SF News Occupy Protesters Take Over Castro Building Very Briefly [Update] A little before 6 p.m. on Wednesday night, a teacupful of Occupy protesters (or not) "wearing black masks" worked their way into an empty building at 535 Castro Street to temporarily occupy
SF News Final San Francisco Occupy Encampment Cleared Facing a protester shouting "fascist pigs!" over a bullhorn, cops cleansed San Francisco's final Occupy encampment a little before midnight last night in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco building
SF News Watch Occupy's One-Year Anniversary Action Live! Watch some Occupy members speak reasonably (home foreclosures; criminalization of poverty) and very few Occupy nutballs spew gibberish (purple pony apple princesses in the sky; anything regarding SF City Hall) via journalist Justin
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
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
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 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 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
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
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 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 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
Arts & Entertainment Lemony Snicket's Take on Occupy Wall Street San Francisco gem Daniel Handler recently penned a clever synopsis of Occupy Wall Street through the voice of Lemony Snicket, entitled "Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from
SF News Note from an Occupy SF Welcome Committee Member Friend of SFist, Scott Rossi, became a member of Occupy SF's Welcome Committee over the weekend, where he greeted newcomers at the group's camp at Justin Herman Plaza. As Scott notes, the camp
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Occupy SF Public Meditation in Union Square Say what you will about the Occupy movement and the idea of "collective meditation," but considering there were reports of violence at last night's protest here in San Francisco, some positive vibes never
SF News Homeless Activists Take Over Cathedral Hill Hotel [Updated] Monday night's World Homeless Action Day demonstration sounds like it was a rousing good time despite the evening rain. According to one demonstrator's report, the festive-sounding event began at Civic Center with some
SF News SFPD Demands Occupy SF Encampment to Shutter Police asked residents, if you will, of the tiny tent town outside the Federal Reserve Bank at 101 Market Street to scatter last night. The shantytown occupying the area was built in support
SF News Scenes From Today's OccupySF March Up Market Street A mid-day rain threatened to sog the throng of protesters who gathered at the Federal Reserve at 101 Market Street today, but luckily the squall passed and the march proceeded as planned. By
Arts & Entertainment OccupySF Midday March Today The cranky yet spirited folks at OccupySF, an Occupy Wall Street splinter group showing west coast solidarity, will hold a march up Market Street today. The group will meet at the San Francisco
SF News 'Occupy Wall Street' S.F. Protesters Planning Sleepover Arrested During yesterday evening's Occupy Wall Street protests (a.k.a. #OccupySF, if you're social media savvy), six members of the reportedly hundreds-strong group of protesters came prepared for an actual occupation—a cuddly
SF News Scenes from San Francisco's Occupy Wall Street Protest Back East marches on Wall Street protesting the major banking institutions have been going on for nearly two weeks now under the Twitter-friendly #OccupyWallStreet banner. Today, those protests spread to San Francisco where
