Tuesday’s SF pre-Olympic Torch Relay Roundup

Today is the 2008 Beijing Olympic Torch Relay in San Francisco – and possibly one of the largest protests in San Francisco history? Some headlines from yesterday’s San Francisco Chronicle:

The world should stand beside Tibet

Torch arrives quietly in S.F.”

Route could change last minute

Thousands turn out for speeches by Desmond Tutu, Richard Gere

and here is some video of Richard Gere at U.N. plaza in San Francisco on YouTube:

Let’s hope the Olympic Torch relay goes on without any major incidents and that no one is injured or harmed.

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I'm a Taiwanese-American and was born & raised in Western Massachusetts, went to college in upstate New York, worked in Connecticut, went to grad school in North Carolina and then moved out to the Bay Area in 1999 and have been living here ever since - love the weather and almost everything about the area (except the high cost of housing...)
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