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  • BERKELEY: Protesting UC policies, students take to tree

    04/24/2007 7:38:11 AM PDT · by SmithL · 15 replies · 496+ views
    San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 4/24/7 | Rick DelVecchio
    Coalition seeks to call attention to school's involvement with 'unethical' entities - A UC Berkeley student protest group called the Phoenix Coalition to Free the UC is occupying a redwood tree in the center of campus to challenge the university on its involvement with the military and what the group calls "unethical corporations and regimes." UC Berkeley's pending biofuels research deal with oil industry giant BP sparked members of various activist groups on campus to work together, said Matthew Taylor, a spokesman for the coalition. "Every generation goes through a loss of innocence, recognizing this huge gap between the ideal...