Rally and Street Fair
We demand RCD (Resources for Community Development) drop out of UC's plan to destroy People's Park!
We demand tenant-controlled public housing and open public space!
Join us outside real estate developer RCD's offices to demand life-giving solutions to the housing, economic, and environmental crises facing us.
RCD is a non-profit landlord complicit in UC's war on People's Park. Their biggest donors are banks, police, and developers.
Wednesday November 10 @ Noon
2220 Oxford St Berkeley
RCD Offices
Oxford at Allston (1 block east of Berkeley BART)
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People's Park Palooza!
Saturday, September 4, 2021, 6 pm
People's Park, Berkeley
Performances by: Maya Songbird, QINGQI, Easydoesiiit, UNPOP, Perhapsy
Free admission with recommended donations of $5-10 or $10-20
Masks required.
Vendors from 3ofwands Collective.
@theweirdestmaya, @perhapsymusic, @allhailtheqing, @easydoesiiit, @unpop.ca, @3ofwandscollective
Last Friday two lawsuits were filed in Alameda County Superior Court against UC Berkeley and the UC Regents. Two community groups and AFSCME Local 3299 are challenging the impact of growth plans of the university. Previously another filing was done on the Berkeley City Council's violations of the Brown Act, in formulating and adopting the City's recent secret "settlement agreement" with the University of California.
The evening's panel will discuss both legal and community organizing actions to stop implementation of UCB's Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), a plan that seeks to destroy People's Park and other irreplaceable neighborhood and community assets in Berkeley.
Panelists include historians, preservationists and activists – Charles Wollenberg, Lesley Emmington, Carol Denney, Joe Liesner and Harvey Smith.
The exhibit includes photographs, art work, posters and memorabilia from over 50 years of spirited community involvement in preserving the irreplaceable open space of the park.
People's Park is at the center of sixteen other officially recognized city landmarks, which collectively are a de facto historic district. They represent the heritage of the 1960s and the larger theme of a century of town/gown relationships. Berkeley became a major target of the New Right conservative backlash with Ronald Reagan promising to "clean up the mess in Berkeley."
UC's plans also threaten three historic buildings, including a rent-controlled apartment building, in another project funded by an anti-rent control developer.
The university has exceeded its agreed enrollment limits, creating enormous housing displacement throughout the city. The university has responded to years of state budget austerity by monetizing its public assets in a corporate-like growth that has also become a drain on city resources.
UCB proposes to cover People's Park with a 17-story concrete monolith, probably to be erected by a private housing firm that will profit from student occupants. This would destroy both a historical and cultural legacy and much needed open space when reasonable alternatives are available.
If Berkeley all but invented the sixties, surely the city and its university should be able to commemorate that decade by preserving People's Park as the heart and soul of a vital historic district.
Presentation by People's Park Historic District
Friday, August 27, 2021, 6–9 pm
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Masks and Covid vaccination required.
For more information, contact Harvey Smith at 510-684-0414.
Sponsored by the People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group.
Block Sather Gate – Defend People's Park
Wear all Black
Meet at People's Park
Masks Required
Wednesday, August 25, 2021, 6:30 AM to 3:00 PM
Saturday, August 21, 2021, 6–9 pm
Canessa Gallery
708 Montgomery Street, San Francisco
Presentation by David Axelrod, Attorney and Founder of People's Park Native Plant Garden
David L. Axelrod has filed a Writ of Mandate in Alameda County Superior Court on the Berkeley City Council's violations of the Brown Act, in formulating and adopting the City's recent secret "settlement agreement" with the University of California. In the secret agreement, the Berkeley Mayor and City Council surrendered a lawsuit it had already won that had challenged the University's Long Range Development Plan (LRDP), a plan that seeks to destroy People's Park and other irreplaceable neighborhood and community assets in Berkeley.
