Treesitters and Saving the Oak grove trees at UC Berkeley

[mark5angel]

...wow the tree sitters and people who are supporting them are killing trees because there using paper and the tree sitters arent even doing that for the sacred burial ground are they?

[smalltownamerican]

fags will burn

[Argonaut22j]

From what I understand the university owns the land so they can do what they want with it.

Still, they should find another solution to the stadium. Besides building on a war memorial and wildlife corridor, building on a fault line can just be unsafe.

[WeekendWarrior1210]

I'd rather draw on a piece of paper then sit on a fuckin tree.

[sbruce186]

hippies are causus ignorami. there are legal ways of going about trying to save a piece of land, wouldn't ya know. have fun trying to pay off the ONE MILLION DOLLARS in police monitoring and safety fees you asses accumulated.

[peanutbutterjelly76]

To Hell with it. You know what I say? Let 'em protest. Cut the trees down with the hippies still in 'em! It'll teach those jackass liberals a lesson, and it'll save alot of trouble.

[kellacrosse]

most these people that are living in these trees are not students...why? to save a spot that would build a earthquake safe facility for actual students. If there is a earthquake anytime soon many students could be injured or killed because of the present location of the facility. This is ridiculous save 50 trees in order to endanger the lives of students...makes since to hippies.

[livinginoneness9]

build it somewhere else this is a sacred site

[EdinburghGuy]

Why couldn't they just setup a charity fund to hire a root digger and have the trees relocated roots and all?

[livinginoneness9]

because they dont want to put the money in to do that and its an ancient native american ground and dont want it disturbed

[soccerdon20]

Release the bees!

[dsutari]

I understand not wanting some beautiful oak trees to be cut down, but can you imagine the good that could have been done in the past 15 months if all these people tried to do something more productive than just protect a bunch of common trees?

Your time and energy are important resources, and they are being squandered with this nonsense.

[livinginoneness9]

this has been given global attention i cant see how that is much of a time waste.

[cgn5606]

poison the tree to kill them; then see how long they will stay in them; or put bird seed everywhere so that the birds will crap on them; like they throw excrement on police officers

[livinginoneness9]

ooo too afraid to say poo are we

[dejahthoris]

These people will not be happy until one of the Tree Sitters get killed. Then they will not care and cut down the trees anyway. It makes me want to sell my house and everything I own and move there and support the Tree Sitters

[mercedes75]

Along with the stench of BO is the scent of an anti capitalist movement here. Capitalism is competition. Competition is practiced and celebrated through sports. These monkeys are protesting a SPORTS arena because it symbolises competition which is capitalism. Go to any bookstore on Shattuck and look at the "finance business" section. The anti-capitalist sentiment is laid on really thick in the midst of ecocapitalism.

[mercedes75]

on that note, Berkeley specialises in theatre.

If these trees were part of a landscaping, then this is just a show.

Yep, these are just a bunch of useless dolts with WAY too much time on their hands making shit up as they want us to subsidize their lifestyle.

[thegoodherb]

I just love how Running Hypocrite claims the Univ is breaking the law, but he announces that the tree sitters will ignore any court ruling to come down.

[theeggrules]

These fucks are killing the trees just by there stink.

[buddhabanana]

thank god for berkeley, may our citizens forever have the balls to speak and act our hearts and minds

[Jeff33613]

these idiots don't contribute anything. Other people pay taxes so they can just lvie off society. No job, nothing. Just users!!

[mercedes75]

no kidding. When was the last time I've seen ANY braindead hippy work with cancer victims? Burn victims? How bout crack babies? Victims of rape? Orphans? They're not just fruitcakes, they're fucking pretentious at that.

[DaniPower0]

they piss me off so fucking much

the trees are NOT on a burial ground, but they are a landscaping project! Maybe the tree sitters should go protest someone cutting down a forest in the amazon rather than like 30 ugly oaks by a huge football stadium...

runningwolf is just a bag full of lies

go bears

[sacredcowburger]

It's that lying cop Celaya who pisses me off. They didn't do shit to protect the tree-sitters. One tree-sit supporter was hit over the head with a beer bottle by a Cal fan, when he tried to file a police report, UCPD assaulted and arrested him.

[adaml9981]

man shoot them tree huggin losers with some tranquilizers darts and let them fall out of them damn trees. Or some tear gas. that will clear out those idiots.

[TheChaotician]

I agree dude. They should be sitting in mental hospital cells than trees.

