Subject: Protests and Demonstrations

• Tibetans Say, "Go A's!" to Protest 2008 Beijing Olympics

  August 10, 2007

• Good For The Jews Concert Draws Nazi Protest Wednesday at GAMH

  December 14, 2007

• Alameda Students Stage Mass Walkout

  March 5, 2008

• Berkeley vs. Animal Rights Protesters: You're a Terrorist. No, YOU'RE a Terrorist.

  March 6, 2008

• Opportunity to Protest, Gawk at Richard Gere, Conveniently Combined

  April 7, 2008

• Free Tibet Protesters Scale Golden Gate Bridge

  April 7, 2008

• Nude Torch Protesters: Don't Stand Too Close to the Flame.

  April 7, 2008

• Early Morning Olympic Torch Update

  April 9, 2008

• Photos: Saturday's Hearing Dog Program Protest

  June 3, 2008

• Saturday: World Naked Bike Ride

  June 9, 2008

• Gay Man Has Heart Attack Outside City Hall, Hater Calls it an Act of God

  June 18, 2008

• Sheehan Expected to Make Ballot

  August 1, 2008

• Iraqi Shoe Guy Disses San Francisco

  By Matt Smith When Muntadar al-Zaidi of Cairo-based al-Baghdadia TV threw his size 10 shoes at President George Bush, San Franciscans were thrilled. It now appears, however, that it's not just George W. Bush who was knocked down a notch by Zaidi's impressive pitching. His filthy flying apparel may have degraded San Francisco as well. According to a Washington Post story Zaidi's stunt may have diminished Cindy Sheehan, a San Francisco treasure and one-time queen of all global anti-war protest

  December 19, 2008

• Grave Robbery in San Francisco: Protesters Evoke Oscar Grant's Bloody Corpse to Flog their Causes in Gaza, Greece, and God Knows What Else

  Two protesters, nine photographers. This is a problem. The Prison-Industrial Complex or the Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy or whatever form The Man is assuming these days can rest easy in his bed. That's because the rabble-rousing radical left (aka white kids from the East Bay wearing hankies over their faces) can't stay on point. Monday night's Civic Center protest was supposed to be about 22-year-old Oscar Grant, shot dead by a BART cop on New Year's Day. From there, it morphed into how we're all

  January 13, 2009

• Why Can't Radicals Protest JUST ONE THING At a Time?

  "What're you protesting against, Johnny?" "Whaddya got?" Why protesters who can't stick to the subject deserve nothing but contempt To those of us who live in the Bay Area, it's old hat by now - but to my family and friends in the Midwest, it's still baffling. "Wait, so, these people went to protest the local transit cops shooting somebody, and ended up chanting about Palestine?" Yep. And it's only getting worse. After last night, even some of us here are asking "What does GREECE ha

  January 14, 2009

• Gavin Newsom Finds His Way to San Jose -- And So Did SF Weekly

  As part of his quest to become governor, Mayor Gavin Newsom held his latest "town hall" last night in San Jose. The question-and-lecture session attracted about 200 locals and a dozen protesters who trekked down from San Francisco. San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed joked he'd invited the demonstrators to make Gavin "feel at home." We'll spare you a major analysis for now. In the meantime, here are some random highlights of the evening: • Newsom let slip that he will be announcing his own economic

  February 11, 2009

• Oscar Grant Protesters Hope to Shut Down Fruitvale BART Station Next Week

  More on the wayA group of East Bay residents protesting BART officials' handling of the shooting death of Oscar Grant on New Year's Day say they plan to shut down the Fruitvale station on Thursday, March 5, during evening rush hour. The effort will mark the first organized attempt by protesters to disrupt the commuter train's operations -- though, last month, BART service was disrupted by riots in response to Grant's death. George Ciccariello-Maher, an Oakland resident and spokesman for the pr

  February 26, 2009

• Border Crosser

  January 14, 2009

• We Don't Need No Maga

  July 9, 2008

• Olympic Torch Protesters Pump Money Into the Local Economy

  April 9, 2008

• ILWU to Shut Down West Coast Ports on Socialist Holiday

  March 12, 2008

• Judgment Days

  The circus of the '60s, from the streets to the courtroom, in Chicago 10.

  February 27, 2008

• Soothing Screenings

  February 6, 2008

• Code Pink Underestimates Anti-Lefty Sentiment in Miami

  January 30, 2008

• Teabagging on Tax Day: Protesters Gather in Civic Center (and Keep Clothes On)

  A crowd of a few hundred gathered in Civic Center this morning to take part in a Tax Day Tea Party, a series of anti-taxation demonstrations taking place across the country. The events are striving for a grass-roots feel, but are, in fact, funded and promoted by Republican organizations -- as pointed out by Paul Krugman in the New York Times. And then, of course, there was the trouble with the tea bags. It seems that organizers were unaware that "teabag" is a colloquial term for a sexual act in

  April 15, 2009

• They Put Up a Parking Lot

  Chris Daly made his rep getting arrested at a garage protest that somehow ended up creating a coffee kiosk

  December 20, 2006

• No Justice, No Peace ... Whatever

  In the country’s putative activist capital, all the protests and rallies may do more to sow apathy than draw people to the cause.

  July 12, 2006

• Save the Cute Animals!

  The inside story on protests against dog-eating, foie gras-enjoying, and fur-wearing

  April 27, 2005

• March Radness

  Ten inexpensive, pre-assembled kits to fit the needs of every demonstrator at the Republican National Convention

  August 25, 2004

• Live Nude Christian Protesters!

