Berkeley People's Park
Going on 52 years!!!! People's Park was created in Spring 1969 by transforming a muddy, trashy parking lot that the U.C. Even killed. But The People persisted.
had put there over a year before after forcibly acquiring all the homes/property and demolishing everything. The People of the actual community tired of the blight and so dug in and turned it into their own park, with flowers, trees, gardens, art and playgrounds, working and playing together. The Officials (U.C., city, police, state and Nat'l Guard) then tried to take it back -- escalating their f
02/29/2024
While it may not be a living bear, this snow sculpture captured by Lake Tahoe State Parks staff at Ed Z'berg Sugar Pine Point State Park is just as adorable.
Park Drum Circle
Got instruments. Need transport.
05/27/2021
Home - A Stand In The Park A Stand in the Park unites people in parks all over the world every Sunday, 10-11 am. We ‘Stand in the Park’ to celebrate freedom, diversity, and fairness for all. We invite you to Stand United in your personal Truth. For Freedom. If there’s no one in your area- start one!
03/31/2021
And then the Park Cancel Culture Committee rudely just removes him from the list, without saying a word to him. Cancel The Committee.
https://www.berkeleyside.com/2010/04/23/forty-one-years-of-peoples-park
41 years of People's Park By SlumJack: Forty-one years ago, I joined many others in creating People’s Park. Then I joined in to demonstrate and even skirmish to get it back again. Then rebuild it. Through the years and decades since then, I’ve continued to use and enjoy this park. It’s yours, too. Come together this Su...
Whose Park?
More senseless violence at the park. And by homeless campers there? This isn't going over well at all.
03/02/2021
'A Precious Area': UC Berkeley Students, Community Unite to Defend People's Park | KQED Nearly 52 years after 'Bloody Thursday,' UC Berkeley is again determined to reclaim People's Park, pointing to a dire need for student housing.
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Virtual Earth Day Climate Action 2020 was a challenging year for everyone – and these challenges have followed us into 2021. For the first time in 20+ years of Earth Day activities, we are downsizing our in-person volunteer events. Instead, we are teaming up with our friends at REI and calling on our vibrant community of passion....
02/14/2021
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UC Berkeley students occupy People's Park, protest campus housing plans UC Berkeley students have been occupying People’s Park since Monday in hopes of pressuring the campus to stop its plans to build housing on the park.
02/10/2021
UC Berkeley students occupy People's Park to protest university's plans to develop housing there Nearly 65 UC Berkeley students slept overnight at People’s Park to protest against the...
02/10/2021
We held a joint press conference with students in People's Park yesterday. We think it might have been the very first press conference from People's Park. It will not be the last, we have a lot to talk about.
Cal students occupy People’s Park in Berkeley to protest housing project UC Berkeley students occupied the People’s Park overnight in protest of the university’s proposed student housing project and potential to remove homeless people who live there.
02/09/2021
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02/03/2021
In defense of People’s Park People's park supports an active community that remains entirely connected to the larger Berkeley community: materially, historically and presently.
02/02/2021
01/30/2021
That fence in People's Park came down today. Some of it was moved to the Free Speech steps on Sproul Plaza. Power to the People.
01/29/2021
Alert: Berkeley park community open space at risk of destruction, January 2021 – People’s Park People’s Park, Berkeley, California – Community, History, Trees, Green Space, Free Speech, Social Justice, Civil Rights, Gardens, Music, Art, Style, Freebox, Recreation, Ecology, Education, Sports
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Our Story
People's Park was created by transforming a muddy, trashy parking lot that the U.C. had left there after forcibly acquiring all the homes/property and demolishing everything.
After a year and a half or so, The People of the actual community tired of the blight and so dug in and turned it into their own park, with flowers, trees, gardens, art and playgrounds, working and playing together.
The Officials (U.C., city, police, state and Nat'l Guard) then tried to stop them and destroy all the works they’d done -- escalating their force and violence until the entire city was invaded by the military and placed under Martial Laws. One of the very few times any such thing has happened in the United States... at least since the Civil War. People were tear-gassed, beaten, shot, arrested. Even killed.
But The People persisted. Until many came, from all over the country and the world, and a massive demonstration gathered and marched to the Park. And protests continued, until the park was restored. Over half a century, so far.
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