Author Archive
Oakland Games
Archive Entry Date: 10/18/67
A longtime community organizer raised early questions about who would benefit from the Model Cities program in Oakland
Ad Hoc, Teachers and School Board
Archive Entry Date: 10/4/67
John George advocated solidarity between teachers and the community, while pushing against teachers' demands for "discipline"
Summer: Where Does the Trouble Begin
Archive Entry Date: 6/15/1967
As the Black Panther Party mobilized against police brutality, The Flatlands assessed fears of a "long hot summer" in Richmond
TRAP: New Leader in Oakland?
Archive Entry Date: 1/1/1967
The Flatlands was pushing, with impressive success, for real "maximal participation of the poor" in anti-poverty programs
Nowhere to Go
Archive Entry Date: 11/18/66
The Flatlands mobilized to protect longtime West Oakland residents in the crosshairs of BART development
Flatlands Attacked at School Board Meeting
Archive Entry Date: 11/5/66
Tensions flare as boycott organizers are accused of 'conspiracy'
Free at Last
Archive Entry Date: 11/5/1966
An extensive report from the freedom schools set up during the Oakland schools boycott
Corporation of the Poor: Chance for Unity
Archive Entry Date: 11/5/66
Flatlands organizers rejuvenate, strategize at wooded retreat
The Spark
Archive Entry Date: 10/22/66
The 'spark' of unrest at Castlemont High was police beating of a black female teen, The Flatlands reported
Black Power Is Being Tested in Oakland!!
Archive Entry Date: 10/18/66
The campus-based New Left organized in support of the Oakland public schools boycott
S.F. Blows
Archive Entry Date: 10/8/66
The Flatlands offered extensive on-the-ground coverage of the 1966 Hunters Point uprising
Tenant Terror
Archive Entry Date: 9/24/1966
Flatlands contributors worked to save a mother and her children from eviction
Bussing No Answer for Unequal Schools
Archive Entry Date: 9/24/1966
Flatlands parents wanted more resources for their own schools, not a small one-way busing plan
No Room for the Poor
Archive Entry Date: 8/13/66
The Flatlands put its energy behind a fight to expand public housing by 3000 units
Ten Lunches for Free
Archive Entry Date: 7/30/66
Under pressure, Oakland's Board of Education adopted a limited free lunch proposal -- but activists sought to expand it
Paper Organizations: Sham Committee on Full Opportunity
Archive Entry Date: 7/16/1966
Oakland community leaders skewered Mayor Houlihan's stalling of anti-discrimination initiatives
Welfare Recipients Revolt
Archive Entry Date: 7/10/66
Oakland's welfare rights activists joined a national fight for decent benefits
OEDC’s New Power Base
Archive Entry Date: 6/5/66
The flatlands, as a region, were successfully demanding to be represented in the planning of the local War on Poverty
Statements to the California Advisory Commission of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Archive Entry Date: 6/5/66
In the wake of Watts, Flatlands contributors spoke on police abuses to a Civil Rights Commission
Luther Smith vs the DA
Archive Entry Date: 5/7/1966
A radical Oakland attorney provides insights into a case of police brutality in Oakland
Weird Warriors in War on Poverty
Archive Entry Date: 05/1966
Campus "peaceniks, beatniks and smutniks" had infiltrated the War on Poverty, the US Chamber of Congress declared
JOBART Meets the Governor
Archive Entry Date: 4/23/66
Governor Brown criticized for inattention to community concerns re: BART
Flatlands editorial on the Luther Smith case
Archive Entry Date: 04/23/1966
Hard-hitting coverage of a brutal beating of a black Oaklander in his home, and an editorial response
Luther Smith protest rally flyer
Archive Entry Date: 04/67
Flatlands contributors joined with the Robert Scheer campaign in protesting a scandalous case of police brutality
Oakland Baby, The Time Has Come
Archive Entry Date: 4/9/66
A San Francisco anti-poverty warrior cheered on the Flatlands-sponsored plan for community control
Flatlands Says (editorial on the TAAC walkout)
Archive Entry Date: 3/26/66
The Flatlands stood in solidarity with those who demanded 'maximum feasible participation' by the poor
Big Daddy O.H.A.
Archive Entry Date: 3/26/66
Richard York, later of Berkeley's Free Church, on a pitched battle between tenants and the Housing Authority
The Flatlands Profiles Mark Comfort
Archive Entry Date: 3/12/66
In their first issue, The Flatlands profiled an experienced Civil Rights organizer (and future Black Panther)