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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Our Time at Berkeley
Allow us to explain. There are "tree-sitters" living in the Oaks at Cal to protest the building of a new gym complex, therefore needing to remove the ancient Oaks and build on a fault line. We happened to show up during one of the many protests that have occurred outside of the Oak area. It was entirely fenced in by not two, but three gates, and patrolled by the UC Berkeley Campus police. People of all ages and backgrounds were in attendance, calling the issue and human rights issue. The video also includes the sending of supplies (water, fruits, a guitar) via a pulley system into the trees for the half dozen or so people living in them. They have called the Oaks home for 14 months now. You can check out more info on Youtube and via online news articles if interested. For more info click HERE
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3 comments:
you should explain what this protest was about. i haven't any idea. i can't understand a lick of what the crowd was saying...but, i fricken love that you were there. organize!
thats wild. thanks!
Pandamonium
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