Consumer Group Stages Protest at Google HQ to Get Company Out of U.S. Chamber of Commerce

On Monday, September 24 at noon, members of the SumOfUs.org community will head over to Google's headquarters in Mountain View, CA to deliver a petition signed by 270,000 people asking Google to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. In case anyone at Google misses the protesters on the sidewalk later today, the consumer group has also hired a plane to fly over the building with a banner that reads, "Google: Quit the Chamber."

On Monday, September 24 at noon, members of the SumOfUs.org community will head over to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, CA to deliver a petition signed by 270,000 people asking Google to quit the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.

The activist group is using Google+ to gameify the process of getting Google’s support by asking visitors at www.GoogleQuitTheChamber.org to choose from a list of reasons the company should quit and share them with their circles.  The items with the most votes will be announced at the protest.

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