Bravo to Fairmont Teacher Claudia Tirado and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition:You need to develop a conscience, Google, Tirado yelled while holding up a T-shirt urging people to stop Googles lawyer Jack Halprin. Halprin owns the seven-unit Victorian building where Tirado and her family live, and is reportedly trying to evict them using a controversial piece of California legislation called the Ellis Act to take the entire building off the rental market and evict rent-controlled tenants. The other protester let loose on Google for what he called machines that kill people, a reference to the companys acquisition of robotic engineering company Boston Dynamics last December. Erin McElroy, one of the protests organizers, told The Verge that Tirado got into the show by receiving a pass donated by a sympathetic attendee. The conference cost $900 to attend, though tickets were extremely limited, causing Google only to offer them as part of a lottery system to interested developers. She stood in line to get in, took her seat, then jumped in front during the demonstration of the new version of Android, walking right past security guards, she says. After making her point, Tirado was escorted out by security guards, interviewed by Google VP of communications Rachel Whetstone, then released.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 20:06:09 +0000
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