1997 Mural of the 1934 SF General Strike, by Chuck Sperry, inside the Redstone Building, at 2926-48 16th St, in San Francisco’s Mission District. The mural depicts workers talking and reading, with a zoomed-in bubble showing the two longshoremen (Nick Bordoise and Howard Sperry) killed in the strike, lying on the pavement in a pool of blood.
The Redstone Building is also known as the Labor Temple. It has been home to numerous lefty activist organizations, including an IWW office and the now defunct pirate radio station, Radio X. The building was a center of San Francisco labor organizing for decades. In 1916, there were 54 different labor organizations based there.
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In 2021, Lakeside Investment Company bought the Redstone Labor Temple in the Mission. tiny gray-garcia from Poor Magazine, and Rick Gerharter, a movement photographer who's had an office in the Redstone for decades, talk about the significance of the building as the new landlord drops a gentrification bomb in the form of massive rent increases.
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