1 year ago, Jan 29 2021, demonstrators, mostly UC Berkeley students, tore [...]

1 year ago, Jan 29 2021, demonstrators, mostly UC Berkeley students, tore down fences at Berkeley’s People’s Park and stacked them on the steps of Sproul Hall. The fencing had gone up ten days earlier, as part of a UC plan to build a 16-story housing complex. They remain down

Radicals built People’s Park on the UC-owned lot in 1969. Destroyed in May of that year, the park was reclaimed during an anti-war riot in 1972, and has been the subject of countless power struggles in the decades since
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Last updated January 29, 2022