A Pride at Work member & organizer with the Coalition on Homelessness, Bob Offer-Westort, was arrested Friday for “illegal lodging” in Jane Warner Plaza at Castro and Market Streets. Bob has a home, so why was he camping on a busy street corner? To prove that it’s illegal! Recently, Scott Weiner (the supervisor that represents [...]
Archive for January, 2012
Homeless advocate gleefully arrested for camping in Castro plaza
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012by Heather Knight, SF Chronicle City Insider, January 30 2012 http://blog.sfgate.com/cityinsider/2012/01/30/homeless-advocate-gleefully-arrested-for-camping-in-castro-plaza/ We would not say Bob Offer-Westort knows how to have a rockin’ Friday night. We would say he has a pretty clever sense of humor. He and his comrades at the Coalition on Homelessness have found their latest political target: Supervisor Scott Wiener and [...]
How San Francisco Organizers Rewrote the Rules to Save Minimum Wage
Tuesday, January 31st, 2012Reposted from Colorlines: Friday, January 27 On Jan. 1, 2012, San Francisco’s minimum wage became the first in the nation to pass the $10 mark. The lowest-wage workers will now earn $10.24 an hour, up from the previous rate of $9.92 last year. The city’s minimum wage is tied to and adjusted for inflation, or [...]
A flash mob performs a song and dance routine in front of the Wells Fargo
Friday, January 27th, 2012On Sf Gate A flash mob performs a song and dance routine in front of the Wells Fargo building on Montgomery Street during a day of action by Occupy protesters against corporations and financial institutions in San Francisco, Calif. on Friday, Jan. 20, 2012. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=%2Fc%2Fa%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2FBA4L1MS7IC.DTL&object=%2Fc%2Fpictures%2F2012%2F01%2F20%2Fba-occupy21_SFC0106212511.jpg
Glittering it Up in the Rain: January 20 reportback
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012The rain couldn’t stop us! Thousands descended on Wall Street West to SHUT IT DOWN & Say: Corporations Aren’t People! On January 20, we joined, thousands of people from across the San Francisco Bay Area to take over San Francisco’s Financial District as part of an ongoing series of Occupy Wall St West actions that [...]
Embody the Movement: Dancing for Economic Justice
Wednesday, January 25th, 2012http://www.opednews.com/articles/Embody-the-Movement-Danci-by-Rae-Abileah-120124-271.html By Rae Abileah, opednews.org, January 24, 2012 A day of hard rain and wind could not dampen the spirits of activists representing the 99% as they gathered at Justin Herman Plaza (dubbed Bradley Manning Plaza by locals) in San Francisco on Friday, January 20th, 2012, to mark the dark anniversary [...]
Occupy is back — with horns and glitter
Tuesday, January 24th, 2012An energetic day of action shows that the movement is very much alive By Yael Chanoff : http://www.sfbg.com/2012/01/24/occupy-back-horns-and-glitter 01/24/2012 – SF Bay Guardian, Volume 46, Issue 17 On Jan. 20, hundreds of activists converged on the Financial District in a day that showed a reinvigorated and energized Occupy movement. The day of action was deemed [...]
Flash Mob at Wells Fargo: Occupy Telephone Video!
Thursday, January 12th, 2012Singing, “Stop calling, stop calling, can’t afford to pay anymore,” a flash mob danced on the counters and in the lobby of the San Francisco Wells Fargo branch on Montgomery and Market on January 7th to protest Wells Fargo’s role in the economic and housing crisis. The event, organized by San Francisco Pride at Work/HAVOQ [...]