A Mass March & Rally will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 27th, 2006, the 40th anniversary of the 1966 Hunters Point Uprising. People will gather at 3:30pm at Third St. & Williams, and will march to a rally at Third & Palou. On Sept. 27th, 1966, Matthew Johnson, aged 16, was fatally shot in the back by SFPD, and the people rose up in rage – only to be put down by National Guard troops and tanks called in by City Hall.

For 40 years, the people of the South East of San Francisco have demanded no more police brutality; living wage jobs, especially on City construction; and the right to develop their own community. Forty years later, the people of Bayview Hunters Point will demand that City Hall reinstate the referendum petition that was signed by over 33,000 San Franciscans to stop the Redevelopment land grab and ‘repeopling’ of Bayview Hunters Point. Read more