Over 100 community activists occupied and farmed a portion of UC-owned research land in Albany this weekend in the latest iteration of the Occupy the Farm movement. Read More…
Protesters occupying the Gill Tract were raided by police on the morning of Monday, May 14, 2012.
Demonstrators from various Occupy groups have gone to Albany UC-owned lands and have set up camp to farm the land. As a response, the UC has shut off the water, making it impossible for demonstrators to plant. Lesley Haddock, a UC Berkeley sophomore, shares her experiences so far in the Read More…
This year, Cal students have an unprecedented opportunity to have a voice in local Berkeley politics. Currently, Cal students make up about a quarter of Berkeley’s population, but in the last half century, only one student has been elected to Berkeley City Council. The Free Speech Movement — the apex Read More…
Spring is a busy time for a maize geneticist. Experiments have to be planned, students have to be recruited and thousand of seeds have to be carefully organized and packaged for planting. It is important to get everything just right, because we only get one opportunity to do large-scale field Read More…
Dozens of advocates of community urban farming took over the university’s Gill Tract on Earth Day, April 22, establishing a camp and planting about two acres of vegetable crops. Their goal is to prevent development of this five-acre piece of land that represents one the few remaining agricultural spaces with Read More…
A man who climbed into a tree after UCPD raided the Occupy the Farm encampment on UC-owned land in Albany Monday morning was arrested for urinating on and throwing dirt at an officer. Edward Miller — the 10th person arrested at the Gill Tract farm Monday — was arrested for battery Read More…
The costs incurred as a result of the occupation of UC-owned land in Albany and the May 14 police raid on the encampment total more than $300,000, according to UC Berkeley and city of Albany officials. The campus will seek to recoup its losses in a civil suit filed against Read More…
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has not filed charges against seven out of nine Occupy the Farm protesters arrested during the raid on the UC-owned farmland in Albany late last month. Although the district attorney’s office has not confirmed the names of the two protesters who may still have Read More…
