#PeoplesPark site owned by #UCBerkeley attracts dozens of amped up #activists and potentially hundreds of law enforcement officers with a 24 hr #CalDining catering contingent capable of feeding over 1000 meals a day to support securing site listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
#UniversityOfCalifornia claims new #housing 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 & oft dangerous tent encampment.
#Protesters refuse to join #GovernorNewsom and city leaders in support of #construction on symbolic site of #resistancia that has been held in limbo while awaiting a #California #SupremeCourt case that has not as yet even heard any #OralArguments.
#BerkeleyU sent out an announcement this morning telling #CampusCommunity members to avoid the "affected area" for at least next 6 days while the stacking of #ShippingContainers around perimeter of long contested vacant lot begins
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 #police buckshot fired at furious citizenry.
https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/03/uc-berkeley-planning-construct-new-fencing-peoples-park-documents-show