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Protestors have taken the abandoned UC building at 2538 Channing way next to People’s Park
They are asking for people to come stand in solidarity
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The last People's Park redwood was cut down today.
It's devastating.
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Civil rights attorney and Housing activist Andrea Hensen was arrested this morning in Oakland after chaining herself to a fence to resist a Caltrans eviction of unhoused folks.
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From Andrea Henson and Osha Neumann of Where Do We Go:
We are at 3441 Louise in Oakland. I am chained to a fence with OSHA Neumann next to me. We are fighting a Caltrans eviction. Join us.
Support them if you can!
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Almost 55 years apart - Thursday May 20, 1969 and January 4, 2024.
Seems cops just really like to have a group photo after destroying a community green space.
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UC clearly cared more about destroying People’s Park than they care about building student housing. 9 opportunity sites were identified. And UC decides to build first on the most contentious piece of land in Berkeley, knowing the fight will drag on and on. 🤦🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
A reminder that Carol Christ herself identified 8 other sites that the university could have built on. Yet they chose people’s park first. It’s never been about housing- it’s about control and what that space represents.
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@anne_theriault
Merriam-Webster has free games - Quordle and Sequence are anagram games like Wordle, but you solve 4 words per game. I play it every day after Wordle. And Blossom, their "spelling bee" type game gives you all the words for the day's 7 letters at the end.
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People's Park is devastated treesand plants destroyed, but the stage still shouts "I AM PEOPLE'S PARK".
Drone footage from a comrade.
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@JayHulmePoet
Atop the Campanile at UC Berkeley, Annie has laid 4 eggs this year with her new mate Archie.
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Meet Sean Aranas, allegedly retired UCPD officer famous for perpetrating brutal arrests in People’s Park. He's hanging out on the barricade at Telegraph. Why is he here
@UCPD_Cal
?
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New People's Park border wall beautification dropped on Leap Day!
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@KBSpangler
@kellhound
I really, really wanted to see grow Young Sam into young adulthood. He was going to be something so special. Makes me cry even now.
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The ARC Bailfund is the place to donate to help the 12 students arrested last night at Hind's House (Anna Head Scool, Berkeley). Their bail is $120,000 each - far too much for non-violent occupation of a vacant building. This is unjustified!
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UC's Kyle Gibson called that sharp stuff "security wire"! Whatever it is, it's not supposed to be used for fences in Berkeley according to the Municipal Code. Link below.
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I'm passing out buttons and flyers to folks on Telegraph at the People’s Park Info table on the Dwight Triangle today.
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A “no confidence” flyer published in late 1966 by the Independent Socialist Club depicts a cop beating a student. The artwork is by Lisa Lyons, one of the women who helped develop the iconic Black Panther Party logo.
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This is gross, despicable, vile, AND disgusting. The Berkeley Property Owners Association is going to have a lil party celebrating the return of evictions to Berkeley. They are literally celebrating the chance to put people on the streets.
With tenants on the verge of losing their homes, Berkeley's Rent Board chair called the decision to hold a party “self-involved.”
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@oldenoughtosay
With Táf, Chomp, history, architecture, Chaos (House and otherwise) - your account is multifaceted and enterfuckingtaining. That's hugely important is this ghastly February of 2024.
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The UC Berkeley protest encampment has started to set up on Sproul steps today! 🇵🇸❤️🖤🤍💚
Photo by Russell Bates
#FreePalestine
#HandsOffRafah
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I haven't really let myself cry about Gaza, or police brutality, or People’s Park - there's been too much to do, no time to grieve.
Today the fucking rich people are romping at the Met Gala while a genocide happens and I just can't stop sobbing.
#FreePalestine
#EatTheRich
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Huzzah, Hillegass Avenue is barricade free as of a couple minutes ago! Dwight Way is clear at Bowditch as well. Pics in comments.
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Just in case you're wondering what's going on inside the 18ft. border wall surrounding People’s Park.
