SF News Oakland Braces for Occupy Anniversary Protest Occupy Oakland, the loosely organized off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street that gained national media attention last year because of the lengthy war they waged with Oakland police over the occupation of Frank Ogawa
SF News Occupy Celebrates First Anniversary With Financial District Protests [Schedule] If San Francisco's Occupy enthusiasts take their cues from Occupy Wall Street today in ringing in the first anniversary of the movement, you should be able to expect some traffic disruption, fresh street
SF News Occupy Anniversary Just Might Ruin Your Monday Commute Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and yesterday Occupy SF announced a Financial District protest beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday, which is sure to disrupt something, but how
SF News Occupy Protesters Envision The Leaderless Movement's Next Phase Last week's climactic worldwide May Day events, in which police and protesters clashed and black bloc protesters caused thousands of dollars worth of property damage, revived the nation's waning interest in the Occupy
SF News May Day: This Is What Downtown Oakland Looks Like Right Now [Updated] General Strike Day is well under way over in downtown Oakland, and we've got this almost-live picture of the scene, shot moments ago by SFist intern Owen. It's basically a street party right
SF News Occupiers Till Some Soil In East Bay, 'Take Back' UC Land For Farming A group calling themselves Occupy the Farm to Take Back the Gill Tract broke open a fence on Sunday surrounding some vacant land in Albany and, in honor of Earth Day, started building
SF News Man Occupies BART Track, Almost Dies A fellow named Michael, who may or may not be officially affiliated with the Occupy movement, jumped down onto the BART tracks at 24th Street Station yesterday afternoon and was almost hit by
SF News OccupySF Takes Over Vacant Building At Turk And Gough As part of the nationwide "We Won't Get Fooled Again" Day of Action, OccupySF has taken over a vacant building at 888 Turk (at Gough). The group says the building is owned by
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 Occupy Cal Protesters Ordered To Stay Away From UC Property Yesterday, over a dozen people charged in connection with last November's rowdy protests on the campus of UC Berkeley received a stay-away order issued by the Alameda County Superior Court. According to Berkeleyside,
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 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 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 Occupy SF Plans To Converge On Financial District Friday Billed as an "occu-popup," the cranky folks at Occupy SF plan on gathering in San Francisco's Financial District on Friday, January 20 to protest money and stuff. How can you get involved? Easy.
Arts & Entertainment Frank Chu Endorses... Mitt Romney? Noted local weirdo Frank Chu was spotted at an Occupy Wall Street West protest over the weekend. A Frank Chu appearance at an event where there is at least one camera present is
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 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 Occupy Berkeley Protests Eviction Notice By Occupying Berkeley Yesterday evening Occupiers in Berkeley's Civic Center park, like so many Occupiers before them, received an eviction notice. Citing increased crime in the park, Berkeley Police gave the campers a 10 p.m.
SF News Occupy SFers Still Being Arrested; Oakland Wants Occupier Shenanigans Stopped at All Costs [Updated] You and the rest of the planet are tired of reading Occupy headlines, but you might like to know that the SFPD arrested yet another person, under the Sit/Lie law, for plopping
