SF News Protesters Take Over Board of Supervisors Meeting, Completely Shut the Meeting Down In a protest that had little or nothing to do with Donald Trump, dozens of pro-union protesters managed to shout down and shut down Tuesday's SF Board of Supervisors meeting, in a demonstration against Mayor Lurie’ proposed budget cuts and layoffs.
SF News Thousands Pack the Mission for Peaceful ICE Protest; SFPD Pulls Pepper Spray On Separate, Smaller Civic Center Protest As many as 10,000 protesters jammed the streets of the Mission District Monday night in yet more public opposition to ICE actions in California, but a small splinter group hit Civic Center late at night, leading to arrests and SFPD pepper sprayings.
SF News Sunday Links: Hundreds Attend Juanita More’s People’s March, Dance Party, For Democracy Hundreds marched and danced during the annual People's March for Democracy; ICE now has access to the records of undocumented immigrants under federal investigation; and a 64-year-old man reportedly propositioned two underage girls in Petaluma.
SF News Thousands Attend ‘Hands Off’ Anti-Trump Protests Across Bay Area, Nationwide Thousands of demonstrators showed up to “Hands Off” protests across the Bay Area on Saturday, and at least 1,400 nationwide, in the biggest show of resistance yet against the current administration.
SF News Saturday Links: OpenAI’s Viral Studio Ghibli Generator Takes Dark Turn With White House ICE Meme The White House used ChatGBT's Studio Ghibli generator to create a whimsical image of a real ICE arrest; there's a pronatalist matchmaking conference in Austin this weekend; and Canadian-Asian supermarket, T&T is coming to SF in 2026.
SF News Watch: Older Woman In Berkeley Gives a Whoopin’ to Pro-Trump Counterprotester Who Tried to Stun-Gun Her The Bay Area’s latest viral video star is a woman who opened a can of whoop-ass on some young Trumper half her age after he tried to stun-gun her at a Berkeley Tesla protest Saturday.
SF News Scenes From Saturday's Protest at SF's Tesla Showroom Yesterday‘s rally at SF’s Tesla showroom had another large turnout with protesters crowded around the intersection and in the center island on Van Ness. The energy was lively as participants chanted and waved to drivers who honked encouragingly, along with the occasional dog, barking in solidarity.
SF News Judge Dismisses Most Charges Against Gaza Protesters Who Blocked the Golden Gate Bridge A big courtroom win for the protesters known as “the GG26” who blocked the Golden Gate Bridge with a Gaza ceasefire protest on April 15, as an SF judge has thrown out 32 of the 44 charges that DA Brooke Jenkins had brought against them.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Set Up Encampment Outside SF Federal Building, But Police Clear It Quickly Is a tent encampment really the best form of protest in San Francisco regarding the situation in Gaza? A few dozen protesters figured so on Monday, but were quickly driven off by police with something resembling rubber bullets.
SF News Pro-Palestine Protesters Block Entrances to UC Santa Cruz, Classes Moved Online Both entrances to UC Santa Cruz were blocked Tuesday, and classes moved online, as that school becomes the latest UC campus flummoxed by the disruptions of pro-Palestine protesters.
SF News Berkeley Protesters Have Broken Into and Occupied Empty Building In Renewed Pro-Palestine Protest Just after UC Berkeley had successfully cleared the large tent encampment that was protesting the university's military- and Israel-related investments, another renegade group has occupied the school's empty Anna Head Hall, though their anti-semitic graffiti may not be helping their cause.
SF News UC Berkeley Gaza Solidarity Encampment Grows to 175 Tents; Violence Breaks Out at UCLA Protest The college campus protests sweeping the nation have of course also swept UC Berkeley, with an estimated 175 tents now pitched at Sproul Plaza — up from just a dozen last week — and classes have been canceled at UCLA today amidst an outbreak of violence at that school’s protest.
