http://www.dailycal.org/2017/04/21/remembering-bloody-thursday-1969-peoples-park-riot/

operbear said:

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And the greatest place to swim is ... a cesspool?
Peoples' Park = needle park, rape park, theft park.
Great symbol of UC and Berkeley???

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Yes!

operbear said:

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And the greatest place to swim is ... a cesspool?
Peoples' Park = needle park, rape park, theft park.
Great symbol of UC and Berkeley???

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You are missing that in this case Park is an acronym

Public space
About to be
Reclaimed by
Cal (I'm going with the French spelling on Park).

okaydo said:

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TOTAL GARBAGE!

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.

Larno said:

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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.

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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.

MTBear said:

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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.

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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.

Burn it to the ground

That is a very good video with the music of Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds and the Young Rascals. The only person I recognized was at the 3:23 mark when a very slender Holy Hubert appears at center screen. By the time I hit Cal 3 years later he was a little pudge bear.
I do remember going to the Kennedy Games Track Meet at Edwards with my Dad in '69 when Berkeley was still occupied by the Guard.

Here is a video that focuses on the Street Fightin' Man events with musical accompaniment by Country Joe and the Fish.

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:

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Pave paradise and turn it into a parking lot...... or a dorm, or a classroom, or a used car lot.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!!!

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With all due respect to Big Yellow Taxi, if that's paradise I'd hate to see hell.

Bears2thDoc said:

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Pave paradise and turn it into a parking lot...... or a dorm, or a classroom, or a used car lot.

Cheers!!
Go Bears!!!!!

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A man, Calvin Kelly, nicknamed "Cal," was shot and killed in People's Park on Friday during a three murder crime spree:

"Original story: A 43-year-old Oakland man who is suspected of killing two men on Friday including a long-time city of Berkeley maintenance worker may also be connected to the homicide in Berkeley's People's Park on Friday, according to UC Berkeley police.

UC Berkeley police are now investigating whether it was Jefferson who double-parked a car on Dwight Way in Southside Berkeley, hopped out and walked to the western edge of the People's Park and shot a man in the head around 2:45 p.m. The man later died.

Update 4/28: The man who was shot in People's Park on Friday was Calvin Kelly, according to his sister Porshia Garvin. She said Kelly had four children ages five to 18 and loved to play chess and pinochle in the park. "Calvin was always in the park. If we wanted to know where Calvin was, we went to the park," said Garvin. Police came to Garvin's home Friday night to inform her of Kelly's death, she said.

Garvin said she did not know of any connection between Kelly and Stefon Jefferson, who UC Berkeley police have named as a possible suspect in the case. She said Kelly was not related to the other two men Jefferson allegedly killed."

https://www.berkeleyside.com/2019/04/27/killing-in-peoples-park-may-be-work-of-man-who-killed-two-others-on-friday-including-city-of-berkeley-worker

Has all the earmarks of drug trade targeted killings.