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Berkeley Police Cut Supply Lines to Tree-Sitters

June 17, 2008 04:11 PM ET | Alison Go | Permanent Link | Print

University police began making the (maybe) final push to remove tree-sitters from an 18-month protest at UC-Berkeley this morning, the Daily Californian reports. By 11 a.m. at least 40 officers and arborists were at the scene, attempting to cut down supply lines and structures that the sitters use to travel between trees.

In response, the activists—who have been protesting the expansion of an athletic facility in an oak grove since December 2006—threw bottles of excrement at officers at the scene. "You're treating these protesters like criminals," said the protest's leader of the school's tactics of cutting supplies.

The university said it has no plans of removing tree-sitters today. "How it unfolds depends on the people in the trees," a Berkeley spokesman said. "We hope there's an outbreak of common sense."

No. Such. Luck?

Tags: activism | UC-Berkeley

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Berkley Tree Sitters

Common sense? In Berkeley?

Hope on you dreamers. When did you ever teach your students to use common sense? -- or even demonstrate that there was such a thing?

What happened to the previous comments on this post about the initial inaccuracies? It doesn't seem very ethical to erase submitted corrections and then correct the post without acknowledging the previously inaccurate information. In fact, I know it's not ethical.

In the future, I suggest you use the strike-through rule common to most blogs to indicate a change in information. It's important to be transparent and admit mistakes...otherwise you don't seem very honest.

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