‘It’s not just history’: Advocates rally to halt redevelopment of People’s Park into housing

A grassroots group of park advocates rallied this week to encourage residents, students and activists alike to gather at University of California at Berkeley’s California Hall and speak out against UC’s development plan for the historic People’s Park.

At the Monday rally, volunteers from the group People’s Park Council chanted, “power to the people,” and others wove through the roughly 60-person crowd to sign people up for the “bulldozer list.” The university plans to use bulldozers to tear down the park, and the list will function as a group of defenders to contact when they arrive.