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Please note this sad update- the university is making moves to fence off People’s Park.

Please pray for the nonviolent resisters prepared to put themselves on the line for many reasons: this vital open space is critical to fight this climate emergency, emotional health is shown to improve with open green spaces, and this seized and stolen Ohlone land needs to be left alone, not bulldozed and cemented. There are many other UC owned parcels to build upon that are not on the National Historic Register as the Site where the Anti-War and Free Speech Movements gained world wide attention and significance.

Send prayers, songs, people, money for the legal fund to stop this travesty. I read the EIR that is fatally flawed, deficient, lacking in review of significant adverse cultural and environmental effects. UC should build on the numerous parcels of cement, garages or old buildings that they own and have identified for student housing - not a historic park that is the last open space in South Berkeley where diverse groups of people gather for concerts, art festivals and teach-ins, or to lay on the grass and look at the sky or listen to birds during study or work breaks. .. or dance to live music.

It is a foolhardy move during a climate emergency for my alma mater to destroy a treasured, unique historic park that cannot be replaced once destroyed. Student dorms are needed but there are six or more available UC locations to achieve that goal and need. Please leave the park for students and the entire world to enjoy for decades to come- People’s Park for ALL the people.

Thank you. Spread the word. Write Rep. Barbara Lee, Chancellor Christ, the Regents, local and national media. As Ms. Ritchey Smith always says: ‘Make some noise!’ Elder Park veteran Michael Delacour told me that it helps to be creative in bringing attention to the cause.  

Let’s unite to save People’s Park!