After Year of Mobilization on Both Sides of the Bars, California Prisons End ‘Gladiator Fights’ Program
Statement from Oakland Incarcerated Workers Organizing Committee (IWOC) and family members of California prisoners on recent news announcing the end of the bloody “Gladiator Fight” program, known as “Incremental Release.”
Smashed Up: Young service workers on the sanctity of small business
A 2015 article from service workers in Oakland, discussing riots and the myths around small businesses.
Between rhetoric and reality: Evaluating the Oakland teachers’ strike
Contribution from Advance the Struggle
A report by Advance the Struggle on the movement in Oakland's school system following the Ferguson Uprising, from Viewpoint Magazine's "Strategy After Ferguson" collection.
Interview with Qilombo
Interview with Qilombo, from Viewpoint Magazine's "Strategy After Ferguson" feature.
Oakland's City Union backburners precarious workers at their own peril
Young Patriots at the United Front Against Fascism Conference, 1969
Political repression beyond the baton
Bay Area bigly tells Trump: Get your small hands off my pussy
With the inauguration of Donald Trump as president of the United States, protests occurred in at least 370 cities around the world. The following is a subjective account of the Women's Marches that filled the streets of Oakland and San Francisco, California with hundreds of thousands on January 21, 2017.
Black Panthers at 50: Reflections on their legacy
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, founded in Oakland, California. I went to the Oakland Museum of California to see the exhibit "All Power to the People: Black Panthers at 50" and it got me to reflect on how the Panthers and other movements of that era affected many radical projects that continued in their legacy.
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