SaveBerkeley'sPeople'sPark:CreateNationalCivicLandmarkStatus
To be delivered to Jesse Arreguin & [Berkeley City
Council.], Mayor and the Berkeley City Council
Poor social services in Berkeley and other civic
aberrant negligence have contributed to the perceived negation and associated
slander towards People's Park. But beyond a decade's long insufficient response
to human suffering and a lack of community concentration on the People's Park
garden, and other aspects of the park that aren't directly linked to blight at
all times, and often are, it is time to SAVE PEOPLE'S PARK!
409 signatures. NEW
goal - We need 500!
Background
Critical Mass in Berkeley; overpopulation, in
general, is nothing new, but there is a genuine lack of green space in
Berkeley. House the homeless and the poor and the schizophrenic. Keep the park
for the People. The Park is relative to civil rights and free speech. 2019 will
mark the 50th anniversary of People's Park and it would be a horrific shame on
the community if the park would be destroyed simply for the sake of student
housing, which can be built anywhere. UCB used eminent domain illegally to
displace the original neighborhood and, lacking funds to create yet another
student housing unit, created the blight in the first place. The park was an
attempt by the community to create something beautiful. The UCB and, frankly,
the City of Berkeley, have done everything in their power to destroy the park.
Given the associated civil rights and free speech background linked to People's
Park, the actions of UCB and The City of Berkeley seem determinedly fascist.
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Recent Signers
Michael
Sullivan
Feb 16, 2019
Lindsey
Dancoff
Feb 15, 2019
Robin
Housley from Berkeley, CA
Feb 15, 2019
Sylvia
Moonbat
Feb 14, 2019
"The CIA put a microchip in my head. End
MKULTRA now!!!"
Sanah
Basrai
Feb 13, 2019
Ashley
Robinson from Empire, CA
Feb 13, 2019
Monica
Martella from Petaluma, CA
Feb 13, 2019
"Houses no one can afford sit empty while
you cut down trees to make more housing. This must change."
Robert
Zhou from Cupertino, CA
Feb 13, 2019
Max
Ventura from Berkeley, CA
Feb 13, 2019
"50 years of a user-developed park, and a
place welcoming anyone who wants to be there, or needs a place to be off of the
hard and colder cement of the sidewalks. People's Park is that: a park for all,
and used by students, homeless people, families, residents, neighbors, and
visitors. UC: Hands off the People's Park!"
Angela
white from Berkeley, CA
Feb 12, 2019
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Darin
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To:regentsoffice@ucop.edu,A. People's Committee In Response To
UC Plans To Raze the Park
Jan 2 at 2:34 PM
The People's Park
civic landmark status with the city ends April, 2019. The People's Park
Committee is applying for civic landmark status, state and national, I am to
believe. The regents were aware of this, I am to believe. The regents should
have known that the millennials were coming, and likely have had at least 50
years to plan for their arrival. I am to believe. The regents should know
the importance of green urban space and how it revitalizes the community. I
have an MA in urban studies, not from UCB or any UC, and I am very aware of the
importance of green urban space and how it revitalizes our community, you must
seem that you are not aware of this.
It furthermore seems
disingenuous and scandalously unfair to destroy our vital urban ecosystem in
this time of poverty, pollution, and political strife. One should think that
any kind of destruction to People's Park would not take place until after April
of 2019 as per any recurrent civic landmark status. 2018 in many ways marked
the first time in history that people began to take for granted an urban forest
in eastern People's Park, instead 2018 will be marked by how the UC regents
choose to once again put gentrification [which is a form of genocide,] before
community.
The Sacred Berkeley
Oak Grove and it's systemic treesit should have taught the regents that
policing is as expensive as replanting trees, and by replanting I am to mean
that one would use engineering to remove and replant them elsewhere. Our point
then was replace fossil fuels and our point is not much different today. We
also wish to preserve nature, but you don't seem to understand this, I am to
believe.
With some sort of
focus on education, in today's terrible world of industrial haste, one might
believe that the UC regents might wish that urban gardeners, at the Walnut
Street student farmer and volunteer co-op garden, at Occupy The Farm in Albany
[The Gil Tract Farm,] and People's Park should be a pinnacle for social
outreach, ecological / agricultural education, Native American folklore
education, social justice education, and so on. But what we find from many but
not all students, and people in general is that the misinformation from their
'mainstream,' cultural conditioning does little to help define sub-cultural
phenomenology beyond the market value of a tie died t-shirt. The importance of
how micro or sub cultural sociology helps to create facets and trends in the
macro sociological matrix is lost on people in general and people take sub
cultural values from the past for granted, yet at the same time fascism
currently looms around the transnational matrix.
If you are unaware of
how invaluable sub-cultural sociology is for human awareness locally, and in
general, I would recommend any book, passage or article by Rebecca Solnit on
the subject.
The United States is
not a Democracy it is an oligarchy where capitalism is king. In a socialist
country at least people don't seem to die on the streets as much. The blight in
People's Park is systemic to a dysfunctional governance. Stop nullifying us. We
had a forest. All of us. I am to believe that the regents do not value
nature.
If you are unaware of
how invaluable nature is to cities read any book or passage by Jane Jacobs on
the subject.
The wildlife in our
community hates you, and we howl in the wind.
