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'Google Bus' Protests Getting Ugly Today in SF

KQED News blogger details how Silicon Valley shuttles are being targeted and stopped -- with one vandalized -- in San Francisco and Oakland.

Susan C. Schena, Neighbor
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According to a KQED News Bay area blog posted today by writer Dan Brekke, San Francisco and Oakland protesters are targeting Silicon Valley shuttles. 

In today's post, Brekke writes: 

"Update 2 p.m.: Our local 'Google bus' protests took a turn today as a total of three buses were stopped in actions in San Francisco and Oakland, where one of the vehicles was vandalized.

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In San Francisco, a bus carrying Apple employees was blocked during the morning rush hour by protesters at 24th and Valencia streets. The action, carried out by activists seeking city action to halt evictions in the Mission District and elsewhere amid an influx of technology workers, was a sequel to one on Dec. 9 in which a Google bus was halted at the same corner."

To read his full and extensive coverage of what is transpiring, click here. 

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To view the protesters' manifesto posted on KQED's news site, click here.

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