SF News Gun Control Advocates to Stage 'Lie In' at Justin Herman Plaza Saturday In the wake of the Newtown tragedy, a local chapter of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence plans to host a silent protest on Saturday at Justin Herman Plaza to call attention
SF News Oakland Braces for Occupy Anniversary Protest Occupy Oakland, the loosely organized off-shoot of Occupy Wall Street that gained national media attention last year because of the lengthy war they waged with Oakland police over the occupation of Frank Ogawa
Arts & Entertainment Everything's Happening This Weekend: Anti-Colonialism, Columbus Day Parade Can you hear them? Shhhh. Hear that? They're coming. No, they're coming. Damn tourists. And there's nowhere to hide. Quick review SFist's "How To Walk On The Sidewalk Like A Reasonable Human Being,
SF News Occupy Anniversary Just Might Ruin Your Monday Commute Monday marks the one-year anniversary of Occupy Wall Street, and yesterday Occupy SF announced a Financial District protest beginning at 5 p.m. on Monday, which is sure to disrupt something, but how
Arts & Entertainment Tomorrow: Slut Walk Returns To Dolores Park Tomorrow San Francisco will host its second annual Slut Walk and Rally at Dolores Park. Like last year, the event aims to protest those who attempt to explain or excuse rape by blaming
SF News Activists Protest Gay Rodeo Fundraiser At Powerhouse Bar Here's something you didn't know you'd be reading about today: the rights of grown gay men to put panties on a goat. Some animal-rights activists gathered outside the Powerhouse Bar yesterday to protest
SF News OccupySF Takes Over Vacant Building At Turk And Gough As part of the nationwide "We Won't Get Fooled Again" Day of Action, OccupySF has taken over a vacant building at 888 Turk (at Gough). The group says the building is owned by
SF News Six Reporters Arrested During Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Mother Jones' Gavin Aronsen wrote a first-hand account of being apprehended at the Occupy Oakland mass arrest on Saturday, along with at least five other credentialed journalists and 400 protesters. Aronsen says this
SF News Thousands of Pro-Lifers March on Market Street A major pro-life march, the likes of which we haven't seen in recent years on a San Francisco promenade, is happening as we type. The cascade of Christians extends from Civic Center to
SF News Occupy SF And Oakland To Occupy Individual Homes Facing Foreclosure Today We want to be supportive of the Occupy movement. We do. But as with all things (and like most Americans), we bore easily. But we're trying to stay alert and remain positive as
Arts & Entertainment Notes From An Occupation: Police Infighting Friend of SFist and dedicated Occupy SF participant Scott Rossi was on the scene at last night's big barricade event. Highlights include details about the crowd knocking down the barricades and an eye-witness
SF News Boing Boing Interviews Pepper-Sprayed UC Davis Student Boing Boing has an interview up with a 22-year-old UC Davis student going by the name of W, who was one of the students sprayed in the now infamous pepper-spray attack last Friday.
SF News UC Davis Follow-Up: Chancellor's Eerily Silent Walk of Shame [Video], Faculty Member's Open Letter As the Second Alarm reports [via BoingBoing], a large crowd of student protesters and their supporters interrupted a press conference on Saturday afternoon with UC Davis Chancellor Linda Katehi and campus police, demanding
SF News Occupy Oakland's Scott Olsen Releases First Statement Scott Olsen, the San Mateo marine and Iraq War veteran who was critically injured by a police projectile during the previous Occupy Oakland raid a few weeks back, released a statement this morning
SF News Meanwhile, in Oakland... A Halloween-appropriate scene as Occupy Oakland demonstrators pause for a photo op at Broadway and 17th during a march on downtown Oakland this evening. A significant police presence was on hand earlier. For
SF News Iraq War Veteran Scott Olsen Critically Injured at Occupy Oakland Raid As a few SFist commenters noted, the person who was hit in the head with a projectile during last night's beanbag assault by Oakland police has been identified as Iraq veteran Scott Olsen.
SF News Rich Local Democrat Pissed at Obama Amongst the estimated 1,000 people who showed up outside the W yesterday to protest/holler at President Obama was prominent local Democratic fundraiser Susie Tompkins Buell. A good friend and major campaign
SF News [Updated] Fire Marshal Demands OccupySF Get Rid of Lead Car Batteries OccupySF has been receiving notices of several violations from various authorities over the past several days, the biggest of which is the use of lead car batteries at the camp. The camp has
Arts & Entertainment National Occupy March Today at 3 p.m. As part of the national Occupy Wall Street march happening today, OccupySF will be meeting at 3:00 p.m. at the Federal Reserve Building at 101 Market St. "Bring yourself! Bring Freedom!
SF News OccupySF Releases Rough Draft of "Homegrown Flyer" The OccupySF folks have come up with the first draft of what they call their "Home Grown flyer." They stress that it's not an official statement, but they would like it passed around
SF News Note from an Occupy SF Welcome Committee Member Friend of SFist, Scott Rossi, became a member of Occupy SF's Welcome Committee over the weekend, where he greeted newcomers at the group's camp at Justin Herman Plaza. As Scott notes, the camp
SF News Occupy SF Encampment Moving to Civic Center? The current population of Occupy SF campers down in front of the Federal Reserve on Market Street appear interested in shifting things uptown a bit -- the Examiner reports on a request put
SF News Scenes From Today's OccupySF March Up Market Street A mid-day rain threatened to sog the throng of protesters who gathered at the Federal Reserve at 101 Market Street today, but luckily the squall passed and the march proceeded as planned. By
SF News 'Occupy Wall Street' S.F. Protesters Planning Sleepover Arrested During yesterday evening's Occupy Wall Street protests (a.k.a. #OccupySF, if you're social media savvy), six members of the reportedly hundreds-strong group of protesters came prepared for an actual occupation—a cuddly
SF News Anonymous-BART Saga Continues This Evening The unfortunate souls who have to work today can not only enjoy some FOMO, along with commuting on a Sunday schedule, but they can also enjoy yet another BART protest. Fortunately, the protests
