The number keeps rising, but Reuters is now saying more than 400 Occupy Oakland protesters have been arrested as Saturday night's protests continue into Sunday. That's obviously a pretty significant number, and it trumps the "between 200 and 300" number authorities gave earlier in the day. As has been the case…

Consider Jean Quan's Facebook successfully occupied. The Oakland mayor has officially given up her would-be "fan page" after it was overwhelmed with critics of her handling of Occupy Oakland protests.

I know this has been kicking around the gay internet for the past few days, but it's the Tuesday before Thanksgiving and there's not much going on and you need to look at porn before you go back to mom's house, right? Right! Here's a gay porn movie that was filmed during the Occupy Oakland protests.

Remember Kayvan Sabeghi, the 32-year-old Iraq and Afghanistan war veteran and Occupy Oakland protester who was hospitalized for a lacerated spleen after being beaten by baton-wielding Oakland cops? A witness has come forward with video footage of Sabeghi's police encounter, and it's pretty awful.

Calling all unemployed Okies with underutilized graduate degrees! Many government positions have opened up in Oakland, California, in the past few weeks as one city official after another has abandoned Mayor Jean Quan's administration. Several new positions are waiting to be filled!

Hundreds of riot police booted Occupy Oakland from their camp early this morning, arresting about 25 people. Occupy Oakland protesters are now homeless, like their Portland counterparts. This is what happens when you fuck with Whole Foods in Northern California.

Here's a video in which a man describes a shooting that took place "30 feet" from the Occupy Oakland site. According to the San Francisco Chronicle, protesters said they "did not recognize" the victim, who was shot in the head and died shortly thereafter. Nevertheless, Oakland mayor Jean Quan has asked protesters to…

Let's all give a big "thanks" to the heroes of the Oakland Police Department, who have now hospitalized two veterans of the Iraq War in the last week as part of their ongoing project to look like the worst police department in the country!

Sounds like last night was another eventful one for the demonstrators of Occupy Oakland. After yesterday's general strike, during which anarchists who seem to hold a grudge against $10 tempeh loaves defiled the sanctity of a local Whole Foods, protesters occupied the local Travelers Aid building, danced in the…

A handful of anarchists besieged an Oakland Whole Foods a few minutes ago, after false rumors circulated that managers had threatened employees with termination if they participated in today's Occupy Oakland general strike. Whole Foods hasn't seen such strife since the Great Kombucha Shortage of 2010!

Occupy Oakland is calling for a general strike today, the first since 1946, according to the New York Times. A few thousand people have gathered in downtown Oakland for a march, and the San Francisco Chronicle reports 260 Oakland public school teachers didn't show up to work, not to mention the stark solidarity shown…

Scott Olsen, the Iraq War vet critically injured by an Oakland riot cop's projectile gas canister, is awake and lucid and awaiting surgery, according to a report in The Guardian. His condition has been upgraded from critical to fair. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that doctors are optimistic he could make a full…

Tonight, Stephen Colbert opened the Report with a defense of the Oakland cops who used force earlier this week while disassembling local protesters. Colbert then turned his attention to the Occupy Wall Street movement in general. "You had your moment, but we are bored with you now," he said. "You're just a media…

When the Occupy Wall Street movement began spreading across the U.S., one of its biggest satellite protests took root in Oakland. But after two weeks of peaceful interactions with the city, Occupy Oakland protesters sparred with gas canister-firing police yesterday, leaving an Iraq War veteran in critical condition…

Scott Thomas Olsen, a 24-year-old former Marine who served tours in Iraq in 2006 and 2007, is in critical condition after being seriously injured by one of the projectile gas canisters fired at Occupy Oakland protesters last night.

A tense scene unfolded in Oakland last night as protesters, attempting to reclaim the plaza from which they were evicted early Tuesday morning, faced off with police—who used tear gas and percussion grenades on the occupiers.