Stories you shouldn’t miss:
1. San Francisco officials declared Occupy SF to be a public health nuisance yesterday, but concerns about an overnight raid by police turned out to be unfounded, the Chron reports. The encampment has thinned out a bit from a high of about 200 tents, but there are still more tents at Justin Herman Plaza than Mayor Ed Lee’s demand of about 100 tents. Lee, however, has taken a cautious approach to Occupy SF and has not been under the intense pressure to clear it as Oakland Mayor Jean Quan was with Occupy Oakland.
2. Occupy Oakland and Occupy Cal, meanwhile, are regrouping and planning their next actions, the Trib reports. Occupy Oakland is calling for a large march and demonstration through downtown tomorrow and then protesters plan to set up tents at a vacant city-owned lot at Telegraph Avenue and 19th Street. However, many activists sympathetic to the Occupy cause oppose the new encampment location because it’s across the street from the Oakland School of the Arts, a public charter school. Quan said that police will attempt to block any new encampments in downtown. Occupy Cal protesters, meanwhile, are also considering trying to reestablish an encampment at UC Berkeley.
