Starting this Saturday, The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts pays homage to the local legacy with a new exhibit featuring protest art from Occupy Movements throughout the Bay.

The exhibit features 25 local artists and focuses on pieces that have been particularly effective in raising the morale of members within the movements and garnering external support. The exhibit also includes a selection of photographs and videos from significant events within the movement.

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“Attending actions of the Occupy Movement was the initial inspiration in my search for posters” Amanda Verwey, development assistant at YBCA said in a statement, “I was struck by the flood of work creating a distinct visual aesthetic that was both as diverse and somehow succinct as the movement itself.”

In an attempt to connect the Occupy Movement to important Bay Area political struggles of the past, the Occupy Bay Area artworks will be displayed alongside posters from The Black Panther Party, I-Hotel in Manilatown, The ARC/AIDS Vigil at City Hall, The Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and the fight for Ethnic Studies Program in Universities. The exhibit asserts that all these movements are the result of a deep desire for marginalized peoples to be represented and treated fairly.

?”There’s a large community of artists and graphic designers committed to social justice in the Bay Area” Betti-Sue Hertz, director of visual arts at YBCA said in a statement. “This exhibition aims to display their work in the context of earlier political activist movements in the Bay Area”

The YBCA will host an opening night party for the exhibit on Saturday that will include live music and a discussion on the value of Occupy and other social movements in contemporary society.

Scroll through the pictures below for a sneak preview of the exhibit:

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• Occupy Everything

• General Strike

• Occupy

• Photo of Occcupy Oakland

Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/05/occupy-bay-area-ybca_n_1652376.html

The Associated Press

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Black Panther party preached “power to the people,” but in the San Francisco Bay area’s thriving real estate market, the power is in the property.

In this March 14, 2012 photo, a for sale sign is placed in front of the former home of Black Panther Party co-founder Bobby Seale Oakland, Calif. on Wednesday, March 14, 2012. The house where the Black Panther Party got its start in the late 1960s is now on the market after being sold and remodeled into a trendy showpiece. The bungalow once hosted young revolutionaries Huey Newton and Bobby Seale as they drafted their 10-point party manifesto and unloaded their weapons after their nightly patrols. (AP Photo/Bay Area News Group, Jane Tyska)

Realtors expected to close a deal Friday on the Oakland home where the militant black power group was founded in 1966.

Panther co-founder Bobby Seale’s family sold the house in October for $200,000 to real estate investors who renovated the home with chic maple and quartz upgrades, The Oakland Tribune reported (http://bit.ly/GSQhOX ).

After the improvements, the home was put on the market for $400,000 — almost 40 times what Seale’s parents paid for it in 1960.

Seale said he and Huey Newton drafted the party’s manifesto in the dining room.

“We would come in from patrol at night, unload our weapons at my house, and lay them all out across the long dining room table,” Seale wrote in his 1978 autobiography.

The surrounding streets that armed party members once patrolled in the name of black empowerment are quickly gentrifying, with longtime residents like Seale departing for less expensive suburbs.

Seale, now 75, has worked as a draftsman and a carpenter. He made improvements on the house and wanted to do more, but his sister persuaded him to sell.

The house’s dramatically increased selling price was part of “the same crap that got this financial debacle started in the first place,” he said.

But Seale didn’t hold the cutthroat realities of buying and selling homes in the Bay Area against the new residents.

“People move. Humans move. Power to the people, whether they’re black, white, blue, whatever,” he said.

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Information from: The Oakland Tribune, http://www.oaklandtribune.com

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March 23, 2012 05:21 PM EDT

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Article source: http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/home-where-black-panther-1396570.html

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Black Panther party preached “power to the people,” but in the San Francisco Bay area’s thriving real estate market, the power is in the property.

Realtors expected to close a deal Friday on the Oakland home where the militant black power group was founded in 1966.

After the improvements, the home was put on the market for $400,000 — almost 40 times what Seale’s parents paid for it in 1960.

