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Histories of people's struggles in the San Francisco Bay Area | email: [email protected]
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54 years ago, February 8 1971, a bomb exploded at an abandoned Hunters Point house after San Francisco police were lured there with false reports. The Black Panther Party enthused about the attack in its paper; a member of the Black Liberation Army later claimed responsibility
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201 years ago, February 6 1824, Lupugeyun was executed in Monterey after being captured near San Rafael. Better known as Pomponio, the Coast Miwok rebel had led his band on raids of mission settlements across the Bay Area for over five years, destroying various colonial outputs
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For years they fought for justice for De Baca and others. Though they created a vibrant organization and won various demands, Gibbons was ultimately acquitted and never faced justice
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The NWLF issued a communique after the bombing taking credit for the action and demanding better meals and medical treatment for hospitalized prisoners, similar to the demands made after the bombing of Diane Feinstein’s house a couple months prior
48 years ago, December 14 1976, the New World Liberation Front tried to bomb Diane Feinstein’s home in San Francisco. A pocket watch detonator fell from a ledge and the bomb didn’t go off. A communique from the NWLF demanded money for medical treatments for hospitalized prisoners
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RT @erikmbaker: Devastating, infuriating, incomprehensible. Manufacturing Consent is the single biggest influence on my book, bar none. It…
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A huge loss
OMG recent news suggests the great sociologist Michael Burawoy has been fatally hit by a car.
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51 years ago, February 4 1974, newspaper heiress Patty Hearst was kidnapped from her Berkeley apartment by the Symbionese Liberation Army, an eccentric murderous urban revolutionary group founded by former LAPD informant Cinque Mtume. Hearst later claimed the SLA brainwashed her
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Despite a student strike, multiple sit-ins, sabotage, and confrontations with police, the BSU was ultimately unsuccessful in preventing the move to the hills. The new campus, which still operates, was dedicated in October
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The decision to move Merritt from North Oakland to the Oakland Hills had been made in 1960. In the following decade, the school became a hub of militant anti-racist student organizing, leading to the creation of the country's first Black Studies courses
58 years ago, October 15 1966, Huey Newton & Bobby Seale, radical students at Oakland's Merritt College formed the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense. Inspired by SNCC's Lowndes County Freedom Organization, the BPP would have an enormous impact on global revolutionary politics
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