UC-Berkeley Builds a Wall to Keep Out Protesters Who Object to Construction of New Residence Hall
“The project is intended to build housing for more than 1,100 students and 125 units of permanent supportive housing”
How can this be true? I have been informed repeatedly by the left that walls are racist and don’t work.
The College Fix reports:
UC Berkeley builds wall, calls in cops to stop construction protestors
University of California Berkeley officials have built a wall using cargo containers and barbed wire to keep out protestors of a proposed residence hall.
UC Berkeley deployed at least 100 police officers to guard People’s Park, the proposed site of the new residence hall, according to the student newspaper. The university plans to operate 24-hour dining to feed law enforcement Berkeleyside also reported.
“While the university is unable to start development of the park pending a decision by the California Supreme Court, the university is allowed to place fencing around the park,” The Daily Californian reported on Thursday.
The park has been the site of protests from students and local activists who want to preserve the park for open use. In August 2022, activists mourned the loss of trees cut down with a Sunday memorial service, as previously reported by The College Fix.
The university previously used fencing in August 2022.
Trees were removed and cars will be towed to allow the university to build a cargo container wall, much like the one Arizona built along the U.S.-Mexico border.
“Around 2:30 a.m., crew began taking down trees along the perimeter of the park, as permitted by a city public works permit issued Wednesday,” the student newspaper reported. “However, multiple sources have reported that cars along the park’s perimeter streets — Haste Street, Dwight Way and Bowditch Avenue — have been towed.”
Legal challenges have had some success, the student newspaper reported in a separate article on Wednesday.
“The project is intended to build housing for more than 1,100 students and 125 units of permanent supportive housing,” according to the Daily Californian. “However, Resources for Community Development — the initial developer for the supportive housing arm of the project — pulled out in May 2023 over developmental delays stemming from the ongoing legal case surrounding the park. The university has stated they intend to find a new developer for this part of the project.”
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Is that disturbed woman known as “Dumpster Muffin” still living in tree house, to prevent tree from being cut down?
Lord I forgot about that freak … The videos still make me laugh
Since the first comment is about Dumpster Muffin, from 2008, I’ll continue the history lesson, from the beginning of People’s Park in 1969. During the initial People’s Park protests, James Rector was fatally shot while observing a demonstration from a roof top on Telegraph Avenue.
I arrived in Berserkeley shortly after this occurred, and decades later remembered that a song had been written about it. Kandeda Montgomery-“Where Have You Been Today, James Rector” 1969 . I don’t remember actually hearing the song; I just knew it had been written and performed. YouTube has rescued the song from oblivion.
The tune came from Bob Dylan’s “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall.” Dylan took the tune, and some of the lyrics, from Lord Randall, a British Isle’s folksong (Child # whatever): Lord Randal by Giordano Dall’Armellina.
A half century later the UC-Berkeley administration finally has the guts to make use of the land that once housed People’s Park. Though I am holding my breath until the proposed student housing has actually been built.
Geez, you’re really taking this “plagiarism war” thing to heart!