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Black Student Union & Third World Liberation Front strike at San Francisco State College. The student and faculty strike started on November 6, 1968 and lasted until March 21, 1969, making it the longest strike by students at an academic institution in the United States. [8][9] The strikes arose to protest the perpetual Eurocentric lens on ...
S. I. Hayakawa. Samuel Ichiye Hayakawa (July 18, 1906 – February 27, 1992) was a Canadian-born American academic and politician of Japanese ancestry. A professor of English, he served as president of San Francisco State University and then as U.S. Senator from California from 1977 to 1983. [1][2]
They also organized in solidarity with the San Francisco State College TWLF strike. On January 22, 1969, the Afro-American Studies Union, the Mexican-American Student Confederation (MASC), the Native American Student Alliance (NASA), and the Asian American Political Alliance (AAPA) coalesced to form the Third World Liberation Front at UC Berkeley.
Bridges asked the San Francisco Labor Council to meet that Saturday, July 7, to authorize a general strike. [46] The Alameda County Central Labor Council in Oakland considered the same action. Teamsters in both San Francisco and Oakland voted to strike, over the objections of their leaders, on Sunday, July 8. [47]
San Francisco State: On Strike a.k.a. San Francisco State Sit In came out in 1969 and was Newsreel's 26th film. It was a 25-minute documentary about the San Francisco State strike of 1968-69, which lasted over five months and became the longest strike by students at an academic institution in the U.S. The central student demands were for more ...
Not to be confused with the University of San Francisco or the University of California, San Francisco. San Francisco State University (San Francisco State, SF State and SFSU) is a public research university in San Francisco. It was established in 1899 as the San Francisco State Normal School and is part of the California State University system.
The San Francisco and Alameda County Central Labor Councils voted to call a general strike in support of the longshoremen, shutting down much of San Francisco and the Bay Area for four days, ending with the union's agreement to arbitrate the remaining issues in dispute. The union won most of its demands in that arbitration proceeding.
More than 1, 800 unionized hotel workers represented by UNITE HERE Local 5 went on an open-ended strike today at 5 a.m. at the Hilton Hawaiian Village Waikiki Beach Resort, the state’s largest ...