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 $1.36 Million Settlement In 2012 Occupy Oakland Mass Arrest Occupy Oakland protesters who were arrested on January 28th, 2012 outside the Oakland YMCA will likely share a $1.36 million settlement on behalf of Oakland and Alameda County, as the Oakland Tribune
SF News Oakland Has 21 Mayoral Candidates And One Of Them Is A Dog Okay, so a dog cannot actually run for or be the mayor of Oakland, but it hasn’t stopped the Occupy folks from throwing a mutt named Einstein into the circus that is
SF News Oakland To Pay Out $4.5 Million To Occupy Protester Scott Olsen Iraq War veteran and Occupy Oakland protester Scott Olsen will receive a $4.5 million settlement from the city of Oakland after being hit and critically injured by a beanbag round to the
SF News 5th Anniversary Of Oscar Grant Shooting Marked By Occupy March, Vigil in Oakland It was early on New Year's Day in 2009 that Oscar Grant was shot and killed by BART police officer Johannes Mehserle at the Fruitvale Station, and on Wednesday the fifth anniversary of
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 Oakland Settles With Injured Occupy Protesters For $1.17M In a high-profile case dealing with police misconduct, the City of Oakland has decided to settle lawsuits brought by a dozen protesters from Occupy Oakland, all to the tune of $1.17 million.
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Hayes Valley Farm Occupiers Get Eviction Notice, Announce That They Will Move a Block Away We reported last week on the entrance of some Occupy-esque folks on the land formerly known as Hayes Valley Farm, which is set to become a residential development. Many of you had opinions
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Misguided Occupy Kids Take Over Hayes Valley Farm, Rename It Gezi Gardens Sigh. A group of protesters who have given up on the Occupy the Farm protest in Albany (and various Occupy stragglers from elsewhere), have set up camp on the site of the recently
SF News Watch Occupy Oakland Anniversary Protest Live Journalist Justin Beck will be at today's Occupy Oakland anniversary protest filming the scene live. Occupy Oakland, a splinter of Occupy Wall Street, received national media attention in 2011 after their own personal
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
SF News Frank Ogawa Plaza Finally Getting New, Post-Occupy Grass Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza which Occupy folk liked to refer to as Oscar Grant Plaza for reasons that only sort of make sense is finally getting restored after looking brown and patchy for
SF News Indybay Photographer Sues Oakland Police For Constitutional Violations Local news photographer John Weston Osburn, who has worked primarily for Indybay Media, has filed a federal suit in Alameda County against the City of Oakland and several Oakland police officers claiming unreasonable
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
SF News Oakland Mayor Jean Quan Admits She Screwed Up Something Else Over in the East Bay, Oaklanders skittish from what we can only assume is the constant wee-ooo-wee-ooo-wee-ooo of Police sirens have been waiting patiently for updates on Mayor Quan's 100 Blocks Initiative. The
SF News Disgruntled Oakland Parents Occupy Local Elementary School [Updated] Last Friday, a group of concerned parents marked the end of their children's school year by kicking off summer and protesting school closures with a campout at Lakeview Elementary School — just one of
SF News Meanwhile, In Oakland, 23 Occupiers Arrested; 3,500 Rallied at Frank Ogawa Plaza Since when are there more Occupy arrests in San Francisco on a day of planned action than there are in Oakland? Oakland Police clearly exercised much greater restraint than they did in 2011
SF News Photo: Cop Doused With Paint During Oakland May Day Melee Jeez. According to @abc7newsbayarea, this officer (one of several) was drenched in a substance believed to be yellow paint during today's May Day protest in Oakland. As SFist reported earlier that paint was
SF News Live: Protesters Square Off With Police In Oakland [Updates] What looked like a relatively peaceful scene in Oakland in the evening escalated around 8:30 p.m. Tuesday night as Oakland Police and Alameda Sheriff's deputies gave a dispersal order to protesters
SF News Live: Oakland Cops Prepare For General Strike Showdown [Updated] Justin Beck's live coverage of today's May Day occupation continues. Right now, at around 3 p.m., cops have arrived in Oakland near Broadway and 14th, demanded protesters to leave or face "removal
SF News May Day: This Is What Downtown Oakland Looks Like Right Now [Updated] General Strike Day is well under way over in downtown Oakland, and we've got this almost-live picture of the scene, shot moments ago by SFist intern Owen. It's basically a street party right
SF News Occupy's Plan To Shut Down Golden Gate Bridge Cancelled Er, never mind. Occupy's plan to shut down the Golden Gate Bridge on May 1st has been cancelled. Occupy will instead focus on ferry service. Why? Well, part of it could be that
SF News Occupiers Till Some Soil In East Bay, 'Take Back' UC Land For Farming A group calling themselves Occupy the Farm to Take Back the Gill Tract broke open a fence on Sunday surrounding some vacant land in Albany and, in honor of Earth Day, started building
SF News Oakland Police Think They Were Victims In Last Fall's Occupy Kerfuffles A new internal report from the OPD casts the police department as victims who showed "a great deal of restraint while surrounded by an angry, assaultive crowd" during last October's melee with Occupy
