I went to a book release talk this evening by Chris Carlsson, the author of a new book on SF history, "Hidden San Francisco". He is also a co-creator of the SF history website Found SF, which is well worth a look. I'd visited it before, but it had been a while. Poking around there after the talk, I came across a reprint of an article from a local publication called The Blast (truly a "blast from the past! about the arrest of an anarchist activist for trying to inform people about birth control:
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"In San Francisco there is an Italian group called Gruppo Anarchico. It appears to be made up of young men chiefly, though a few women attend its sessions. It holds forth in a dingy club room at 1602 Stockton Street, where its members go to read revolutionary periodicals, hear red-blooded speakers and take active part in work which has intelligent resistance for its base...."
http://www.foundsf.org/index.php?title=Gruppo_Anarchico
Love & Liberty,
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