Protestors Blockade Google Bus in San Francisco [View all]

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http://www.modernluxury.com/san-francisco/story/protestors-blockade-google-bus-24th-and-mission



A group of protestors, angered by rising rents and neighborhood gentrification, blocked a parked Google bus filled with workers from departing from the corner of 24th and Mission this morning. Bearing mock traffic signs that said "Two-Tiered System" and "Illegal Use of Public Infrastructure," what appeared to be a dozen neon-vested activists stood in front and behind the bus, preventing it from leaving. According to reports from the scene, the bus departed after an hour.

According to a flyer handed out by protestors at the scene and their website, the activists—who called themselves the "San Francisco Displacement and Neighborhood Impact Agency"—demanded that tech firms pay $1 billion to the city for what they call "illegal" use of MUNI bus stops. Those funds, they went on to say, could be used to fund affordable housing, eviction defense, and a halt to Ellis Act evictions.

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http://www.sfbg.com/googleshoutdown

Google employee on bus, to protestor: "Why don't you go to a city that can afford it? This is a city for the right people who can afford it. You can't afford it? You can leave. I'm sorry, get a better job." Update: "Googler" now revealed to be fake: http://www.businessinsider.com/googler-taunts-protesters-2013-12