Urge the University of California Berkeley and UC Regents to save the grove of coast live oaks around the California Memorial Stadium.
WE CAN HAVE NEW GYMS AND OLD GROWTH ...Go BEARS! GO OAKS!
Since December 2, 2006, the tree sitters have made it clear that they are only exercising their constitutional-protected right to engage in free speech, to peacefully assemble, and to seek judicial redress for what they view as an unlawful and ill-conceived and designed project.
The Hayward Fault: Will it trigger the next quake: What to do if it does
(Pat Williams April 10, 1992)
BCITIZEN@YouTube is an index of video journal of recordings that chronicle the urban tree-sit on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley and community efforts to preserve the Memorial Stadium Oak Grove...and UC's proposed destruction of these trees to make way for a $125 million gymnasium.
SEE VIDEO SELECTIONS
- National Lawyers Guild San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Press Release November 29, 2007 "NLG Condemns Berkeley Police, University Actions Against Protesters, Unlawful Arrests, Reckless Tactics Used Against Peaceful Tree-Sitters and Supporters"
- DECLARATION OF VICTORIA L. HARRISON IN OPPOSITION TO PETITIONERS' EX PARTE APPLICATION FOR ORDER ENFORCING PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION Date: August 30, 2007
- Stadium Excavation Reveals Relics of Human Bones and Ancient Coin Daily Californian, February 23, 1923 Page 1.
- Tree-sitters say site might be burial ground Human skeleton was found on site in 1923, but origin unknown
Carolyn Jones, SF Chronicle, February 21, 2007- Law Offices of Stephen C. Volker: Request to Robert C. Dynes, President of University of California Regents, Robert J Birgeneau, Chancellor of the University of California Berkeley, and Victoria L. Harrison, Chief of the University of California Police Department.
- Save the Oaks at the Stadium Petitioner/Plaintiff V. Regents of the University of California and DOES I-XXX
- City of Berkeley Resolution Against Destruction of Old Grow Oak Grove by the University of California
November 14, 2006- City of Berkeley Coastal Live Oak Tree Removal Ordinance No. 6462-N.S.
SEVEN REASONS WHY THE OAK GROVE SHOULD NOT BE DESTROYED
- Medical attention delayed for tree-sitter in distress
Flash Points - KPFA Radio News July 2, 2008 MP4 audio file- Berkeley Authorities Take Tree Sitter to the Hospital
KRON TV Channel 4, July 2, 2008- Fourth protester occupies a tree at UC Berkeley
Kristin Bender, Oakland Tribune, July 7, 2008- Protesters arrested at Cal stadium grove as crowd awaits court ruling
Charles Burress, Demian Bulwa, San Francisco Chronicle, June 19, 2008- Court Ruling on UC Berkeley Gym Fails to Dislodge Tree-sitters
BERKELEY, California, June 19, 2008- New Developments at U. C. Berkeley's Memorial Oak Grove
Indybay: East Bay July 3 2008- UC, Tree-Sitter Clashes Continue in Court, Grove
Richard Brenneman, Berkeley Daily Planet, July 03, 2008- Campus, protesters reach new agreement on supplies: UC Press Release
Thursday, July 24, 2008- Medical attention delayed for tree-sitter in distress PRESS RELEASE
July 2, 2008
Photos of the aftermath of UC Berkeley's destruction of the Memorial Stadium Oak Grove and new project construction .August 8, 2009
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