Tree-Sitters Fight-on as the UC Berkeley Fall Term Begins

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Uploaded by on Aug 27, 2008

Survey Nation returns to the UC Berkeley Campus to check-in with the on-going struggle to save the Oak Grove. As the two-year anniversary of the tree-sit approaches the pressure to bring about a resolution can be is felt by both the tree-sitters and the University. In speaking with Berkeley residents, both community interest in the effort to save the Oak Grave appears to be waning, but the sitters show no sign of giving in. On the day we visited the Grove, the University had ordered the trees to be trimmed and some "debris" removed from the branches. This led to a face-off between the two parties that lasted several hours.

We had the opportunity to interview the now infamous "Dumpster Muffin" who has descended from the trees and now plays a central role in the ground support effort. We also spoke with several UC students to get their take on the situation.



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  • Newsflash!

    You're on our property.

    And you are squatting.

    Not one of you is a student or faculty member!

    Your "safety" is the least of our concerns.

    If the dam regents weren't so concerned about a 60s sproul repeat you would be getting gas'd right now!

    Go protest the deforestation of the amazon or something worth while.

    No No No it's always this country that's the culprit.

    Show some patriotism and stop being so dam pessimistic!

    F'ing hippies!

  • What's also disturbing is that the tree-sitters claim to speak for the entire community while the vast majority of people who actually live in Berkeley don't really care.

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  • @IggidyO Well put

  • And that blond chick needs to get some true 'LOVE' not this hipie shit

  • this is soo soo fucking stupid waste of time that they could spend helping people or spending some good quality free time... And just for the record Ralphie may was totaly right on that radio interviuve. Fucking hipies bounch of 'i want attention' seaking ppl...thank fucking god we dont have em in our town at least the hard core ones.

  • didnt the school plant those trees?

  • Yea and losers too. While they were doing all this the university was cutting down a bunch of trees on the other side of campus to build another bulding there. so it was double fail for the hippies and I'm happy about that.

  • oh well now they can finally go back to the real world and be categorized as unemployed

  • Hey that's old "dumpster muffin"...took away her mobile home at the RNC. She represents the community in Berkely?

  • Is that a man dressed in drag?

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