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Oakland General Strike Walk
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Saturday, July 29, 2023 at 12:00 noon
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Meet at the fountain at Latham Square (where Telegraph & Broadway converge (https://goo.gl/maps/ZawGj2yRp8z15cHn7)
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Walk with Gifford Hartman
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This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday,” the General Strike 77 years ago, that spontaneously began with rank-and-file solidarity with the striking, mostly women retail clerks at Kahn’s and Hastings department stores, where picket lines were broken by police-escorted scabs. Within 24 hours, it involved over 100,000 workers and shut down nearly all commerce in the East Bay for 3 1/2 days.
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In 1946, there were six general strikes across the U.S.; that year set the all-time record year for strikes and work stoppages. The Oakland “Work Holiday” was the last citywide general strike to ever occur in the U.S. This history talk will attempt to keep alive the memory of this tradition of community-wide working-class solidarity. -
Meet at the fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from the Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART)
Link to Oakland General Strike Archive https://www.flyingpicket.org/archives/