September 11, 2008
Poor Man's UC-Berkeley Tree-Sitters Worried
Did you know that UC-Santa Cruz has its own set of tree-sitters? Yeah, neither did we. (Some students at the UCSC campus live in the trees, foliage, shrubbery, and Elf Land year round.) It seems the protest has been going on since November 2007. Anyway, this set of protesters, not to be confused with this set of protesters, who are living in a redwood grove "to oppose university growth plans," fear that UC authorities will use force to extract the them the same a la Cal. Jim Burns, a UCSC spokesman, said that the university couldn't care less. (SJ Merc)
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crickets
Nothing has changed. When I attended UCSC back in the Dark Ages (1989-1992) they had folks trying to defend Elf Land from Colleges 9 and 10 (since built) and whatnot...I remember the weirdest thing about going to school there were the number of people who were actual students who'd just camp somewhere in the backwoods of the campus and just take a shower at the athletic facilities on their way to class. wild.
except that the ucpd did not use force on the berkeley tree sitters...
well, at least not physical force.
Considering UCSC profs have been getting their houses and cars bombed, admittedly from other forces at work down there, I still expect some serious wup-ass down there. Yee haw.