Most of the original group were recent graduates of the University of California and veterans of the anti-war movement expressing Vietnam War opposition.
[3] Beginning in 1972 OB Rag staff and local radical worked from 'The Red House'[4] on 5113 Cape May.
The OB Rag was subjected to arrests by local police,[5] and harassment and spying by the FBI.
Shots were fired into an activist house at 2014 1/2 Abbott St in Ocean Beach, by the San Diego Police.
In June 2011 members of the OB Rag helped relaunch San Diego Free Press as an online publication.