[nikesbskater0s]

i hate those tree hugger faggets

[rodneykingman]

Nice. You sound real bright son...

[1944epiphonedolphin]

No one saved the tree that was cut down in Louisiana: the one that had lynches hung on it recently. It wasn't the tree's fault. Do the trees hug you back? Why not? 'Probably because they know that you folks are mislead by a myopic political worldview.

[rodneykingman]

Yes actually the trees do "hug you back". They do this not only thru the shade in which they give us throughout the hot summers but also through a scientific biological process entitled photosynthesis in which they absorb CO, CO2 and many other toxic airborne pollutants, process them and convert them into 100% pure, breathable oxygen thereby enabling human existence. That's a BIG hug!

[ProjectM555]

Working on campus as a project manager for a construction company, I have learned there are book smart ppl who are dumber than a door knob when it comes to common sense. 80% of UC Berkeley students fall under this.

I would like to ask the pussy tree sitters, are you pissed at code pink because they are getting all the attention now?

A light mist of water from a fire hose 24/7 will make these pussies come down.

[DaniPower0]

or a heavy jet of water from a fire hose for 30 seconds....

[globalgringo]

The ironic thing is that one spark from a roller blader, one lightning strike, one tree sitter falling asleep with a lit doobie and the debate is over...

It's not save the planet you morons! It's save the humans because the planet is not going anywhere.

These narcistic idiots including Al Gore think that they have such a large impact on her when in fact, she doesn't even know you are there.

Just imagine if all this wasted energy was focused on a human causes.

[guanghanke]

As one of the chinese students whose motherland universities have constitutionally forbidden such assemblings, I really admire your guys' environment in which you can freely voice your hatred!

[DK0526]

hahahhahhahhahahahhhahahahhah!

Fucken stupid ass filthy hippies!..they built tree stands out of lumber to save trees...hahahha Then they find a drunken toothless savage wasted on fire water to give credibility to the cause via spirts hahahahaaa! Where did chief get his fancy white mans duds from...notice people laughing in background while dumb girl comments!Hahaha! Typical of the land of fruits and nuts!

[AmericanAnarchy]

Protests are funny. I like hippies. Trees are pretty cool, too.

[bestbowltix]

Yes, and the Amazon Rain Forrest the supplier of over half of the worlds oxygen supply is in the way of developing new town too. Cut it all down. Come to think of it most trees are a nuisance and are just in the way they should all come down. Ignore the fact that they are the only things n the planet that clean the air and remove carbon dioxide and turn it into pure oxygen, none of that matters... No wonder we're all dying of cancer and disease. Because of people like you...

[AmericanAnarchy]

That's weird, I thought my comment was in support of the hippies and treesavers. I guess not. Fuck the College.

[CourtneyMcBride]

Cal has one of the worst training facilities in the PAC 10. If the bears are going to have a winning football team anytime soon, then a new training center must be erected. The trees are in the way and must be cleared.

[dorub]

Cal was #2 in the nation without the facility. They could've been #1 if they didn't fuck up to Oregon St. You think a new facility will help them? It's a total waste of time and money AND it will cause a lot of traffic in that fucking area. GO TREES!

[CourtneyMcBride]

Someday those sissy, dorky tree squatters will have to come down and hopefully be sentenced to many years in prison. Meanwhile, the new training center will be built and Cal will be forever victorious. :)

[bestbowltix]

Yes, and the Amazon Rain Forrest the supplier of over half of the worlds oxygen supply is in the way of developing new town too. Cut it all down. Come to think of it most trees are a nuisance and are just in the way they should all come down. Ignore the fact that they are the only things n the planet that clean the air and remove carbon dioxide and turn it into pure oxygen, none of that matters... No wonder we're all dying of cancer and disease. Because of people like you...

[CourtneyMcBride]

I'm talking about the trees next to Memorial Stadium, not the entire Amazon. It's really important that you stay on the topic otherwise you end up looking really stupid and the cause your "fighting" for becomes even more marginal.

[bestbowltix]

Honey, I'm not fighting with you. And it is very clearly "on the topic". I am saying it is unconscious, pacified, enslaved, blind people such as yourself that contribute to the destruction of the earth and atmosphere. A little tree here, a 'lil tree there, an oak grove here, a redwood forrest there. There's a bunch of you in every town in the world and if you keep up with your unconscious, autopilot, moronic thought patterns there will be not many trees left and we'll all be fucked.

