Entries from SFist tagged with 'nationalguard'
July 16, 2007
A photo of Iraq war opponents Sean Penn and Carol Migden...
Continue Reading "SFist Photo: Actor Sean Penn, Against the War, Still"
March 2, 2007
-Police say they're taking a bite out of crime in the Western Addition. -And today's minor earthquake was in Lafayette. We still think there has been way too many of these minor quakes lately....
Continue Reading "Day Around the Bay"February 9, 2007
It's all about sex and land use around here in San Francisco, as kink.com (probably NSFW) moves into the Mission Armory and gets the official not-very-welcome wagon greeting from fifty community members yesterday, who braved the rain to protest the online porn industry. Much to the protestors' chagrin, though, it turns out kink.com has already moved in and started filming, and they didn't need to get permission from anyone to do so. The Armory's got......
Continue Reading "The Twisted History Of The Mission Armory"December 5, 2005
The California National Guard has quietly disbanded a group that has been accused of spying on anti-war protestors. The two person unit, called the Information Synchronization, Knowledge Management and Intelligence Fusion program, or ISKMIFP, an orgaization so sneaky they didn't even want to give it a cool acronym (and one with more titles than members) was given broad range to sniff out possible terrorist threats. Like a Mother's Day Anti-War rally led by a Peninsula anti-war group. ...
Continue Reading "Big Brother: No Longer Spying on You"August 16, 2005
Well, even though the DHS has lowered the threat level to sunny 'yellow,' BART's staying tough in the War Against Global Extremeism, so they're sticking to 'orange.' But they did open the bathrooms! You know, we here at SFist are all about spending equal, if not greater time, investigating domestic terrorists, too (white people scare us). But the freezing the assets of the Bay Area Puppeteers Guild? Now that, friends, is f**king retarded. Hey,......
Continue Reading "Homeland Insecurity: The Hits, They Keep a'Comin!"July 18, 2005
Hey, remember the kids rampaging through the streets of the Mission, smashing the state one window at a time? Well, it ain't quite over yet. First off, at least one protestor who's still in custody needs help coming up with the $5,000 needed to post bail -- you can send a donation! Us, we would call Bad Boy Bail Bonds (they speak our language -- funky-fresh rappin'). On the other side of the coin, "The......
Continue Reading "G8 Protest Fallout"