SF News Cinemark's CEO Donated 9,999 Bucks to Yes on 8 Alan Stock, CEO of Cinemark Theaters, donated $9,999 to anti-gay Prop. 8. According to AmericaBlog, it's "time to avoid this cinema like the plague." But what say you? Cinemark operates 2700 screens
SF News Save Same-Sex Marriage: Nationwide Prop. 8 Protest This Saturday, 11/15 Early Saturday in San Francisco there will be another massive protest against Proposition 8's passing. But this time it will be a nationwide event, with demonstrations in each state. (Another one, you say?
SF News Ask SFist: A Call for Constructive Prop. 8 Overturning Tactics Is it out of your system yet? While all of this in-fighting, blaming, exempting, and naive attacks of reverse-discrimination (a chortle-inducing term if there ever was one) has been fun, let's get down
SF News California Musical Theatre Aristic Director Donated to Prop. 8 Queers are calling for a boycott of the California Musical Theatre -- at least according to the -- after discovering that its artistic director, Scott Eckern, donated $1,000 to Prop. 8. Eckern
SF News "F*ck Mormons" Sign Removed CBS 5's Joe Vazquez reports that the big, pink "Fuck Mormons" banner has been removed. While rumors of photoshopping swirled, CBS 5 managed to figure out that, yes, the sign was, in fact,
SF News Keith Olbermann, Hollywood Power Players Fume Over Prop. 8 Well, this is pretty powerful stuff. Last night, Keith Olberman's "Special Comment" was about Prop 8. Also, Kevin Sessums over at the Daily Beast talks to Hollywood power players David Geffen, Darren Star,
misc More Prop 8 Protests Coming Up, but we See Worrisome Obstacles in the Immediate Future So what's the deal with the next round of Prop 8 protests? Oh, we are so glad you asked. The next big one in SF is this Saturday at 10:30am at City
SF News SF Home Displays Large "F*ck Mormons" Banner No-on-8 folks, this isn't necessary. Lord knows the other side, if you will, is just waiting for the stop Prop. 8 movement to use its salad fork during the entree course, so let's
SF News Scenes from Prop. 8 Protest in Sacramento, CA, 11/9 Sorry to inundate you with even more protest-ness, but this is happening all over the state today, citizens protesting Prop. 8's passing -- e.g., the protest at Oakland's Mormon Temple, the big
SF News Scenes from Prop. 8 Protest at Oakland's Mormon Temple, 11/9 As we mentioned earlier today, a protest at the Mormon temple in Oakland forced the CHP to shut down some Highway 13 ramps. Here are some shots of today's protest in progress. Sure,
SF News Oakland Protest at Mormon Church Closes Highway Ramps A budding Prop 8 rally outside the LDS Temple in Oakland has forced the CHP to shut down some Highway 13 ramps.According to the Gate, "CHP officials said do not know when
SF News Thousands Gather for Prop 8. Protest March, 11/7, San Francisco With four helicopters flying overhead, we had no idea what to expect early this evening at Market and Seventh Street, at least in terms of turnout, regarding tonight's Prop. 8 protest. It was
SF News Who Can We Blame for Prop. 8's Passing? Now that the election is over, people are, understandably, blinded with rage over Prop. 8's passing. But more importantly, in what direction can we point our shaky, self-righteous fingers? Who gets the stink
SF News Protest Prop 8 March on Friday Wish you went to last night's Prop. 8 protest instead of watching Dancing with the Stars? Well, you get another chance. Tomorrow there will be an even bigger protest (Friday) against Prop 8.
misc Prop. 8 Opinion: Let's Just Ban Marriage Altogether Shamelessly breaking boundaries here at SFist, we're letting budding SFist star Tiffany Maleshefski use the first-person voice with this opinion piece. Not because youu Editor necessarily disagrees with the sentiment; it just works
SF News Thousands Protest Over Prop. 8 Here was the scene last night at City Hall, where over 2,000 people protested Proposition 8's passing. The crowed chanted "Marriage, equality, U.S.A.," and marched throughout the streets of San
SF News BART closes three stations after fare evaders charge the gates After a gaggle of youths jumped the turnstiles at the Richmond, Fruitvale and Coliseum stations, BART decided to close down the three stations. Yikes. According to the Gate, around 60 people jumped the
SF News Today's Protest: Save Rent Control Just so this protest isn't riddled with members of the progressive elite -- they always manage to turn the lives of the, ahem, disenfranchised into self-serving photo-ops, don't they? -- those of you
SF News Photos: Anonymous' Scientology Protest Aw, we've missed you guys! Anonymous was out in full force this Saturday, protesting the Church of Scientology over at the Montgomery Street compound. (For shots of previous protests, go here, here, here,
SF News Scenes from Today's Anti-Violence Protest at City Hall Oh wow. Mr. Jim Herd has word that a couple of hundred or so high school students from the Mission have taken to the steps of City Hall. Why? Because of the recent
SF News Poor Man's UC-Berkeley Tree-Sitters Worried Did you know that UC-Santa Cruz has its own set of tree-sitters? Yeah, neither did we. (Some students at the UCSC campus live in the trees, foliage, shrubbery, and Elf Land year round.
SF News Tree-Sitters Hurling Toilet Waste at Arborists? Charming. The spoiled children high atop the Berkeley redwood have, of course, resorted to (allegedly) throwing their urine and fecal matter at arborists trying to get them down. (Yeah. Fight the power. Idiots.
SF News Cal Tree-Sitter Money Shot Expected Today Whether pro or con saving the oak tree grove on the UCB campus, it's safe to say that we're all looking forward to seeing just how how the last few tree-sitters are extracted.
SF News Anonymous Protesters Meet Zombie Flash Mob This weekend's Anti-Scientology protest, held by the brave kids at Anonymous, encountered some equally scary enemies: zombies. Check out some scene's of the protest in action, actual Scientologists, fake blood, amusing signage, and
SF News Anti-China Protester Falls From Chinese Consulate Roof In SF Oops. A lady who staged a faux hanging from the roof of the Chinese consulate in San Francisco today "to protest human rights abuses in Tibet" was taken to a hospital after she
