiate Chinese for Social Action founded the Free University for Chinatown Kids, Unincorporated (FUCK U), which taught free classes on Asian-American history and struggle to working-class youth in Chinatown FUCK U was founded in the early days of the …
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November 10, 2011: 11 years ago, Nov 9 2011, police twice violently raided Occupy Cal's [...]
11 years ago, Nov 9 2011, police twice violently raided Occupy Cal’s encampment at UC Berkeley, making 39 arrests. Students had established the camp earlier that day to demand free public education, announcing: “We disagree with the idea that this… land [is] property of the UC”
November 5, 2010: 12 years ago, Nov 5 2010, protests broke out over the lenient sentence [...]
12 years ago, Nov 5 2010, protests broke out over the lenient sentence given to BART police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant III. Mehserle was given the minimum recommended sentence of only two years minus time served. He was released less than a year later Oscar …
November 4, 1999: 23 years ago, Oakland City Council named a small, previously unnamed [...]
23 years ago, Oakland City Council named a small, previously unnamed street in Old Oakland after Irish republican leader Gerry Adams. The Ireland-born Oakland resident who requested the name change argued that “West Oakland has a lot in common with West Belfast”