On August 24 1970 the first issue of the biweekly, bilingual community [...]
On August 24 1970 the first issue of the biweekly, bilingual community newspaper El Tecolote was published and distributed throughout the Mission. The paper emerged from a collective senior project in Prof. Juan Gonzales’s La Raza studies course at San Francisco State University After a year of operation, the paper …
In 1896, 105 years ago, the Oakland Times published a Letter to the Editor [...]
In 1896, 105 years ago, the Oakland Times published a Letter to the Editor written by Jack London where he urged readers and John McLees, who’s article he was responding to, to study socialism and “Read Carl Marx’s Capital” The August 24 letter was responding to and critiquing another piece …
June 25, 2013: 8 years ago, Jun 24 2013, Oakland and Alameda County agreed to pay a [...]
8 years ago, Jun 24 2013, Oakland and Alameda County agreed to pay a $1,000,000 settlement to demonstrators and legal observers who had been arrested in 2010 while protesting the 2-year sentence given to BART police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant
May 25, 1969: 52 years ago, May 25 1969, activists who had been forced out of People's [...]
52 years ago, May 25 1969, activists who had been forced out of People’s Park founded a second “liberated zone” in Berkeley. Despite numerous city attempts to demolish the space, Insurrection City (also known as “People’s Park Mobile Annex”) is now the site of Ohlone Dog Park Insurrection City was …
May 18, 1964: 57 years ago, May 17 1964, 5000 people gathered in San Francisco's Golden [...]
57 years ago, May 17 1964, 5000 people gathered in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park to protest a proposed freeway which would have cut through the park’s panhandle. Later that year, the Golden Gate Freeway was successfully defeated The event featured a speech by Kenneth Rexroth and music by Malvina …