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Animal rights protest shuts down a Bay Area horse racing track - and a vaccination site
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Four San Francisco Bay Area residents locked themselves together on the Golden Gate Fields racing track, canceling horse races on Thursday, March 4, 2021, in Albany, CA.Courtesy of Direct Action Everywhere /
Animal rights protesters, intent on permanently shutting down Golden Gate Fields, the Bay Area’s only horse racing track, successfully stopped an afternoon of racing Thursday but inadvertently caused the closure of a vaccination clinic in the track’s parking lot for about three hours as well.
Four members of Direct Action Everywhere, a global animal rights group, climbed over a fence and onto the backstretch of the track, where they chained their arms together inside PVC tubes and ignited purple smoke flares to announce their presence. Another 15 to 20 protesters, waving bright “Shut down Golden Gate Fields” signs, gathered outside the Gilman Street entrance to