Protesters Shut Down Bay Bridge During APEC Summit in San Francisco

Chaining themselves to cars and unfurling banners, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza sought global attention Thursday by shutting down the Bay Bridge and snarling traffic for miles as some of the world’s most powerful leaders gathered just a few miles away. The protesters kept morning commuters in westbound lanes east of Treasure Island stranded for hours in what became the largest disruption yet tied to the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit of world leaders in San Francisco .

The massive conference as nearly two dozen heads of state — including President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping — meet for San Francisco’s largest gathering of world leaders since World War II.that began around 8 a.m. when organizers blocked traffic and laid out massive banners reading “stop the genocide” and “no U.S. military aid to Israe

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