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U.C. Tree Destruction Winter 2018/19.

Last winter, the University mowed down over 40 healthy trees harming the ecological balence of Peoples Park. The trees play a vital role in sequestering carbon and provide essentail habitate and shade for the many varieties of life that thrive here. Please get in volved with our community to help reforest People’s Park. Additionally, the park has many gardening and horticulture activies to plug into.
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A Day in the Life of People’s Park

We are calling for submissions of your intimate stories about people who enjoy the park and who contribute energy toward its so that People’s Park is a more safe place for everyone . We want to publish stories with the world that reveals the many different way that folks engage with the park. To publish your stories to the People’s Park.org website, please email media submissions to Dickie Haskell at dickiehaskell@gmail.com.

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Join us at an Open House Speak-In!

The University has a new construction plan for People’s Park. They are going to give Campus community members a chance to look at that plan on February 10, 2020, from 4:00 to 8:00 pm, in Pauley Ballroom at the MLK Student Union.

They say they’ll be there to listen! We need you to be there to join a Speak-In. We’ll be there to share our vision for the next half-century of People’s Park. Tell them what you think of their plan to build on People’s Park.

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Anti-war panel 12/4/19 7-9 pm

LEGACY OF PAST AND PRESENT
ANTI-WAR ACTIONS:
STRATEGIES TO CONSIDER FOR THE FUTURE

Wednesday, December 4, 2019 7-9 pm
UC Berkeley, Barrows Hall 126

David Miller  In October, 1965, David Miller, a Catholic pacifist affiliated with the Catholic Worker movement, was the first publicly to burn his draft card after the new law against this action went into effect. He spent 2 years in prison as a result, which ignited a storm of draft card burnings in response

Edward Hasbrouck  (Resisters.info) One of millions of young men who refused to register with the Selective Service System in the 1980s, and one of only nine people imprisoned for organizing resistance to the registration law before enforcement was abandoned. Massive noncooperation succeeded in blocking efforts to bring back the draft. He’ll update us on the upcoming Congressional debate on whether to end draft registration or expand it to women

Maxina Ventura  From Anti-nuke activism at UCLA, to D.C. lobbying, involvement in Plowshares Disarmament actions, blocking munitions trains and trucks at the Concord NWS, Nevada Test Site actions using decentralized organizing with affinity groups and spokescouncils, to the Livermore Nuclear Weapons Labs 1993 Shadow Painting action (with 2-months and solitary confinement for refusing to accept any restrictions to full freedom)

Liam Curry  6 year Navy submarine veteran, volunteered with Food Not Bombs after first Gulf War, became active with People’s Park movement during UC’s attempt to develop the park. Joined Veterans For Peace at the start of the second Gulf War. Worked on counter recruitment and various anti-war programs with Veterans For Peace

Soul (Susan B. Rodriguez) At 14 founded first homeless project, Hayward. At 15 was President of Brown Berets, Hayward. Co Founded Free Lunch, Hayward, and Berkeley Liberation Radio 104.1fm. 1990 Anti Nuclear Dove of Peace Disarmament Action. People’s Park Activist 1990-present. Founded Murals of Life N Hope, W. Oakland, G.I. Suicide Awareness Campaign, Co Founded Occupy Oakland, Marine Recruitment Action, Berkeley, and works with Restorative Justice, Oakland

Niusha Hajikhodaverdikhan is a 20-year old artist, and UC Peace and Conflict studies student. From Nezamabad, Tehran, Iran, her family, deeply affected by the U.S. sponsored Iran-Iraq war (1980-88), she investigates war crimes using open-source investigation at UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center. Her work in academia, art, and community focuses on mutual aid, decolonization, and 3rd world liberation with an anti-capitalist, anti-fascist approach.

Co-Sponsored by The People’s Park Committee (www.peoplespark.org)
and The Suitcase Clinic (www.suitcaseclinic.org)
Info: 510-900-1160 (Landline. No texts received)
Wheelchair Accessible ** Fragrance-free, please

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An Audio Blast From the Past — The formation of People’s Park

Here’s an audio montage Robert A. Beede put together from radio music and dialog from the time of the formation of People’s Park.

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