An anarchist group apparently bent on stopping gentrification in the Mission district claimed responsibility for vandalizing cars and businesses in the neighborhood early Wednesday.
Police said symbols associated with anarchy were reportedly scrawled on at least one building, one restaurant and one car. The graffiti was reported in the 500 block of Guerrero Street, along with the 700 and 200 blocks of Valencia Street, Officer Albie Esparza said.
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State legislators backed a bill this week that would require government agencies to obtain a court order before shutting down cellphone service.
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A crackdown on vandalism has apparently caused vandals to vandalize.
At least eight police vehicles were damaged in San Francisco and Oakland last week by activists who are reportedly opposing a federal investigation into anarchism and vandalism in the Pacific Northwest.
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Some 300 people gathered in Civic Center Plaza on Thursday afternoon to demand that California tax the rich to pay for education, as school districts and public colleges prepare for another year of cuts and layoffs. After the rally, 13 protesters were arrested when they refused to leave the atrium of the nearby state office building until their demands that California fully fund education were met.
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Police arrested 95 protesters who stormed a downtown Bank of America branch Wednesday afternoon after putting up tents in the building — and urinating in a corner.
No injuries were reported, police spokesman Officer Albie Esparza said.
Many at the bank Wednesday were students who said paying for public education was “theft” and it’s wrong for the California State University and University of California systems to raise tuition and fees.
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As a general rule in the history of marches and movements, you’re not in a good place when people are talking more about sanitation than social justice.
And it doesn’t help that when you need a charge, your “organizers” send out a plea for a 16-volt battery.
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Occupy Oakland demonstrators took to the streets Tuesday evening after their downtown camp was broken up in the early morning, but they were met by a wall of police looking to stop them from reconvening the community.
Officers deployed tear gas on roughly 100 protesters at Frank Ogawa Plaza multiple times Tuesday night after a third official order to disperse.
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“Occupation” is quickly becoming a buzzword around San Francisco.More than two dozen people stormed the vacant Cathedral Hill Hotel on Monday night intending to occupy the building in the name of homelessness. And for the past several weeks, people aligned with Occupy SF have taken up residence outside the Federal Reserve on Market Street to protest financial institutions and the wealthy.
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