[zipper]

Some observations:

-- there is no definite leadership, as with most of the Occupy camps. There are "facilitators" who make announcements or recite material over a megaphone, to be repeated by their audience.

-- they don't have a specific list of demands endorsed by the entire movement, but the "second bill of rights" signs betray their desire to redistribute wealth from someone they envy to themselves. Socialism is a central theme, with many anti-capitalist or pro-socialist signs. There is usually a central repository for signs in the camp so anyone can join them or carry any sign. The homemade signs are usually made in the camp.

-- I don't think most of them have violent tendencies at the San Francisco yet, but not all camps are the same. The San Francisco camp at Justin Herman Plaza always has a heavy police presence, and so does Zuccotti Park near Wall Street (I've been to both). But the Oakland camp at Frank Ogawa Plaza has NO police and some violent elements in their ranks, including Black Panthers, ex-cons, mentally ill homeless, anarchists. Not to mention the mayor, Jean Quan, is weak and inconsistent.

-- their uniform is "grunge". If you look clean and groomed, you might look like you don't belong.

Front of the rally, though there appeared to many who joined the march that weren't campers -- there were many more marchers than the camp could possibly hold (likely a couple of hundred in the camp at night):

tent city:

information booth, note Marxism Conference flyer:

dope-smokers at edge of camp, just a hundred feet from police:

"second Bill of Rights" sign in camp:

The rally at one of the stops in a park downtown:

One of many signs advocating socialism:

protesters pause for a photo op:

Another "second Bill of Rights":

(photo is clean version) several naked men marched in the rally in plain view with no clothes on -- eeeewwwww! I saw one woman bystander cover her child's eyes -- wish I had a pic of that too.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

lunatics on parade

[reagandemocrat]

Great report! ‘specially the last pic. You should hook up with Zombietime.

[guitarplayer1953]

All these folks need to move to Cuba their socialist dream and find out that it does not work. Or pick up a newspaper and read about Greece and how they have run that country into the ground.

[x]

Isn’t San Francisco already about as “occupied” by these people as a place can be?

[pogo101]

Great pics! Keep it up and you can be the next Zombie!

The gratuitous nudity made me chuckle. “Hmm, how can I get those damned Wall Street types and middle-America bourgeoisie to take our cause seriously? I know: STRIP!”

[Berlin_Freeper]

Drunkards, drug addicts, prostitutes and queers.

[MoochPooch]

I credit you for an iron-cast stomach. There is NO way I’d ever go near there, not even for the FREE REPUBLIC. The nausea induced by looking at these people, let alone in the nude, is different than the kind a good barf would cure.

I live in New York, home of the original protest. My roommate, whose work occasionally takes her to the Wall Street area, has had trouble getting on & off the trains.

[MoochPooch]

Great photography, BTW. Too bad your camera had to be ruined.

[cripplecreek]

Somebody beat them to the punch on their little bill of rights.

The following are some of the planks of the National socialist (Nazi) Party of Germany, adopted in Munich on February 24, 1920:

We ask that the government undertake the obligation above all of providing citizens with adequate opportunity for employment and earning a living.

The activities of the individual must not be allowed to clash with the interests of the community, but must take place within its confines and be for the good of all.

Therefore, we demand:

an end to the power of the financial interests .

We demand profit sharing in big business.

We demand a broad extension of care for the aged.

We demand. . . the greatest possible consideration of small business in the purchases of the national, state, and municipal governments.

In order to make possible to every capable and industrious [citizen] the attainment of higher education and thus the achievement of a post of leadership, the government must provide an all-around enlargement of our system of public education. . . .

We demand the education at government expense of gifted children of poor parents. . . .

The government must undertake the improvement of public health — by protecting mother and child, by prohibiting child labor — by the greatest possible support for all clubs concerned with the physical education of youth.

We combat the . . . materialistic spirit within and without us, and are convinced that a permanent recovery of our people can only proceed from within on the foundation of " The Common Good Before the Individual Good ."

[Michael.SF.]

Regarding their Bill of Rights II:

Hasn't affordable homes been acccomplished with the housing market collapse, or do they want another collapse as well?

[justlurking]

We should stop calling this protest "Occupy San Francisco".

Obama has been using these to drum up sympathy for his cause, and it's time to make him own them.

Start calling them what they really are:

Obamaville

Spread the meme....

[RaceBannon]

First, we had the TEA PARTY

Ten, we had the FLEA Party

Now, we have the TEAT Party, those who demand we all belly up to the government sow!

[lurk]

Looks like being stoned is on the day’s agenda.

How does one distinguish between the occupiers and the everyday residents of the Bay Area? The two naked guys might just as well be pedestrians heading to work.

[TXnMA]

Effective photos, but it would be a courtesy to FR and its users if you learned to to reduce them to half their present dimensions (1/4 the area and file size).

[Mr. Peabody]

I drove by on Friday. It looks like they have portapotties with a large trailer nearby. Do you know what’s in the trailer? I’m guessing showers.