SF News Live: SEIU Protest At San Francisco City Hall In Progress Justin Beck is live at City Hall covering today's SEIU occupation. So far there are an estimated hundred or so protesters inside, one brandishing a bullhorn to shout and chant stuff. Supervisors Eric
SF News SEIU Planning Wisconsin-Style Occupation Of San Francisco City Hall The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) local 1021 will attempt a Wisconsin-style occupation of San Francisco City Hall starting tonight and going well into tomorrow, May Day. Via the SEIU Facebook page, "We
SF News Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled Er, never mind. Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that
SF News Photos: Downtown One Big Traffic Jam As Occupy SF Takes Over Wells Fargo [Updated] Scads of Occupy activists marched to the Wells Fargo offices at California for the annual shareholders meeting. According to ABC 7, "An estimated 400 people are protesting outside " the building right now. "The
SF News Occupy To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Occupy just stopped being polite, and started getting real: Tuesday, May 1st a general strike has been called for the Golden Gate Bridge in an effort to "show the Golden Gate Bridge Highway
Arts & Entertainment Occupy SF To Interrupt Bank Shareholders Meeting Next Week From 4 p.m. to midnight on Monday, April 23, members of OccupySF will rally in front of the Wells Fargo building at California and Montgomery. According to a press release, it's attempt
Arts & Entertainment Tea Party Rally At Justin Herman Plaza This Saturday On Saturday, the country's foremost group on anti-government paranoia will descend upon Justin Herman Plaza on to protest the national debt. (Pst, it's tax day on Sunday Tuesday, April 17.) Are we talking
SF News Fancied A 'Crime Scene' By Cops, SFPD Raids OccupySF Commune Oh dear, here we go: San Francisco police have declared the OccupySF takeover of a vacant building at 888 Turk (at Gough) a "crime scene," and have raided the building, according to KGO.
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 Car Plows Through Occupy Demonstrators At UC Santa Cruz UC Santa Cruz students and professors are taking part today in a massive protest to state education cuts. It's all part of peaceful Occupy Education rallies occurring at numerous UC and CSU schools,
SF News Listen To Former Prisoners' Stories At San Quentin Rally Noted journalist Justin Beck is live at San Quentin today capturing stories of prisoners at the National Occupy Day in Support of Prisoners. Today's goals? Drawing attention to ending mass incarceration; abolishing inhumane
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 Meanwhile, At Frank Ogawa Plaza... Graffiti gets the message out at the entrance to Frank Ogawa Plaza this morning following Saturday's day of action in Oakland and OPD's brutal response. After a confrontation with police, demonstrators entered City
SF News Occupy Wall Street West Plans Day Of Disruption, Activism In S.F. [Livestream] At around 6 a.m. Friday, Occupy Wall Street West began its day-long, rain-soaked protest, which, if all goes according to plan, will disrupt business as usual in San Francisco's Financial District. First
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.
SF News Activists Turn Bank Of America ATMs Into 'Truth Machines' Overnight Local rapscallions from the Rainforest Action Network (RAN) turned Bank of America ATMs into temporary political machines of activism overnight. Using non-adhesive stickers designed to look like BoA's ATM screens. In lieu of
SF News Oakland Cops Demoted, Suspended For Covering Name Tags During Occupy Oakland Protest Do you remember this footage of an OPD officer covering his name tag with black tape (which is a no-no) during the Occupy Oakland general strike? Viemo user BLK PXLS (AKA Terrence Jerod
SF News Allegations Of Police Brutality Mar Occupy Oakland 'F**k OPD' Protest Six people were arrested during Saturday night's "Fuck OPD" march after protesters allegedly turned surly with riot officers. According to The Chronicle, "The showdown Saturday night happened at the corner of Ninth and
SF News Occupy Tree-Sitters Return To Frank Ogawa Plaza And just like that, a smattering of Occupy Oakland protesters have returned to Frank Ogawa. But this time they've taken to the trees. OakFoSho has recorded footage he shot live at the scene
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 New Occupy Encampment Springs Up In West Oakland Just when you thought they might be hibernating, more than a dozen tents went up last night at a new Occupy Oakland encampment on the 2000 block of Peralta Street near Mandela Parkway.
SF News Local Astrologist Predicts Bad Vibes For Mayor Quan's Post-Occupy Career Occupiers, political pundits, twitter humorists and TV talking heads have all been speculating on what the post-Occupy future holds for embattled Oakland mayor Jean Quan. While the general consensus seems to be "she
SF News Aquapy Lake Merritt Underway A small yet jovial splinter group from the Occupy movement emerged in the glacial waters of Lake Merritt over the weekend. Calling themselves Aquapy Lake Merritt, the group built a large raft, armed
Arts & Entertainment Hiya & Heklina At Rebel For Occupy SF Benefit Doing anything on Sunday? No? Yes? Well, even if you are, you should fix your janky calendar and instead head over to Rebel (a gay bar) and have former SF Weekly scribe Hiya