  The 200 block of Jones Street brings together homeless people, incensed Christians, and adult amusements

  August 4, 2004

• Remembrance of a War Past

  An unfond look back at Freedom Toast, TV jingoes, and a pro-war bully called Tony Hall

  April 16, 2003

• Calm Before the Storm

  Before last week's megaprotests, cops and marchers made nice in the Mission

  March 26, 2003

• Feeding Frenzy

  Amid nervous cops and angry motorists, a squad of bike-riding activists delivered food to anti-war protesters

  March 26, 2003

• Thrill of a Lifetime

  The life of Will "The Thrill" Viharo -- the Bay Area's undisputed B-movie lounge king -- would make a good B-movie of its own

  December 12, 2001

• "They're Hijacking Our Rally!"

  Opponents of the Potrero Hill power plant expansion could use a lesson in organization.

  July 4, 2001

• Best New Locally Produced Documentary

  Scouts' Honor by Tom Shepard

  May 23, 2001

• Dog Bites

  Fangxaminer; Mourning the Passing of the Arts; Looking for the New Bohemia

  October 25, 2000

• March Madness

  Demonstrating may soothe the psyche, but it won't save San Francisco's arts scene

  August 30, 2000

• Dog Bites

  Vive La Révolution

  June 21, 2000

• Postscript

  Anarchy Through Government (and Vice Versa)

  May 10, 2000

• Riff Raff

  October 14, 1998

• Second Time Around

  November 27, 1996

• Anonymous Hones Battle Plans For Scientology Protest of Psychiatric Convention This Weekend

  I'm Spartacus!So the Church of Scientology will be out in droves this weekend to protest the American Psychiatric Association's convention at Moscone Center this upcoming Saturday through Thursday. The Citizens Commission for Human Rights, the anti-psychiatry activist arm of Scientology, will have folks gathering from all over the West Coast to man the menacingly named "Psychiatry: Industry of Death" exhibit at the convention and to march down Market Street on Saturday. A busload of Scientologis

  May 14, 2009

• Extremely Civil Disobedience: Prop. 8 Protests Peaceful So Far

  Peaceful demonstrators shut down the intersection of Van Ness and Grove"Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face," Martin Luther King Jr. said in 1956. "But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime." San Francisco's 2009 version of the civil-rights struggle King waged fifty years ago saw plenty of smiling criminals arrested this afternoon. More often than not the cops were smiling, too.So far, d

  May 26, 2009

• Out-of-Towners -- From Fresno, No Less -- Protest In San Francisco. Did You Notice?

  Like a Vaudeville act of old getting ready to take it to New York City, today's protester has got to ask himself if he's ready for the big time when he comes to San Francisco. We've got no shortage of expert, home-grown demonstrators, and budget season has distilled the best of the best. So, were a few hundred Central Valley agricultural advocates steamed over a lack of available water up to the task? Our snap judgment is -- not exactly. Ostensibly here to buzz Sen. Dianne Feinstein's office y

  June 30, 2009

• Interesting Double Bill at City Hall: Come for the Justice In Iran Rally -- and Stay to Raise Hell for the Public Defender

  Richard BuiIt's a protest double-header starring Jeff Adachi and the Iranian people...The beleaguered demonstrators of Iran could use a good public defender these days -- but, beyond that, we never thought to connect the totalitarian crackdowns in Tehran and the ongoing game of budget chicken between Public Defender Jeff Adachi and Mayor Gavin Newsom. Then we got releases from the same publicist urging us to attend a 10:30 a.m. Tuesday morning rally on behalf of the Iranian demonstrators -- and

  July 21, 2009

• Queer Activists Pepper Spray Buju Banton Concert

  EKAphotographyBuju Banton perfoming at Rock It Room, before the pepper-spray incident​ Despite a landmark peace negotiation brokered between controversial reggae star Buju Banton and LGBT activists yesterday afternoon, protesters pepper-sprayed the crowd during Banton's concert last night at the Rock It Room. During the concert, a small group of protestors--including one man in full drag--stood outside chanting slogans and attempting to engage clubgoers in dialogue (video of the protest is

  October 13, 2009

• Do Anti-Climate Change Protesters Want to Fill The Bay With Garbage?

  Over the weekend, hundreds of San Franciscans flocked to Justin Herman Plaza to join protesters in 181 countries urging United Nations negotiators to push for greenhouse gas reductions. Around 100 cyclists donned snorkels and other water-themed costumes to show that a warming, rising sea would inundate downtown. Protest coordinator Chris Carlsson explained which parts of downtown the bicyclists would traverse during their 15-minute ride. Along Market Street, through the Financial District, ba

  October 26, 2009

• SEIU Besieges Mayor's Office; Shouted Down By Angry Native American

  PHOTOS FROM THIS EVENT WILL BE POSTED SHORTLY​ And we thought the most interesting spectacle at the SEIU protest Thursday afternoon was going to be the 14-foot puppet. True, the affair to protest the upcoming layoffs of 600 health care and clerical positions started out pretty placid, with a man burning incense in a ceremonial cup reciting a prayer in Spanish and workers dancing to funk music outside City Hall while brandishing signs reading "I am a woman." Yet the protest quickly heated up wh

  November 12, 2009

• A Primer For Those Curious About Today's U.C. Berkeley Protests

  Wheeler Hall​Anyone glancing at a television or computer is likely well-aware by now that students have barricaded themselves within a building on the U.C. Berkeley campus. It's a wise move; by this time next year they'll be unable to afford the bike locks, placards, or ASCAP royalties for "What do we want?"-chants. Glancing at the KTVU Channel 2 news moments ago, an anchorman pulled up the school's campus map, explained where Wheeler Hall is in relation to other campus buildings. That's nice,

  November 20, 2009