Occupy San Francisco protesters marched and demonstrated outside Wells Fargo headquarters today in the city’s Financial District today.

Below are blog reports from this morning’s protest. For the updated story, see www.mercurynews.com/twitter/ci_19097398

11:20 a.m.

One of 11 demonstrators arrested in the San Francisco protests today said he came to event because both his parents’ home in Evanston, Illinois and his grandmother’s home in Chicago had been foreclosed on by banks.

Max Bell Alter, 31, was arrested this morning and taken to the San Francisco Chinatown police station, where he and 10 others were cited for trespassing and released. They have orders to appear in court on Nov. 16.

The more people that join the movement, the more “banks will have to be accountable,” said Alter, a Berkeley resident who belongs to United Here Local 2850.

Alter said that the Occupy protests around the area need to join forces and “escalate the movement.”

— Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune

10:50 a.m.

The protest has thinned out a little and some demonstrators are trickling away. About 150 remain.

Here and there, employees of the bank are being escorted into the bank building.

One Wells Fargo employee on her way to work said she supported the protesters, because “they have the right to protest and because people are greedy.”

“If I didn’t have to go to work, I would be out there,” said the employee, who did not want to be named.

She said it was terrible that a Wells Fargo corporate executive can make millions while so many workers are being laid off or are unemployed.

Bankruptcy attorney Robert Jackson, who works a block away, said he sympathizes with the protesters, and knows firsthand what some are going through. His business has increased by 10 times in the past four years.

People’s goals for good jobs, housing and education are not being met. “They’ve been through some tough times,” Jackson said.

— Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune

10:10 a.m.

Police have arrested 11 protesters on charges of trespassing, a police official said. None have been released so far.

Buff Bradley, a retired teacher from Fairfax, said he came to the protest to call attention to the “incredible economic injustice that has our country by the throat.”

Wells Fargo is a target for the protesters because the banks are “complicit in the assault on ordinary people,” said Bradley, who taught kindergarten in El Cerrito, East Palo Alto and Corte Madera.

The goal is to be in the streets and let people know they don’t have to accept the assault by the top 1 percent, he said. Bradley hopes for mass uprisings similar to what happened in Egypt earlier this year.

— Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune

9:50 a.m.

So far, police have arrested 10 protesters for blocking entrances to the building as Wells Fargo employees tried to get in this morning. Some protesters said that those arrested may have been cited and already released.

About 300 are gathered for the event and four entrances to Wells Fargo are blocked, including those on Montgomery and California streets. The protesters aren’t blocking the street, but traffic is sluggish.

There’s music and costumes and many children among the demonstrators. About two dozen police are monitoring the event.

— Angela Woodall, Oakland Tribune

9:25 a.m.

Protest organizer Pete Woiwode, with the group California Partnership, said 10 people were arrested on Liedesdorff Street, a small street that runs behind the Wells Fargo building, according to Bay City News

Police officers at the scene said 10 to 15 people who were in front of the doors on that street were arrested for trespassing.

9 a.m.

Ten people have been arrested outside the bank headquarters, according to KTVU. The protesters are sitting and standing around the bank chanting “We are the 99 percent.”

Meanwhile, the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency has suspended service on a cable car line as the anti-Wall Street protesters march downtown, the Associated Press is reporting. Service on the California Street cable car line will remain suspended until the crowd clears.

8:40 a.m.:

Bay City News reports dozens of demonstrators are sitting down in front of the Wells Fargo building, located at 420 Montgomery St. between Sacramento and California streets, while others are standing by or marching around the block.

Some demonstrators held signs reading “Foreclose Wall Street,” “Stop the corporate greed,” and “We are the 99 percent.”

San Francisco Supervisor John Avalos, who is running for mayor, was among them and addressed the crowd.

“I welcome your fight and I join you in the effort,” he said.

The march is organized by a number of groups including Causa Justa Just Cause, Unite Here Local 2850, the California Partnership, Young Workers United and the Chinese Progressive Association

8:15 a.m.:

Occupy SF protesters are blocking entrances at Wells Fargo Corporate Headquarters on Montgomery St., according to KTVU.

Police are starting to remove some protesters in handcuffs.

Cable car service in the area has been stalled. In addition, traffic is clogged throughout the Financial District.

The “Occupy Wall Street” movement spread to San Francisco last week, and to Oakland, San Jose and other Bay Area cities this week.

Demonstrators say they want banks pay their fair share of taxes and be held accountable for their role in the economic crisis.

Check back for updates.