The decades-long battle over the future of People’s Park reached a new flashpoint early Thursday when UC Berkeley seized control of the site, walling it off with shipping containers.
Police officers are strictly facilitating access to the barricaded zone surrounding People’s Park, prompting concerns from hundreds of UC Berkeley students and residents who live within the barriers
It could be a new, clean literally, clean chapter of Berkeley history, as the University of California has moved to clear the trees in People’s Park, the area three blocks south of its flagship campus.
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With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost their base.