1968: The strike at San Francisco State
WEBDec 28, 2018 · Fifty years ago, students at San Francisco State embarked on a campus strike that lasted five months – the longest student strike in U.S. history. Led by the Black Student Union and Third World Liberation Front, the strike was a high point of student struggle in the revolutionary year of 1968. It was met by ferocious repression, but the strikers persevered and won the first College of Ethnic ...
San Francisco Bay View
WEBExciting, thought-provoking stories and commentary on the full range of Black trials and triumphs – covering the Black economy, politics, arts, education, history, current events, health, religion – and those of other communities, along with stunning color photography, fill the website and the pages of each paper, a paper so popular that it disappears within hours of hitting the stands.
Roads and Reparations: How highway construction hardened …
WEBJan 26, 2022 · The Federal-Aid Highway Act created 41,000 miles of highways that replaced unsafe roads and poorly designed routes and eradicated traffic congestions and other obstacles that impeded safe travel across the country. Archer said that the U.S. Transportation Department estimates that, between 1957 and 1977, nearly 480,000 households across the ...
BOS President Shamann Walton leads Reparations plan for Black …
WEBMay 5, 2021. Our District 10 Sup. Shamann Walton, president of San Francisco’s Board of Supervisors, expects to make his mark in history with the first comprehensive reparations plan in a major US city. He had introduced the legislation to create a reparations advisory board in October. Here, he speaks passionately at a Juneteenth 2020 rally ...
The national ban on Newport, Kool and other menthol ‘squares’ …
WEBMay 21, 2021 · On Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced new rules intended to ban mentholated tobacco products like Kool, Newport, Salem and other cigarette brands in a few years. But just five years ago some supporters of the FDA’s decision said any ban on menthol cigarettes seemed like an impossible feat – …
The Black Guerrilla Family is not a prison gang but an educational ...
WEBSep 1, 2020 · The Black Guerilla Family was organized as an educational organization by its founder, George Jackson, a former Black Panther. Mr. Jackson was a brilliant educator and writer who encouraged Black men and women to take pride in themselves as African Americans and to fight oppression on all fronts. He was a mentor to many.
It’s true: As San Francisco mayor, Dianne Feinstein did repeatedly …
WEBApr 2, 2019 · Feinstein was furious. At Bradley’s trial, the vice-mayor testified that Feinstein had personally ordered the Fort Sumter flag taken down the next day and delivered to the mayor’s office, only to be shredded and thrown away (WV No. 357, 22 June 1984).After Bradley’s trial ended on June 4 with the jury deadlocked eight to four for acquittal, the DA moved to dismiss all the charges.
One year after the recall, former SF School Board Pres. Gabriela …
WEBJan 20, 2023 · It was a group of privileged constituents led by outsiders who didn’t see that as a priority which ultimately resulted in the recall. All of it to take control of yet another commission, another board, that would be fully run by the mayor.
Former Treasure Island residents report radiation and chemical ...
WEBThese crushing personal accounts of lives living, lived and lost on Treasure Island, are a clear indictment against the white supremacist, racist, capitalist, profits-over-people developers, the U.S. Navy and government entities, which intentionally continue to withhold information and refute any danger and harm to residents suffering and dying from extreme toxic conditions of their harmful ...
Hugo Pinell was assassinated under color of law - San Francisco …
WEBAug 17, 2015 · Hugo Pinell was assassinated at New Folsom State Prison. Like Comrade George, Hugo has been in the crosshairs of the system for years. His assassination exemplifies how racists working in conjunction with prison authorities commit murderous acts like this. We saw it on the yard at Soledad in 1970 and we see it again on the yard at Folsom in 2015.
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