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Occupy Oakland Calls For Tuesday General Strike
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Occupy Oakland members are calling for a general strike on Tuesday—May Day—as a show of unity between union and non-union workers. Group members announced their plans at a news...
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Bay Area Protests and Picket Lines Planned For May Day
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) — Occupy protesters, workers and activists in the Bay Area and across the nation plan to take to the streets Tuesday as part of May Day. A planned strike among Golden Gate Bridge...
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Golden Gate Ferry Service Cancelled Over May Day Strike
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS)— Now that Doyle Drive has re-opened, Golden Gate Bridge officials are shifting their attention to a May Day strike planned for Tuesday morning. KCBS has learned that Golden Gate...
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Vandals Attack Police Station, Businesses In SF Mission District Protest
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS/AP) – One person was arrested after a protest march in the San Francisco’s Mission District led to acts of vandalism, including against the Mission police station, authorities said....
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Thousands Of Nurses Walk Off Job In Northern California Sutter Strike
BERKELEY (KCBS)— More than 4,000 registered nurses at 10 Sutter Health hospitals in Northern California walked off the job in Tuesday’s May Day protests. The California Nurses Association of Oakland...
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Striking GG Ferry Workers, Occupy Activists Join In May Day Protests
LARKSPUR (KCBS) — Protesters gathered at the Larkspur Ferry terminal Tuesday morning as Golden Gate Ferry Service was shut down as expected over a ferry workers’ strike coinciding with May Day and...
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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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SF Mission Shops, Police Station Cleaned Up After Night Of Vandalism
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) – Police and merchants in San Francisco’s Mission District were cleaning up Tuesday morning after protesters vandalized dozens of businesses and cars in the neighborhood on...
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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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Police Remove Protesters From Occupied San Francisco Building
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – Dozens of people were arrested early Wednesday as police officers in riot gear raided a vacant building owned by the Catholic archdiocese of San Francisco occupied during May Day...
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Sutter Claims Many Nurses Crossed Picket Line Tuesday
CONTRA COSTA (KCBS)— Thousands of registered nurses conducted a one-day strike against Sutter Health over patient care and workplace conditions. But now there’s a dispute over exactly how many nurses...
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Accused SF Occupy Brick Thrower Had Previous Run-In, Faces Felonies
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) – A man accused of tossing bricks into a crowd of people during Tuesday’s May Day protests in San Francisco has had a previous run-in with city workers and will face felony...
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Oakland Police Tally 39 Arrests In May Day Protests
OAKLAND (CBS SF) - Large protests in Oakland on Tuesday to mark May Day were mostly peaceful but 39 people were arrested, city of Oakland officials said Wednesday. As many as 5,000 demonstrators...
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Oakland Businesses Regroup After Day Of Protest
OAKLAND (KCBS) – While damage wasn’t as extensive compared to previous protests, businesses in downtown Oakland were once again trying to recover Wednesday following May Day demonstrations. The Oakland...
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$25K Donated To Vandalized SF Mission District Businesses
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — San Francisco-based Wells Fargo on Wednesday announced it was donating $25,000 to help small businesses in the city’s Mission District rebuild after protesters vandalized more...
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Oakland Police Use Streaming Video To Monitor May Day Occupy Protests
OAKLAND (KCBS) – Oakland’s police chief and mayor watched from a command center downtown as the events of the May Day protests unfolded in real time a few blocks away, thanks to streaming video cameras...
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5 To Be Charged In May Day Takeover Of SF Building
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS / AP) — San Francisco prosecutors plan to file charges against five people arrested in the takeover of a vacant building during May Day protest. In a statement issued Thursday,...
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Donations Pour In For Vandalized SF Mission District Shops
SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A grassroots effort to help Mission District businesses vandalized by a group that broke away from a protest march on Monday has raised more $7,000 in less than a week. More than...
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Oakland Officials Seek Vandalism Video, Photos From Protests
OAKLAND (CBS SF) — Oakland city officials are asking members of the public to submit video or photographic evidence of vandalism associated with recent protests. After protests on May 1 that led to 39...
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San Francisco Protester Gets 2 Years For Throwing Bricks At Police
SAN FRANCISCO (CBS SF) — A year to the day after he was arrested for throwing bricks at San Francisco police officers, a protester was sentenced Wednesday to two years in state prison for a felony...
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