Gill Tract

In the wake of cost-of-living adjustment, or COLA, strikes for higher graduate student wages, pay remains close to California minimum wage.

From Emeryville to Berkeley, the Ohlone tribe, one of the dominant Native American tribe in the Bay Area, has protested development on what they believe to be sacred land. But according to Phenocia Bauerle, director of the Native American Student Development, they have yet to be federally recognized.

Members of the Student Organic Garden Association hosted the Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, Karen Ross, on the Oxford Tract Thursday evening to discuss the university’s recent plans for a housing development on the site.

Sprouts Farmers Market is set to open April 26 at San Pablo Avenue as part of a controversial, yearslong development project in University Village.

Two Occupy the Farm protesters were arrested and one cited and released Monday morning for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract, which is a university-owned site in Albany, California.

Two protesters from the agricultural advocacy group Occupy the Farm were arrested and cited for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract — a site of university-owned land in Albany — during a Thursday protest of the university’s plans to develop the land.

A portion of land on the Gill Tract — a site of university-owned land in Albany — has recently resurfaced as a center of controversy after members of protest group Occupy the Farm entered a parcel of the site on Jan. 12 that is slated for the construction of a senior living complex.

The day before Thanksgiving, a group of about 45 protesters gathered at Sprouts Farmers Market in Walnut Creek, a grocery store that plans to build a new branch as part of a development project on UC-owned land.

Since Sunday afternoon, members and supporters of the Indigenous Land Action Committee have occupied university-owned land known as the Gill Tract in protest of UC Berkeley’s plans to develop it.

“People Not Profits!” some of their signs said, which was a little ironic, given that doing the right thing for as many people as possible has been the primary driver for our every action in and around the university property known as the Gill Tract. In fact, our plans for the area are the result of an open and inclusive planning process, representing a rare win-win-win for low-income students, the community of Albany and, as it happens, those committed to urban farming.