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On the night that 18-year-old Joan Gelfand moved to Berkeley in 1972, she experienced her first riot, as protesters infuriated by President Nixon’s re-election raged down Telegraph Avenue. That was the beginning of a wil...
“Berkeley was heaven” until it wasn’t: 1970s feminist explosion is an episode from East Bay Yesterday by East Bay Yesterday. On the night that 18-year-old Joan Gelfand moved to Berkeley in 1972, she experienced her first riot, as protesters...
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Published Jul 14, 2026, 00:59:23 long, audio available.