SF News SF Police Chief Talks Occupy SF Response [UPDATED] Compared to OPD and the city of Oakland's reaction, the San Francisco Police Department's response to cleansing out the encampment at Justin Herman Plaza was a gentlemen's affair. No serious injures were reported,
SF News 'Remove Jean Quan' Website Gives Mayor Green Lips The Remove Jean Quan site went live Thursday morning. Run by Gene Hazzard, an Oakland Post photog and member of the Oakland Black Caucus, he has for whatever reason given the Oakland Mayor
Arts & Entertainment Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Talks Occupy At Commonwealth Club, 12/15 Next Thursday, December 15, controversial Oakland mayor Jean Quan will come to our side of the pond to take part in a panel discussion at The Commonwealth Club called Occupy: What Now, What
SF News Occupiers Vow To Retake Justin Herman Plaza In SF [Updates] Members of Occupy SF, who were booted from Justin Herman Plaza early this morning, are now in the process of trying to reclaim the area. At least three people have been arrested so
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Occupy Misguidedly Protests Small Business Tacolicious A group of Occupyists protesting Mission evictions on Saturday afternoon wrongly accused Tacolicious and its owner, Joe Hargrave, a small-business owner of evildoings. Brimming with Tea Party-like fervor, hope and confusion, "hundreds" of
SF News 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
SF News SFPD Putting Up Barricades Around Occupy SF Encampment [Updated] Uh oh, you guys. We're getting word that the SFPD is throwing up barricades around the Occupy SF camp at Justin Herman Plaza. We don't yet know what this means, but a confrontation
SF News High Noon At Occupy SF: Little Police Presence It's past noon and Occupy SF campers remain put after the city gave the Justin Herman Plaza encampment orders to clear out today. Or else. Or else what? We'll have to wait and
SF News Jerry Brown Wants Tax Hikes On 1% Gov. Jerry Brown's new measure will ask voters to raise taxes on the wealthy over the next five years. His tax initiative, slated for the November 2012 ballot as soon as Friday, could
SF News Occupy SF Has Until Noon To Clear Out The Department of Public Works gave Occupy SF word yesterday that they have until noon Thursday to clear out. The makeshift tent city at Justin Herman Plaza has become a public health hazard
SF News Occupy Oakland Erects Teepee Honoring Sioux Indians & AIDS Activists Zachary Runningwolf, the Occupy Oakland tree camper, burns sage after erecting a teepee on the North side of the plaza to honor Sioux Indians, homeless workers and AIDS activists. When Runningwolf and Oakland
SF News Revolution Irrelevant To U.S. 'Time' Magazine Readers? The question might be of the "chicken or the egg" variety: Is it censorship, dumbing down, or a little bit of both? As documented in this poignant Imgur post, Time magazine routinely changes
SF News OccupySF Descends On Union Square For Black Friday Protest A protest underway in Union Square has loads of Occupy SF supporters blocking traffic, drumming loudly, and attempting to occupy stores. Protesters have gathered in the city's tony shopping district to shun Black
SF News Thanksgiving Potty Police Riot Befalls Occupy Oakland After police turned away a truck driver delivering Porta-Potties to Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on Thursday, Occupy Oakland members and OPD erupt into a heated (albeit brief) scuffle. Police said that the truck
Arts & Entertainment Photo Du Jour Daniel Ellsberg speaks during the Nov. 20, 2011 occupation of Market Street in San Francisco, shot by Justin Beck. Beck reports: At about 4:40 p.m., occupiers decided to take back the
SF News 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
SF News 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
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News UC President Yudof 'Appalled' By UC Davis Pepper Spraying Students After UC Davis police pepper sprayed students peacefully protesting the Occupy movement on Saturday, University of California President Mark Yudof announced plans to take immediate action against yesterday's aggressive, misguided dust-up. If you
SF News Meanwhile, at Occupy SF... Few can sum up a scene the way blouz can. He writes, "Recently re-elected mayor Ed Lee Willie Brown visits OccupySF this morning with Matier & Ross of CBS Morning edition." [via @QueenKV]
SF News 'I'm One of the 99 Percent,' Said Rev. Williams Who Fed Occupy SF Protesters Glide Memorial Church's Rev. Cecil Williams showed up to the Occupy San Francisco encampment on Thursday to deliver soul food "and a strong message of support" to protesters. "I'm one of the 99
SF News Occupy SF Sent Eviction Notice According to Occupy SF ilk, the Department of Public Health distributed a letter telling them to remove their tents along Market Street. They must move immediately. "Twenty representatives came down and distributed letters
Arts & Entertainment 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
SF News Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal to Merge in 'Carnivalesque' Union After Monday morning's Occupy Oakland raid dismantled the encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza, the noted East Bay protesters, now without a headquarters, will merge with Occupy UC Berkeley protesters today. According to The
SF News Hundreds of Occupy Oakland Protesters Return to Frank Ogawa Plaza Protesters returned to a newly cleared Frank Ogawa Plaza to protest this morning's Oakland Police raid that wiped out the encampment. The scene, at least for now, remains relatively peaceful. Plainclothes police officers
