SF News Fourth Night Of Protests Includes Trash Fires, BART Disruptions, Five-Hour March From Berkeley To Downtown Oakland In the fourth consecutive such rally in a row for Berkeley, protesters took to the streets Tuesday night for a lengthy, mostly peaceful march that extended many miles from Berkeley to downtown Oakland
SF News Protesters Chain Themselves To BART Trains At West Oakland, Temporarily Halt Transbay Train Service [Updated] Following a quiet Thanksgiving Day in Oakland, protest-wise, a group of 20 to 25 Ferguson-related protesters managed to chain themselves together and chain themselves to two BART trains at West Oakland Station, shutting
SF News Second Night Of Ferguson Protests In Oakland Leads To More Looting, Fires, 43 Arrests For the second night, protesters canvassed different parts of Oakland Tuesday in response to Monday's grand jury decision in Ferguson, Missouri, briefly disrupting traffic on two freeways, setting bonfires, looting, and generally harkening
SF News Ferguson-Related Protest In Oakland Snarls Traffic On 580, Causes Late-Night Chaos In Downtown A protest and "die-in" in downtown Oakland involving a reported 1,000 people led to a traffic-snarling march onto the I-580 freeway Monday night, as Bay City News reports. The protesters came out
SF News Several Artificial Turf Foes Stage Sit-In As Construction Continues On Beach Chalet Soccer Fields Yesterday we told you about the construction that began on the new turf soccer fields adjacent to the Beach Chalet in Golden Gate Park, not 12 hours after preliminary election results came in
SF News Mission Soccer Kids Storm City Hall After Political Win by Joe Kukura The very kids who got kicked off a soccer field by tech bros in an infamous viral YouTube video took to City Hall Thursday morning to protest a soccer field
SF News S.F. Protestors Rally For Ferguson, March For Alex Nieto Planned Today About 100 people gathered at United Nations Plaza last night around 7 p.m. in a show of solidarity for Ferguson, Missouri and the ongoing protests of the police shooting of unarmed teenager
SF News Today's Counter Protest At Mission Planned Parenthood Will Playfully Mock Pro-Lifers As SFist reported on Monday, there’s been an uptick in harassment and intimidation of patients and staff at the Planned Parenthood at 1650 Valencia Street, while the city decides if and how
SF News One Woman Blocks eBay Shuttle, Refuses To Let It Pass In Pac Heights Diners at Jackson Fillmore (2506 Fillmore Street) in Pacific Heights on Thursday were treated to some street theater in the form of a one-woman tech bus protest. As 7x7 reports via one of
SF News Protest At Prison-Themed Pride Party Turns Violent, Six Arrested [Update] There was a protest outside the Prison of Love party on Saturday at the Kink.com Armory, with about 150 protesters who—though mostly peaceful—pelted guards and early partygoers with fruits and
SF News Map Shows What Muni Stops Will Be Shared With Tech Shuttles Though the pilot program to allow corporate shuttles (AKA "Google Buses") to share Muni stops got its final OK in April, the SFMTA has moved in its own considered pace to figure out
SF News Food Not Bombs Marchers Arrested At S.F. May Day Rally Thursday's May Day rally in San Francisco overlapped with Food Not Bombs' weekly food share at 16th and Mission, resulting in the arrests of both marchers and FNB workers. Police even allegedly flipped
SF News Another Morning, Another Google Protest In The Mission [Update] Second verse, same as the first. Google employees trying to make their way to work today were slowed down by a group of protesters in the city's impossible Mission District. This time, though,
SF News Protestors Block Tech Shuttles With Actual Barf RT @revscript: 3 #techbus blockaded at MacArthur Bart, police on scene #googlebus pic.twitter.com/M46aczU3Q5— Casey Aldridge (@CaseyJAldridge) April 2, 2014 Taking a cue from Lady Gaga's latest performance piece/Doritos product
SF News Clown Protestors Block Google Shuttle With Colorful Dance Numbers This morning at the now-infamous corner of 24th and Valencia Streets, a group of colorful protestors dressed in clown suits again blocked a Google Shuttle bus on its morning commute. According to Chronicle
SF News Photos: Pro-Choice And Pro-Life Activists Clash At 'Walk For Life' Event Saturday afternoon, thousands of anti-abortion activists descended on San Francisco for the annual Walk for Life stroll down Market Street. The Pro-Life event is, as we've mentioned before, an opportunity for San Francisco
SF News Leaked Google Memo Tells Employees How To Feel About Their Buses Later today the seven member board of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency will weigh in on a proposal that will allow corporate shuttles to share public stops with Muni vehicles. In preparation
SF News Protesters Block Tech Buses. Again. Protesters blocked tech buses Tuesday morning, this time at Eighth and Market Streets and at other areas close to City Hall in San Francisco. Once again, Google takes the heat for not only
SF News Uber Cars Attacked By Striking Taxi Drivers In Paris One place in the world where the tension between traditional cab drivers and on-demand car services like Uber is getting most heated is France, and a taxi strike at Paris airports Monday turned
SF News Wherein We Address The 'Walk For Life' Banners On Market Street Let's address this since SFist has received plenty of emails regarding the above banners on Market Street... The annual Walk for Life escapade goes down in San Francisco on January 25. Whether pro
SF News Fake Google Employee Was An Actor, Union Organizer, And Occupy Mainstay [Updated] The man seen on an already-viral video posted by the San Francisco Bay Guardian has been identified as Max Bell Alper, a self-proclaimed "organizer and artist" with the Making Change Media Collective and
SF News Black Friday: Protest Planned For San Leandro Walmart In honor of Black Friday, and the horrifically-named Gray Thursday, workers will protest at Walmart stores around the country today. Rev. Ed Middelton, a pastor at First Community Church in Dallas, Texas, who
SF News Second Video Surfaces Of Friday's Valencia Gardens Chaos Another video has come to light that shows the original subject of the alleged police brutality we were learning about that took place Friday at the Valencia Gardens complex. The video begins earlier
SF News Photos: Protesters March In Support Of Andy Lopez, Boy Killed By Sheriff's Deputy At least a thousand protesters gathered in Santa Rosa today to march in support of Andy Lopez, the 13-year-old boy who died at the hands of a sheriff's deputy for carrying around a
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Photo: Russian Vodka Spilled At SF City Hall As we mentioned yesterday, there was a protest today at noon in front of City Hall in which some LGBT activists were calling on the mayor to support the boycott of Russian vodka
