SF News Transit Groups To Rally Against Muni Service Cuts At City Hall On Tuesday Local community groups will be rallying in front of City Hall next Tuesday morning prior to SFMTA’s board meeting in the afternoon when the board will make its final decision on Muni service cuts.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Pinole Teen Caught With Loaded Gun At School A Pinole high school student was reportedly caught with a loaded gun at school and then fled police; Bay Area health officials urge residents to get the measles vaccine if they haven't already; and State Farm has been given the go-ahead to increase California customers' rates.
SF News Day Around The Bay: Trump Might Be Ready To Set Some Limits With Musk Trump might be about to start reining Musk in after a heated exchange between Musk and Rubio in a Cabinet meeting; the former officer involved in the scandals surrounding the Antioch Police Department admits that he enjoyed inflicting violence; and Gene Hackman and his wife died a week apart.
SF News Meet The Organizer Who Turned The Tesla Showroom Into a Weekly Protest Hub Patty Moddelmog has been spearheading Saturday protests outside the Tesla showroom in SF, and about 200 people showed up last week, with the Brass Liberation Orchestra adding a tuba bass line to chants like, “People over profit, stop the coup!"
Politics 'A Day Without Immigrants' Rallies To Take Place Monday Bay Area activists are organizing protests and “A Day Without Immigrants” on Monday in response to the president’s recent crackdowns and aggressive deportation policies.
SF News Stanford Drops Disciplinary Case Against Student Journalist Covering Gaza Protest A Stanford student who was covering the occupation of the university president's office by pro-Palestinian protesters last year for the campus newspaper when he was arrested alongside those protesters has been cleared of wrongdoing, at least by the school.
SF Politics 1,000 Protesters Marched Down Market Street Ahead of Trump Inauguration With Messages About Immigrants, Palestine There were protests around the Bay Area and the country over the weekend ahead of Trump's inauguration. But while there are real, grave dangers ahead in this presidency, especially for immigrant communities and trans people, the protests in SF were not major draws.
SF News Bay Area Law Enforcement Gearing Up for Possible Election Night, Post-Election Mayhem Whether it's celebratory riots, large-scale protests, or opportunistic criminals looking to loot because police might otherwise be distracted, Bay Area police departments are bracing for possible crime and bedlam on Election Night or later this week.
SF News Gaza Protest In Mission District on Eve of October 7 Anniversary, Manny’s Gets Tagged Hard Again The day before the one-year anniversary of the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, and the now-year-long response of sustained Israeli counterattacks, a Sunday Mission District protest drew 1,500 people but left the event space Manny’s coated with malicious graffiti.
SF Politics It's a Boomer vs. Boomer Battle Over Political Speech In One Small East Bay Retirement Community Out in eastern Contra Costa County, there have been political battles being waged in the pages of the community newspaper and in small demonstrations, and tensions this election year even boiled into a physical fight on a pickleball court.
SF News Protesters Gather at SF Hall of Justice as Golden Gate Bridge Gaza Protesters Appear In Court Some of the 26 individuals who are facing criminal charges stemming from a Tax Day protest in April that shut down the Golden Gate Bridge for several hours made court appearances on Monday, and were joined by activists protesting their prosecution.
SF News Saturday Links: SF DA Charges 26 Over April Golden Gate Bridge Protest 26 people have been charged with false imprisonment and other felonies for the Tax Day protest that shut down the GG Bridge; former Youtube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died; and Harris now leads Trump in three key swing states.
SF News Pro-Palestinian March In Castro to Coincide With Sunday Pride Parade A queer- and trans-led alternate march, in solidarity with the Palestinian people, is planned for Sunday in the Castro, dubbed 'No Pride in Genocide.'
SF News Doctors at UCSF Battle Over Opinions of the Gaza War, Question Whether Protest Should Happen at a Hospital As at many university campuses around the country, protests have broken out at the University of California San Francisco over the war between Israel and Hamas, only UCSF is, uniquely, mostly a medical institution with no undergraduate student body.
SF Politics Inflatable Trump Chicken Comes Out of Storage to Protest Fundraiser In SF Yes, the three-story-tall inflatable Trump chicken has been dusted off and will be re-inflated Thursday in SF, wearing a black-and-white prison uniform, in an act of protest of Trump appearing in SF to collect some money from some Silicon Valley billionaires who have lost the thread of reality.
SF News Tuesday Morning Topline: Gaza Protest Targets North Bay Congressman Protesters are sitting in on the San Jose State campus as of Monday; a protest arrived at a fundraiser for North Coast Congressman Jared Huffman in Sonoma; and succession drama roils a family-owned winery in Napa.
SF News Rally Planned to Protest Mayor Breed's Omission of City Clinic Relocation Funds In Proposed Bond Measure LGTBQ health advocates, along with City Clinic doctors and members of the Harvey Milk Democratic Club are rallying today outside the clinic on Seventh Street to protest Mayor London Breed's omission of clinic funds in a proposed bond measure.
SF News Thursday Morning What's Up: LAPD Descends on UCLA Encampment; 2 Injured In Scuffle at UC Berkeley Camp The LAPD cleared the encampment at UCLA early this morning after facing heavy resistance; a tussle broke out at the UC Berkeley encampment Wednesday night between two opposing groups; and the Bay Lights are set to come back on on the Bay Bridge next March.
SF News 35 Protesters Arrested In Early Morning Raid at Occupied Building on Cal Poly Humboldt Campus, 30 Others Barred From Campus Cal Poly Humboldt, which in the last week and a half has become the site of the "nation's most entrenched protest," per the New York Times, was the site of another show of force by police this morning in the nationwide campus protest movement.
SF News 'Gaza Solidarity Encampment,' Like the One at Columbia University, Established at UC Berkeley UC Berkeley has joined in a nationwide protest action on college campuses in which students are pitching tents in prominent plaza spaces, as a sort of "sleep-in" in solidarity with displaced Gazans and in protest of investments in war-profiting corporations.
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 CHP Reveals Concrete Drum Tactic Used By Protesters Which Hindered Their Removal Monday Many wondered — especially those stuck in traffic! — why it took hours to remove the handful of protesters who created a barricade across the northbound lanes of I-880 Monday morning. Well, they did something fairly clever with barrels, which is a variation on the "sleeping dragon" technique.
SF News Protests Block Golden Gate Bridge, All Northbound Lanes of 880 In Oakland Tax Day protests over the war in Gaza have caused a commute nightmare for anyone trying to get to San Francisco from the North Bay, or anyone traveling north on I-880 toward Oakland or San Francisco.
SF News 11 Anti-War Protestors Who Blocked Travis Air Force Base Entrances on Friday Arrested A group of protesters tried to block people from entering Travis Air Force Base in Solano County early Friday morning until police showed up and arrested them.
SF News 78 Bay Bridge Protesters Accept Pretrial Diversion Deal and 5 Hours Community Service 78 of the 80 individuals arrested in connection with a Gaza ceasefire protest that took place on the westbound Bay Bridge during APEC week last November are going to be serving five hours of community service in punishment for the disruption.
