AIM LOngest Walk Begins February 11, 1978

https://vimeo.com/71469948

Past Wars and Where Do We Go From Here

https://www.vermontcam.org/show/guest-ron-jacobs

August 15, 1975 Joanne Little Acquitted

On August 27, 1974, Joan (Jo-Ann) Little sat in the Beaufort County Jail in Washington, North Carolina. The petite, twenty-two year old black woman had been incarcerated for two months while she awaited her court date on a breaking and entering charge. That night, sixty-two year old white jailer Clarence Alligood entered her jail cell, ice pick in hand, intending to coerce Little into sexual acts. In an act of self-defense, Little stabbed Alligood with the ice pick in order to wound him and escape. Little fled as her would-be assailant bled to death.
No stranger to the stereotypes about black women, Joan Little knew how the scene would look. Some would label her as a Jezebel and claim she was “asking for it.” Others would suggest that no respectable woman would have been in jail, or in this position, in the first place. Little hid out in the surrounding area for a little more than a week. Meanwhile, the state labeled her a fugitive and a murderer. Officials also issued a warrant for her arrest. In a scene that mirrored the manhunt of Angela Davis just two year earlier, state and federal authorities created a dragnet to capture Little. Local police arrested her on September 7^th for first-degree murder. Forty-eight hours later a grand jury indicted her for murder. The following year Little would stand trial. If convicted she faced the gas chamber.

https://www.aaihs.org/free-joan-little/

May 9, 1974: House Judiciary Committee Begins Impeachment Hearings against Tricky Dick

On May 9, 1974, under the chairmanship of Peter Rodino, the Committee began public hearings to review the results of the Impeachment Inquiry staff’s investigation.

https://www.villagevoice.com/2019/04/29/prologue-to-impeachment-1974/

http://watergate.info/impeachment/judiciary-committee-hearings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKrLM5cqM6Q

A Narc at the MayDay 1971 Protests

The last week of April 1971 and the first week of May that year saw the streets of Washington, DC filled with antiwar protesters.  From antiwar Democrats like Bella Abzug to Vietnam Veterans Against the War and the Mayday Tribe, tens of thousands of protesters kept the heat on the Nixon administration and its apparatchiks.  Cops, narcs and undercover agents from various federal agencies were part of the mix.  This is the story of a former military interrogator/torturer who went undercover for the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs (the DEA's predecessor).  He thinks he's some kind of hero. He's also wrong about the success of the direct action part of the protest that took place May 4th.  It was not considered a bust.  It may not have succeeded in shutting down the government, but it certainly caused a lot of disruption.  Otherwise, why would the Nixon administration have arrested over 12,000 demonstrators after declaring what was essentially martial law in the District?
https://www.historynet.com/operation-bent-penny-working-undercover-at-the-1971-may-day-protest.htm

March 6, 1970 Weather Underground Townhouse Explosion

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-the-weather-underground-blast/

February 14, 1970 Chicago 7 Trial Goes to Jury

http://www.famous-trials.com/chicago8

Leonard Peltier Arrested February 6, 1976

Free Leonard Peltier!!!


http://www.onthisdeity.com/6th-february-1976-%E2%80%93-leonard-peltier-illegally-arrested/

Harvey Milk and Mayor Moscone Murdered by Hate-Filled Homophobic Ex-Cop in San Francisco-11-27-1978

Karen Sikwood Killed November 12, 1974

https://uaw.org/karen-silkwood/

Panama Red and Elvis

Elvis died August 16, 1977

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/08/17/panama-red-and-elvis/

Nixon Resigns

August 8, 1974 Nixon resigned.  One of my favorite days in history.
http://theragblog.blogspot.com/2013/08/ron-jacobs-remembering-resignation-of.html

Clash Album released April 8, 1977

The first album by The Clash was released in 1977 in the UK on this day.  One hundred thousand were imported into the US and sold out.  Eventually a US version was released.

White House Crooks Sentenced to Prison February 22, 1975

Three of Nixon's right hand men (including the Attorney General John Mitchell) sentenced to federal prison for some of their crimes in the Watergate scandal.....it was a good day....

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1q-rct0Tsprwp8VgoBANr7KdbZmdjOaNI

New Left Group Rising Up Angry writes up Watergate in 1973

By February 1973, Watergate had begun to affect the Nixon White House. Groups on the Left (not the Democrats) were stepping up their critique of this growing dispute in the circles of the ruling class.  Rising Up Angry, a leftwing Chicago-based group of mostly white working class youth organizing in workplaces and the streets of Chicago and some surrounding areas, put their analysis of the situation in writing in their newspaper.  Click on the link below to read it:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1AZut-F1J92ql2Xt3L28vptlKaLrMGLce

Sid Vicious Found Dead-February 2, 1979

  Sex Pistols set the tone for the 1980s, even if they didn't intend to.....

Some Things Only Get Worse--Immigration chronicles

This is from the underground newspaper the Berkeley Barb January 1977.....the last sentence says a lot..."Allow looser immigration during economic booms....when recession hits, tighten up...and excess workers have to be disposed of."

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B01dj5QyuLDeMjE2TU5RYzBUSlhwNV9FNTh4MEFHY1NqUURB

At the beginning....

An excerpt from the beginning of my book Daydream Sunset...

https://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/26/stones-hendrix-and-altamont/

1979--The Epilogue

The Epilogue from Daydream Sunset

https://www.counterpunch.org/2009/07/20/recalling-1979/

Pershing Missiles Deployment Decision

A December 12, 1979 decision by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to station 464 land-based U.S. cruise and Pershing II missiles in Europe prompted a major protest movement across Europe and the United States.  Begun during the Carter administration, the deployment continued under Reagan.  In Britain, where Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister, one aspect of the antinuclear movement was an encampment led by women.  "The women’s persistent daily resistance to nuclear arms on English soil. The decision to put a fourth of the weapons at Greenham Common, the women said, had been taken “over our heads and without our knowledge” and over the heads of most elected Members of Parliament."


http://www.lokashakti.org/encyclopedia/groups/671-greenham-common-women-lokashakti-encyclopedia