David was involved in the 1970s and 1980s as founder and Field Coordinator of the People's Park Project/Native Plant Forum (PPP/NPF), a student and community group that executed creative user development of People's Park, establishing organic gardens and native plant communities in the Park commencing in 1974, and built the People's Stage in 1979, under leadership of the People's Park Council (PPC).
During those times, members of PPP/NPF and PPC developed a generally more peaceful and cooperative relationship with the University campus administration on behalf of Park users, gardeners, students and neighbors, concluding several written agreements. David will bring alive the park history of past years, as well as the reality of legal actions of today.
People's Park is at the center of sixteen other officially recognized city landmarks, which collectively are a de facto historic district. They represent the heritage of the 1960s and the context of the larger theme of a century of town/gown relationships. Berkeley became a major target of the New Right conservative backlash with Ronald Reagan promising to "clean up the mess in Berkeley." Now preservation of this community-built park is threatened once again by UC Berkeley expansion.
The university has exceeded its agreed enrollment limits, which has created enormous housing displacement throughout the city. The university has responded to years of state budget austerity by monetizing its public assets in a corporate-like overreach that has also become a drain on city resources.
UCB proposes to cover People's Park with a 17-story concrete monolith, probably to be erected by a private housing firm that will profit from student occupants. This would destroy both a historical and cultural legacy and much needed open space when reasonable alternatives are available.
If Berkeley all but invented the sixties, surely the city and its university should be able to commemorate that decade by preserving People's Park as the heart and soul of a vital historic district.
The exhibit includes photographs, art work, posters and memorabilia from over 50 years of spirited community involvement in preserving the irreplaceable open space of the park.
Masks and Covid vaccination required.
For more information, contact Harvey Smith at 510-684-0414.
Sponsored by the People's Park Historic District Advocacy Group.
Hey all,
The folks at 1921 Walnut are urging everyone to bombard the Mayor and City Council with emails regarding the possible settlement of the City's lawsuit against UC. Please share widely.
BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL NEEDS TO ACT NOW
UC Berkeley wants to demolish the rent-controlled building at 1921 Walnut St./displace the long standing community there and destroy our public space at People's Park. If this is allowed to happen, UC will be able to DEMOLISH ANY RENT CONTROLLED BUILDING or PARK IN BERKELEY. This would raise rents for everyone and destroy historic spaces that we all enjoy.
Berkeley Mayor Arreguín and City Council can stop them!
How? City of Berkeley is in a settlement negotiation with UC. City of Berkeley needs to withhold any settlement unless UC agrees to SAVE 1921 WALNUT and DEFEND PEOPLE'S PARK
WE NEED YOUR HELP!
CALL TO ACTION: EMAIL, CALL and TWEET at Mayor Arreguín and your City Councilmember AND SUPPORTERS OF PEOPLE'S PARK
More information
University of California released its new 2021 Long Range Development Plan. This plan includes:
- demolishing 1921 Walnut St and evicting tenants
- destroying People's Park
- building 8.1 million sq. ft. of new campus facilities (equivalent to 6 Salesforce towers)
- adding 14,750 new students (44% above the current 2005 plan)
- adding 3,500 new employees and 3,000 new parking spaces
- adding 800,000 sq. ft. of new facilities in a Very High Fire Hazard Severity Zone-California's most dangerous fire zone
WE HAVE TO CONTROL THIS EXPANSION, SAVE 1921 WALNUT and DEFEND PEOPLE'S PARK. TELL THE CITY COUNCIL and MAYOR!
Contact them now prior to their settlement decision with UC. Make sure the City of Berkeley stands up for Berkeley tenants and our historic open spaces!
(district, name, Twitter handle, phone number)
Mayor: Jesse Arreguín @JesseArreguin (510) 981-7100
District 1: Rashi Kesarwani @RashiKesarwani (510) 981-7110
District 2: Terry Taplin @TaplinTerry (510) 981-7120
District 3: Ben Bartlett @benbartlettberk (510) 981-7130
District 4: Kate Harrison @KateHarrisonD4 (510) 981-7140
District 5: Sophie Hahn @SophieHahnBerk (510) 981-7150
District 6: Susan Wengraf (510) 981-7160
District 7: Rigel Robinson @RigelRobinson (510) 981-7170
District 8: Lori Droste @loridroste (510) 981-7180
Write to council@cityofberkeley.info to send an email to the Mayor and all Council members.
