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BERKELEY: Cal prepares to end tree-sitters' protest
San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 9/9/8 | Carolyn Jones

Posted on 09/09/2008 7:56:51 AM PDT by SmithL

The standoff between UC Berkeley and four tree-sitters outside Memorial Stadium intensified Monday as work crews prepared to remove the protesters from a stripped-down redwood.

Workers used bulldozers to clear and level the ground surrounding the redwood, one of two trees standing in the center of the grove after crews cut down 40 other trees over the weekend to make way for a $124 million sports training center.

"The university is preparing for what will we hope be a quick and safe extraction in the coming days," campus spokesman Dan Mogulof said. "We had hoped it wouldn't come to this. It's extremely unfortunate."

Mogulof did not say exactly when or how the university would act to remove the tree-sitters.

The protest began more than 21 months ago, on Dec. 1, 2006.

Last week, a state appeals court declined to block the university's construction plans after an Alameda County judge ruled against stadium neighbors, tree advocates and the city of Berkeley, who said UC had not adequately addressed the impact of the project.

Negotiations aimed at getting the sitters to come down on their own broke down Sunday night, and the university cut off the protesters' food and water supply at 9 a.m. Monday.

The tree-sitters have about a day's worth of food left, said Mogulof and Eric Eisenberg, a protest leader.

"We're holding our ground," Eisenberg said. "But these are human beings. They deserve food and water."

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: berkeley; beserkeley; treesitters; uc
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A U.C. Berkeley police officer walks past the last standing tree near what was once a grove of oaks and redwoods on the site of U.C. Berkeley's new sports complex, wave from their perch on Monday Sept. 8, 2008 in Berkeley, Ca. After two years of protest 4 tree sitters still remain in the tree.
1 posted on 09/09/2008 7:56:52 AM PDT by SmithL
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Sure, they deserve water. I’d suggest a fire hose.


2 posted on 09/09/2008 7:57:37 AM PDT by SmithL (Drill Dammit!)
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To: SmithL
"But these are human beings. They deserve food and water."


3 posted on 09/09/2008 7:59:11 AM PDT by Izzy Dunne (Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
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The authorities look like fools having tolerated these morons for so long. I agree- blast them out. They should have done it sooner.


4 posted on 09/09/2008 7:59:23 AM PDT by 13Sisters76 ("It is amazing how many people mistake a certain hip snideness for sophistication. " Thos. Sowell)
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To: SmithL

5 posted on 09/09/2008 7:59:25 AM PDT by MeanWestTexan (Wish it was Palin/McCain)
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To: SmithL
these are human beings. They deserve food and water

Uh-huh.

Well then, Eric, you can buy them some food and water.

And they can come pick it up across the street from the tree.

6 posted on 09/09/2008 8:00:42 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who like to be called Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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Mogulof did not say exactly when or how the university would act to remove the tree-sitters.

May I suggest something in a Stihl or maybe a Husquvarna?

7 posted on 09/09/2008 8:01:17 AM PDT by AngryJawa (Someday, the USS Sarah Palin will lead the world's most powerful carrier battle group)
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To: SmithL

shoot ‘em down...a pellet rifle would be effective and good for laughs.


8 posted on 09/09/2008 8:02:29 AM PDT by albie
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I don’t feel sorry for Berkley one bit. They have fostered this protest mentality and now the chickens have come home to roost.

Had this been on private property that was next to the campus, Berkley’s professors and administration would have cheering the protesters on.


9 posted on 09/09/2008 8:03:41 AM PDT by Brookhaven
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10 posted on 09/09/2008 8:03:59 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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"But these are human beings. They deserve food and water.'

More victims. If they deserve it, let them go get it themselves.

11 posted on 09/09/2008 8:06:09 AM PDT by synbad600
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If Berkeley had ring-barked the tree a year ago, they wouldn’t have a protester in it today.

Remove the bark all around the tree a foot in height three feet above the ground. Watch tree die. Watch protestor tire of perching in dead tree.

Same result, less fuss. But this is Berkeley — libs don’t have the imagination to do something like that.


12 posted on 09/09/2008 8:10:10 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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ehhh... good idea sir, save for one flaw. I don’t think anyone would want to work on the tree while being bombarded with buckets of feces and urine which seems to be the hippies main weapon.


13 posted on 09/09/2008 8:14:05 AM PDT by Eyes Unclouded (We won't ever free our guns but be sure we'll let them triggers go....)
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To: SmithL

1) Bring in large safety net and position underneath sitters
2) Convince them to come down by jumping into net
3) As soon as they jump, pull the net
4) Prepare for hilarity


14 posted on 09/09/2008 8:15:39 AM PDT by reagan_fanatic ("And how can this be? For I am the Kwisatz Haderach! " - Barack Obama)
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To: AngryJawa

May I suggest something in a Stihl or maybe a Husquvarna?

a Poulan, please!


15 posted on 09/09/2008 8:18:39 AM PDT by EagleandLiberty (it is time to go BEAR hunting in Georgia, so other REPUBLICS can be safe!!)
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To: No Truce With Kings

Hey, it’s fenced in, and I happen to have a beaver problem in my lake.

I think I can find a solution that would leave the hippies very confused and distraught, a dead tree or a starving beaver...


16 posted on 09/09/2008 8:20:19 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: EagleandLiberty

Johnsered, best saw on the market.


17 posted on 09/09/2008 8:21:14 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: reagan_fanatic
ever seen how nuts are harveted (no pun intended)?

This machine that looks like a giant backhoe clamps around the trunk, then shakes the shit out of the tree (again, no pun intended).

They need to hook one up to this tree and leave it on for a while.

18 posted on 09/09/2008 8:21:16 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: Izzy Dunne

Quick! Get them on the ground as quickly as possible. THUMP! THUMP!


19 posted on 09/09/2008 8:21:49 AM PDT by 70th Division (If we lose the Republic we have lost it all.)
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To: SmithL; Izzy Dunne; 13Sisters76; MeanWestTexan; wideawake; AngryJawa; albie; Brookhaven; ...
Must watch YouTube enviro-wacko video HERE!
20 posted on 09/09/2008 8:28:35 AM PDT by Zakeet (Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it)
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