People’s Park, Berkeley, California, December 28, 2018
(This post will get ongoing updates.)
I was up really early this morning — started hearing vehicles around the Park around 4:30am. I went out and there were workers swarming all over Hate Camp. I started to take pictures, the cops came over, and let me look at the attached “talking points”. They say it is “long deferred maintenance”. I asked the cop why they need to be starting so early, was it because they were afraid of a protest? She said probably.
There was nothing I could do to stop them. I tried getting up close to delay them but they started the chainsaw at 4:56am.
— Lisa Teague
Be strong yet peaceful. Thank you for being there. This may be only a one day thing. It could be the start of something much bigger. I think it’s exactly 6 years to the day since they pulled an early morning incursion between Christmas and New Year’s. Please keep me up to date.
— Arthur Fonseca
Cal to remove 42 trees at People’s Park to ‘address long-deferred maintenance’
Wtf 15 to 20 trees 🌲 chopped down & entirely removed early today from historic #PeoplesPark while students & others are out of town. No! Clearly an attack on both homeless people and radical history + closing down the Commons.
— ★ Revolution Books ★ (@RevolutionBksB) December 28, 2018
Just FYI — here’s the Daily Cal story from 2015 when they completed the first part of the tree cutting project: UC Berkeley project removes, trims trees in People’s Park
The People’s Park community is opposed to the construction of student housing on People’s Park.
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