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Occupy SF Reduces Tents Amid Fears Of Police Raid
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — Protesters at the Occupy San Francisco movement have significantly cut back on the number of the tents at their encampment, reducing tensions of a possible raid on the...
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Occupy SF Camp Declared Public Health Nuisance; Eviction Deadline Passes
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) — San Francisco’s public health department has declared the Occupy San Francisco encampment in Justin Herman Plaza a public health nuisance. The declaration came on Thursday,...
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Phil Matier: Mayor Lee Wants Occupy SF To Relocate To The Mission
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee reportedly wants the city’s Occupy protestors to move to the Mission. KCBS, CBS 5 and Chronicle Insider Phil Matier said that Mayor Ed Lee’s office is...
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Phil Matier: Poll Shows Californians Split Over Occupy Movement
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP)— A new survey finds Californians evenly split over the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, though a decisive majority said they agree with the reason for the protests. The Field...
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Occupy SF Protesters Weigh Move To Mission District
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Occupy SF protesters are meeting Tuesday evening to decide if they will move from Justin Herman Plaza to a location in San Francisco’s Mission District. City officials offered...
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Occupy SF Protesters Ignore Deadline To Move
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Occupy SF protesters faced an 8:00 a.m. deadline Wednesday to move from their encampment at the foot of Market St. to a vacant school in the Mission District. Tuesday night, the...
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Occupy SF Protesters On Edge As Reported Deadline To Leave Expires
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Members of Occupy SF were on edge at San Francisco’s Justin Herman Plaza Thursday as a reported noon deadline set by city officials to vacate the area came and went. Occupy...
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Police Briefly Barricade Occupy SF Camp, Demonstrators Hit Streets
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A large group of Occupy SF protesters who were demonstrating in front of the Federal Reserve building on Market Street Thursday evening have returned to Justin Herman Plaza to...
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Occupy SF Protesters March Through Downtown
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Occupy San Francisco protesters marched through San Francisco on Friday afternoon in opposition to budget cuts. A Facebook page indicated the group intended to march from the...
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Occupy SF Protest March Targets Banks, Foreclosures
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Occupy San Francisco protesters teamed up with legal and housing rights organizations Saturday to advocate for housing rights throughout the city. More than 300 people began...
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KCBS In Depth: San Francisco City Issues
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Whether it is how to handle the Occupy SF encampment at Justin Herman Plaza or dealing with another huge budget deficit, San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee has had anything but a quiet...
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Protesters Attempt To Retake Plaza After Occupy SF Raid
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – After circling Justin Herman Plaza and attempting to retake the site of the encampment that was raided in the early morning, “Occupy SF” protesters marched back to the Federal...
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Occupy SF Protesters Return After Raid, Face Off With Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — An Occupy SF general assembly meeting took place Wednesday night after it was interrupted by police earlier. Officers in riot gear appear to have backed off after facing off...
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SFPD Prevents Occupiers From Rebuilding Camp
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Occupy San Francisco protesters spent the night unsuccessfully trying to set up tents at the site of their former encampment in Justin Herman Plaza. About 3 dozen campers...
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San Francisco Offers Shelter To Homeless From Occupy Encampment
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – The police raid on Wednesday that dismantled the Occupy San Francisco encampment was coupled with efforts to get the many homeless people participating in the protest into...
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Police Conduct Early Morning Raid Of Occupy SF Camp
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco police arrested approximately 55 Occupy SF protesters for illegal lodging on the 100 block of Market Street early Sunday morning. The protesters had set up an...
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Supporters Of WikiLeak Whistleblower March Through San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF / AP) — Hundreds of supporters of Bradley Manning — the Army private blamed for the largest leak of classified material in American history — marched through downtown San...
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SF Police Leaked Plans For Occupy Raids On Facebook, Twitter
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – San Francisco Police Chief Greg Suhr said he decided new guidelines on how the Police Department uses social media were needed because several officers’ inadvertently tipped off...
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Occupy San Francisco Calls For Day Of Action Friday
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Occupy San Francisco organizers have announced a massive day of action Friday, beginning at 6 a.m. in the city’s financial district. The last giant Occupy gathering in the city...
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Occupy Protests Set For San Francisco Financial District
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Occupy San Francisco and other groups were planning a daylong protest in the Financial District and elsewhere in the city on Friday, and police Chief Greg Suhr said his...
