A week long protest again military recruitment in Oakland leads to a felony trial for seven well known Bay Area activists.
How the latino community, the Black Panther Party, and other progressive members of the San Francisco Bay Area used the arrest and trial of seven young men to organize and build a resistance movement.
San Francisco's Presidio was the location of a military prison during the Vietnam War. After the murder of one of the prisoners, 27 of the prisoners went on strike and refused to take part in manual labor. These strikers faced mutiny charges and could have faced execution.
In 1968 nine men entered a Church in San Francisco and declared their refusal to service in the military.
One Oakland woman was able to feed 450 individuals every day.