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Just over a week ago UC Berkeley orchestrated a paramilitary-style invasion of the neighborhood surrounding People’s Park. Defenders of the park were removed by police, and now the park is surrounded by a 16-foot high border wall of double-stacked shipping containers. 

We are still awaiting a hearing date to be followed by a decision from the California Supreme Court (Supreme Court case #S279242) on our CEQA case. The greatest complication in that case is AB1307, which passed through the state legislature with no public input and negated the very claims we won in the California Court of Appeal (Appeal Court case #A165451). 

With UC’s re-occupation of People’s Park, we are considering a legal challenge to the shipping container wall, which may halt construction on the site and perhaps save the park. We may also challenge the many civil liberties violations that occurred during the police occupation of the South Campus neighborhood surrounding the park. 

A teach-in on the UC Berkeley campus is being planned in collaboration with students and professors. Unbelievably this will be the first public airing of the People’s Park issue on campus. 

Please contribute to our legal fund by going to https://www.peoplesparkhxdist.org/donate-now/. Donate safely by GoFundMe, Venmo or check. Thanks for any support - big or small. Our legal efforts have already stopped construction for two years plus. Hopefully further legal action can continue to prevent UC from destroying the park and enable UC to reach a reasonable settlement with park supporters. 

Long Live People's Park!