Walk – Oakland General Strike – by Gifford Hartman

Meet at: The fountain in Latham Square, at the intersection where Telegraph and Broadway converge, across from Rotunda Building (Oakland City Center/12th St. BART)

Walk with Gifford Hartman
This year is the 80th anniversary of the Oakland General Strike.
This walk will revisit the sites of Oakland’s “Work Holiday” 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.