A crowd of animal rights activists marched through the streets of San Francisco on Saturday demanding that Zoe Rosenberg, a woman convicted of trespassing at a Petaluma farm to take chickens, be released from jail.

FILE: Animal activist Zoe Rosenberg with two rescued chickens, Ron and Ginny, at Happy Hen Animal Sanctuary in San Luis Obispo. Rosenberg began serving a 90-day sentence on Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2025, related to her conviction on charges of trespassing and tampering with a vehicle after she entered Petaluma Poultry farm in June 2023. (Direct Action Everywhere via Bay City News)

Dozens of protesters with Direct Action Everywhere, an animal rights organization that Rosenberg belongs to, banged drums and chanted slogans like “Prosecute animal cruelty, not animal rescuers!”

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.