LilMikeSF<p><a href="https://c.im/tags/PeoplesPark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PeoplesPark</span></a> site owned by <a href="https://c.im/tags/UCBerkeley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UCBerkeley</span></a> attracts dozens of amped up <a href="https://c.im/tags/activists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>activists</span></a> and potentially hundreds of law enforcement officers with a 24 hr <a href="https://c.im/tags/CalDining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CalDining</span></a> catering contingent capable of feeding over 1000 meals a day to support securing site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/UniversityOfCalifornia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UniversityOfCalifornia</span></a> claims new <a href="https://c.im/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> plans for bldgs to shelter 1200 preserves open space, and honors park's 55 yr legacy is also desperately needed, at a blighted location where crime has escalated around a filthy &amp; oft dangerous tent encampment.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Protesters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Protesters</span></a> refuse to join <a href="https://c.im/tags/GovernorNewsom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GovernorNewsom</span></a> and city leaders in support of <a href="https://c.im/tags/construction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>construction</span></a> on symbolic site of <a href="https://c.im/tags/resistancia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>resistancia</span></a> that has been held in limbo while awaiting a <a href="https://c.im/tags/California" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>California</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SupremeCourt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SupremeCourt</span></a> case that has not as yet even heard any <a href="https://c.im/tags/OralArguments" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OralArguments</span></a>.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/BerkeleyU" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BerkeleyU</span></a> sent out an announcement this morning telling <a href="https://c.im/tags/CampusCommunity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CampusCommunity</span></a> members to avoid the "affected area" for at least next 6 days while the stacking of <a href="https://c.im/tags/ShippingContainers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ShippingContainers</span></a> around perimeter of long contested vacant lot begins </p><p>The situation is bound to escalate into chaotic confrontations, vexing violence and perpetual public disturbances, as it always has over previous decades, in which blood has been shed, and life was once taken by <a href="https://c.im/tags/police" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>police</span></a> buckshot fired at furious citizenry.</p><p><a href="https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/03/uc-berkeley-planning-construct-new-fencing-peoples-park-documents-show" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">berkeleyside.org/2024/01/03/uc</span><span class="invisible">-berkeley-planning-construct-new-fencing-peoples-park-documents-show</span></a></p>