Protesters Block Apple and Google Buses In California

Hugh Pickens DOT Com writes "Business Insider reports that protesters have stopped a bus filled with Apple employees in San Francisco and a Google bus in Oakland. Tech companies like Google, Apple, and Facebook provide free buses that take their employees from San Francisco to their headquarters in the suburbs. Protesters are mad at the tech companies because the wealthy tech employees have driven up the price of housing in San Francisco, which is pricing out some people. The buses also use public transit stops, and some protesters think that's wrong. Between 70 and 100 protesters gathered for the blockade of Apple private tech shuttle to protest evictions in the city of San Francisco. The activists in San Francisco were from Eviction Free San Francisco, Our Mission No Eviction, Causa Justa /Just Cause. Protesters stood in front of a white shuttle bus holding banners and signs. Some peeked through cardboard signs fashioned in the shape of place markers on Google maps, with "Evicted" written across the front. Meanwhile violence occurred in Oakland, according to reports from IndyBay, as protesters unfurled two giant banners reading "TECHIES: Your World Is Not Welcome Here" and "Fuck off Google" and "a person appeared from behind the bus and quickly smashed the whole of the rear window, making glass rain down on the street. Cold air blew inside the bus and the blockaders with their banners departed." Two weeks ago, protesters stopped a Google bus."

Comments

Re:How is it their fault?

[Seumas]

So they're a boon to homeowners who can now sell their prices for a lot more than they dreamed of. This sounds like a good thing, to me.

But, you know, keep on with the class-wars, everyone.

Re:Hmm.

[jedidiah]

> You only got to where you are because you were in the right place at the right time. Not everyone is so lucky.

No. He got where he is today because he isn't some worthless sheep that would fit in better in some European welfare state. If you are working class, you really have no one to blame but yourself for how your life turned out. There are enough handouts even in the US that you really don't have an excuse.

Some people do whatever it takes. Others just make excuses and whine.