SF News Golden Gate Bridge Protesters Released From Jail, But Still Might Face Felony Charges SF DA Brooke Jenkins released the couple dozen people who were in jail for blocking the Golden Gate Bridge in Monday's Gaza ceasefire protest, and they haven’t even been charged, though Jenkins is vowing they’ll be investigated for possible felony charges.
SF News Hayward Man Charged With Hate Crime for Burning Israeli Flag at Israel-Hamas Protest 36-year-old Christopher Khamis Victor Husary is in jail for allegedly stealing two counterprotesters’ Israeli flags and setting one of them on fire at a January El Cerrito protest, and now faces arson, grand theft, robbery, and hate crime charges.
SF News Yet Another Gaza Protest Shuts Down Major SF Financial District Intersection After pro-Palestine protesters briefly blocked an SF Central Freeway onramp Monday afternoon, the protesters were back at it Tuesday morning, shutting down an intersection at Market and Montgomery streets.
SF News SF Mayor London Breed Comes Out Against Supervisors' Gaza Ceasefire Resolution Passed This Week Breed issued a statement on Friday that said that the resolution is not the “official view of the entire city of San Francisco.”
SF News Pro-Palestine Youth Rally in SF Draws One of the Palestinian Students Who Was Shot in Vermont Several hundred protesters marched on Market Street Wednesday night calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and among them was one of the three Palestinian college students who was shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend.
SF News Police Arrest 4 People After Union Square Pro-Palestine Protest Saturday SFPD arrested 3 adults and 1 minor in the aftermath of Saturday afternoon's protest in San Francisco’s downtown shopping district, in which one man with a "Free Palestine" sign climbed the giant Union Square Christmas tree.
SF News APEC Protester Says Chinese Government Was Behind Him Getting Roughed Up After Protest A protester who was assaulted after an APEC demonstration claims the attack was the work of Chinese government “thugs,” and a couple members of Congress find the claim credible enough that they’re calling for an investigation.
SF News Protesters at Port of Oakland Try to Block Ship They Say Is Carrying Military Supplies to Israel A demonstration of some 200 protesters calling for a ceasefire in Gaza is attempting to block a ship at the Port of Oakland that they say is carrying military supplies to Israel, though longshoremen say there’s nothing on the ship.
SF News Saturday Afternoon Rally at the Embarcadero Urges Ceasefire in Gaza Activists planned a demonstration in support of Palestinians near the Harry Bridges Plaza and San Francisco Ferry Building starting at 1 p.m. Saturday.
SF News Hollywood's Strike Reaches Silicon Valley: Writers, Actors, and Activists Picket Netflix HQ in Los Gatos Amid the nationwide SAG-AFTRA and Writers Guild of America strike, writers and actors including Sorry to Bother You's Michael Sommers protested Netflix's office in the South Bay Thursday.
SF News Where You Can Attend (And Expect) Breonna Taylor Protests in the Bay Area Wednesday and Thursday Earlier Wednesday, a grand jury indicted now-fired Louisville police detective Brett Hankison on charges of endangering Breonna Taylor’s neighbors by carelessly firing his gun during the March raid on her apartment — but no officers were charged with the killing of the slain 26-year-old.
SF News 'People's March & Rally' Reminds San Francisco the Fight for Equality Isn't Over on SF Pride's 50th Anniversary Pride in SF this year saw the pandemic shutter its iconic parade and almost all other events. But, one of today's LGBTQ rallies galvanized the notion that the fight for radical, all-inclusive acceptance isn’t over — and helped reintroduce Pride to its activist origins.
SF News Scenes of Solidarity: Photos and Videos From This Weekend's Demonstrations Across the Bay Area As you've maybe heard: traffic on the Bay Bridge is starting to lift after a 50-plus-car caravan protest temporarily blocked the westbound lanes. But this weekend was also filled with dozens of other local nonviolent demonstrations, one being a "blackout march" at City Hall.
