RIP People's Park

[DanOregon]

Police clear Berkeley’s historic People’s Park in surprise midnight operation

Back in the day, the University of California Berkley bought some land to build housing for students. They bulldozed a residential area. While the land lay undeveloped for a spell, the hippies made it "the people's park" - planted flowers, hosted food giveaways - and there were riots when UC wanted to begin building...it became one of the landmarks of the FlowerPower era, with the Haight, Woodstock etc. 50 years later, same ****. Funny thing was, since then it was a place to score drugs or a homeless hangout - not really a place to take your kids or enjoy a spring day - a place most people avoided. So now UC is serious about building student housing and providing some homeless shelters - to give people a roof over their heads - and people are fighting that.
Berkeley - we protest, no matter how silly our position is.

 

[micropolitan guy]

I am as blue as they come but sometimes more of this kind of stuff needs to be done.

People blocking a busy highway to the airport, like happened in Portland last week? Give them 5 minutes notice, then clear them the **** out of the way, pronto. Your right to peaceful assembly and protest stops when it inconveniences others by blocking public streets.

A permitted protest march or demonstration is different. That's legal.

 

[goalmouth]

I am as blue as they come but sometimes more of this kind of stuff needs to be done.

People blocking a busy highway to the airport, like happened in Portland last week? Give them 5 minutes notice, then clear them the **** out of the way, pronto. Your right to peaceful assembly and protest stops when it inconveniences others by blocking public streets.

A permitted protest march or demonstration is different. That's legal.

LOLOLOLOLOLOL

 

[Vombatus]

I am as blue as they come but sometimes more of this kind of stuff needs to be done.

People blocking a busy highway to the airport, like happened in Portland last week? Give them 5 minutes notice, then clear them the **** out of the way, pronto. Your right to peaceful assembly and protest stops when it inconveniences others by blocking public streets.

A permitted protest march or demonstration is different. That's legal.

Scoops!

 

[Just_An_SID]

I had a very memorable experience at People park around 1994. Stopped there to enjoy a take-out meal and it was a very interesting place. . . at least memorable enough that I can recall most of the details almost 30 years later.

 

[BYH 2: Electric Boogaloo]

I had a very memorable experience at People park around 1994. Stopped there to enjoy a take-out meal and it was a very interesting place. . . at least memorable enough that I can recall most of the details almost 30 years later.

"I never thought I'd be writing to you. But I was a student at an ACC university..."