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People's Park in Berkeley, California is a parcel of land owned by the University of California, Berkeley. Located east of Telegraph Avenue and bound by Haste and Bowditch Streets and Dwight Way, People's Park was a symbol during the radical political activism of the late 1960s .
The legal brouhaha marks the latest setback for the People's Park project, first unveiled in 2018 by UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ. The park, three blocks south of the main campus, became a ...
Half a century after its tumultuous birth, People's Park in Berkeley, a treasured home for misfits and seekers, may have seen its last day A People's Park requiem: From free speech and flower ...
In response to student demonstrations over the closure of People's Park in 1969, Gov. Ronald Reagan called in the National Guard to restore order on the UC Berkeley campus.
The 1969 People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969. The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
The multimillion-dollar cost for UC Berkeley of walling off People's Park will grow with bills from outside agencies and continued security to keep people out.
In the late 2000s, people began to take notice of encampments in People's Park in Berkeley. [52] Increasing numbers of people began camping on the land, which had long been a site of political contestation, during the COVID-19 pandemic. In January 2021, plans to conduct soil testing by the University of California Berkeley led to student ...
Enrique Marisol, 23, a recent UC Berkeley graduate, said the coalition remains resolved in its fight to preserve People’s Park for the community. “People are going to protest.