Seale said he and Huey Newton drafted the party’s manifesto in the dining room.

“We would come in from patrol at night, unload our weapons at my house, and lay them all out across the long dining room table,” Seale wrote in his 1978 autobiography.

The surrounding streets that armed party members once patrolled in the name of black empowerment are quickly gentrifying, with longtime residents like Seale departing for less expensive suburbs.

Seale, now 75, has worked as a draftsman and a carpenter. He made improvements on the house and wanted to do more, but his sister persuaded him to sell.

The house’s dramatically increased selling price was part of “the same crap that got this financial debacle started in the first place,” he said.

But Seale didn’t hold the cutthroat realities of buying and selling homes in the Bay Area against the new residents.

“People move. Humans move. Power to the people, whether they’re black, white, blue, whatever,” he said.

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Article source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/24/black-panther-house_n_1377181.html

OAKLAND, Calif. — The Black Panther party preached “power to the people,” but in the San Francisco Bay area’s thriving real estate market, the power is in the property.

Realtors expected to close a deal Friday on the Oakland home where the militant black power group was founded in 1966.

Panther co-founder Bobby Seale’s family sold the house in October for $200,000 to real estate investors who renovated the home with chic maple and quartz upgrades, The Oakland Tribune reported ( http://bit.ly/GSQhOX).

After the improvements, the home was put on the market for $400,000 – almost 40 times what Seale’s parents paid for it in 1960.

Seale said he and Huey Newton drafted the party’s manifesto in the dining room.

“We would come in from patrol at night, unload our weapons at my house, and lay them all out across the long dining room table,” Seale wrote in his 1978 autobiography.

The surrounding streets that armed party members once patrolled in the name of black empowerment are quickly gentrifying, with longtime residents like Seale departing for less expensive suburbs.

Seale, now 75, has worked as a draftsman and a carpenter. He made improvements on the house and wanted to do more, but his sister persuaded him to sell.

The house’s dramatically increased selling price was part of “the same crap that got this financial debacle started in the first place,” he said.

But Seale didn’t hold the cutthroat realities of buying and selling homes in the Bay Area against the new residents.

“People move. Humans move. Power to the people, whether they’re black, white, blue, whatever,” he said.

Information from: The Oakland Tribune, http://www.oaklandtribune.com

Article source: http://www.kansascity.com/2012/03/23/3509288/home-where-black-panther-party.html

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The Black Panther party preached “power to the people,” but in the San Francisco Bay area’s thriving real estate market, the power is in the property.

Realtors expected to close a deal Friday on the Oakland home where the militant black power group was founded in 1966.

Panther co-founder Bobby Seale’s family sold the house in October for $200,000 to real estate investors who renovated the home with chic maple and quartz upgrades, The Oakland Tribune reported ( http://bit.ly/GSQhOX).

After the improvements, the home was put on the market for $400,000 – almost 40 times what Seale’s parents paid for it in 1960.

Seale said he and Huey Newton drafted the party’s manifesto in the dining room.

“We would come in from patrol at night, unload our weapons at my house, and lay them all out across the long dining room table,” Seale wrote in his 1978 autobiography.

The surrounding streets that armed party members once patrolled in the name of black empowerment are quickly gentrifying, with longtime residents like Seale departing for less expensive suburbs.

Seale, now 75, has worked as a draftsman and a carpenter. He made improvements on the house and wanted to do more, but his sister persuaded him to sell.

The house’s dramatically increased selling price was part of “the same crap that got this financial debacle started in the first place,” he said.

But Seale didn’t hold the cutthroat realities of buying and selling homes in the Bay Area against the new residents.

“People move. Humans move. Power to the people, whether they’re black, white, blue, whatever,” he said.

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Information from: The Oakland Tribune, http://www.oaklandtribune.com

Article source: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2017826749_apusblackpanthershouse.html

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