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11/18: About 100 protesters gathered at the Montgomery BART station at 7am 11/18 to protest the US war against the Iraqi people. Several people locked down in front of the main entrance of Chevron-Texaco's headquarters. Other protesters locked down in the back of the building. 10 people were arrested at Chevron-Texaco, with an additional 12 taken into custody afterwards at Diane Feinstein's office. One woman was transferred to the jail, where she will be charged with felony vandalism for throwing "blood" (a mixture of cornstarch, food color and water). According to eyewitness reports it was the police who spilled the "blood" and four of those arrested were legal observers.

"To prevent this war, we will need to take action, not just to voice our opposition but to interfere directly with the operations of war, to interrupt the functioning of the illegitimate government which promotes this war, and to disrupt the corporations in whose interests it is waged." – from the call to action.
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11/15: Live audio - Today began a series of events in Atlanta, from demonstrations to vigils, against what has been a pioneer terrorist training school, the Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISCH), formerly known as the School of the Americas (SOA). Graduates include some of the more violent and psychotic elements of the Latin American military, totalling nearly 60,000 since its beginning. The goal of this weekend's demonstrations and events is to close the WHISCH/SOA, though the US military would without a doubt just shift its operations to another location, as the means for social control and state violence are not so easily destroyed. Details | SF Liberation News Special Report | IMC Atlanta | SOA Watch | Challenge against plan to search every demonstrator | Otto Reich Named to SOA's Board

5:13pm Demonstrators have dispersed
4:51pm Crowd is still in the hundreds, but perhaps dwindling. No arrests.
4:43pm Reports say riot cops are beginning to close in on crowd.
4:32pm Around 300 demonstrators have stopped in front of the army recruiting station - Audio interviews | Report
4:15pm Two groups of riot cops following on opposite sides of the march; march still 5-600 strong
4:11pm March headed up Embarcadero. Van full of riot cops present
4:03pm: Demonstrators headed toward the Embarcadero. Cops seem calm at the moment.
3:51pm: March headed up Battery
3:36pm: Police on horses moving to head off demonstrators. Demo photos
3:18pm: Breakaway march is approx. 4-500. Another march of 1500 or so is headed down Market as well.
3:04pm: Breakaway march has left. Motorcycle cops are in abundance. Headed down McAllister past Hastings Law School.
2:45pm: SF and East Bay Food Not Bombs are providing energizing grub. No reports from breakaway march as of yet.
2:27pm: Speakers continue. KPFA reports "tens of thousands". Breakaway march to gather at Grove/Polk.
1:28pm: With speakers on stage, demonstrators ranging from mainstream liberals to anarchists are gathered. Direct action is planned for around 2:30pm - Details
12:51pm: Huge crowd amassing at Civic Center
12:39pm: A crowd of 50+ has taken the street near Mission and 16th, blocking traffic and heading downtown
12:25pm: Crowd estimate at 20,000+
12:16pm: March moving - Lots of cop vehicles on Drum b/t Clay and Sacramento
12:14pm: Market Street is filled with people as the march begins and both lanes are closed entirely. Traffic is snarled. Cops have many a van on the street
11:56am: Thousands of demonstrators are filling the streets of downtown San Francisco, raising their voices in outrage at US-led war and terrorism. Speakers are breaking it down on stage, while the march is on the verge of beginning.

The Coalition of Immokalee Workers and anti-war activists showed up in kayaks at McCovey Cove at PacBell Park during game 5 of the World Series, where Taco Bell had a floating target with a promise of a free taco for the entire country if a home run ball hit it. CIW has called for a Taco Bell boycott to combat the exploitative working conditions they face as Taco Bell suppliers. Confounded by the flagrant free speech exercise in a public waterway, SFPD crimefighters attempted to enforce a questionable unlit watercraft code. 3 min. quicktime video | Boycott the Bell

11/1: Activists staged a "die-in" at the Colombian consulate in San Francisco on 10/30 in protest of Plan Colombia and US intervention in Colombia. Four demonstrators were arrested after they blocked the building's entrances, hoping to call attention to the paramilitary death squads that the $1.3 billion plan would likely fund, though the US and Colombian government's public relations flaks are working overtime to disguise under the banner of the "War on Terrorism." Video & report | IMC Colombia | ZNet's Colombia Watch | Chomsky interview | Narconews | Colombian Labor Monitor

Tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets of San Francisco on October 26 to demand an end to Bush's wars. Estimates of the crowd size varied from forty thousand to over one hundred thousand.

After the main march to City Hall, an unpermitted break-away march continued the resistance in the streets while blaring music from the Coup on a mobile soundsystem.

An anti-war march with over 100,000 took place Saturday in Washington, DC and demonstrations were also held in Berlin, Rotterdam, Belgium, Barcelona and several cities in Italy. Smaller anti-war Protests also took place all over the world and closer to home, several hundred protesters marched in Fresno:   1 2

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On 10/6, the anniversary eve of the bombing of Afghanistan, Not In Our Name organized nationwide protests against the "war on the world", detentions and police state restrictions. Thousands joined the mass action that was held at Union Square, SF to remember Afghanistan and stop in its tracks an imperialistic war on the people of Iraq. NION's Pledge of Resistance (video) calls for resistance against the blood-for-oil mantra and US policies of racism, repression, and collateral damage. PSAs: 1 | 2 | 3 Support Xichotl, a NION activist arrested at a Berkeley protest in April and now charged with misdemeanor "battery against a police officer." Interview with Xichotl (realaudio). Photos from NION peace vigil on 9/10. Photos from 10/6: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Watch a video from 10/6