SF News Rally Planned for Regents' Meeting art UCSF Tomorrow Student debt: live with it. That's the one thing your editor retained while enrolled in the UC system. But not everyone is content with such a harsh life lesson. Take, for example, the
SF News (UPDATED) Berkeley Council Member's Chief of Staff Accused of Assaulting Former D4 Candidate Oh geez. According to the Daily Cal, "District 4 Councilmember Jesse Arreguin's chief of staff, Anthony Sanchez, has been accused of assaulting former District 4 candidate Eric Panzer, who sustained a minor injury
SF News Rumor Mill: Muni Set for Driver Sick Out This Week Rumors continue to surface that, at some point this week, Muni drivers might call in sick en masse. SFist showed you this delightfully fury-inducing flier last week, a suspicious missive that encouraged drivers
SF News Craigslist Removes "Censored" Protest Bar Last week, after Attorneys General in 17 states sparked the removal of Craigslist "Adult Services" section, Newmark and company decided to slap a brilliant "censored" protest icon on the site. Today, however, as
misc Meanwhile, In Berkeley... Code Pink member Toby Blome holds up her hand covered in red paint at a protest at Boalt Law School in Berkeley. Just one in a series of protests demanding the removal of
SF News S.F. Rally Highlights Prison Overcrowding; S.F. Jail Population Plummets A group of people are expected to hold a rally in front of the State Building in San Francisco today. It's part of "a statewide day of fasting and advocacy actions" geared at
SF News Here's 10 'Day of Decision' In the Bay Area Care of the Contra Costa Times, reporter Matt O'Brien tells us about 10 Prop. 8 Rallies happening after today's Prop 8 ruling announcement. Concord: 6 p.m. at Todos Santos Plaza on Willow
SF News National Day of Protest Against Target See, this is why we can't have nice things. Target, as SFist previously reported, financially backed an anti-gay politician (via Minnesota Forward) to the sum of $150,000. Now queer activists would like
SF News 19 Arrested During S.F. Immigration Rally Last night, 19 protesters were arrested during a sit-in on Seventh Street for immigration rights. Organized by the SF Bay Area Coalition for Immigration Reform, the majority of those arrested were clergymen. Last
SF News 152 Arrested at Grand Hyatt Hotel Demonstration Cited for "disobeying a lawful order by a police officer and for jaywalking after they sat in the street in front of the hotel," 152 protesters were arrested at last night's Local 2
SF News Housing Group Occupies Mission T-Mobile Building A smattering of folks partially responsible for Mission gentrification made an attempt to chip away at its glossy veneer on Monday. Last night at around 5 p.m., according to Mission Local, a
SF News Two Oakland Councilwomen Under Investigation for Mehserle Protest Night Despite the teenage-titter-worthy quality of the Matier and Ross headline ("Oakland cops probing two councilwomen at protest"), this isn't actually a story about sexual assault. The OPD is going after council members Jean
Arts & Entertainment Today at Noon: LGBT Pride Rally and March SF Appeal alerts us to the under-publicized Pride Rally 4 Equality march and rally today at Noon at Harvey Milk Plaza (Castro and Market). The march, which is inspired by the first rally
SF News Obama Heckled at Boxer Fundraiser President Obama, who is in town this week (watch your editor's terrible footage of his grand arrival here), was at the Fairmont Hotel last night stumping for Sen. Barbara Boxer. While Obama was
SF News Prostitutes Protest 'Sit-Lie' at Noon The US PROStitutes Collective, a local group "campaigning for the abolition of the prostitution laws which criminalize sex workers, organized a "stand-in protest at noon today at Polk and Sutter. Why? Well, SF
SF News Kiss-In at Harvey Milk Plaza on Monday Anything and everything but kissing on the lips, you say? We hear that. But, come next Monday, you might change your tune. SF Weekly's Joe Eskenazi brings word that the Castro will play
SF News Senator Withdraws from Cal's Latino Graduation Ceremony Senator Gloria Romero (D-Los Angeles), scheduled to deliver the keynote speech at the UC Berkeley Latino graduation ceremony later this month, decided to withdraw from the festivities. It seems the Senator refuses to
SF News No End to Cal Hunger Strike In lieu of getting ready for graduation, some UC Berkeley students are starving themselves in an effort to get Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to "publicly denounce a recent Arizona immigration law," reports The Daily
SF News UC Berkeley Hunger Strike Protesters Want It All Striving to pin-thin echelons for a good cause, a smattering of UC Berkeley students are staging a hunger strike on campus. Why? Well, because of the Arizona immigration bill that passed last week.
SF News Parents Picket Outside Oakland School In Teacher Protest Parents picketed outside Lazear Elementary School in Oakland yesterday over an allegedly unfit teacher. Parents claim the teacher in question "took a smoking break during class, leaving his students unattended; that he locked
SF News SF 'Tea Party' Protest Pics While not every rally in San Francisco is newsworthy, Thursday's 'tea day' tax filing day protest in Union Square was unique due to its heavy right-wing tint. (Other than anti-abortion rallies and lynchings,
SF News Students Keep Quiet to Help Stop LGBT Bullying Thousands of schools from across the country, including more than 100 in the Bay Area, are taking part in today's "Day of Silence," a protest "to raise awareness of the silencing of lesbian,
SF News 2 Protesters Arrested at SFSU Two women have been arrested this morning after 19 protesters took over the Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University. According to student paper Golden Gate [X]Press, "[t]hey appeared
SF News SFSU Student vs. Police Officer Protesting SF State University's plan to "charge 11 students $8,100 for damages incurred during a December occupation of the business school," SFSU students held a peaceful protest on Wednesday that go slightly