In my opinion that
makes no difference to the regents because they cannot hear anything other than
themselves and capitalism while the Earth dies screaming.
Darin Allen Bauer
ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER / LABORER / WRITER
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darin bauer <darinallenbauer@yahoo.com>
To:chancellor@berkeley.edu,A. People's Committee In Response To
UC Plans To Raze the Park
Feb 13 at 4:51 PM
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Our cities are rapidly heading towards what Jane Jacobs refers
to as "Dead Zones,"(1) People's Park in Berkeley isn't the first or
last struggle for humane green cities obviously, however it should be a
catalyst for a more correct approach to urban planning universally. The Baby
Boomers are probably too old to defend the park, but the millenials are, and
deceiving them with the corporate considerations relative to 'user
development,' is a binary didactic used for mechanizing human minds [mind
control, propaganda, and mass hypnosis,] and not a natural condition for human
development [nutrition, exercise, rest, positive activity, outreach with
people, community and natural spaces.] Don't build another factory to build
robots for the oligarchy! The kids are human people not corporate slaves! SAVE
PEOPLE'S PARK!
(1) Check out the San Diego, Tijuana area in the movie,
"Bladerunner 2049," should you doubt this dangerous precarious
development. Science Fiction is a warning. The usage itself was likely from
"The Life And Death of Great American Cities," 1960, Random
House.
Darin Allen Bauer ARTIST / PHOTOGRAPHER / LABORER / WRITER
Open letter to Young Student Democratic Action
Dear YSDA,
I
was told by Adam last night that they were prohibiting any further non-co-opers
relative to the committee from attending Lothlorian meetings. And especially
myself for using abusive language on the list serve. I will spend some time
negotiating this in this letter. What is People's Park on a respect level? And
what is radical diversity? I give personal examples based on my experience and
research.
People's Park is two
things primarily. People's Park is highly politicized. People's Park is also
highly ghettoized. [Another way to look at it is People's Park is, for whatever
reason, really high.]
I have an MA in urban
studies, I can go on and on about gentrification and wage slavery and systemic
institutional prejudices, but you should know most of that by now yourself,
it's the 21st century, you aren't the President, so don't pretend like you
don't know.
Do you have ANY idea how
much effort it was to get gangs to leave the park? I've heard some stories from
some of my elders about this, THAT alone is reason enough not to bullshit in
the park. In order to understand that, you'd have to actually speak to someone
who was there and understood the complexity of the issues. It was really
complex, it wasn't entirely a black and white thing, and with too many shades
of gray or whatever, yeah, drugs, marijuana is okay, but guns are bad, knives
are pretty bad, and hombres in gangs are pretty bad.
Somebody in the park will
have a knife. You should know how to handle yourself in order to never have to
worry about anything like that. In laymen's terms, you want motherfuckers in
the park with knives to defend you, not attack you. It's basically that simple.
If you respect the park, it's people, and the garden, you shouldn't really have
any problem with that. If you do then you are an undeserving fuck nut, and
somebody to trifle with. That's how it goes sometimes. Don't be like
that.
It's one thing for me to
say if you fuck up in the park I'll kick your ass. It's quite another to
actually deserve it. For the most part however, I think I gave warnings about
behavior in this list serve, and I'm really sick of politically correct
moderate pundits using their 'polite special people,' language, trying to
railroad the people, especially the people of the park. That's basically why
the people of the park, are in the park. People offended by language probably
shouldn't be fighting for the park in the first place.
The
second part of this is about a variety of tactics. In Occupy Oakland we had
racial and identity diversity that other Occupations simply didn't have.
Oakland lead the way primarily, when Wall Street and David Graeber didn't. Or
Alleppo, or Cairo, or Istanbul. 'A diversity of tactics,' quickly became the
buzzword of successful anarchist endeavors. Fuck the World Trade Organization
meeting in Seattle, in 1999, and fuck the 10,000 anarchists who came to New
Orleans after Katrina to commit to mutual aid. [Okay but with love though out
to NOLA, and C-Town,] We were fucking the police every single week for two
years. Anyone who was actually there knew that's what we were doing, and how we
knew it was possible was relative to a Diversity of Tactics.
This was also very true of
924 Gilman between it's 1986 onset and when I eased out of the scene somewhat
in 1996. Although most women in punk moved to the American Northwest and left
the Bay, in the late 20th Century, there were some women who persevered. We had
music diversity, we had diversity in ideas of what punk rock is. Political
diversity, we had / have that. We had artistic diversity [style, genre,
whathaveyou,] and perhaps better today also racial diversity. Today there are
more woman and people of color at Gilman than in the 20th Century, that at
least it very true. Gilman Street is 33 years old and she still wears spikes on
her punk rock jacket, but she doesn't wear leather or suede anymore, because
she got a better job yo!!!
If we cannot have our
'range of individuals,' attend meetings then you are only going to get one side
of the story and not the diverse range of viewpoints, history, considerations,
memories, and just basically variety that is endemic to any radical occupation.
That's just it YSDA, you aren't radical. Stop pretending like you
give a fuck then! Go back to voting for Clinton or Biden or whatever so you can
defend the corporate oligarchy and keep democracy safe for wage slavery!!!!
GTFO!!!!!
Darin Allen Bauer ARTIST /
PHOTOGRAPHER / LABORER / WRITER
