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 Restaurants, Food & Drink Many Bay Area Restaurants, Other Businesses Recognize A 'Day Without Immigrants' By Closing Today The list is growing of Bay Area businesses, in particular restaurants, that are staying closed today in recognition of International Workers' Day (May Day), and marking another Day Without Immigrants something that many
SF News Photos: May Day Demonstrators March Up Market Street, Blockade ICE Headquarters In SF We're marching side by side w/our immigrant residents to fight for their rights & advocate for comprehensive immigration reform #MayDay2017 pic.twitter.com/L5TIdfCxBA— Mayor Ed Lee (@mayoredlee) May 1, 2017 As
SF News Multiple May Day Protests Planned Monday Around The Bay Area While May Day rallies have traditionally been calls for attention to workers' rights, this year the day is expected to be marked by many demonstrations nationwide focusing on immigrants' rights and resistance to
SF News Oakland Businesses Damaged In Riots Find Little Help From Officials In the aftermath of the May Day riots, businesses among Oakland's Broadway Auto Row are still cleaning up the mess and finding little relief from politicians. "What gets me is that the police
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown
SF News [Updated] Oakland May Day Mayhem Leaves Many Smashed Storefronts, Smashed Cars May Day demonstrations for a variety of causes but most prominently centering on the police homicide of Freddie Gray carried well into the evening on Friday. As with previous days of uprising in
SF News [Updated] SF May Day Rally At Civic Center Will Lead To March To Mission While crowds gather in Downtown Oakland this May Day, San Francisco is scheduled to see a rally of its own. "International Workers Day Regional Festival and March," as the event is listed on
SF News [Updated] May Day Protest Grows In Oakland As Hundreds Converge On Downtown Crowd gathering at 40th & MLK, Oakland to protest gentrification by blocking tech busses during the morning commute. pic.twitter.com/LcEgKlye0z— The Outsider (@OutsiderEditors) May 1, 2015 In the wave of marches
SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
SF News Food Not Bombs Marchers Arrested At S.F. May Day Rally Thursday's May Day rally in San Francisco overlapped with Food Not Bombs' weekly food share at 16th and Mission, resulting in the arrests of both marchers and FNB workers. Police even allegedly flipped
SF News Photo: Cop Doused With Paint During Oakland May Day Melee Jeez. According to @abc7newsbayarea, this officer (one of several) was drenched in a substance believed to be yellow paint during today's May Day protest in Oakland. As SFist reported earlier that paint was
SF News Live: Oakland Cops Prepare For General Strike Showdown [Updated] Justin Beck's live coverage of today's May Day occupation continues. Right now, at around 3 p.m., cops have arrived in Oakland near Broadway and 14th, demanded protesters to leave or face "removal
SF News May Day: Demonstration Shuts Down 16th & Mission [Updated] The revolution will be Instagramed, as pictured here by Jen Ackrill, and nowhere else does that sentiment ring truer than in the heart of the city's Mission District. A May Day demonstration at
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Four Barrel Responds To Mission May Day Riot Four Barrel is not the 1%. In fact, we only serve whole milk.— Four Barrel Coffee (@fourbarrel) May 1, 2012 Monday night's early Occupy May Day General Strike brouhaha occurred after a gathering
SF News Live: SEIU Protest At San Francisco City Hall In Progress Justin Beck is live at City Hall covering today's SEIU occupation. So far there are an estimated hundred or so protesters inside, one brandishing a bullhorn to shout and chant stuff. Supervisors Eric
SF News SEIU Planning Wisconsin-Style Occupation Of San Francisco City Hall The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local 1021 will attempt a Wisconsin-style occupation of San Francisco City Hall starting tonight and going well into tomorrow, May Day. Via the SEIU Facebook page, "We
SF News Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled Er, never mind. Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that
SF News Photo du Jour 625 People take part in a march to celebrate International Workers' Day and to protest Arizona's new controversial immigration law Saturday May 1, 2010 in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jakub Mosur)
SF News White Supremacists Attacked During Immigration Rally Members of the Bay Area National Anarchists -- a group, according to SF Weekly that "believes in white separatism and which supports the controversial Arizona anti-immigrant law" -- were physically attacked during Saturday's
SF News Turnabout is Fair Play: AZ Immigrant Law Supporters Boycott CA and SF In the continuing saga of West and East: Civil War 2.0, Arizona immigrant law supporters have called for a boycott of California -- which is downright impossible; like God, the Golden State
Arts & Entertainment SFist Tonight (and Tomorrow. And Sunday) Garden of Deadly Delights Head over to the Conservatory of Flowers to feast your eyes on a greenhouse full of carnivorous plants! Chomp! opens today and runs through Nov 4. The Red Party
Arts & Entertainment SFIFF: All The <i>Rage</i> The film that followed Capelito, though, turned out to be one of the most disturbing, provocative films we’ve seen at this year’s festival thus far. , a made-for-television German thriller/drama by
SF News Happy May Day It warms our red hearts to see workers marching here at home and around the world on International Workers' Day, otherwise known as May Day. Protests and demonstrations happened from Berlin to Indonesia,