The stage still stands.
Razor wire is still illegal.
Pigeons still soar.
Community painted murals still adorn the bathroom building.
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UC Berkeley spent $6.6M to close People's Park in January
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Batons are out on Haste Street and we've got cops on the move here on Channing.
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Finally!
Berkeley will no longer allow developers to pay a fee to avoid replacing affordable housing units in new construction, if affordable units are demolished they must be replaced in equal numbers.
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Eyes up!! Construction workers with plans spotted in People’s Park yesterday… summer break is coming soon and the UC likes to attack when students are gone.
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There's only 1 warming center in Berkeley rn to shelter unhoused folks from the rain. The Mayor and City Council seem unable to provide more. The
#PeoplePark
community came together yesterday to erect a warming tent for District 7.
@JesseArreguin
@RigelRobinson
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Berkeley will buy Ohlone shellmound site, return it to Indigenous land trust.
❤️❤️❤️
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Oh look, a Rigel puff-piece from the Chronicle bemoaning the fall of a promising YIMBY.
He was a rising star in Bay Area politics. At 22, he was the youngest person to be elected to the Berkeley City Council and now at 27 was a front-runner to become its youngest mayor this year. All that hope and promise ended this week.
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Tonight at Dwight and Telegraph! From People’s Park to Palestine, occupation is a crime!
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Only 35 bucks for your kid to spend 3 hours being indoctrinated into fast food capitalism. Bet they toss a lil homophobia/transphobia into the session, no extra charge.
Capitalism is a fucking disease that infects, destroys, & rewrites the DNA of everything we love, including childhood... "The camper will get the chance to learn how to be a Chick-fil-A worker by taking orders, delivering orders,... being a hostess" ()
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“Everybody’s grieving,” Lisa Teague, a local volunteer and longtime park activist, said of the construction. “For the people who’ve been fighting for it for 40, 50 years, or even all 55 years, it’s devastating. That’s a significant part of your life.”
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Court ruling could upend Cal’s plan to build on People’s Park. 💖🤞🙏
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“There is literally nowhere for everyone in our neighborhood to go,” Marisol said. “There’s not a space where people can feel safe to gather and discuss community issues and work on community issues without being watched.”
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It doesn't have to be like this! I was one of the community observers for a deep clean of the encampment at 8th and Harrison in Berkeley on Tuesday. No one was displaced, or arrested, and much trash was hauled away. There's absolutely no need for the cruelty you see here. None!
This is going to cause extreme displacement which will lead to people’s deaths Newsom’s hands will be covered in their blood
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@oldenoughtosay
I have to write one check a month because my affordable housing property management refuses to enable digital payments. Like whyyyy?
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So, that's another full day of not being able to walk down Dwight to Telegraph, if you're a pedestrian and live on Hillegass or Regent. We have to walk over to Parker to access Telegraph or College.
Update: As of this morning, campus said barricades will be up until 6pm Tuesday. The only street closures remaining are the sections of Haste, Bowditch and Dwight directly adjacent to People's Park
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Come visit Camp Free Palestine at UC Berkeley. Come to listen, and to learn. 🇵🇸✊🏻
#FreePalestine
#BDS
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Whoa, this is surreal. A legally-required meeting, with only the co-hosts present. A woman describes all this lethal/less-lethal military equipment in a droning monotone, which breaks a little at end as she explains, "no one else came."
California, law enforcement departments are required to hold a yearly presentation and public meetings abt their military equipment.
UCPD Berkeley hosted one such meeting last Oct and no one went. I obtained a recording of it tho, and you can view here:
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They put up a wall.
Gotta say, UC Berkeley is quite an inspiration for universities looking to repress protest and arrest protestors. 😤
Wall put up on Gould Plaza outside the NYU Stern School of Business following a violent NYPD clearing of a Gaza Solidarity Encampment.
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"People’s Park broke my heart,” she said, “because the university lied and we let them do it.”
