Occupy SF Protesters Mark 1st Anniversary Of Movement
Protesters returned to Justin Herman Plaza Monday night following a day of rallies and marches to mark the one-year anniversary since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
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Protesters returned to Justin Herman Plaza Monday night following a day of rallies and marches to mark the one-year anniversary since the beginning of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York.
As the liberal American press and ultra-liberal bloggers inundate the Internet and newsprints with criticisms of what Mitt Romney, the GOP presidential challenger to President Barack Obama, said about Obama during the Libyan attacks and murders, throngs of foreign press and few American outlets tell the real story involved with the White House's role in the incidents that we now know could have been prevented.
Members of the Occupy Wall Street movement in San Francisco say they plan to celebrate their first year with a demonstration.
The Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley sponsored a particularly timely conference this week: "Democracy Rising?" sought to address "the challenges of democracy transition and development in countries emerging from authoritarian regimes," according to the event website.
Documents show the FBI was keeping a watchful eye on Occupy Oakland protests last year.
A 24-year-old Elk Grove man has been sentenced to six months in jail and five years probation and restitution for his part in an Occupy Oakland demonstration last fall.
Museum workers held a protest at San Francisco's M.H. de Young Memorial Museum Friday night where 19 of those demonstrators were arrested at the Golden Gate Park art museum.
Protesters who organized a Labor Day cookout in front of City Manager Debra Figone's house Monday moved to the nearby Municipal Rose Garden after being cited by police.
Six protesters were arrested Thursday night for holding a sit-in inside President Obama's campaign headquarters in Oakland and refusing to leave.
Union officials say 27 protesters were arrested during a march by janitors through San Francisco's financial district.
Vandals have knocked down dozens of crosses on a Lafayette hillside that are part of a memorial to U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Hundreds of protesters marched through downtown Oakland Friday night.
KCBS, CBS 5 and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier weighs in on whether the Occupy Oakland movement is losing steam and losing members.
Several dozen protesters marched in the area of Duboce Avenue and Church Street in San Francisco Monday morning, disrupting service on the SF Municipal Railway's J-Church line on the one-year anniversary of a police shooting.
Some Napa County mothers are doing what comes naturally outside the local Social Security office where a woman was asked to take her breastfeeding outside last week.
The University of California, Berkeley will pay a photojournalist $162,500 to settle a lawsuit alleging campus police illegally searched his camera for photos of a student protest outside the chancellor's home.
One man was proud to be there with his wife and three children - sleeping in tents on the school courtyard for the past few days.
The Obama administration will stop deporting and begin giving work permits to younger illegal immigrants who came to the U.S. as children and have since led law-abiding lives, according to administration officials. The shift comes as immigration reform activists have occupied Obama's Oakland campaign headquarters.
Nearly 100 bicyclists were baring all this morning as they gathered along San Francisco's Embarcadero for the ninth annual San Francisco World Naked Bike Ride to protest a global dependency on fossil fuels.
Among the President's two stops on Wednesday will be a business roundtable right across the street from the former Occupy SF encampment.
One protester was arrested for felony vandalism during an anti-police march in Oakland Friday night, police said.
Occupy Oakland protesters disrupted a meeting Tuesday where city leaders were considering a law banning the use of homemade weapons by demonstrators.
Protesters have disrupted a University of California board meeting where officials are discussing a tuition increase to help close its budget shortfall.
Apple, Inc. was the target of some Greenpeace guerilla activism on Tuesday as environmental protesters called on the Cupertino company to use more renewable energy in their cloud data centers.
University of California police arrested nine people Monday morning who have been trying to make sure that a piece of the school's land in Albany is used for sustainable agriculture, a university spokesman said.
