{"id":18116,"date":"2021-03-27T10:58:04","date_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=18116"},"modified":"2021-03-27T10:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-03-27T17:59:00","slug":"hundreds-gather-for-san-francisco-rise-up-rally-condemning-anti-asian-violence-police-brutality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2021\/03\/27\/hundreds-gather-for-san-francisco-rise-up-rally-condemning-anti-asian-violence-police-brutality\/","title":{"rendered":"Hundreds gather for San Francisco ‘Rise Up’ rally, condemning anti-Asian violence, police brutality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Joshua Bote<\/a>, SFGATE March 26, 2021 (SFGate.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters hold signs during a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021 in San Francisco.Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Hundreds gathered at Union Square in San Francisco on Friday for a peaceful, student-led rally against the wave of anti-Asian violence in the Bay Area and throughout the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe want to bring everyone together, and have the voices of our Asian community be heard and seen,\u201d said a message from organizers leading up to the Friday protest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crowd marched through the city to the Embarcadero \u2014 where a closing rally was held Friday afternoon. On-the-ground footage showed large groups of people chanting, \u201cStop, stop, stop Asian hate,\u201d buttressed by the sound of marching drums. Signs held read, \u201cRacism is a pandemic, too,\u201d and \u201cProtect Asian lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Former city Supervisor Sandra Lee Fewer spoke at the rally, and according to the Bay Area News Group,<\/a> recalled a white woman attacking her mother on a Muni bus as a child.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Protesters hold signs as they march along Market Street before a rally to show solidarity with Asian Americans at Embarcadero Plaza on March 26, 2021 in San Francisco.Justin Sullivan\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese incidents are not new,\u201d she said, the newspaper reported. \u201cThese incidents have always happened.\u201dRead More<\/p>\n\n\n\n

San Francisco District 6 Supervisor Matt Haney posted images on Twitter from the march, calling it a \u201cpowerful, huge\u201d moment of anti-racist action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n