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Occupy Oakland Leads Monday's West Coast Port Shutdown

Continuing with the momentum of last month's general strike, Occupy Oakland has organized a West Coast Shutdown to begin bright and early on Monday morning. The group has joined forces with Occupy groups

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Oakland Paints Over OWS Signage On House Without Permission [Updated]

Occupy Oakland supporter Casey Dolan had been using the front door of her house, which her boyfriend owns, to advertise info about the Occupy protests, and apparently the City of Oakland wasn't liking

Occupy SF Evicted In Early Morning Raid, 70 Arrested

Just before 2 a.m. Wednesday morning, SFPD officers in riot gear moved in to clear out the Occupy SF encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. After making an announcement over a loudspeaker, Police

Occupy SF And Oakland To Occupy Individual Homes Facing Foreclosure Today

We want to be supportive of the Occupy movement. We do. But as with all things (and like most Americans), we bore easily. But we're trying to stay alert and remain positive as

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Notes From An Occupation: Police Infighting

Friend of SFist and dedicated Occupy SF participant Scott Rossi was on the scene at last night's big barricade event. Highlights include details about the crowd knocking down the barricades and an eye-witness

Only Two Arrested After Occupy SF Protests Police Barricades

As we noted, SFPD moved in Justin Herman Plaza to set up barricades around the Occupy Camp yesterday evening. SFPD spokescop Sgt. Mike Andraychak told the press the move was intended to "define

Occupy... Fremont?

Fremont, that oft-ignored city to the east, will get its very own Occupy movement starting today at 10 a.m. A march is set to begin at Walnut Avenue and Fremont Boulevard with

Group Of 99% Supporters Wants To Occupy Ad Space In The Chron

A small group of East Bay Occupy supporters hopes to put their message in front of thousands of Chronicle subscribers by taking out a full-page ad in the Bay Area's paper of record.

Occupy SF Says No Thanks To Sketchy Mission Campsite

San Francisco's Occupy contingent voted last night to stay put on the relatively luxurious bocce ball grounds at Justin Herman Plaza, thereby shooting down the Mayor's offer to move to a pre-blighted block

Occupy SF Basically Clearing Out, Says The Chronicle

With news from various local Occupy camps mostly settling down, the Chronicle's number one homeless camping critic weighs in on the current state of Justin Herman Plaza today. According to C.W. Nevius,

Occupy Oakland Attempting Re-Occupation Of Frank Ogawa Plaza Today

Occupy Oakland issued a statement today that they intend, presumably after dark and after their non-camping supporters get off work, to attempt to re-occupy Oscar Grant Frank Ogawa Plaza today. After being kicked

UC Davis Chancellor Apologizes For Pepper Spray Incident

With tears in her eyes and a warble in her throat, UC Chancellor Linda Katehi apologized to more than 1,000 students and protesters on Monday over the use of pepper spray against

UC Davis English Department Calls For Chancellor Katehi's Resignation

On the heels of Saturday's brutal pepper spraying of peaceful Occupy student protesters at the at UC Davis campus, the Board of the Davis Faculty Association called for the immediate resignation of UCS

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UC Davis Pepper Spraying Cop Turns Into Meme

For better or for worse, the UC Davis pepper spraying cop has turned into a white-hot, photoshopped thing folks currently love to blast out over a sundry of social media outlets. Which is

Boing Boing Interviews Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Student

Boing Boing has an interview up with a 22-year-old UC Davis student going by the name of W, who was one of the students sprayed in the now infamous pepper-spray attack last Friday.

S.F.P.D. Raids Occupy SF 101 Market Site [Updated]

S.F.P.D. has cleared out the Occupy SF camp in front of the Federal Reserve Building at 101 Market tonight, and two buses worth of police are still in the area.

UC Davis Follow-Up: Chancellor's Eerily Silent Walk of Shame [Video], Faculty Member's Open Letter

As the Second Alarm reports [via BoingBoing], a large crowd of student protesters and their supporters interrupted a press conference on Saturday afternoon with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and campus police, demanding

UC Davis Police Brutally Pepper Spray Student Protesters [Video]

Yesterday afternoon on the campus of UC Davis, 10 students were arrested in a particularly aggressive confrontation between an Occupy protest group and UC Davis police. After some protesters refused to remove their

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Revealed: The Money Behind Occupy Wall Street, According to Local Conspiracy Theorist

The block of Geary and Larkin was peppered with this curious yellow flyer yesterday outlining the author's belief that prominent liberal philanthropists George Soros and the Rothschilds are behind the Occupy Wall Street

Meanwhile, In New York...

There was a march tonight numbering in the thousands going across the Brooklyn Bridge, in support of Occupy Wall Street where things got a little messy again today. One guerrilla projectionist managed to

Prepare Yourselves for More Flashmobs

Yesterday, AdBusters, the Vancouver-based anti-consumerism organization credited with starting the push to occupy public spaces around the country, sent out the latest of it's "Tactical Briefing" emails to supporters of the movement. After

Mayor Lee, DPW Lay Out New Rules for Occupy Campers

As we know, Mayor Lee took a tour of Justin Herman Plaza to prep for a sit-down meeting with representatives from the Occupy movement yesterday. His verdict on the camp? With around 200

Occupy Cal Cleared Out, Two Arrested

In another early morning sweep by officers in riot gear, UCPD cleared out some 20 tents from the Occupy Cal camp on Sproul Plaza. Charitably, cops who surrounded the camp around 3:30

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Third Eye Blind Pens New Song About Occupy Wall Street

Third Eye Blind, who got their start in San Francisco during the real world '90s, penned a new song dedicated to the Occupy Wall Street movement. It's called "If Ever There Was A

SFPD Clears Out Occupy SF Overflow Camp

Around 1:30 a.m. last night, SFPD moved in to clear out the "bridge camp" that popped up over the weekend to span the tent-free blocks between Justin Herman Plaza and the