October 14, 1968: 53 years ago, Oct 14 1968, 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San [...]
53 years ago, Oct 14 1968, 27 prisoners at the Presidio stockade in San Francisco took part in a sit-down demonstration to voice their grievances about the horrific conditions at the military prison. The Presidio mutiny resulted in one the longest courts-martial in U.S. history Stuffed into dilapidated cellblocks, the …
October 13, 1968: 53 years ago, Oct 12 1968, the GI's & Vets March for Peace brought [...]
53 years ago, Oct 12 1968, the GI’s & Vets March for Peace brought over 15,000 people, including nearly 500 active duty GI’s, into the streets of San Francisco to march from the Panhandle to Civic Center where a massive rally was held 200 active GI’s led the march, followed …
October 13, 1992: 29 years ago, Oct 12 1992, the country's first officially-recognized [...]
29 years ago, Oct 12 1992, the country’s first officially-recognized Indigenous People’s Day was celebrated in Berkeley. The holiday was planned by Resistance 500, a Native-led group that formed to protest upcoming celebrations of the 500th anniversary of Columbus’s landing Dozens of organizations affiliated with Resistance 500, from the liberal …
October 2, 1964: 57 years ago, Oct 1 1964, 3000 UC Berkeley students swarmed a police car [...]
57 years ago, Oct 1 1964, 3000 UC Berkeley students swarmed a police car that was attempting to arrest Campus CORE leader Jack Weinberg, making speeches and preventing the vehicle from moving for 32 hours. The incident dramatically escalated the nascent Free Speech Movement Weinberg, a recent graduate, was arrested …
October 1, 1978: 43 years ago, Oct. 1 1978, over 200 residents of the 428-unit Ping Yuen [...]
43 years ago, Oct. 1 1978, over 200 residents of the 428-unit Ping Yuen public housing complex in San Francisco’s Chinatown began a months long rent strike over dilapidated housing conditions and the horrific murder of a young resident and sweatshop seamstress, Julia Wong Tenants of the complex founded the …