- Since the action began last Wednesday, up to seven protesters have been sitting 70 feet up in the largest redwood in a grove shading trickling Strawberry Creek not far from bustling Sproul Plaza.
Posted on 04/25/2007 9:13:59 PM PDT by SmithL
BERKELEY -- Two UC Berkeley students who had been sitting in a redwood tree on campus to protest university policies came down Wednesday and were cited for trespassing.
Matthew Taylor, a spokesman for a student organization called the Phoenix Coalition, said students Michael Schuck and Jason Ahmadi are scheduled to appear in Alameda County Superior Court on May 25.
Taylor said police told the pair on Tuesday that they would not be punished if they ended their protest that day. The two elected to continue the demonstration for another day to support the coalition's demands for free speech on campus,
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- Since the action began last Wednesday, up to seven protesters have been sitting 70 feet up in the largest redwood in a grove shading trickling Strawberry Creek not far from bustling Sproul Plaza.
It’s great to know that some things never change :-)
Why don`t they protest to increase CO2 emissions because as I understand it, when CO2 concentration drops below 0.02%, photosynthesis stops thereby killing plants. As of now the CO2 concentration in the atmosphere is 0.0383%...Something must be done! Global freezing is approaching! Trees are dying everywhere!
That’s a pretty sad looking Redwood. It looks like it’s committing suicide.
What the heck is wrong with sitting in a tree??? And to call it trespassing? What, they can’t be on the grounds of their own school at night, or 2 or more days in a row? Why the heck is it trespassing?
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