Councilmember Kate Harrison abruptly resigns, saying ‘Berkeley’s processes are broken’
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Photo from Thursday night, Jan. 18th after a vigil to mark a year since Forest Defender Tortuguita was slain.
Video from Friday morning, Jan. 19th. Couldn't let a memorial altar stand? Why? 🤬
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@waDNR
Hey volcanoes, don't go erupting to try to please us. We love you just the way you are. 💖
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Police clear Berkeley’s historic People’s Park in surprise midnight operation
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@PplsCityCouncil
It's trend for UC repression. The amount of BPD overtime for the January 4th raid on People’s Park was ridiculous.
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This is huge.
"In his 53-page order issued late Tuesday, U.S. Senior District Judge Edward Chen, ... found the plaintiffs had adequately shown the city regularly destroys their property, ranging from personal belongings to RVs, without due process.
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Sending solidarity and strength to the Atlanta Forest Defenders from
#PeoplesPark
in Berkeley where our struggle continues after almost 54 years.
We are fighting to assure a peaceful future for ourselves and our communities in the face of climate chaos and police brutality. We are fighting to right historical wrongs, because we know nobody else can for us.
If not us, who? If not now, when?
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Tents are being thrown in the UC Berkeley trash truck, despite rules about abandoned property.
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We've got a new petition asking to remove the shipping container border wall around People’s Park. Please sign and share!
Southside doesn't need a border walk, we need People’s Park.
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URGENT— a decision will be posted on the court case halting construction attempts at People’s Park.
Gather at the haste/Telegraph chess corner at 10am tomorrow, June 6, for urgent updates and community strategic conversations.
Free People’s Park!
@marindatanow
@becauseberkeley
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Berkeley law extends legal protections to polyamorous people and non-nuclear families
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It's the People's Park 55th Anniversary today and Telegraph is packed! Come out and see us!
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Berkeley schools could begin providing cash payments to students whose ancestors were enslaved in the U.S. and develop a new curriculum for teaching the history of chattel slavery as part of a future reparations program for Black students.
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Telegraph Avenue, Berkeley. The battle for People’s Park - May, 1969 and January, 2024. National Guard in 1969, highly militarized police in 2024
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Get ready for the People’s Park 55th Anniversary Festival on Saturday, April 20th, 2024 💚 We’re planning a day of FREE art, music, food, history, and good vibes to celebrate the Spirit of People’s Park. Interested in helping? Scan the QR code above or .
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Here's some video of then-Officer Sean Aranas arresting a protester in People’s Park on May 12, 2019. Video by me.
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Come on out to Telegraph this Saturday night and meet up at the Triangle for Pride in the Park - Round 2.
It's gunna be a PARTY! 🌈✊🏻🖤
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Coming up Dwight just now, thinking The Wall looks particularly post-apocalyptic in the storm when I noticed that the lights our intrepicd climber put in the tiptop of the redwood tree were shining through the gloom. (pic 4) I'm calling it a good omen. 🌟🙏🏻🌟
#FreePeoplesPark
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I was there today. Alumni are setting up a camp to join and support the students in their protest. The only sights that spoiled a beautiful afternoon were the Apex guards patrolling the Sproul edge of the camp.
#FreePalestine
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This!
They made Berkeley BART Plaza deliberately unwelcoming for unhoused folks ... and, suprise, no one else feels welcome either.
They should add trees and remove cars in and around the Downtown Berkeley BART Plaza, and then maybe it would not suck anymore
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A lot can happen in a year.
People's Park, Berkeley -
May, 2023 and May 15, 2024.
#FreePeoplesPark
#FreePalestine
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SCOTUS disagrees. In Texas v. Johnson (1989) the Court said that flag burning is symbolic protected speech - even if a sitting VP and Presidential candidate finds it disturbing.
Read my full statement on the protests in Washington, D.C. yesterday.
