On the afternoon of April 1st, activists from OccupySF occupied a vacant building owned by the San Francisco Archdiocese. The 9,950 square foot, two-story building at 888 Turk was to become Occupy SF's Commune to provide a perpetual, autonomous headquarters for the Occupy SF movement. There is space for food preparation and distribution, bedrooms for housing, event rooms for General Assemblies and art projects, class rooms and spaces for medical services. 888 Turk used to house Westside Community Crisis and Outpatient mental health services. The building, neighbors told the group that the building had been abandoned for five or six years and that they were happy to see the space being utilized.

The next afternoon, the SFPD moved in and arrested around 75 occupiers. May 1st occupySF re-occupied the building, resulting in another police standoff within hours and 23 arrests during a 5am raid.

The archdiocese released a statement April 1st regarding the arrests saying that the properties at 888 Turk Street and 930 Gough Street have been used by Sacred Heart Cathedral Preparatory High School. They said the building had been used for music and art classes as recently as 18 months ago. One month later, According to online real estate listings, it is currently listed for lease at $11,000 monthly.

Spokesman George Wesolek said church officials signed a citizen’s arrest for trespassing.
and locked it's doors to those who marched to the vatican asking for answers.

“We are not the 1 percent,” Wesolek said. “I don’t understand the goal.”

The Catholic Church is the 1 percent, especially in the Bay Area, where they own many vacant properties on which they do not pay property taxes.
The 888 Turk building had received numerous complaints for failure to register in the city's vacant building registry.

We are asking the Catholic Church to practice what it preaches. OccupySF's intentions are pure and in line with what the Catholic church says it's core values are. We are asking that the SF Archdiocese stop abusing tax payer dollars as being the ink on the paper of police brutality against the Occupy SF movement and work out an agreement with The Occupy SF Movement. The the Catholic Church and Specifically the SF Archdiocese become consistent with it's teachings, rather than Author Ayn Rand. I quote Georgetown University's Father Thomas Reece, "a budget is what we call is a moral document, jesus did say for people to pay their taxes and help that way". "We should not concentrate all the wealth of the world within a very few people" "It's very clear in the gospels that jesus reached out to help the poor, help the sick, this is what he has called us to do as his disciples we are to we are to show that we love one another by caring for the poor caring for the sick giving people a hand up so they can do these things. Jesus said we would be judged by whether we would feed the hungry, gave drink to the thirsty, clothe the naked."