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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/19/EDUU16HBT3.DTL

West Bank versus the Special City
San Francisco Chronicle (CA) - Thursday, March 19, 2009
Author: Debra J. Saunders

When Tristan Anderson , now 38, was living illegally in the trees at UC Berkeley to protest the administration’s ultimately successful bid to cut down the trees to build a sports training center, life was good. For 21 months, Berkeley’s tree sitters happily fouled their nests with little interference from the authorities. Their biggest fear was falling.

When Berkeley finally erected barbed-wire fences and began to shine spotlights on the canopy campers, the tree huggers complained that UC had turned their grove into “Guantanamo.” UC retaliated by giving the tree sitters energy bars.

In June 2008, Anderson , who went by the name “Cricket,” was arrested, charged with trespassing and violating a court order - and still he was able to chat happily with reporters.

Segue to the West Bank last week. Anderson had joined pro-Palestinian protesters in the village of Naalin, where he was seriously wounded when an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister hit him on the head.

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