While at the previous protests we were illegally arrested, this time the police department left us alone. On July 20 body freedom activists had a protest against the nudity ban and a body freedom parade in the Castro. In a 2013 blog post, Taub wrote about being a “body freedom activist. Taub Has Written About Being a ‘Body Freedom Activist’ Paul Pelosi is expected to survive Depape is in custody, but the motive is not clear.ĥ. He then attacked Paul Pelosi with it, according to police, severely injuring him. In a news conference on October 28, 2022, San Francisco police said they encountered Depape inside the Pelosi residence, grappling for a hammer with the House Speaker’s husband. She also describes herself as “host at ” and “Founder at Jerry Garcia Family Healing Clinic” and writes that she “worked at EntheoRadio: Psychedelics, Shamanism & Conversations on Healing” and “Studied Psychedelics at Dead Tour.”Īccording to her Facebook page, Taub “went to Moscow School 45,” lives in Berkeley, California, and is from Moscow, Russia.ĭepape is from British Columbia, according to CNN. On Facebook, Taub wrote, “I am the founder of Jerry Garcia Family Clinic (also known as Life on the Street Support Services).” Taub Describes Herself as a Homeless Activist “We like to meet our neighbors,” Taub told the newspaper.ģ. Instead of cooking Thanksgiving dinner in their Berkeley home, Taub and Depape “chose to join 350 others at the Two Star Market for a community meal,” the article stated. The article in the Tribune gave more details about the family life of Taub and Depape. However, it’s not clear their biological relationship, if any, as elsewhere Depape is referred to as a father figure. While the case was pending, Taub also tried to dissuade the victim from testifying.ĭDA Lori Mullins prosecuted the trial, with assistance from Victim-Witness Advocate Erica Chavis.Ī 2008 article in the Oakland Tribune, accessed via, reported that David Depape and Gypsy Taub have three children together.

Over the course of 14 months, she sent him numerous obsessive emails, created blogs directed at him, used his friends to send him messages and eventually tried to abduct him a few blocks from his school in Berkeley. The defendant, a 50-year-old woman, became fixated on a 14-year-old boy in 2018. 26, 2021, a jury found defendant Oxane Taub guilty of 20 counts– from felony charges of stalking, dissuading a witness, and attempted child abduction to misdemeanor counts for violating protective orders and child molest. The Alameda County District Attorney wrote in a press release in 2021: Police also described “two blog postings of communications that appear to be from” Taub in which she was “professing her love and desire” to be with the teen boy, the site reported. But, according to police, Taub did not stop contacting him - despite the filing of multiple misdemeanor charges in July, September and November,” the site reported. “Taub maintained a connection with the boy and sent him numerous messages and emails to the point where the boy’s mother sought a restraining order against Taub in June. Authorities alleged she became fixated on a 14 year old boy, who was once a friend of Taub’s son. “Planning the wedding is stressful, but it’s exciting because I’m a big rebel and I just like to stir s- up,” Taub told the newspaper.Īccording to Berkeley Side, in 2019, Taub was charged with attempted child abduction, stalking and child abuse - all felonies. That article described Taub as “the full front of nude activism in the city.” The article reported that Taub was planning to wear only a veil to the wedding on the steps of San Francisco City Hall. It describes him as a “hemp jewelry maker.” That article reported that Depape was the best man at the naked wedding of Gypsy Taub. The Castro mentioned in his tweet refers to the San Francisco neighborhood, not the Cuban dictator.Ī 2013 article in the San Francisco Chronicle mentions Depape, although his name is spelled wrong. Things appear set to be bizarre for a while.” He would appear to be a former Castro nudist protester. Joe Eskenazi, of Mission Local, tweeted, “My sources also name the suspect in this morning’s hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley. Things appear set to be bizarre for a while. My sources also name the suspect in this morning's hammer attack on Paul Pelosi as David DePape, born 1980, of Berkeley.

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