The wave of protests that began with “Occupy Wall Street” in September is continuing to expand in the Bay Area, and activists plan to begin camping out in Oakland’s Frank Ogawa Plaza this afternoon.Protesters announced online that “Occupy Oakland” will begin at 4 p.m. when they will gather outside Oakland’s City Hall, creating an encampment in the spirit of similar protests throughout the nation.
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Police arrested a protester with “Occupy SF” in front of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco this morning.Witnesses said two officers approached a man sitting at the corner of Spear and Market streets after smelling marijuana smoke. The man extinguished the marijuana before being asked for his medical marijuana card, they said.
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Despite an early-morning raid Thursday by police and the Department of Public Works, Occupy SF protesters re-established their camp this weekend, taking up most of the block in front of the Federal Reserve building on Market Street.
Click on the photo at right to see a gallery of images from the Occupy SF encampment.
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Unlike in New York, demonstrators of the Occupy SF movement aren’t likely going to find a central public outdoor refuge in The City for camping. Participants in the flagship Occupy Wall Street demonstrations have secured a fairly stable staging ground at privately owned Zuccotti Park, around the corner from the financial epicenter that is the target of their anger.
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About 200 demonstrators in the Occupy SF movement were looking for a place to camp after upward of 80 police dismantled their Market Street encampment early Thursday morning.San Francisco police and city employees cleared out the camp just after midnight following a Wednesday night warning that the protesters didn’t have required city permits, including permissions for preparing food and temporary occupancy of a sidewalk.
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The camps are gone but the protesters remain on Market Street in San Francisco’s Financial District, after police confronted the group early Thursday.
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Chanting slogans such as “We are the 99 percent” and “We got sold out, the banks got a bailout,” the Occupy SF movement clogged the sidewalks and streets of San Francisco with hundreds of marchers Wednesday.
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Hundreds of people gathered in San Francisco's Civic Center Wednesday afternoon in solidarity with the weeks-long Occupy Wall Street protests in New York.
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