We're gathering together people for one last Noise Demo on Tuesday June 29.
RALLY AND NOISE DEMO
Berkeley City Council is voting on the annual budget this week. Together we are telling them:
NO to UC Berkeley's plans to destroy affordable housing and green space at People's Park and 1921 Walnut street to build expensive student dorms!
NO to an increased municipal police budget while poor and working people are still lacking basic services!
Tuesday June 29, 2021, 6 PM, Berkeley City Hall
Hope to see you there!
Please join Berkeley Outreach Coalition and other groups as we gain knowledge about harm reduction, how to use Narcan, and creating protocols for addressing overdoses.
Berkeley NEED, Berkeley Copwatch, and The Berkeley Outreach Coalition
invite you to attend a free workshop
Harm Reduction, Narcan, and How to Create an Overdose Policy for Your Organization
As many of you know, Berkeley has experienced a number of lethal overdoses recently and to answer this threat posed to our community members we invite you attend this free workshop. It will presented by Punks With Lunch Outreach Coordinator and long time Harm Reduction volunteer Katie O'Bryant. Based on her years of experience, she will be discussing the use of Fentynal test strips, how and when to use Narcan, and the best practices for creating an overdose policy for your organization.
We will be holding this workshop in a socially distance responsible manner, outside in the back yard of the Grassroots house. However, if the weather doesn't cooperate with us we may have to move inside. Therefore, we ask all participants to please bring face masks.
This workshop is for any activists, social workers, and residents of Curbside Communities that would benefit from this knowledge. So please send this flyer to any orgs or individuals you wish to.
WHERE:
The Grassroots House,
2022 Blake St. Berkeley Ca. 94704
WHEN:
7 PM, Wednesday, June 30, 2021
If you have any questions, please email Jathan Gurr at jathangurr@yahoo.com and please put the word "Workshop" in the title of your e- mail.
The Grassroots house is disability accessible.
Download PDF Flyer (2-page) >
Come celebrate the52nd anniversary of People's Park!
Acts who will be performing include:
Easydoesiiit
Afterthought
Hali Hammer
Driftwood Dave
Luna the Blooma
Anonsounds
Jordan Huez
Wayfairy
Freddie
Chammeili
Sarchasm
Axe
Double mask, protect your community!
Speakers and performers include: Roosevelt Stevens, Aidan Hill, Soul, Jimbo, and others.
Thanks to East Bay Food Not Bombs, Copwatch, The Suitcase Clinic, The Berkeley Outreach Coalition, Where Do We Go- Berkeley, The United Front Against Displacement, Consider the Homeless, The Long Haul, and Defenders of People's Park.
Bring proof of vaccine or negative COVID test for a free button!
See @peoplesparkberkeley on Instagram for more details.
Save 1921 Walnut, Save People's Park!
Protest
Saturday, April 24, 2021, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM
1921 Walnut Street, Berkeley, CA 94704
TANC, 1921 Walnut, People's Park Committee
Link to poster: https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Save-1921-Walnut-April-24-2021-poster.jpg
End the UC's displacement, gentrification, and violence!
Protect community, protect history, protect People's Park and 1921 Walnut Street!
The University of California, Gov. Newsom and their billionaire cronies is trying to evict tenants of 1921 Walnut Street, a rent-controlled building, and destroy affordable housing in Berkeley, California to create student dorms. The UC is also trying to destroy People's Park, an open space, center for arts and culture, mutual aid, and poor people in the East Bay.
We say NO!
Meet at 1921 Walnut Street on April 24th at 12PM.
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Source: https://www.peoplespark.org/wp/category/events/
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