Yes!operbear said:
And the greatest place to swim is ... a cesspool?
Peoples' Park = needle park, rape park, theft park.
Great symbol of UC and Berkeley???
You are missing that in this case Park is an acronymoperbear said:
And the greatest place to swim is ... a cesspool?
Peoples' Park = needle park, rape park, theft park.
Great symbol of UC and Berkeley???
I was in school. Met mt future and current wife at Bancroft Library when all hell was breaking loose. It was and is, an embarrassment to Cal students.Larno said:
I was a senior in high school in the spring of 1969. My brother, however, was attending Cal then and did not participate in any protests but he certainly saw a lot and had some interesting stories. A few years later I was at Cal at the tail end of the major protests and also did not participate. Where I lived was just a block away from People's Park and we got a few whiffs of tear gas on several occasions. As for the politics of the situation I was just concerned about school and making sure I didn't get drafted (a very high lottery number eventually took care of that), and the major takeaway I have from that video is that those pictured there who are still alive are mostly in their 70's and 80's now.
MTBear said:
Thanks for the video and the memories. It was a mess. It was an example of the times, but it really was a mess. The organizers and most of the participants weren't students. Students did stroll through out of curiosity and maybe even with a bit of mild support. Most students had classes to attend and papers to write. It was mostly outside hooligans that did the majority of the protesting. Some of you know my story. I was in the national guard, and I was a student. That gave me a particularly unique perspective. I, too, will be glad when the construction has been completed and the blight is removed.
Okaydo, I don't know you, and I don't pretend to know your ideological beliefs. I usually enjoy your contributions on this board. However, you mean, "let's go down there and take the park" Dan Siegel? The SDS leader Dan Siegel? What a guy he was back then. He may well have represented some good causes in his later legal life in Oakland, but IMHO he was misguided back then. By the way, it wasn't students who "used' the park before it was fenced off by the university. It was occupied by some homeless folks and by druggies who were trespassing on UC owned property. The university needed to fence off the property if for nothing else to avoid liability. A large percentage of the crowd Siegel led from Sproul to the "park" were not students. There were already protests going on around the "park" prior to Siegel's speech. Let's not glamorize the affair. I have no more to say on the subject.okaydo said:MTBear said:
Thanks for the video and the memories. It was a mess. It was an example of the times, but it really was a mess. The organizers and most of the participants weren't students. Students did stroll through out of curiosity and maybe even with a bit of mild support. Most students had classes to attend and papers to write. It was mostly outside hooligans that did the majority of the protesting. Some of you know my story. I was in the national guard, and I was a student. That gave me a particularly unique perspective. I, too, will be glad when the construction has been completed and the blight is removed.
I think that the protests making news in the past few years -- the ones certain people on this board like to use to bash today's students -- actually involve very few students while the anarchy-making outsiders do the bad stuff. But the People's Park protests were led by a student, ASUC president-elect Dan Siegel.
With all due respect to Big Yellow Taxi, if that's paradise I'd hate to see hell.Bears2thDoc said:
Pave paradise and turn it into a parking lot...... or a dorm, or a classroom, or a used car lot.
Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!!!
Bears2thDoc said:
Pave paradise and turn it into a parking lot...... or a dorm, or a classroom, or a used car lot.
Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!!!