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 Occupy Oakland Evicted in Early Morning Raid [UPDATED] Around 4:30 a.m. this morning dozens of Oakland Police officers in riot gear, along with backup from the Alameda County Sheriff's department and nearly a dozen area police agencies, again moved
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 Oakland City Council Members, Business Owners Have Shouting Match With Occupy Oakland We mentioned yesterday that a new showdown was brewing between the Oakland police and the Occupy Oakland camp as Mayor Jean Quan seems to be once again caving to pressure from the downtown
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 Another Showdown Afoot Between Occupy Oakland and Police It looks like Oakland mayor and incessant flip-flopper Jean Quan is once again about to try to oust the dirty hippies from her front yard, and we can promise you this isn't gonna
SF News Occupy SFist: Occupy Oakland Will Try Occupying Foreclosed Buildings; Former Boy Scout From Antioch Remains Jailed It's time for another roundup of the latest posted updates regarding the local, and not-so-local Occupy camps. Chron columnist and Oakland resident Chip Johnson is none too pleased with what he sees as
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 Occupy SFist: Another Iraq Vet Injured in Oakland, Sexual Assaults at Occupy Wall Street It's another roundup of Occupy-related bits, covering more than just the modest but proud S.F. camp. Over in Oakland, news has come out that a second Iraq war veteran was injured in
SF News Mayor Quan Doesn't Quite Get It, Asks Occupy Oakland to Move Somewhere 'Less Disruptive' For someone with a background as an activist herself, Oakland Mayor Jean Quan still doesn't seem to quite grasp how protests operate. As she told KCBS Radio's Doug Sovern in an interview, if
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
Arts & Entertainment Video: Jon Stewart Addresses Occupy Oakland's Retail Vandalism Problem On last night's Daily Show, host Jon Stewart reprised his role as Occupy Movement PR coach to remind everyone (again) that, "if this thing turns in to throwing trash cans in to Starbucks
SF News Video: Occupy Protesters Clash With Black-Masked Group During General Strike Although the Occupy Movement has emphatically preached peaceful non-violence during strikes and demonstrations, as we saw yesterday "anarchist groups" and fringe factions that take a different approach to the unrest are a growing
SF News Video: Pedestrian Intentionally Hit By Car During Occupy Oakland Strike? The following footage (via KTVU) shows a pedestrian being hit by car in downtown Oakland during the general strike. While, of course, the pedestrian could have moved and not slammed the hood of
SF News Gallery: Scenes from the Oakland General Strike Here now: photos from yesterday's general strike as seen by local photographers on the ground in Oakland, California.
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 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 Meanwhile, in Oakland... The Grand Lake Theater boasts its support of Occupy Oakland and Wednesday's general strike. The independent theater, as well as other businesses, will close tomorrow in a show of solidarity with the Occupy
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.
