May 15, 1967: 54 years ago, May 15 1967, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense first [...]
54 years ago, May 15 1967, the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense first publicized their Ten-Point Program in the second issue of The Black Panther under the heading “What We Want Now! What We Believe.” The program was published in every consecutive issue of the paper The Ten-Point Program was …
Happy International Workers' Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in [...]
Happy International Workers’ Day! In the Bay Area, the first May Day in 1890 was celebrated with a picnic in Emeryville’s Shellmound Park, organized by the carpenters’ and joiners’ unions. These unions, who were already powerful locally, demanded (and promptly won) an 8-hour day In the following decades, May Day …
Happy Earth Day! The first Earth Day was 51 years ago, Apr 22 1970. A [...]
Happy Earth Day! The first Earth Day was 51 years ago, Apr 22 1970. A group calling itself Environmental Vigilantes celebrated by dumping crankcase oil in the reflecting pool in front of Standard Oil’s San Francisco offices, in protest of a recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico For …
April 16, 1969: 52 years ago, 19-year-old Maoist Chris Milton refused induction into the [...]
52 years ago, 19-year-old Maoist Chris Milton refused induction into the Army at the Oakland Induction Center. The “Chris Milton Offense Committee” held a support rally, which was also the first public appearance of the new Bay Area Revolutionary Union, of which he was a member Milton’s father David was …
April 5, 1968: 53 years ago, Apr 5 1968, 6000 people gathered in San Francisco's Civic [...]
53 years ago, Apr 5 1968, 6000 people gathered in San Francisco’s Civic Center to mourn Martin Luther King, Jr, who had been murdered the previous day. Following the memorial, 1750 police were deployed downtown as “young Negroes swarm[ed]” Market St, smashing windows and looting Majority-Black high schools were closed …