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@JesseArreguin
Who is going to build that promised affordable housing for low income and formerly unhoused people? I understand that Resources for Community Development pulled out of the project long ago. UCB did not cooperate with the HUD requested environmental review.
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Thank you so much
@SmokeWorksBos
for timely shipping, even during the holidays, and for helping us provide
#harmreduction
to our community in
#PeoplesPark
.
💕✨️
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Sunday, January 7 at 5pm.
Our struggles are all one!
Free Palestine! Save People’s Park!
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Hmm, APEX Security, seen here on Sproul Plaza yesterday, has been ubiquitous in my Berkeley neighborhood since the Jan. 4th raid on People’s Park. Their security guards are also very visible in the Daily Bruin coverage of the violent raids at UCLA.
Lotta UC $$ going to APEX.
Daily Bruin Photo captured scenes from Tuesday night’s counter-protester attack on the Palestine solidarity encampment at UCLA and Thursday morning’s police sweep of the encampment.
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Pics from tonight's vigil for Tortuguita at Haste and Telegraph.
#StopCopCity
#FreePeoplesPark
#FreePalestine
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Who's up for a little People’s Park history this morning? Here are two short Newsreel films. First, riots on Telegraph in 1968. These actions set the stage for the creation of People’s Park.
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Will wonders never cease?
The Supreme Court of California has scheduled oral arguments in the People's Park case on April 2, 2024 in LosAngeles.
❤️🙏🏻
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People’s Park 55th Anniversary 4/20 street fest is this Saturday, noon till night, on Telegraph Ave! Come embrace the spirit of People’s Park and enjoy FREE performances, food, games, arts and crafts, political organizing, harm reduction, and more 💚
Free People’s Park!
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New People's Park 55th Anniversary flyer just dropped. 💚🔥🌟💚
Our Park may be walled off, but we are not going anywhere.
Join us on Telegraph on 04/20/2024!
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Such great news. ❤️
And don't forget, in Berkeley you can call the Specialized Care Unit at (510) 948-0075 for crisis response without police!
Oakland now has a mental health crisis response line at 510-446-2276 as an alternative to calling the police!
My 34 years as a mental health professional has shown me the importance of community-based solutions to public health rather than carceral ones.
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“Everything that they say about the park, everything that they try and make seem like a problem in the park is really just a lack of community resources across the area and a lack of resources across this entire district." via
@dailycal
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Lol, I'm on the UCPD Police Accountability Board and we didn't hear about it.
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@SpookyEvilOne
OH the side effects I have experienced, only to be told "that's not a side effect". The years of grand mal seizures from some psych/BP med combo that were "mysteriously" resolved when I carefully tapered myself off all my meds and switched to weed. I am back on BP meds now.
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I am proud to have voted for Barbara Lee!
My statement on California’s US Senate election results.
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The destruction of People's Park - from thriving community green space to walled-in barren desolation. A short 🧵.
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Mural painting on Bowditch between Dwight and Haste happening right now!
@SupriyaYelimeli
@rrileycooke
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We ended up rallying at Willard Park instead of marching this week. Got a little music to wrap up the rally today. We'll be back next Friday at 5pm - if the weather is kind we will March to Sproul Plaza. More pics ⬇️
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Came out this morning to help sort through and redistribute some of the tents and gear donated to Camp Free Palestine. The unhoused folks staying at the Camp will be housed by UC in motel rooms for at least a couple of weeks
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"There is nothing else to do but show up and watch — no matter the time of day, no matter how bitterly cold it is,” Boone said. “It is so deeply part of Street Spirit’s tradition to witness the history of the park unfold and it is frankly an honor for me to carry that torch.”
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Ohlone, allies celebrate transfer of West Berkeley shellmound site to Indigenous hands
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UCB has big dreams of starting construction at People’s Park this summer after the Court decision comes down. The decision is due before 7/3 and y feeling is they're gunna try for before Carol's retirement if at all possible. Keep checking here and IG for updates.
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