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‘Occupy’ Protesters Rally In Downtown San Jose
SAN JOSE (CBS SF) — Several people participating in the “Occupy San Jose” movement took to the streets of downtown San Jose on Wednesday to rail against corporate power. Consisting on average of around...
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Oakland ‘Occupiers’ Hold Their Ground Despite City Order To Vacate
OAKLAND (CBS/AP) — Hundreds of anti-Wall Street protesters defiantly remained at their campsite outside Oakland’s City Hall Saturday, despite a city order to vacate. Demonstrators marched though...
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New Occupy Oakland Protests Closely Watched
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Following a violent clash between Occupy Oakland protesters and police earlier this week, a new round of protests in Oakland could be a bellwether on whether police have agitated or...
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Occupy Oakland Encampment Includes Liberals, Homeless, Drifters & Anarchists
OAKLAND (CBS 5) — Are they an organized political movement or is it pure anarchy inside the encampment at Oakland’s Frank Oagawa Plaza? Occupy Oakland routinely issues press releases to the media...
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Police Clear Out Occupy Oakland Camp; Dozens Arrested
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Thirty-two people were arrested Monday morning in what appears to have been a largely peaceful police sweep of Frank Ogawa Plaza to clear out the Occupy Oakland encampment that has...
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CBS 5 Poll: Rising Disatisfaction Over Occupy Oakland & Mayor Quan
OAKLAND (CBS 5) — Oakland residents have now grown divided over the Occupy movement, recently removed by police from its encampment in Frank Ogawa Plaza, but continue to have very strong negative...
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Oakland, Other Cities Deny Coordinated Effort For Nationwide Occupy Crackdown
OAKLAND (KCBS / AP) — While riot police sweeping through Occupy Wall Street tent cities in Oakland, Portland and New York City over the last several days may suggest a coordinated national effort,...
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Police Shoot Man With Gun Near Occupy Cal Protests At UC Berkeley
BERKELEY (KCBS / CBS 5) — A man with a gun was shot and wounded by police inside the Haas School of Business on the University of California, Berkeley campus near the scene of Occupy Cal protests...
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KCBS In Depth: Tuition Hikes, Occupy Movement And The State Budget
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Last week’s vote by the California State University Board of Trustees to once again raise the cost of tuition for students was a blow to Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, one of...
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East Bay Clergyman Helps Launch Occupy Fremont
FREMONT (KCBS)— More than 100 people took part in the launch Occupy Fremont on Saturday after a group of local clergy members started the latest branch of the movement. The Reverend Jeremy Nickel from...
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Port Of Oakland Calls Possible Shutdown ‘Disruptive To Community’
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— Supporters of the Occupy movement are mobilizing to shut down ports along the West Coast on Monday. This would be the second time in two months, demonstrators shut down Oakland’s...
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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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Oakland Tries To Recover From Weekend ‘Occupy’ Damage
OAKLAND (CBS / CNN / AP / BCN) — Oakland City Hall reopened Monday after municipal employees worked to clean up damage they said was caused over the weekend by Occupy protesters, about 400 of whom were...
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CBS 5 Poll: ‘Occupy’ Movement Losing Bay Area Support
OAKLAND (CBS 5) — A newly released KPIX-TV CBS 5 poll shows Bay Area support for the so-called ‘Occupy’ movement is on a downward spiral after recent violent demonstrations in Oakland that resulted in...
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Hundreds Demonstrate For Prisoner Rights In San Quentin
SAN QUENTIN (CBS SF) — Hundreds of people gathered outside San Quentin State Prison Monday afternoon for a protest that organizers are calling historic because they say it merges the Occupy and...
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Classes Disrupted As Bay Area College Students, Occupy Movement Team Up
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – College students all over the Bay Area and across the nation were partnering with the Occupy movement Thursday in a day of action against higher tuition costs. San Francisco’s...
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Phil Matier: Why Transit, City Workers Are Willing To Strike
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— The labor movement’s teamwork with Occupy activists around the Bay Area for May Day shines a spotlight on the workplaces of tens of thousands of city and transit workers and...
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Oakland Police Order May Day Protesters To Leave; SF Building Occupied
OAKLAND (CBS SF) – Oakland police have moved the remaining May Day protesters away from downtown, but resorting to using at least one round of tear gas for the second time in a day. Police Chief Howard...
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75-Year-Old Arrested In Sonoma County At ‘Occupy Bohemian Grove’ Protest
MONTE RIO (CBS SF) — A 75-year-old protester was arrested at an ‘Occupy Bohemian Grove’ march in Sonoma County on Saturday, according to the sheriff’s office. As many as 100 protesters marched from an...
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Occupy Oakland Marks 2-Year Anniversary Amid Uncertain Future
OAKLAND (KCBS) — Two years ago there was a campground at Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza followed by riots in the streets. On Friday, the Occupy Oakland movement commemorated their anniversary and examined...
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Riot Police May Incite Violence Among Protesters Instead Of Preventing It, UC...
BERKELEY (CBS SF) — Police in riot gear and the tactics and equipment they use on protesters such as in Ferguson, Mo. and the Occupy movement in the Bay Area may not prevent violent clashes as much as...
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