About Organizations
Black Panther Party
Black Liberation Army
American Indian Movement
FALN
Weather Underground
Earth Liberation Front
Animal Liberation Front
MOVE
Republic of New Afrika
Symbionese Liberation Army
Los Macheteros
United Freedom Front
May 19th Communist Organization
Young Lords
George Jackson Brigade
Students for a Democratic Society
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
Industrial Workers of the World
Communist Party USA
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party
Brown Berets
Socialist Workers Party
African People's Socialist Party
Nation of Islam
About Industrial Workers of the World
Founding of the IWW
Goldfield Organizing Drive
McKees Rocks Strike
Missoula Free Speech Fight
Spokane Free Speech Fight
Fresno Free Speech Fight
Lawrence Textile Strike ("Bread and Roses")
San Diego Free Speech Fight
Paterson Silk Strike
Wheatland Hop Riot
Joe Hill's Trial and Execution
Everett Massacre
Bisbee Deportation
Pacific Northwest Lumber Strike
Federal Raids & Mass IWW Trials
Centralia Massacre
SAN DIEGO FREE SPEECH FIGHT
The San Diego free-speech fight of 1912 was among the most violent of the IWW’s campaigns. After the city banned speaking in a downtown "restricted district," Wobblies and their allies converged to defy the ordinance — and were met not only by police but by organized vigilantes.
Arrested men were beaten in jail, run out of town, and forced to run gauntlets; some were tortured, and the reformer Ben Reitman was abducted, beaten, and branded by vigilantes. Emma Goldman was driven from the city when she tried to lecture. The ferocity of the repression — carried out with the tacit approval of local authorities and the press — made San Diego a chilling precursor to the anti-IWW vigilantism that would erupt during World War I.