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About 20 people who were occupying a University of California at Berkeley building Friday to protest what organizers say is a lack of minority students enrolled at the university left of their own accord.
A few dozen people gathered outside the San Francisco Hall of Justice Monday afternoon to protest the fatal shooting of a teenage boy by a neighborhood watch captain in Florida last month.
Four Occupy Cal protesters were arraigned Monday on misdemeanor charges for their involvement in a demonstration at Sproul Plaza at the University of California at Berkeley campus on Nov. 9.
Days after United States military officials identified the soldier who allegedly slaughtered 16 Afghan villagers in Kandahar Province last Sunday, members of the Bay Area Afghan community rallied in Fremont this afternoon against the killings.
Scott Olsen, an Occupy Oakland protester seriously injured during an October demonstration, plans to file a claim against the city of Oakland, his attorney said Friday.
Nearly all of the 72 people arrested during this week's protests over funding for higher education at the state Capitol have been released.
California Highway Patrol officers arrested dozens of protesters who refused to leave the state Capitol Monday night after repeated warnings, capping off a day of protests over cuts to higher education.
Dozens of clergy members and community activists rallied today outside the headquarters of Wells Fargo Bank in San Francisco in protest of what they say is rampant foreclosure abuse.
Hundreds of people gathered outside San Quentin State Prison Monday afternoon for a protest that organizers said merges the Occupy and prisoners' rights movements.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered outside a fundraising event by President Barack Obama at San Francisco's Nob Hill Masonic Center Thursday to protest a variety of grievances they have with the president, including medical marijuana policies, war, the environment, abortion and birth control.
President Obama arrived in the Bay Area Thursday to attend a series of fundraising events in San Francisco for his 2012 re-election campaign.
Berkeley leaders are revamping the mutual aid policy for the city's police department in response to allegations of police misconduct against Oakland officers in the crackdown on Occupy protestors.
To prove that love knows no boundaries, same-sex couples and gay marriage advocates made a symbolic gesture at the San Francisco County Clerk's Office this Valentine's Day.
Petitions were delivered to Apple stores in San Francisco and other cities around the world Thursday calling on the tech giant to do more to improve working conditions at its factories overseas.
The hacker group Anonymous appears to have posted the addresses and other personal information of Oakland city officials to the Internet.
The Oakland City Council plans Tuesday to consider strengthening enforcement of its protest-related laws in response to a series of Occupy demonstrations.
About 70 Occupy Protesters marched through downtown Oakland Saturday night.
The Bay Area has been the center of political and social activism for decades. Nearly 25 years after a train ran over him, Brian Willson told CBS 5 why it was all worth it.
Twelve people charged with crimes in connection with Occupy Oakland protests have been ordered to stay away from Frank Ogawa Plaza and the Oakland Convention Center.
Police have released surveillance video they say shows Occupy demonstrators breaking into City Hall during the protests in Oakland Saturday night.
Members of Occupy Oakland stood on the steps of Oakland City Hall on Wednesday, making claims of excessive force and baseless arrests during demonstrations Saturday.
Eleven people who were arrested during the weekend's turbulent Occupy Oakland protests have been ordered to stay away from the plaza outside Oakland City Hall.
A federal judge in California has ruled that an Oakland police officer who covered his nameplate during a November Occupy protest seriously violated court-approved conduct standards for the city's police department.
Oakland Mayor Jean Quan said she has had it with a small, violent fringe element within the Occupy Oakland protests and claimed it is using the city as a "playground."
