January 28, 1906: West Coast's first Socialist Sunday School Opens in Oakland
January 28 1906, the Socialist Party of America’s Oakland branch opened the West Coast’s first Socialist Sunday School. The school taught reading, music, gymnastics, and “red flag drills” to over 100 children, in an effort to “eliminate fear, superstition, and false education.”
for Martin Luther King Jr Day: King's last major Bay Area speech, on the [...]
for Martin Luther King Jr Day: King’s last major Bay Area speech, on the Vietnam War and the opening of a “new phase of the civil rights revolution.” King opens the speech by urging Berkeley civil rights and anti-war activists to “keep up the good work” https://t.co/2njAC0hdBP
January 9, 1971: 51 years ago, Jan 9 1971, the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free [...]
51 years ago, Jan 9 1971, the Chicano Revolutionary Party held a Free Breakfast Program Benefit featuring the Black Panther Party band, The Lumpen, at the Erwin & Taylor Memorial Hall in East Oakland. The benefit funded several jointly run BPP and CRP free breakfast programs The Chicano Revolutionary Party …
January 4, 1970: 52 years ago, Jan 4 1969, 60,000 workers organized by the Oil, Chemical [...]
52 years ago, Jan 4 1969, 60,000 workers organized by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union (OCAW) went on strike, including 3700 Bay Area workers at oil refineries in Richmond, Martinez, Avon, and Oleum, a chemical plant in Pittsburg, and Shell facilities in Emeryville Local authorities cracked down hard …
January 2, 1932: 90 years ago, January 1 1932, the west coast organ of the Communist Party [...]
90 years ago, January 1 1932, the west coast organ of the Communist Party USA, Western Worker, was first published in San Francisco In 1937, Western Worker merged with the west coast operations of the Daily Worker to form the People’s Daily World. People’s World published daily through 1957, when …