Largest Civil Disobedience in SF History?

by Will Doherty (wild [at] willdoherty.org)

Sun, Mar 23, 2003 10:58PM

Does anyone know if the 2200+ arrests for protesting against the war in Iraq constitute the largest civil disobedience in San Francisco history? (Any figures for the Rodney King arrests? Older shipyard or other actions?)

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by po

Mon, Mar 24, 2003 1:37AM

Well there;s always the 1934 general strike that lasted 4 days.

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§1934 General Strike Arrests

by Will Doherty (wild [at] willdoherty.org)

Mon, Mar 24, 2003 8:00AM

It looks like the police killing of two strikers precipitated the General Strike of 1934 in San Francisco. About 30,000 participated in the General Strike and approximately 400 were arrested almost all of which had cases that were dismissed.

See
http://www.sfbg.com/lit/reviews/bigstrike.html
and
http://www.sfmuseum.org/hist/thursday.html
and on the atrocious reporting of the press at
http://www.brasscheck.com/1934.html

In May 1992, "hundreds" of people were arrested in San Francisco following the acquittal of police who had beaten Rodney King in Los Angeles.

The Anti-War Protests of 2003 with 2200+ and counting are quite possibly the largest civil disobedience in San Francisco history.

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§Yes

by Sey

Mon, Mar 24, 2003 9:41AM

I'll doublecheck the research paper that I wrote on the subject when I get home tonight, but I do not believe there were 2,000 arrests during the week of the Rodney King verdicts, including the day of, after, and a mass arrest in the Castro the following weekend.

There was quite a bit of violence, though, as well as looting and two nights of curfew.

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§White night

by pomegranate

Mon, Mar 24, 2003 10:15AM

what about the figures for white night?

For more information: http://flag.blackened.net/

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§"the figures for white night?"

by a guy who was there

Mon, Mar 24, 2003 4:40PM

Us: 1
Cops: 0

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