joining us live now with more is joel umanzor, a reporter for the san francisco standard. joel. >> hey, how are you guys doing? >> we're doing fine. we're kind of getting ready like the rest of the city, right? why is this an attractive time, you think, for protesters to kind of make their demands known and be seen? >> well, aipac is international forum of world leaders different economic markets and whatnot. so with that comes a lot of hot button topics. and san francisco is known as a, you know, a very active protesting city. that's you know, we're going to see more of that. this coming week with aipac for sure there. >> and of course, there are a lot of different groups planning different protests over different issues, different actions, different policies. but am i right in reading your article that there's kind of an umbrella group, the no to aipac coalition? >> yeah, the no to aipac coalition is the main group that we're seeing. you know, organized different protests around san francisco for this week. they're a coalition of about 100 different grassroots organizatio