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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOccupy Google!
http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_26030437/10-occupy-google-protesters-arrested-after-refusing-leaveA protest by a group calling itself Occupy Google resulted in the arrest of 10 people late Tuesday night after they refused to leave the Internet giant's campus, according to police.
The protesters were staging a demonstration calling for net neutrality at Google headquarters in Mountain View. About 20 demonstrators wearing matching blue shirts reading "Defend Internet freedom" participated and pitched tents on the company's campus.
Google allowed the protesters to stay on their campus during the day but requested they leave for the night, Mountain View police Sgt. Saul Jaeger said. Google security notified Mountain View police about the protesters during the day, and police made contact with the group and left....
Following the arrests, Occupy Google said via Twitter it was organizing a rally today outside the Google developer conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The two-day conference begins today.
The protesters were staging a demonstration calling for net neutrality at Google headquarters in Mountain View. About 20 demonstrators wearing matching blue shirts reading "Defend Internet freedom" participated and pitched tents on the company's campus.
Google allowed the protesters to stay on their campus during the day but requested they leave for the night, Mountain View police Sgt. Saul Jaeger said. Google security notified Mountain View police about the protesters during the day, and police made contact with the group and left....
Following the arrests, Occupy Google said via Twitter it was organizing a rally today outside the Google developer conference at Moscone Center in San Francisco. The two-day conference begins today.
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Occupy Google! (Original Post)
KamaAina
Jun 2014
OP
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)1. Hear hear!
I love reading Rebecca Solnit's essays on Google, or "hipster Big Brother" as she calls them.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)2. For some reason, Rebecca seems to have deleted me from her friends list
so I couldn't ask her to follow up on this gem.
http://www.boomcalifornia.com/2014/06/the-boom-interview-rebecca-solnit/
You can imagine San Francisco as full of dynamic struggle thats been pretty evenly matched between the opposing sides since the Gold Rush. There have always been idealists and populists and people who believe in mutual aid in the City of San Francisco. And there have also been ruthless businessmen and greedy people: the come in and get everything and be accountable to nobody and hoard your pile of glittering stuff mentality has been here since the city was founded. But it has not been so powerful that it has rubbed out the other side.
Now, however, it feels like Silicon Valley is turning San Francisco into its bedroom community. Theres so much money and so much power and so little ability to resist that it is pushing out huge numbers of people directly, but it is also re-creating San Francisco as a place that is so damn expensive that nobody but people who make huge amounts of money will be able to live here. Of course, San Francisco has been a really expensive city since the 1980s. It has been steadily getting more and more so. Or not steadily. It has really been more like punctuated equilibrium, to use a Clarence King geological term. Whatever equilibrium we had after the last inflationary spiral of both the housing boom and the dot-com boom is over. And now were in the midst of a huge boom. And with each boom, weve lost a little more of the affordability and economic, ethnic, cultural, and maybe professional diversity of the city. It has become more like a resort community: the rich live here, and the people who service them and perform the vital functions are going to have to live somewhere else.
There are ways in which Silicon Valley now is absolutely unprecedented in human history. It is this bizarre, new, corporate, global power center with no accountability. Its also just a new phase of San Franciscos increasing gentrification and unaffordability, its housing crisis. Thats an old story. Or you can tell the story yet another way as a more intensified clash in the global conflict between the haves and have-nots as the economic middle gets hollowed out, and we have rising economic inequality. And its a clash of values. In a way, its all those stories and more than you can tell. I dont think one framework explains the whole phenomenon.
So whats the matter with San Francisco? Its becoming a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, while Silicon Valley becomes a global power center for information control run by a bunch of crazy libertarian megalomaniacs. And a lot of whats made San Francisco really generative for the environmental movement and a lot of other movements gets squeezed out. And it feels like the place is being killed in some way.
Now, however, it feels like Silicon Valley is turning San Francisco into its bedroom community. Theres so much money and so much power and so little ability to resist that it is pushing out huge numbers of people directly, but it is also re-creating San Francisco as a place that is so damn expensive that nobody but people who make huge amounts of money will be able to live here. Of course, San Francisco has been a really expensive city since the 1980s. It has been steadily getting more and more so. Or not steadily. It has really been more like punctuated equilibrium, to use a Clarence King geological term. Whatever equilibrium we had after the last inflationary spiral of both the housing boom and the dot-com boom is over. And now were in the midst of a huge boom. And with each boom, weve lost a little more of the affordability and economic, ethnic, cultural, and maybe professional diversity of the city. It has become more like a resort community: the rich live here, and the people who service them and perform the vital functions are going to have to live somewhere else.
There are ways in which Silicon Valley now is absolutely unprecedented in human history. It is this bizarre, new, corporate, global power center with no accountability. Its also just a new phase of San Franciscos increasing gentrification and unaffordability, its housing crisis. Thats an old story. Or you can tell the story yet another way as a more intensified clash in the global conflict between the haves and have-nots as the economic middle gets hollowed out, and we have rising economic inequality. And its a clash of values. In a way, its all those stories and more than you can tell. I dont think one framework explains the whole phenomenon.
So whats the matter with San Francisco? Its becoming a bedroom community for Silicon Valley, while Silicon Valley becomes a global power center for information control run by a bunch of crazy libertarian megalomaniacs. And a lot of whats made San Francisco really generative for the environmental movement and a lot of other movements gets squeezed out. And it feels like the place is being killed in some way.
edit: I wonder what solutions she might offer. Hint: "Everyone move en masse to Oakland" is not an acceptable response.
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)4. On Facebook? n/t
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)5. Yup.
I knew* her through an artist friend, Sunaura Taylor.
http://www.sunaurataylor.org/
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)6. Ah...
My boyfriend is FB friends with a few of Sunaura's friends...Jack Hanley, etc. SFAI people. I don't know Rebecca personally, but I have the feeling she can be "tempermental"?
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)7. I don't think I did anything to offend her
she was probably just cleaning up her list.
snooper2
(30,151 posts)3. Do a google search on occupy google and you get 22,800,000 hits
LOL