ABSTRACT
In the past few years San Francisco has experienced rapid gentrification amidst what is locally referred to as "tech boom 2.0". This chapter analyses two struggles over public space: an altercation over a soccer field and the blockade of tech shuttle buses. Through these cases, it also analyses how San Francisco residents have contested processes of privatization, enclosure, and exclusion in and through struggles over public space. The chapter argues that such struggles are inherently linked to the colonizing logics of tech capital and that the forms of resistance it engenders can be understood as a fight for the maintenance of an urban commons. The chapter gives an analysis of the political economic conditions that form the backdrop to these struggles. It describes how tactics of interruption were used in the cases of "Google bus blockades" and the altercation at Mission Playground to protect the urban commons. The chapter examines these struggles through the concepts of "implicit privatization" and enclosure.
