SF News May Day and Gaza Protests Happening Around the Bay Area Today Expect traffic disruptions in multiple parts of San Francisco and Oakland today, with protest demonstrations planned around the Bay Area in conjunction with May Day.
SF News Scenes From This Weekend's May Day Demonstrations Around the Bay Area May Day — also known as "Workers' Day" or "International Workers' Day" — is an annual holiday set aside to pay homage to the historic struggles (and gains) made by labor movements. And the pandemic’s only highlighted those wins and losses, particularly regarding essential workers.
SF News Los Angeles Anarchist Group Posts YouTube Video Of Valencia Vandalism A feminist, anarchist group from Los Angeles has posted a YouTube video titled "Scenes from a Black Bloc documenting protesters during the pre-May Day demonstrations that left the neighborhood trashed on April 30th.
SF News Chronicle Tries To Get Inside The Minds Of Black Bloc Anarchists The Chron made the rare move of trying to see the plight of vandalizing anarchists from their side of things today, but the story still ends up being an indictment of them as
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland, 23 Occupiers Arrested; 3,500 Rallied at Frank Ogawa Plaza Since when are there more Occupy arrests in San Francisco on a day of planned action than there are in Oakland? Oakland Police clearly exercised much greater restraint than they did in 2011
SF News Occupy SF Commune Cleared Out, 26 Arrested Scratch those breakfast plans. The Occupy SF commune at 888 Turk lasted just about as long as it did the first time around on April 1st. According to the Examiner, SFPD moved in
SF News Live: Protesters Square Off With Police In Oakland [Updates] What looked like a relatively peaceful scene in Oakland in the evening escalated around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night as Oakland Police and Alameda Sheriff's deputies gave a dispersal order to protesters
SF News Occupy SF Re-Occupies 888 Turk, Protester Antagonizing Police From Nearby Rooftop [Updated] After a day of shutting down traffic in the Mission some members of Occupy SF have returned to 888 Turk Street, which the group occupied in protest on April 1st. Although the occupation
Arts & Entertainment May Day: Children Join In On The Destruction Don't be alarmed. It's just a piñata. And it was reportedly stuffed with candy, the placebo of choice for many of the 99-Percent's under-12 members, many of whom show more maturity than some
SF News May Day: This Is What Downtown Oakland Looks Like Right Now [Updated] General Strike Day is well under way over in downtown Oakland, and we've got this almost-live picture of the scene, shot moments ago by SFist intern Owen. It's basically a street party right
SF News Protesters Trash Valencia Street Businesses In Early May Day Demonstration A group of protesters showed up early for the Occupy May Day General Strike Monday evening. What started as a small after dark gathering of Occupiers over sandwiches and Capri Suns in Dolores
