Stan Weir interviewed by Pat McCauly on December 5, 1990 at Cal State University Long Beach (excerpt)
First-Hand Audio Accounts
“The Oakland General Strike of 1946,” produced by the New American Movement and the Oakland Study Group. KPFA broadcast Nov. 29, 1976Al Kidder, Kahn’s employee, interview excerpt (from above KPFA radio show)
First-hand Video Accounts
Evelyn Schaaf, 60th Anniversary of General Strike on July 22, 2006 at Oakland YWCA PART 1
Chris Rhomberg on the forgotten history of Oakland: the rise of the Klan in the 1920s, the Oakland general strike of 1946, and the explosion of the Black Panthers in the 1960s. KPFA broadcast December 19, 2005
Gifford Hartman, Cynthia Kaufman, and Eddie Yuen speak about the 1946 Oakland general strike, the Occupy Wall St movement, and Occupy Oakland’s general strike. KPFA broadcast October 31, 2011
KALW’s Holly Kernan interviews Gifford Hartman on 1946 Oakland General Strike #OccupyBayArea
Interviews with Erik Loomis, working class historian Gifford Hartman, and archival recordings of workers who participated in the 1946 uprising, explore why Oakland was the site of “America’s last great general strike” – and the connections between this 74-year-old conflict and the struggles of today’s “gig economy” workers.
It’s the 90th anniversary of the San Francisco General Strike, so we’ll walk along remnants of the working waterfront & also discuss May 4th being the anniversary of the 1970 Kent State Massacre, Tom Mooney's frame-up in 1916 & other Bay Area anti-war protests, the Italian anarchists in North Beach, the 1969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz, Occupy SF in 2011, the hideous (and long gone) Embarcadero Freeway that sparked the citywide anti-Freeway Revolt, the battle over the I-Hotel in Manilatown and the fight against gentrification, and many other social movements that define the Bay Area.