SF News Photo Du Jour: Fruitvale Station Renamed? Since about 2011, Oakland's Frank H. Ogawa Plaza has been identified by activists and protesters from the Occupy and Black Lives Matter movements as Oscar Grant Plaza to commemorate the 22-year-old from Hayward
SF News ACLU: Facebook, Instagram, And Twitter Provided Data Access To Surveillance Company Used By Police To Track Protesters Chicago-based Geofeedia, a "location-based intelligence platform" that analyzes social media posts to deliver them as surveillance information to 500 law enforcement agencies, is often used to target protesters such as Black Lives Matter
SF News 49er Colin Kaepernick To Grace Cover Of 'Time' Following National Anthem Protest Colin Kaepernick's ongoing protest of police brutality has moved from local TV news to the national magazine world, with the San Francisco 49ers backup quarterback set to appear, kneeling, on the October 3
Arts & Entertainment Naturally, <i>South Park</i> Is Mocking Kaepernick Taking the cynical if sometimes accurate stance that it's easy to hate the cops until you're the victim of a crime, South Park's creators just released this teaser for their new season, which
SF News Black Lives Matter Now Accepting Donations, Grants Through Bay Area Nonprofit IDEX A newly announced partnership with a Bay Area 501(c)(3) public charity will allow the multifaceted and diffuse Black Lives Matter movement, technically a chapter-based global organization, to receive grants and tax-deductible
SF News 49ers' Kaepernick Will Continue To Sit During National Anthem To 'Stand With The People' 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, the now 28-year old player who rose to prominence during the 2012 season when he led his team to the Super Bowl, ended his 2015 season in relative disgrace,
SF News SF Police Officers' Association Posts Photo Of Dogs Trivializing Black Lives Matter The already tone-deaf San Francisco Police Officers' Association, a union that's repeatedly railed against any perception of anti-police sentiment, has caused some new controversy with a purportedly playful image that claims to look
SF News Video: Excessive Force Allegations After BART Police Punch Handcuffed Man In Face An arrest by BART police has sparked claims of excessive force after video depicting an officer punching a handcuffed and prone African American man in the face went viral. CBS 5 reports that
Arts & Entertainment Third Eye Blind Releases Confusingly Catchy Black Lives Matter Song Several years ago, I saw Third Eye Blind play a minorly tragic show in a smoky, carpeted casino basement in Reno. Please don't ask. If you had told me then — as the band's
SF News Black Lives Matter Marches Planned In SF And Oakland Today For 'National Day Of Action' As part of today's "National Day of Action to End Police Violence Against Black People," a concerted series of rallies that organizers say will occur at 80 locations under the unifying hashtag #freedomnow,
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To Oakland Police Officers' Association Cops are trying to negotiate the opening of this set of doors so credit union employees can go home. pic.twitter.com/0JWwDkzrVU— Cat (@CatsCommentary) July 20, 2016 Calling for the city of
SF News Small Protest In Oakland Remains Peaceful While Unrelated March In The Mission Turns Messy Peaceful protestor just released, beaten with baton during Mission protest. @Krea_Jones @EQUIPTO @BradleySA pic.twitter.com/uwh0nQ5Ksj— Edwin Lindo (@EdwinLindo) July 16, 2016 A pair of small-scale protests last night in San
SF News Black Lives Matter Protests Happening Today At SF's Civic Center And Downtown Oakland Rallies and marches are scheduled today (Friday) across the country, as they were last Friday, in continued protest of the police killings of black people, and these include events in both San Francisco
SF News Someone Is Distributing KKK Recruitment Flyers Around The Haight San Francisco Woman Gets KKK Recruitment Letter on Her Doorstep!https://t.co/xU1Owy9AiF pic.twitter.com/sw4fr5nRpy— (((BrokeAssStuart))) (@BrokeAssStuart) July 12, 2016 Flyers promoting the Ku Klux Klan and criticizing the Black
SF News Hundreds Of Black Lives Matter Protesters March Through Downtown SF, Attempt To Get On Freeway A group of several hundred Black Lives Matter protesters attempted all Saturday afternoon and into the early evening to get onto several freeway on-ramps and disrupt traffic going to and from the Bay
SF News Peaceful March Against Police Killings Culminates In Rally At City Hall At least 1000 people (the Chronicle put it at 500) gathered Friday evening at the foot of Market Street to protest this week's deaths of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile at the hands
SF News Rally And Protest Against Racist Police Shootings Planned Tonight In SF, Likely To Snarl Market Street An anti-police-violence protest planned for Friday evening by the Answer Coalition, beginning at Justin Herman Plaza which they are still calling Chelsea Manning Plaza is likely to shut down Market Street for a
SF News Photos: 2,000 Rally Peacefully In Oakland To Protest Shootings Of Philando Castile And Alton Sterling Responding to the latest police killings of black men in Minnesota and Louisiana, Philando Castile and Alton Sterling, Americans demanded justice last night with rallies and protests in cities across the country. Roughly
SF News Could An App Stop Racist Policing? It's difficult to overstate technology's importance in the Black Lives Matter movement. Bystander cell phone video has made it harder, if somehow still not impossible, to ignore the seemingly endless killings of African
SF News Rally For Alton Sterling, Philando Castile Planned In Oakland Tonight Sickened by the seemingly nonstop police killings of black Americans, many Bay Area residents appear ready to assemble in Oakland tonight to rally for justice and an end to police violence. The most
SF News Saying They're 'More Afraid Of Police Than Terrorists,' Black Lives Matter Pulls Out Of SF Pride Following news that SF Pride this year would feature security screenings to enter the Civic Center festival as well as an increased police presence in the wake of the shooting in Orlando, some
SF News From Rodney King To Oscar Grant To Mario Woods, Oakland Attorney John Burris On Taking Cases That Change Police Departments John Burris isn't a political activist. "Making speeches? Nobody can win that," he says ruefully over tea in his Oakland law offices. "You can say what you want, I can say what I
SF News A BART Director Has A Concealed Gun Permit Because He Fears Activists Since 2010, John McPartland, a member of BART's board of directors, has held a concealed handgun permit from the Alameda County Sheriff's office according to public records obtained by the Chronicle. McPartland appears
Arts & Entertainment 'Black Lives Matter' Named As Grand Marshal Of San Francisco's 2016's Pride Parade San Francisco's LGBT Pride Celebration and Parade is a huge event, with an estimated million folks at the last one in 2015. The event is so massive, in fact, that they typically have
SF News Facebook Employees Keep Crossing Out 'Black Lives Matter' And Writing 'All Lives Matter' At Company HQ Something is rotten in Menlo Park. On the public wall slash internal message board thing at Facebook headquarters, modeled on the digital "wall" of the social network, Facebook employees have taken to crossing
