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Oakland General Strike Walk

Date and Time

Saturday, July 27, 2024, 12:00 PM until 2:00 PM

Location

Latham Square
Broadway & Telegraph
Oakland, CA  
USA

Category

Labor History

Registration Info

Registration is not Required

About this event

Part of the San Francisco LaborFest - Walk with Gifford Hartman

This year is the 78th 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.

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