June 3, 1957: 67 years ago, June 3 1957, San Francisco police arrested City Lights [...]
67 years ago, June 3 1957, San Francisco police arrested City Lights Bookstore manager Shigeyoshi “Shig” Murao for selling Allen Ginsberg’s “Howl” and a Berkeley beat journal called “The Miscellaneous Man,” which the Juvenile Bureau had deemed “unfit for children to read” Police also issued an arrest warrant for City …
June 2, 1974: 50 years ago, June 2 1974, 350 Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh [...]
50 years ago, June 2 1974, 350 Berkeley radicals rallied in Ho Chi Minh Park (Willard Park) to honor the slain members of the Symbionese Liberation Army who died that May during a police siege of their Los Angeles hideout. Connections made at the rally helped the SLA to regroup …
June 2, 1969: 55 years ago, June 1 1969, San Jose police attacked Mexican-American [...]
55 years ago, June 1 1969, San Jose police attacked Mexican-American demonstrators protesting the city’s “Fiesta de las Rosas,” a revived early 20th century festival that celebrated the period of Spanish rule in California. Thirty were arrested and eight were injured
June 1, 1906: Kōtoku Shūsui founds the Social Revolutionary Party in Berkeley
June 1 1906, Kōtoku Shūsui co-founded the Shakai Kakumeito (Social Revolutionary Party) in Berkeley. The party included over 50 other Japanese radicals and printed a bilingual paper, Kakumei (Revolution), promoting the IWW and the overthrow of the Japanese emperor. Kōtoku, a prominent socialist in Japan, came to California after a …
May 31, 1971: 53 years ago, May 31 1971, 50 people organized by the Intercommunal [...]
53 years ago, May 31 1971, 50 people organized by the Intercommunal Survival Committee to Combat Fascism (an official white auxiliary organization of the Black Panther Party) cleared a vacant lot in Berkeley to build a park. It remains to this day as Berkeley Way Mini-Park The ISCFF was one …