Free People’s Park!
People’s Park has been an essential patch of land for the dispossessed, a hip-hop and folk venue, a place to gather, socialize, and share free meals.
We want our park back. From 1969 to 1972, the park was fenced until people took it back at a protest against american imperialism.
The park represents not the past, but a future where people fought back, and won land for community use for 53 years. Learn how generations of East Bay residents fought fascist repression, apartheid, and capitalism.
UC: Stop destroying our culture & community
Who supports People’s Park?
Dozens of campus orgs, radical projects, and progressive groups support People’s Park as a User-Developed Park.
The Daily Cal will once again stand with the community for calling in a halt to the development of People’s Park.
People’s Park … is bustling with human activity all the time, always-already. Basketball, Food Not Bombs, rock concerts, sleeping poets, performing shamans, divine blessings and dad jokes literally flow out of the park.
- Berkeley Student Cooperative
- UC Berkeley Black Student Union
- Hermanos Unidos
- POOR Magazine/Prensa POBRE
- Daily Californian Editorial Board
- The United Front Against Displacement
- Berkeley Free Clinic
- Berkeley Copwatch
- Berkeley Suitcase Clinic
- Consider The Homeless
- 1921 Walnut St. Tenants Association
- House the Bay
- Berkeley Food Collective
- Berkeley Outreach Coalition
Solidarity with other struggles
People’s Park is not about preserving the past. It’s a set of muddy, dirty blueprints for a world where land can be liberated from capitalism, and where life is valued more than property. The struggle for People’s Park Berkeley is a daily affirmation to protect access to land and commons for landless people.
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