[SgtHooper]

Yes, quite amusing. So these big corporations are not doing anything to better the cities, sucking the life blood from them.

I love it!! I really do. These companies do all the opposite. Remove Google, Microsoft, and Boeing from WA, and watch those areas dry up and blow away. Of course, these high paid techies do drive up prices, but too dam bad. Seattle is a fun city to visit. Just don’t live there. :-)

[Steely Tom]

Here are some videos of "anti-Google-bus" protests in San Francisco:

1. One
2. Two. This one is interesting because it features a person who appears to be a Google employee, demanding that the protestors leave his fellow Googlers alone, and criticizing them because they can't afford to pay increased rents. He turns out to be a union organizer named Max Bell Alper, about whom much can be learned by Googling. An obvious follower of Saul Alinsky.
3. Three

Many others can be found by typing Google Bus Protests into your favorite search engine.