Occupy San Francisco

District Attorney To Charge Five Occupy Protesters For Behavior On May Day

AP | Posted 05.04.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- San Francisco prosecutors plan to file charges against five people arrested in the takeover of a vacant building during May Day prote...

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Vandalized Mission District Businesses Receive Surprising Donation

Aaron Sankin | Posted 05.03.2012

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After a wave of property damage to dozens of Valencia Street during a pre-May Day rally Monday evening, it's pretty clear that Occupy has an image pro...

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WATCH: May Day Protesters Throw Bricks And Pipes At Police Officers

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 05.02.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures. Police fired tear gas to di...

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PHOTOS: Thousands Turn Out For May Day Protests

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.02.2012

UPDATE: The May Day protests escalated in Oakland throughout the night, leading to 23 arrests including one for suspicion of felony assault on a peace...

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Stinging Gas Sends Oakland May Day Protesters Fleeing

AP | TERRY COLLINS | Posted 05.02.2012

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OAKLAND, Calif. — Thousands of protesters in New York demanded an end to income inequality and housing foreclosures. Police fired tear gas to di...

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WATCH: Angry Mob Attacks Mission Restaurants, Cars, Businesses

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 05.01.2012

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A small group of protesters wreaked sizable damage in San Francisco's Mission District on Monday night, as participants smashed windows, spray painted...

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MAY DAY! Series Of Occupy Protests Planned Throughout The Bay Area

AP | MARCUS WOHLSEN | Posted 05.01.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO — May Day protests may disrupt the morning commute in major U.S. cities Tuesday as labor, immigration and Occupy activists rally s...

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PHOTOS: Dozens Arrested At Rowdy Wells Fargo Protest

AP | By TERRY COLLINS | Posted 04.24.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of Occupy Wall Street demonstrators from across the country descended on San Francisco Tuesday in an attempt to crash bankin...

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Can Activists Shut Down The Golden Gate Bridge?

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 04.24.2012

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2012 is a big year for the Golden Gate Bridge. Not only is this the iconic Bay Area landmark's 75th anniversary, but on the morning of May 1, the ...

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VIDEO: Occupy Gets A Music Group

Robin Wilkey | Posted 04.09.2012

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The Bay Area has never been short on political singer-songwriters. And now, the folk history books can add one more group to the list: Occupella -- a ...

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PHOTOS: Dozens Arrested As Police Destroy Newly-Established Occupy SF Camp

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO — San Francisco police have arrested nearly 80 Occupy protesters who had taken over an empty building and apparently planned to st...

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PHOTOS: Occupy SF Makes Triumphant Return

AP | Posted 04.03.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO — Occupy protesters have invaded a vacant Archdiocese of San Francisco building, saying they will take it over permanently for use...

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Man Stabbed At Occupy SF

Robin Wilkey | Posted 03.27.2012

UPDATE: According to the Examiner, a second stabbing occurred at the Occupy encampment just one day after the stabbing of Brian "Boston" Reid. The Exa...

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Homes, Not Tents, For Occupy Bernal

Stardust | Posted 04.04.2012

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A grassfire of foreclosure resistance involving dozens of threatened homes on Bernal Heights is pressuring banks, especially Wells Fargo, to declare a moratorium on home evictions and auctions.

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Occupy Protesters Arrested For Blocking Bank Building In San Francisco

AP | By TERRY COLLINS | Posted 03.21.2012

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SAN FRANCISCO -- At least a dozen people were arrested Friday during an anti-Wall Street protest in downtown San Francisco, mostly for blocking an ent...

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NOT SO FAST: New Occupy Movement Rises In SF

HuffingtonPost.com | Robin Wilkey | Posted 01.20.2012

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For those who assumed the Occupy movement had fizzled out in San Francisco, think again. This Friday, Occupy Wall Street West -- a continuation of...

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Occupy Bernal Heights Aims To Bring The Movement 'Into The Neighborhoods'

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.27.2011

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When most people think of the Occupy movement, a very specific set of images likely pops up: tent cities, Zuccotti Park, Scott Olsen, Third Eye Blind,...

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OCCUPY CALIFORNIA: UC Riverside Report Finds 150 Different Occupy Groups in CA

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Miles | Posted 12.19.2011

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As the frontrunner for the American Dialect Society's 2011 Word of the Year, "Occupy" seems to be just about everywhere you look. And, from Occupy the...

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Friday's Knock Off: Occupy S.F. Drowns Out Dialogue

Christopher Caen | Posted 02.15.2012

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Much like my guiding light, Britney, oops, I did it again. I truly, honestly was not going to write any more about Occupy. Nope, I was going to focus on our little town at the edge of the world.

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The Way to Occupy a Bank Is to Own One

Ellen Brown | Posted 02.14.2012

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The campaign to "move your money" has gotten a groundswell of support. Having greater impact would be to "move our money" -- move our local government revenues out of Wall Street banks into our own publicly-owned banks.

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BYE BYE, OCCUPY: SF Encampment Cleared In Overnight Raid

AP/The Huffington Post | SUDHIN THANAWALA | Posted 02.06.2012

SAN FRANCISCO -- More than 100 police officers gave protesters at the Occupy encampment in San Francisco five minutes to gather belongings before auth...

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'I'm Not Going Through This Alone': City's Foreclosure Victims Vow To Stay Put

HuffingtonPost.com | Carly Schwartz | Posted 12.06.2011

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SAN FRANCISCO -- Hundreds of foreclosure victims and tenants' rights advocates gathered throughout the Bay Area Tuesday as part of the nationwide "Occ...

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Still Occupied: SF Camp Ignores Eviction Deadline With Few Consequences

HuffingtonPost.com | Aaron Sankin | Posted 12.01.2011

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The city-imposed noon deadline for Occupy San Francisco protestors to vacate their campsite near Justin Herman Plaza came and went on Thursday with no...

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Poor Tenants Organizing to Occupy Homes Legally or Illegally

Mira Luna | Posted 01.29.2012

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A group of low-income San Franciscans has come up with a positive, long term solution to the housing crisis that is causing millions of Americans to be evicted and some to embrace the "Occupy Homes" movement: buy the buildings.

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Veterans Group Releases New Statement: The 1 Percent Profits From Our Sacrifices

HuffingtonPost.com | Eleanor Goldberg | Posted 11.30.2011

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Unemployed for two years and still recovering from a war injury, Dottie Guy has just about blown through her life savings. While the Iraq veteran qual...

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