[CourtneyMcBride]

It's really important for you to realize that for every tree that is cut down at Memorial Stadium, there will be 3 new trees will be planted on the Berkeley campus.

It's really sad that environmentalists are moved more by emotional rhetoric and scare tactics that by common sense and logic.

Most of these tree-sitters are anti-social, maladjusted, upper middle-class white kids.

But why let facts get in the way of a good argument?

[bushdoctor911]

Exactly what I am trying to say... Why use facts when you could just argue..? Now you're on tho something!

Anywho.... I agree about tree sitters their a bit ruff 'round the edges, I've never done it. But thank God someone out there is doing something to fight injustice. It takes all kinds to make the world spin.

[bushdoctor911]

Now back to the situation at hand. The tree planting thing is a bullshit posturing maneuver used by extreme right wingers such as your good 'ol self. You cannot replace old growth. That's like saying for every one of your family members I murder I will have a child of my own to replace them.

[bushdoctor911]

For everyone of your families houses I loot and pillage I will place that loot in my own. For every one of your families houses I burn I will build one of my own down the street. For every plant or tree I kill or steal in your yard I will put three in my own. Brighten up McBride.

[bushdoctor911]

And what the hell kind of statement is that anyway "there will be three new trees will be planted.." What is it punishment-reward? If you come down and let us destroy the old-growth we will plant a few saplings next to the lunch time playground? If you keep your mouth shut we'll give you a nice big lollypop? Why don't they plant the trees anyway? Is there too many trees on campus already?

[bushdoctor911]

Do they have to destroy in order to build? What if I said too you let me cut up your face with a knife so we can give you a bunch of plastic surgery and some free make-up? You'll look better in the end. Why not plant the trees now instead of withholding them like you would to a two year-old? Why would anyone intentionally deprive their own campus of beautification and landscape as a lever and for spite? That's sick...

[CourtneyMcBride]

I don't expect to convince you of the truth, I think I would have more success convincing a thawed-caveman that the earth was round...I'm sure I could find a compromise there. Nevertheless, in a democracy you're entitled to passionately believe anything you want, but it doesn't mean your right.  This is a good example of that.

[CourtneyMcBride]

I'm not a member of the right wing, I'm actually an avid environmentalist...a TRUE environmentalists... because I have cool, calm reasoning on my side, whereas all you have is shrill, passionate stupidity and a thick skull.

[CourtneyMcBride]

It's not an old growth forest; the trees were planted as part of the landscaping in 1923 when the stadium was constructed. The grove is on University property, and the new trees would thus be planted elsewhere on University property.

[dejahthoris]

Its a War Memorial. How can they destroy a War Memorial???? This shows unbelievable disrespect for the dead. This is all greed. They can build it somewhere else.

[dejahthoris]

They can build it somewhere else. They aren't going to be happy until someone is killed. Then they will cut down the grove anyway.

[labyrinth75]

Send in some RC helicopters armed with stink bombs playing Ride of the Valkaries over loudspeakers.  Hippies are such dumb asses.

[bicycledays]

Right on. Keep up the good work. Thanks.

Kris

[dennisdeane]

Who gives a crap about football.

[viperq]

USA#1

[Chrisd2142]

the only thing i hate about berkeley is about all the frekin hippies, it has to smell like pot lol.

and obviously, im a calfan and cal football kick ass, and i think we should make that athletic thingy, lol, maybe that running wolf guy has a point about the world war 1 memorial, but who rly cares about world war 1, it was like 90 years ago lol

[sleuthgrrl]

looks like USC kicked your ass for your big homecoming game!

[dorub]

HELL YEAH``

[moneylynch43]

Steve Volker, the Save the Oaks lawyer, has not even brought up the trees at the trial....why?....because it HAS NOTHING TO DO with the issues. Talk about a two-faced lawyer. He's two-timing you guys!

How does it feel to be living in filth for a year for some mindless purpose and not even being RELEVATN in court. The judge hasn't even dicussed or brought up your concerns. ha ha ha

[demichae]

Ancient grove? Planted in the 1920's. Burial Ground? No evidence whatsoever. Global warming? Oh brother. Too bad there isn't something legitimate to protest about, like a war going on. If the University announced a cure for cancer, these ass clowns would protest.

[geraldlee81]

you wouldn't protest or practice your free speech if your life depended on it.

[globalgringo]

These are NOT environmentalists but filthy bums!

This is more of an opportunity than anything else.

It has nothing to do with a cause, this is outright vagrancy!