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SF Occupy Protests Extend Into Evening, Building Taken Over
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Minor altercations and an act of vandalism marred an otherwise “extremely peaceful” day of protests in San Francisco, a protester said Friday. Hundreds of protesters clad in...
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SF Bayview Man Joins ‘Occupy Kids’ Over Threats Of Losing Home
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Anarchists and vandals may make up a small percentage of the protesters marching around San Francisco yelling at big banks, but one of them, a Vietnam veteran Geary Brown owns a...
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Police Arrest 23 Occupy SF Protesters
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/ AP) — Police say they arrested four people Friday evening, bringing the total of arrests to 23 during Friday’s anti-Wall Street protest in downtown San Francisco. Police spokesman...
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President Obama Arrives For San Francisco Fundraisers
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – President Obama has arrived in the Bay Area for a series of fundraising events in San Francisco for his 2012 re-election campaign. Air Force One touched down at San Francisco...
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Man Stabbed Near San Francisco Occupy Encampment
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A man was critically injured in a stabbing near the Occupy SF encampment along San Francisco’s Market Street on Sunday night, police said. The stabbing occurred around 10:40...
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New Stabbing Near San Francisco Occupy Encampment; 2nd In 2 Days
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A 27-year-old man was hospitalized after an argument led to a stabbing near the Occupy SF encampment in San Francisco’s Financial District late Monday night, according to San...
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Man Arrested In Occupy San Francisco Stabbing
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – A man was arrested in San Francisco on Thursday morning after returning to the Occupy SF encampment where he allegedly stabbed someone on Sunday, a police spokesman said. The...
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Dozens Arrested After Occupy SF Protesters Invade Vacant Building
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – San Francisco police said dozens of Occupy San Francisco San Francisco protesters were arrested at a church-owned building Monday. After about 24 hours inside the building,...
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Arrests Made As SF Protest Targets Wells Fargo Meeting
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) - Authorities arrested 24 protesters who were part of a group attempting to disrupt the Wells Fargo shareholder meeting in downtown San Francisco Tuesday afternoon, a police...
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Organizers Say SF Protest Signals Reemergence Of Occupy Movement
SAN FRANCSICO (KCBS) – On Tuesday, San Francisco hosted the biggest Occupy protest on either side of the bay since encampments were shut down last year. Many activists at the “Occupy Wells Fargo”...
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Police Remove Protesters From Occupied San Francisco Building
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Dozens of people were arrested early Wednesday as police officers in riot gear raided a vacant building owned by the Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco occupied during May Day...
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Accused SF Occupy Brick Thrower Had Previous Run-In, Faces Felonies
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – A man accused of tossing bricks into a crowd of people during Tuesday’s May Day protests in San Francisco has had a previous run-in with city workers and will face felony...
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5 To Be Charged In May Day Takeover Of SF Building
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — San Francisco prosecutors plan to file charges against five people arrested in the takeover of a vacant building during May Day protest. In a statement issued Thursday,...
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Donations Pour In For Vandalized SF Mission District Shops
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A grassroots effort to help Mission District businesses vandalized by a group that broke away from a protest march on Monday has raised more $7,000 in less than a week. More than...
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Occupy SF Protesters Mark 1st Anniversary Of Movement
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Occupy San Francisco protesters returned to Justin Herman Plaza Monday evening vowing to “retake” the site of their previous encampment. The plaza along the Embarcadero—dubbed...
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San Francisco ‘Occupy’ Protesters Avoid Clash With Police Over Justin Herman...
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — Occupy protestors who gathered at Justin Herman Plaza in San Francisco overnight to celebrate the one-year anniversary of the Occupy protests avoided clashes with police. A...
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San Francisco Occupy Encampment Cleared; Protesters Arrested
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Forty-five protesters were arrested during a cleanup of an illegal Occupy encampment in downtown San Francisco late Wednesday night, a police spokesman said. Thirty-nine...
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Occupy Protesters Take Over SF Wells Fargo Branch To Denounce Foreclosures
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Occupy demonstrators and housing advocates briefly took over a Wells Fargo Bank branch in San Francisco’s Bayview neighborhood Thursday as part of a protest denouncing...
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SF Police Remove Tree-Sitting Protesters From Hayes Valley Property
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Seven people were arrested and one was injured early Thursday morning in San Francisco when police used force to evict dozens of tree-sitting protesters occupying a small park in...
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Evicted San Francisco Tree-Sitters Clash With Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Scuffles between police and protesters outside of the former site of Hayes Valley Farm in San Francisco have led to the arrest of two protesters Friday evening, according to...
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