Michael V. Drake, M. An update and appeal to Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley. Rachel Barber Staff — Berkeleyside. Musical Performance: Hali Hammer. About 2 hours total, in two parts of video. Read more…. In solidarity with the UC workers. We usually meet on West side of the lawn in the shade of a beautiful tree. In the cold or forest fire smoke weather, we will arrange meeting elsewhere, for instance, the Grassroots House.
Read and see more…. Yet many believed destroying the houses was a ruse. And thousands of those left-leaning activists had settled on the affordable south side of campus, exactly where officials were ousting residents. So when construction of the dorms stalled, Berkeley residents decided to reclaim the dirt lot where the houses had once stood. In the spring of , hundreds of people showed up to add sod, flowers and trees. Others served meals and played music.
On May 15, , the university dispatched hundreds of police officers to bulldoze the park, which was on campus property. That ignited a conflict with protesters that came to be known as Bloody Thursday , in which law enforcement killed one man and injured more than To try to quell further rebellion, then-Gov. Ronald Reagan sent in 3, National Guard troops, who arrived with tanks and trucks.
She noted that Reagan later ran for president in part on his record of controlling the protests at Berkeley. It has remained mostly unchanged for decades. These days, most U. But university leaders have struggled for years to secure support to use the land in a different way — until now. The other half of the park will remain open space and will include a section honoring its history.
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