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…
UCPD arrested four protesters on Monday following an early morning raid on the Occupy the Farm encampment on UC-owned land in Albany
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I’m being selfish when I say that UC Berkeley needs to go back to its roots. As a member of the Student Organic Gardening Association, a facilitator of our organic gardening DeCal and a student deeply passionate about food systems and sustainable agriculture, I can clearly see how little stock Read More…
January: Anthropology Library Occupation After a group of demonstrators occupied the campus anthropology library, the campus administration agreed to restore its previously curtailed hours. February 18: Death of Peter Cukor Controversy arose after a Berkeley resident was killed while police were monitoring an Occupy protest nearby. February: Occupy Emails Administrators’ Read More…
Protesters occupying the Gill Tract were raided by police on the morning of Monday, May 14, 2012.
Members from Occupy the Farm and Albany Farm Alliance held a community forum Wednesday evening to discuss the current state of the Gill Tract and plans for future mobilization. Read More…
I’m writing in reference to your editorial from Oct. 16. In it, you petition Occupy the Farm to “collaborate” with the University of California. Besides this general sentiment, your story is ahistorical. The UC Capital Projects department planned to develop the Gill Tract — precluding any sort of agricultural use Read More…
The original Occupy movement reimagined how people engaged with a space that represented an elite group that became a symbol of capitalism gone wrong. However, Occupy the Farm — a grassroots movement that began in April to protest development around UC-owned land in Albany — lacks the same ideological strength. Read More…
In the UC Village in Albany, I live within a stone’s throw of the Gill Tract, and for the past three weeks, I have had a front-row seat to the escalating conflict between the Occupy the Farm movement and the University of California, Berkeley. I’ve watched it unfold from two Read More…
On April 22, hundreds of activists, community members, students and local farmers occupied a portion of the Gill Tract, the five-acre piece of land directly across from the University Village in Albany. This occupation was not spontaneous; it took months of planning that ranged from organizing community support for the Read More…
