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 San Jose Protester Occupies Perch Over City Hall Occupy San Jose protester Shaun O'Kelly, who goes by the name of "Cracker", has been sitting on top a three-story wall at City Hall since early Monday morning. Cracker refuses to come down
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 Religious Leaders Join Occupy SF Proving that the Occupy SF movement isn't limited to the average and benign San Francisco protester, Bay Area's religious leaders joined the movement today. With denominations as varied as Muslim and Buddhist to
SF News [Updated] Fire Marshal Demands OccupySF Get Rid of Lead Car Batteries OccupySF has been receiving notices of several violations from various authorities over the past several days, the biggest of which is the use of lead car batteries at the camp. The camp has
Arts & Entertainment National Occupy March Today at 3 p.m. As part of the national Occupy Wall Street march happening today, OccupySF will be meeting at 3:00 p.m. at the Federal Reserve Building at 101 Market St. "Bring yourself! Bring Freedom!
SF News OccupySF Releases Rough Draft of "Homegrown Flyer" The OccupySF folks have come up with the first draft of what they call their "Home Grown flyer." They stress that it's not an official statement, but they would like it passed around
SF News San Francisco Startup Helps Put Occupy Wall Street Commercial on National TV Now here's a heartwarming nugget of startup PR: a San Francisco-based advertising startup is helping to put the voice of the 99% in front of the same target market as the big banks
Arts & Entertainment Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine Expected to Play Occupy SF Today According to the Occupy SF twitter account, liberal activist and radical guitarist Tom Morello is expected to make an appearance on Justin Herman Plaza this afternoon at 4 p.m. We don't have
SF News Updates from Occupy SF: Pep Talks from Robert Reich, Police Commission Meeting Disrupted and Occupying the Castro The Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza got another high-profile visitor yesterday evening when former Clinton administration Labor Secretary and current UC Berkeley professor Robert Reich dropped in to show his support.
SF News Occupy SF Asks: Why, Ed, Why? Behold: the "Why, Ed, Why?!" campaign, in which the mustachioed temporary mayor is depicted as a floating cartoon head with a riot helmet and a nightstick. Created by Occupy SF supporters in response
SF News Jane Kim Visits Occupy SF, Protesters Plan Midday Rally at City Hall Although vague twitter rumors seemed to suggest a tense mood at the Occupy SF encampment last night, the only confrontation on Justin Herman Plaza was D6 supe Jane Kim sticking it to Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Lemony Snicket's Take on Occupy Wall Street San Francisco gem Daniel Handler recently penned a clever synopsis of Occupy Wall Street through the voice of Lemony Snicket, entitled "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from
SF News Note from an Occupy SF Welcome Committee Member Friend of SFist, Scott Rossi, became a member of Occupy SF's Welcome Committee over the weekend, where he greeted newcomers at the group's camp at Justin Herman Plaza. As Scott notes, the camp
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Occupy SF Public Meditation in Union Square Say what you will about the Occupy movement and the idea of "collective meditation," but considering there were reports of violence at last night's protest here in San Francisco, some positive vibes never
SF News Reports of Violence as Sunday Night Confrontation at Occupy SF Ends in Five Arrests [UPDATED: Video] SFPD and members of Occupy SF butt heads Sunday night as authorities attempted to forcibly remove the Occupy encampment at Justin Herman Plaza starting around 10:30 p.m. According to ABC7, Police
SF News Photos: Occupy San Francisco Marches on City Hall Reports from yesterday's Occupy SF solidarity march suggest that thousands of people showed up to show their support for the Occupy movement. Protesters marched from the Occupy SF general assembly at the Federal
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 Scenes From a Public Education Demonstration at the Palace Hotel Protesters affiliated with Occupy SF, the Occupy Wall Street Movement and several teachers groups descended on the Palace Hotel yesterday evening to protest Jeb Bush's conservative education conference and what they view as
SF News Occupy Richmond Pops Up with Blessing of City Officials, Cops Yesterday afternoon a group of "about six dozen" protesters gathered in downtown Richmond, California to add their voices to the cacophony of Occupy Wall Street protests. For about an hour yesterday, residents, activists
SF News John Avalos Discusses Occupy SF with Keith Olbermann [Video] After finally getting to the bottom of what Occupy Wall Street wants last week, Keith Olbermann turned his attention to the movement's expansion to San Francisco's Financial District last night. To lend some
Arts & Entertainment Occupy SF to Protest Jeb Bush's Conference at Palace Hotel Today Folks involved in the rapidly-growing Occupy SF and Occupy Wall Street movements will converge on the Palace Hotel today. Why? Well, nothing to do with the hotel itself, that's for sure. (The Palace
SF News SF Bank Execs Charged With Bailout Fraud United Commercial Bank CEO Thomas Wu and vice presidents Ebrahim Shabudin and Thomas Yu were hit with federal charges from the Securities and Exchange Commission after accepting a whopping $298 million taxpayer bailout
