SF News [Update] Hunger Strikers March To City Hall, In Wheelchairs, Interrupt Board Of Supervisors' Meeting The political theater on both sides continues today as five activists who have been on hunger strike outside Mission Police Station for nearly two weeks led a procession of protesters to City Hall
SF News [Update] Mayor Lee Attempts To Visit Hunger Strikers Ahead Of Planned Event, They Refuse While the five hunger strikers demanding that Mayor Lee fire Chief Suhr have been planning to visit City Hall tomorrow and demand parley with him according to 48 Hills, it appears that the
SF News Hunger Strike Grows Outside Mission Police Station Calling For Chief Suhr's Resignation Hunger strike in front of Mission police statiom led by @EQUIPTO continues. 5 ppl on hour 170. pic.twitter.com/2Iy02pmGNo— Chris Roberts (@cbloggy) April 26, 2016 A hunger strike began late last
SF News Protesters Go 'Caroling' At Mayor Lee's House "In his five years reign as mayor, Ed Lee gave to me," protesters on the Mayor's own doorstep sang new lyrics to the tune of "The 12 Days of Christmas" this Saturday. "A
SF News Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf Issues Mea Culpa Following May Day Vandalism Spree Newly elected Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and her police chief Sean Whent admitted in a press conference Saturday that they weren't exactly prepared for the level of destruction that was wrought around downtown
SF News [Updated] May Day Protest Grows In Oakland As Hundreds Converge On Downtown Crowd gathering at 40th & MLK, Oakland to protest gentrification by blocking tech busses during the morning commute. pic.twitter.com/LcEgKlye0z— The Outsider (@OutsiderEditors) May 1, 2015 In the wave of marches
SF News Oakland Braces For Major May Day Mayhem As we mentioned the other day, some dueling protests are going to converge on Oakland this May Day, tomorrow, possibly reviving some Occupy-level chaos in the city's streets. As ABC 7 reports in
SF News Separate Tech Shuttle And Black Lives Matter Protests Planned For Oakland On May Day The Google bus blockades are not over! Separate protest events will be happening on Friday May 1 in two different parts of Oakland, in recognition of International Workers' Day, a.k.a. May
SF News Black Lives Matter Protesters Disrupt Traffic, Shout 'Shame On You' At Malia Cohen And London Breed; Campos Compares SF Inequality With Rwanda There were multiple coordinated protests Tuesday around the country in order to keep attention on the problem of racial injustice and police shootings, including a large one in New York City that resulted
SF News Chronicle Declares Anti-Tech Protest Movement Dead Just a year after the streets of SF were abuzz with near weekly protests blocking tech shuttle bus routes, the Chronicle is ringing the death knell for the anti-tech movement as a whole.
SF News Local Black Lives Matter Activists Come Up With List Of Demands For SFPD After a Sunday community meeting at City College's Southeast Campus, the local Black Lives Matter movement appears to have officially come up with a list of concrete demands for the SFPD. The meeting,
SF News [UPDATES] LGBT Protesters Block Octavia And Market Freeway Entrance In Solidarity With Black Lives Matter A planned march to show LGBT solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement on Christmas Eve morning is expected to attempt to block the Octavia and Market on/off-ramp during rush hour. SFist
SF News Police Officers Pissed Over Board Of Supervisors Resolution Supporting Protests A resolution being voted on today by the Board of Supervisors, sponsored by John Avalos, has got the Police Officers Association riled up because it paints a broad picture of all police as
SF News A Weekend Of Protests Continues Into Monday Morning At Oakland Police Headquarters Hundreds of protesters demonstrated in well organized, peaceful marches in Oakland and San Francisco on Saturday as part of a national event dubbed Millions March. The San Francisco march included a mass "die-in"
SF News Another Large Protest In Berkeley Shuts Down Freeway, 150 Arrested Following on a violent and chaotic Saturday and Sunday in Berkeley where at least 400 people were protesting police violence against unarmed civilians, about 1000 to 1500 protesters gathered again on Monday to
SF News [UPDATES] Saturday Night's Berkeley Protest Ends In Tear Gas In the latest local protest in a national movement for police accountability in the killing of black Americans, over 400 protestors marched for five hours Saturday night along Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley. Police
SF News [UPDATES] Protesters Hit The Rainy Streets Of Oakland And SF In Wake Of Eric Garner Case In NY Following the decision of a Staten Island grand jury not to indict NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, major protests hit the streets of New York and other
SF News Out Of 79 People Arrested In Violent Protest Friday, 23 Were From San Francisco The Ferguson protest that turned into a violent and vandalism-heavy riot Friday in Union Square and in the Mission led to 79 arrests and charges filed against 4 individuals, as police chief Greg
SF News Protesters Blockade Single Google Employee's Commute In Berkeley In a further muddying of the anti-gentrification, anti-eviction message surrounding local blockades of corporate shuttles, a group of protesters yesterday descended on the Berkeley home of a single Google X developer, and "chose
SF News City Of Oakland Settles With Iraq Vet Injured In Occupy Protests 34-year-old Kayvan Sabeghi will be getting $645,000 from the City of Oakland by way of apology for his being beaten by riot cops during a November 2, 2011 Occupy Oakland demonstration. As
SF News Planned Parenthood Buffer Zone Proposed to Keep Anti-Abortion Protesters At Bay Anti-abortion protesters will no longer be able to stand directly in front of San Francisco's Planned Parenthood clinic if Supervisor David Campos has his way. A new measure would impose a 25-food bubble
SF News Video: Castro Store Flips Out On Caroling Sodastream Protesters Left-leaning protesters arrived en masse at Cliff's Variety in the Castro on Christmas Eve to protest the selling of Sodastream. Why? Well, according to Who Profits, the company that makes ordinary tap water
SF News Alleged Black Bloc Members Identified By SFPD After Saturday Protests The SFPD has released the names and mugshots of twenty people who they claim are members of the loosely organized Black Bloc anarchist collective. The protesters were arrested Saturday following an "anti-colonialist, anti-capitalist"
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 Protest Cleared At Closed Oakland Elementary School, Two Arrested It's been seventeen days of sit-in, Occupy-style protest at Oakland's Lakeview Elementary School, where teachers and parents have been camping since mid-June to call attention to the closure of Lakeview and four other
