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2011-11-06 "Occupy Oakland, SF urge divestment in big banks" by Erin Allday, Jill Tucker from "San Francisco Chronicle"
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Protesters from the Occupy Oakland and Occupy San Francisco camps rallied in front of local banks Saturday, joining a nationwide movement to encourage customers to close their checking and savings accounts at the largest financial institutions.
Hundreds of demonstrators in San Francisco marched loudly but peacefully from their encampment at Justin Herman Plaza up Market Street to protest in front of Chase Bank, Citibank and Bank of America branches.
About a hundred protesters marched a block from the Occupy Oakland camp outside City Hall to a Wells Fargo branch, which closed for the day shortly after they arrived. No one was arrested in either protest.
The marches were part of a national Bank Transfer Day, which also sparked smaller demonstrations in Walnut Creek and San Francisco's Excelsior district. The event was meant to encourage customers to transfer their money from major banks to credit unions.
Marching with the San Francisco group toward the Chase building, Jed Holtzman, 34, said he'd closed accounts with Bank of America just hours earlier. "It felt great," he said.

Rally against BART officer -
Later Saturday, supporters of Oscar Grant, the unarmed man killed by then-BART Officer Johannes Mehserle, held a rally at the Occupy Oakland encampment to mark the anniversary of Mehserle being sentenced to two years in prison - of which he served 11 months - for involuntary manslaughter.
For the most part, the camps in San Francisco and Oakland were quiet Saturday, three days after a peaceful general strike in Oakland turned violent and led to more than 100 people being arrested.
One man, who says he is a veteran of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, remained at Highland Hospital after suffering serious injuries in the early Thursday protests in Oakland. Friends of Kayvan Sabeghi, 32, said he was in good spirits Saturday, although still in pain after having surgery the day before to repair his lacerated spleen.
Sabeghi told friends he was injured when police or Alameda County sheriff's deputies beat him with nightsticks before arresting him. Sabeghi was arrested for remaining at the scene of a riot and resisting arrest, Oakland police said.

Video of handcuffing -
Video footage captured by a KTVU camera crew showed a man that friends identified as Sabeghi first standing alone in front of a line of police in riot gear, and later, on the ground surrounded by police as he was handcuffed.
As police escort him from the scene, Sabeghi, dressed in shorts and a T-shirt with a black bandanna around his neck, says, "I'm an Iraq war vet. I had two tours in Iraq. One tour in Afghanistan."
Sabeghi told friends that while he was part of Wednesday's peaceful protests, he did not participate in the more violent demonstrations later that night and had been trying to walk home when police stopped him. Oakland police and sheriff's officials said they are investigating the allegations.
Sabeghi is the second veteran to have been wounded in the Occupy Oakland protests. Iraq war veteran Scott Olsen suffered a serious head injury on Oct. 25 when he was hit by a projectile that appeared to be fired from police lines. Dottie Guy, a spokeswoman for Iraq Veterans Against the War, said Saturday that Olsen isn't able to speak but is otherwise "doing well."
"He can't talk, but he's been texting and e-mailing," Guy said. "He's himself."