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Here's How Silicon Valley Can End Its Poverty Problem On Its Own

Here's How Silicon Valley Can End Its Poverty Problem On Its Own
Eleanor Goldberg
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Business Reporter, HuffPost

A displaced homeless person reacts as bulldozers move on a Silicon Valley homeless encampment known as The Jungle on December 4, 2014, in San Jose, California. Authorities began dismantling the homeless camp in the heart of California's affluent Silicon Valley. Municipal workers moved into the camp along a creek in San Jose, where some 300 people live in tents and other makeshift lodging. The encampment, only a few minutes away from the city's downtown district, is home to people forced out of an overheating rental market as lucrative tech companies moved in in recent years. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)
A displaced homeless person reacts as bulldozers move on a Silicon Valley homeless encampment known as The Jungle on December 4, 2014, in San Jose, California. Authorities began dismantling the homeless camp in the heart of California's affluent Silicon Valley. Municipal workers moved into the camp along a creek in San Jose, where some 300 people live in tents and other makeshift lodging. The encampment, only a few minutes away from the city's downtown district, is home to people forced out of an overheating rental market as lucrative tech companies moved in in recent years. AFP PHOTO/JOSH EDELSON (Photo credit should read Josh Edelson/AFP/Getty Images)

(CNN)They marched across Silicon Valley to have a conversation about economic justice.

Four days and 30 miles later, the relatively small group of demonstrators -- carrying signs that read "March to Heal the Valley" -- arrived at the Cupertino, California, campus of Apple, the world's richest company.

"We showed up, and we were informed that we were not allowed to be there," said activist Andrew Bigelow, one of the brains behind the October 2013 demonstration, which he said included homeless people as well as those that couldn't pay the valley's exorbitant rents, which have been driven up by tech companies. "A lot of people just walked by and didn't even look at us in the eyes. A lot of people were, you know, shaking their heads or laughing -- talking to their friends while looking at us. It definitely felt different, you know."

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