All twenty seven men were charged with mutiny that day. After a long and arduous legal battle, they had their convictions overturned by a military appeals judge

One of the twenty seven, Richard Gentile, was thrown in the stockade for being just eight hours AWOL just two days before the event for violating a post-wide restriction and joining the GI & Vets March for Peace

On the morning of the Oct 14, twenty seven prisoners broke formation from their work details and walked to the lawn floating "V-signs," singing "This Land Is Your Land" "We Shall Overcome." One of the demonstrators, Walter Pawlowski stood up and shouted out a series of grievances

Tensions mounted on October 11 when Richard Bunch was killed by a guard after jogging away from a shotgun work detail. The murder was quickly declared a "justifiable homicide." Agitated prisoners confronted guards that evening and rumors spread that they would burn the stockade

Stuffed into dilapidated cellblocks, the prisoner population (mostly consisting of AWOLs) drastically rose in the summer of ‘68. Incessant abuse from guards, two hour bathroom waits, and frequent suicide attempts were a few of the grievances prisoners voiced

Two years later, Santa Cruz joined Berkeley as the second American city to officially recognize Indigenous People's Day. It would be another two decades before more cities and the federal government would follow

The holiday began with a sunrise ceremony on Alcatraz, after which the American Indian Movement disrupted a planned reenactment of Columbus's landing. Later, hundreds gathered on Sproul Plaza where Indigenous rap group With0ut Rezervation performed

Dozens of organizations affiliated with Resistance 500, from the liberal Green Party to the radical Prairie Fire Organizing Committee. While the campaign to recognize Indigenous People's Day was active across the Bay Area, only the government of Berkeley was receptive

Oakland soon established itself as the Occupy movement's militant edge, placing a much greater weight on anti-racist, anti-police, and anti-state politics than most other camps. Many participants had been active in the 2009 anti-police movement following the murder of Oscar Grant

Early in the afternoon, a group of Ohlone activists who had recently occupied Sogorea Te’, a sacred site in Vallejo, spoke: "This land isn't the city of Oakland's... it's not just Ohlone land anymore, it's all of our land, and we have the right to be here, to occupy this land”

In 2013, the club closed its doors. Lusty Lady dancers, sex workers, and supporters held a theatrical funeral procession, parading through North Beach to celebrate their decades of work and struggle

With vastly improved working conditions, one workers said she felt that she "had died and gone to hooker heaven." In 2003, the club was turned into worker owned cooperative, and became known as the “World’s Only Unionized Worker Owned Peep Show Co-Op”

You can see footage from the funeral here:

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The Weather Underground coordinated bombings on three California Department of Corrections facilities on the day of Jackson's funeral, doing about $100,000 in damage in Sacramento, San Mateo, and San Francisco. In a communique, they quoted Jackson's call for "war without terms"

At the funeral, statements from organizers and incarcerated people from across the country were read by Bobby Seale, who remarked: "Love for the people is the love that is often paid for with life itself. Every soldier for the people knows this is what revolution is all about"

Jackson founded the San Quentin Branch while serving an indeterminate 1-year-to-life sentence for stealing $70 in 1961, during which he published his highly influential bestseller Soledad Brother, a foundational text in the prison abolition movement