Category: Civil Disobedience
The History of San Diego’s Brown Berets
By John Yarkoni / Exclusive to OB Rag
Some of you may have heard that name before, The Brown Berets. You might’ve heard about the 1970 Moratorium that happened up in LA, or the March Through Aztlán that happened the year after. Or maybe, you’ve heard stories of riots and cop killers.
If that’s your perspective, then you haven’t heard the whole story. The history of the Brown Berets, especially the often overlooked San Diego Berets, is less one of blood in the streets and more one of grassroots community organization.
Student Movements and Solidarity With Gaza: A Vision for Equal Rights for Palestinians and Jews
The following was a talk given at a May 4, 2024 march in solidarity with Palestine in Olympia, Washington, and updated May 14.
By Peter Bohmer
Student movements have played a major role in radical history and revolutionary struggles. For example, France in May 1968 began with a student strike and then spread to worker occupation of many factories. They didn’t win their demands although they gained substantial increases in student rights and wages.
On May 4, 1970, 54 years ago from the day of this demonstration, four students were killed at Kent State University for protesting the US invasion of Cambodia by the Ohio National Guard.
UC San Diego Faculty and Graduate Student Statements on Resignation of Chancellor and Condemnations of Police Action
Here are two statements made this week by UCSD faculty and graduate students in response to the use of law enforcement to make arrests and break down a tent encampment in solidarity with the people of Gaza. The faculty call for Chancellor Pradeep Khosla’s immediate resignation.
UCSD Faculty Call for Chancellor’s Resignation
Faculty of the Ethnic Studies department at UC San Diego are outraged at the vicious suppression of students by our administration under the leadership of Chancellor Pradeep Khosla. This morning, May 6, 2024, Chancellor Khosla called on the UCPD, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department, and California Highway Patrol in military riot gear to raid an encampment of peaceful demonstrators exercising their free speech
Push Back Grows Against UC San Diego for Violent Crackdown, Calls Mount for Chancellor’s Resignation
The push back is growing against the UC San Diego administration’s violent crackdown on the peaceful Palestine solidarity encampment on Monday, May 6.
65 people were arrested when UC police, Highway Patrol and County Deputies confronted students and supporters and tore down the tents, placing dozens in zipties.
Also, there are mounting calls for UCSD Chancellor Pradeep Khosla to resign for his role in bringing in law enforcement
It’s Always the ‘Outside Agitator’ Who’s to Blame
By Frank Gormlie
In my book, The May 1970 Rebellion – about the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement, I discuss “outside agitators.” Here’s an excerpt:
From college administrators, mayors, local politicians and governors to the President of the United States, the real instigators of all the violence and turmoil were the outside agitators, the Weathermen, professional instigators and rioters.
For example, Kentucky Governor Louie Nunn blamed “outside agitators” and “professionals” for the disturbances at the University of Kentucky. At Ohio University Athens and at the University of Minnesota in Duluth, outside agitators were blamed for the violence.
UPDATED: Gaza Solidarity Encampment at UCSD Cleared Out — Dozens Arrested
Law enforcement has cleared out the “Gaza Solidarity” encampment at UC San Diego. Dozens of protesters were detained or arrested, according to media reports.
Authorities declared the encampment an unlawful assembly at about 5:45 a.m. and ordered the protesters to leave.
The university announced that there was police activity from North Torrey Pines Road to Interstate 5. Non-essential employees were advised to move to remote operations, while essential employees were directed to report to work as usual, according to UCSD.
Mass Arrests, Building Take-Overs, Clashes and Claims of ‘Outside Agitators’ Echo Height of Anti-Vietnam War Movement
1300 Arrests and Calls for National Guard to Deal with Palestinian Protests Echo May 1970 Rebellion and Kent State Murders
Whether I submit to it or not, because I’ve just finished writing a book about the height of the anti-Vietnam war movement over 50 years ago, I am now an expert on the era that brought us the Kent State massacre and the first national student strike of May of 1970.
The reports of up to 1300 arrests nation-wide of pro-Palestinian protesters, up to 2 dozen college campuses undergoing protests, numerous building take-overs and encampments, clashes between police and students, threats to bring in the National Guard and now claims of “outside agitators” — all echo what happened during the high-water mark of the decade long movement against the US wars in Southeast Asia.
San Diego Vigil to Honor American Serviceman Who Took His Own Life in Protest of War in Gaza — Tuesday, Feb.27 — Background on Aaron Bushnell
New Yorker MagazineOn Sunday afternoon [Feb. 25] outside the Israeli Embassy in Washington, D.C., 25-year-old Air Force service member Aaron Bushnell placed his phone on the ground to set up a livestream.
He then stood before the embassy gates and lit himself on fire while shouting “Free Palestine” in a horrific protest against the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza.
Below is everything we know about Bushnell, who died from his wounds on Sunday night.
The Passing of Daniel Ellsberg — The Man Who Exposed the Lies About the Vietnam War
Disillusioned by the Vietnam War, he leaked a top-secret history of the conflict, leading to a landmark Supreme Court case
By Harrison Smith and Patricia Sullivan / Washington Post – Reader Supported News / June 19, 2023
Daniel Ellsberg, who leaked the voluminous, top-secret history of the Vietnam War known as the Pentagon Papers, a disclosure that led to a landmark Supreme Court ruling on press freedoms and enraged the Nixon administration,
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