Bernard Field Station: lock-down of business office, p.1

In the spring of 2001, students of the Claremont Colleges gathered in the middle of the night at the business office of the Claremont University Consortium. They chained themselves to trash cans filled with concrete and blocked all entrances to the building. This protest was in response to plans to develop the Bernard Biological Field Station, one of the last remaining pieces of coastal sagescrub habitat in Los Angeles County, a valuable educational resource and the site of a Tongva village. After this protest and the arrests of many students, the threat of development was forestalled for the next seven years.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• claremont
• pitzer
• scripps
• pomona
• cuc
• kgi
• earth
• first
• eco-defense
• tongva
• bfs

[Trotskyistrevolution]

Well, at least they got their demands fufilled so I guess the tactic worked.

[SuperWeiredGirl]

shut the fuck up!! they wre trying to save the feild station! ive been there its awesome

[jcvcsf]

Libby is a celebrity!

[asheborosoccer1]

ok so you are yelling why are you hurting them? Simple you are treaspasing and not responding to police commands, duh you no listen you get hurt.

[asheborosoccer1]

the said part is young people get sucked into this cult, whining about people hurting them, well do what you are told and you would not get hurt. Said that you are so stupid to not know that a tree is a crop that can be replanted.

[polefucker16]

Fuck you you god damn hippies earth first my ass. ow stop hurting me. wel maybe if you helped the cops walk out with you instead of draging you that might feel alot better.

[mozfreak84]

right on!