SF News Occupy SFist: Mayor Lee Drops In, Quan Admits to Pre-Raid Conference Call Mayor Lee wants Occupiers to find a private space (so we suggest a few), Mayor Quan hints at a nationwide coordinated eviction effort, and new reports surface of less-than-ideal conditions on Justin Herman
SF News SFPD Unloads Barricades Next to Occupy SF Camp On Justin Herman Plaza SFPD have shown up with metal barricades, the Examiner reports this afternoon. Predictably, the arrival of the metal fences has triggered fears of an impending raid amongst the demonstrators
SF News Occupy SFist: Vets Enlist in S.F, Permit-Camping in Santa Rosa, Strike Called for Berkeley The veterans speak up, Oakland PD are fed up, property managers are ticked and Santa Rosa City Hall is basically a state park: Ferry Building shenanigans aside, things are happening around the various
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Theft, Human Feces, Sponge Baths: Ferry Building Furious Over Occupy SF Crimes Ferry Building property manager Jane Connors wrote two letters to City Hall detailing supposed crimes perpetrated by some thoughtless Occupy SF members. An increase in shoplifting, break-ins and, ugh, reports of abandoned human
SF News Reports of Disorderly Conduct Near Occupy SF Not Helping Camp's Image While things have generally been quiet around Justin Herman Plaza lately, no camp raids or riots to speak of, the Occupy SF camp attracted rowdy out-of-towners over the past few days. And that
SF News Meanwhile, in Berkeley... A large number of police gather to remove an Occupy Cal encampment that sprung up on Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley this afternoon. On Monday UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau
SF News Scene of Occupy SF Camp Before Rain Arrives Josh Sullivan snapped this shot of the Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza this week. A heavy storm is scheduled for Friday, which makes us wonder: what will happen to Occupy camps
SF News Occupy SFist: Reporters Arrested, Post-Election Fears, and Taking an Occupier to Dinner A roundup of newsworthy items from Justin Herman plaza, the aftermath of the Oakland general strike and, of course, how this all affects the local restaurant industry. Down on Justin Herman Plaza, members
SF News Police Officer Busted for Covering Name Tag During Occupy Oakland Strike BLK PXLS captured this superb footage of an Oakland policer officer covering up his name tag during Wednesday's chaotic, tear gas-filled Occupy Oakland general strike. When asked about the black tap over his
SF News Oakland Braces for Occupy General Strike [UPDATED] The scene at 14th and Broadway, noted as the Occupy Oakland epicenter, has grown in numbers as the morning wears at today's general strike. With chants of "take the streets, take the streets"
SF News Fed Up Local Woman Occupies Her Foreclosed Home Former sheriff's deputy Carolyn Gage brought a small portion of the Occupy movement to the Bayview yesterday, where she vowed to reclaim the home she lost to foreclosure. Gage led a group of
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Oakland Businesses Go 'Cash-Only' In Support of General Strike Don Harbison, owner of B Restaurant and Bar (with locations in SF and Oakland), sent SFist a list of Oakland companies taking part in today's general strike by going cash-only and eschewing credit
SF News Occupy Oakland Has Its Own Newspaper Similar to Occupy Wall Street, Occupy Oakland has its own paper now. It's called Occupy Oakland Tribune. The premier issue features such tidbits as today's general strike (which could the biggest East Bay
SF News Occupy SFist: Occupy SF Marches, Still Dwarfed By Oakland A small but merry band of Occupy SF kids marched up Market Street this afternoon, flanked by a police detail that was about as large as they were. They appeared to number about
SF News Tenderloin Stabbing Victim Eschews Hospital, Seeks Help From Occupy SF A tenderloin mugging victim, left beaten and bloodied after her attacker realized she had no money, decided to seek out medical attention from some other downtrodden and financially strapped San Franciscans early this
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
Arts & Entertainment Thousand-Plus Turn Out for "Tax the 1%" Banner at Ocean Beach Over a thousand participants showed up at Ocean Beach today to be part of the human banner spelling out "Tax the 1%," which had a better ring to it than the initial plans
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Human "Tax the Rich" Banner at Ocean Beach In concurrence with the Occupy movement, folks will be forming a human banner at Ocean Beach tomorrow morning, which will spell out "TAX THE RICH!" Over 600 people -- and counting -- have
SF News Last Night at Occupy SF: Plaza Politics and the SFPD's Muni Joyride After Oakland's Occupy protests turned violent Tuesday night, the mood at the Occupy SF counterpart on Justin Herman Plaza was agreeable, but noticeably tense on Wednesday. Attendance may not have been as staggering
SF News Occupy Movement Offshoot Takes on Neighborhood Chase Bank Branch The installation of a new branch of Chase Bank on Divisadero Street at Oak Street has spawn at least one hyper-local offshoot of the greater Occupy Sf and Occupy Wall Street movements. As
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
