SF News Occupy Oakland Re-occupies; Susie Cagle Wins (Well-Deserved) Journalism Award After Occupy Wall Street's six-month anniversary (more on that in a bit), the world has seen the start of an impressive and growing movement. While some (i.e., its detractors) demand instant results
SF News Anonymous Releases Personal Data On Jean Quan, Oakland Officials In response to what they view as an unnecessarily violent response by the City of Oakland to Occupy protesters, the internet collective known as Anonymous struck out against Oakland officials today by posting
SF News Charges Dropped Against All But a Dozen Occupy Oakland Folks So, you arrest 400 people who were allegedly committing crimes, and three days later you drop charges against almost all of them. Yes, OPD, your strategy with this whole Occupy Oakland thing does
SF News Oakland Occupier Renounces Occupy, Blames Melee On Outsiders We just came across an interesting editorial regarding last weekend's Occupy Oakland kerfuffle in which a stalwart member of the bandwagon expresses distaste for the lack of strategy and general stupidity of what
SF News Oakland Teenager To Be Tried As Adult In Murder Of Adoptive Parents An Oakland 15-year-old who had been arguing with his parents over spending too much time with the Occupy Oakland campers and who is accused of strangling them both and stuffing them in the
SF News Next Frontier For Occupy Oakland: Aquapying Lake Merritt After the Occupy movement returned to the streets of downtown Oakland this past weekend, the waterborne Aquapy movement also returned to the waters of Lake Merritt late Sunday night. Dubbed "Suburbia on the
SF News Meanwhile, At Frank Ogawa Plaza... Graffiti gets the message out at the entrance to Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning following Saturday's day of action in Oakland and OPD's brutal response. After a confrontation with police, demonstrators entered City
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Surveys Occupy Damage At City Hall [Video] In the aftermath of Saturday's day of action in Oakland, Mayor Jean Quan came in to the office on a Sunday to see for herself the damage at City Hall, where dozens of
SF News Six Reporters Arrested During Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Mother Jones' Gavin Aronsen wrote a first-hand account of being apprehended at the Occupy Oakland mass arrest on Saturday, along with at least five other credentialed journalists and 400 protesters. Aronsen says this
SF News Police Clash With Occupy Oakland on 'Move-In Day,' Tear Gas Deployed, 400 Arrested [Updated] It was "Move-In Day" for Occupy Oakland today, and as we type protesters have once again met with riot-cop resistance in the form of barricades, smoke bombs, and tear gas as they were
SF News Occupy Oakland Will Not Go Quietly, Will Occupy A Building, Damn It The Occupy Oakland kids may have been a little quiet lately, but they have a plan for Saturday that should shake things up and garner a few more headlines. There's going to be
SF News Crime Dropped 19 Percent During Week Of Initial Occupy Oakland Raid, Says Investigative Report As KTVU reported on Friday, their office obtained about 1,000 internal emails between Oakland City Hall and the Oakland Police Department discussing how the city should handle the Occupy Oakland encampment before
SF News Oakland Cops Demoted, Suspended For Covering Name Tags During Occupy Oakland Protest Do you remember this footage of an OPD officer covering his name tag with black tape (which is a no-no) during the Occupy Oakland general strike? Viemo user BLK PXLS (AKA Terrence Jerod
SF News Homeless Occupy Oakland Activist May Face Life In Prison Occupy Oakland activist Marcel Johnsonbetter known as the vocal, omnipresent camper named Khaliwas arrested on December 16 outside Oakland's City Hall for a dispute over a blanket which his attorney Dan
SF News Allegations Of Police Brutality Mar Occupy Oakland 'F**k OPD' Protest Six people were arrested during Saturday night's "Fuck OPD" march after protesters allegedly turned surly with riot officers. According to The Chronicle, "The showdown Saturday night happened at the corner of Ninth and
SF News Oh No They Didn't: Occupy Oakland Proclaims, 'F**K OPD' After encountering several arrests at Frank Ogawa Plaza during the past few weeks, Occupy Oakland has turned the heat up a notch by organizing a "March Against Repression" Saturday night dubbed, "Fuck OPD.
SF News Oakland Police Lock Down City Hall During Occupy Protest [Updated] After last night's arrests on Frank Ogawa Plaza, members of Occupy Oakland vowed (on Facebook) to return this afternoon to occupy City Hall proper. The goal of today's Occupy action, according to its
SF News More Arrests As Oakland Occupiers Protest Teepee Removal Approximately 60 Oakland police in riot gear entered Frank Ogawa Plaza around 11:30 p.m. last night and "made several indiscriminate arrests," as KRON4 is reporting. A dozen Occupy Oakland folk were
SF News Illegal Overnight Bonfire Kills Occupy Oakland's Teepee The city of Oakland has revoked a permit that had allowed Occupy Oakland to erect its symbolic teepee daily on Frank Ogawa Plaza which protesters still insist on calling "Oscar Grant Plaza." The
SF News Occupy Tree-Sitters Return To Frank Ogawa Plaza And just like that, a smattering of Occupy Oakland protesters have returned to Frank Ogawa. But this time they've taken to the trees. OakFoSho has recorded footage he shot live at the scene
SF News Police Sweep Out Nascent Occupy Oakland Encampment Just as soon as it came—on Tuesday, to be exact—last night police evicted residents of the new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway. Set
SF News New Occupy Encampment Springs Up In West Oakland Just when you thought they might be hibernating, more than a dozen tents went up last night at a new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway.
SF News Local Astrologist Predicts Bad Vibes For Mayor Quan's Post-Occupy Career Occupiers, political pundits, twitter humorists and TV talking heads have all been speculating on what the post-Occupy future holds for embattled Oakland mayor Jean Quan. While the general consensus seems to be "she
SF News Oakland Drops $100,000+ On Independent Investigation Into Police Conduct During Occupy We're not sure what's worse: Spending millions of dollars to protect a concrete and grass plaza from a few dozen earnest hippies and ultimately brutalizing several protesters and launching a nationally vilified tear-gas
SF News Oakland City Council Decides Not To Sic Cops On Every Last Protester At their meeting last night, the Oakland City Council rejected a proposed resolution which we discussed yesterday that would have authorized Oakland police to use "whatever lawful tools" necessary to prevent another shutdown
