SF News Castro's 'Stop the Violence' Campaign: Dennis Herrera Rally? [UPDATED] Slammed by noted activist and blogger Michael Petrelis as "a pathetic Sisters event more interested in being full of Kumbaya feelings and promoting two lame politicians," Saturday's Stop the Violence campaign, sparked by
SF News Anonymous to Bring Peaceful Wrath Upon BART on Monday SF Examiner is reporting that Anonymous, the group most famous for giving Scientologists a hard time, is focusing its attention on BART on Monday. As you might have heard, BART police shut down
SF News BART Protest Updates: Demonstration Planned for Civic Center Station at 4:30 P.M. Today [UPDATED] Breaking news regarding threatened protests on BART throughout August: No Justice, No BART, the website rallying point for last month's BART protest has posted details on another demonstration set for today's evening commute.
SF News Environmental Group Protests the America's Cup at 10 A.M. Today [Summer of Protests] The Environmental Council, a joint effort between 30 bay area organizations who all want a say in the America's Cup environmental impact report, is set to protest in front of City Hall this
SF News Heads Up, BART Riders: More Protests Could Spoil Your Commute Last night BART put out a rider alert warning passengers, "Protests may disrupt service as early as Thursday, August 11th" (that'd be today). The protests -- more demonstrations in response to the officer-involved
SF News Bay Area Priest, Nun, Among Five Peace Demonstrators Sentenced in Washington State Jesuit priest Stephen Kelly, 62, of Oakland, and Sister Anne Montgomery, 84, of Redwood City, were among a group of five senior peace demonstrators who were sentenced to federal prison in Tacoma, Washington,
SF News Protesters Would Like China Out of Tibet, Please This was the scene several minutes ago at 7th and Market where 70 or so people were marching for Tibetan liberation, screaming, "Shame on Chinese government," etc. Bringing up the rear: a Tibetan-flag-draped
SF News 17 Protesters Arrested at UC Berkeley After Statewide Demonstration Against Cuts [Updated] After protesters refused to leave a UC Berkeley building, officers arrested 17 people who were demonstrating against budget cuts. Daily Cal reports: Following a day filled with rallies, marches and snacking that began
misc Stephen Colbert Nails Local Anarchist Get your mind out of the gutter, we're talking about the Colbert Report's recurring Nailed 'Em segment which last night featured self-titled "independent journalist, media activist and web developer" Mark Burdett getting "nailed
SF News Sit/Lie in Effect, Not to Be Enforced Until February The Sit/Lie ordinance went into effect on Saturday, but Bay City News reports (via SF Appeal) that SFPD won't begin enforcing it until February after its officers have gone through training in
SF News A Few Dozen People Gather at British Consulate to Declare Manning, Assange Heroes The Bay Area may be rife with adamant supporters of free speech, freedom of information, and the leaking of any and all government documents to the media, but that population was not entirely
Arts & Entertainment Friday: Protest Screenings of David Wojnarowicz's Censored 'A Fire in My Belly' Some last-minute screenings of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly have been scheduled on Friday night as part of a national protest of the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery's removal of the
SF News DiFi Gets Student's Deportation Delayed The protest to keep 20-year-old Steve Li in the country on Friday was outside Barbara Boxer's SF offices, but it was Senator Dianne Feinstein who stepped in Sunday to ask immigration officials to
SF News Gather Outside Barbara Boxer's Office at Noon to Protest This Kid's Deportation All over the news the past day or so has been the story of 20-year-old Steve Li, the would-be nursing student who was arrested at his San Francisco home in September for being
SF News Two Gold Teeth Thieves, Two Graffiti Artists Sued by City of Oakland Relating to Mehserle Verdict Night Remember how we all thought Oakland was going to burn the night Johannes Mehserle got convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Oscar Grant? And the press got super excited and all
SF News 'God Hates Fags' Case Goes Before Supreme Court Today's the day that Reverend Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are standing before the Supreme Court in a First Amendment case relating to their military funeral protests. The justices appeared to
SF News Did Police Use Excessive Force at Merhserle Verdict Protest? Some members of the National Lawyers Guild and a smattering of community activists claim the Oakland Police Department "used excessive force in responding to a large protest after the verdict in the trial
SF News National Protest Tomorrow, Outrage Over BP Oil Spill Citizens across the country are taking to the streets tomorrow night with a Critical Mass style procession entitled the "Krewe of Dead Pelicans." The protest will serve as a voice for the country's
SF News Branching out on Behalf of Gay Marriage: A Good Thing, Bad Thing, or Somewhere in Between? Just about everyone agrees: gays can win more support for civil equality by partering with ally-communities. This is a nice-sounding idea, particularly in the San Francisco bubble. But what does it mean --
SF News Prop 8 Protest-Fatigue and Message-Dilution to Continue in 2009 What busy times these are for homosexuals and their sympathizers! Protests aplenty loom in the coming weeks and months. An unofficial list of upcoming events can be found at the Against8 blog; and
SF News Twitter is Finally Useful for Something Buck was in Egypt doing a project on Egyptian bloggers who tend to be, according to The Mercury News "mostly leftist, anti-government bloggers." When photographing a demonstration, Buck and his translator, Mohammed Salah
SF News It's Got to be the Protest After The decision, however, did not come without much in the way of mayhem. Four protesters were arrested, one of them for allegedly bitch-slapping a pig cop, another for busting out a knife (which
