SF News Oh, Snap: Oakland Police Officer's Association Responds to Occupy Oakland, Mayor Quan The Oakland Police Association released a scathing statement aimed at both Occupy Oakland and Mayor Jean Quan. And they do not like Quan. "As your police officers, we are confused," they say. Representing
SF News Yucky Anti-Nonviolence Leaflet Handed Out at Occupy Oakland We do hope that some members of the Occupy Oakland splinter don't devolve into aesthetic gobbledygook more focused on protest fetishization, bandana-wearing and Oscar Granting than they are in maintaing the Occupy Wall
SF News Mayor Quan Responds to Recall Effort Oakland Mayor Jean Quan (a onetime student activist at UC Berkeley herself) talked to KTVU about the effort to recall her. "The last thing we need is a divisive and expensive recall campaign.
SF News Video Shows Oakland PD Officers Undercover at Occupy Oakland Way back in 2003, current interim police chief for the Oakland Police Department Howard Jordan was recorded discussing the need to be "way ahead of the curve" when it comes to protests in
SF News Occupy SFist: John King Praises Occupy SF for Enlivening Lame Park; Joan Rivers Mocks Occupy Wall Street We're obviously going to need to start rounding up the Occupy news on the regular, at least until the rains come and drive the protest out of the spotlight if in fact that
SF News Occupy Strike Plans to Shut Down City of Oakland on Wednesday Last week, over 1,600 people at the Occupy Oakland General Assembly voted to approve a resolution to shut down the city of Oakland with a citywide general strike this Wednesday, November 2nd.
SF News Salon.com Calls Out the Chronicle's Occupy SF Problem Here's a nice bit of coffee-and-a-paper reading for your Sunday: over on Salon, the site's co-founder Gary Kamiya has penned a nice takedown of the paper of the Chronicle's lackluster Occupy SF coverage.
SF News Meanwhile, in Oakland... A Halloween-appropriate scene as Occupy Oakland demonstrators pause for a photo op at Broadway and 17th during a march on downtown Oakland this evening. A significant police presence was on hand earlier. For
SF News 'Quan Lied' Front and Center on NYT Homepage Oakland mayor Jean Quan is standing firm. She is not resigning, or so she announced on Friday, after she was booed off the City Hall stage Thursday and after she was largely responsible
SF News Michael Moore Visiting Occupy Oakland This Afternoon Celebrity provocateur, filmmaker, and professional liberal Michael Moore is paying a visit to the impassioned kids at Occupy Oakland today, as he mentioned on his blog yesterday. His exact words, in a P.
SF News Mayor Quan Booed Back to City Hall; Occupy Oakland Reclaims Frank Ogawa Plaza In a failed attempt to apologize to Occupy Oakland protesters for the city's response to Tuesday night's melee, Mayor Jean Quan was booed from the public comment portion of the camp's General Assembl
Arts & Entertainment SFist Reviews: 'Hair' at the Golden Gate Theater It's amazing how the 1960s, which much of the culture has grown tired of making reference to over the years, have managed to become way more relevant in recent weeks than they felt
SF News Mayor Jean Quan 'Must Resign,' Says Keith Olbermann Noted TV personality and political donor Keith Olbermann says that Oakland Mayor Jean Quan needs to resign. Now. Why? Because of her mishandling of Tuesday night's Occupy Oakland assault care of OPD. In
SF News Scott Olsen Attacked for Using First Amendment Rights, Says His Uncle As most of you know by now, Scott Olsen, 24, who has survived two tours in Iraq, was seriously injured on Wednesday after the city of Oakland turned on Occupy Oakland protesters. Specifically,
SF News Jon Stewart On City's Response to Occupy Oakland "What the fuck happened in Oakland?" Jon Stewart asked during last night's Daily Show. "Seems a little heavy handed... unless some of the protesters were Godzilla," he went on to quip. The comedian
SF News Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen Critically Injured at Occupy Oakland Raid As a few SFist commenters noted, the person who was hit in the head with a projectile during last night's beanbag assault by Oakland police has been identified as Iraq veteran Scott Olsen.
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland... Workers clean Frank H. Ogawa plaza on Wednesday after the city of Oakland removed Occupy Oakland's encampment during an early Tuesday morning raid. After last night's melee with OPD, Occupy Oakland folks plan
SF News Occupy SF Plans to Move to Civic Center Plaza by November 5th We heard rumblings of this a few weeks back, but after arrests at Occupy San Jose and protests coming to a head in Oakland, members of Occupy SF in the city hope to
SF News Oakland Police Fling Flashbang Grenade Into Crowd Helping Ailing Man [Video] As a woman man lies crumpled on the ground after a beanbag assault by Oakland police during last night's scuffle between the city of Oakland and Occupy Oakland, several bystanders and protesters came
SF News Scenes From the Occupy Oakland vs. OPD Tuesday Night Melee Oakland, dude. There's hella more angry, semi-organized, semi-maybe-unemployed, restless kids over there. Well, at least a couple hundred more than there have been in the daily occupation at Occupy SF. And last night
SF News City of Oakland Tear Gas Occupy Oakland Protesters Into Submission [Video] The city of Oakland sent billowy plumes of searing tear gas into the eyes and determination of Occupy Oakland protesters tonight. Alas, when the gas settles by late evening, conversation will turn to
SF News Occupy Oakland "Not Finished" After this morning's temporary disembowelment of Occupy Oakland by the city of Oakland, the group sent out a strongly worded message in which they claim a) "it's not finished" and b) that they
SF News Occupy Oakland Ousted After Early Morning Police Raid Using tear gas and riot gear, an estimated 200 police conducted early morning raids on Occupy Oakland protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza on Tuesday. It took all of 30 minutes to clear out
SF News Occupy SF Marches on City Hall; Occupy Oakland Grows to Thousands The Occupy movement spread across the world with marches in Paris, London, Barcelona, Los Angeles, and all over the U.S. today, with everyone generally saying the same thing: capitalism kind of sucks
SF News Lupe Fiasco Visits Occupy Oakland, Donates Supplies [Video] Occupy Wall Street got a visit from Kanye West (in his very expensive-looking chain, natch), but over in Oakland the 99% got a more useful visit from fellow Chicago rapper Lupe Fiasco. Mr.
