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Occupy Berkeley
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Occupy Berkeley: the day after
Citizen reporter Robert Singer sent in this striking picture of Civic Center Park. It was taken today, a day after the Occupy Berkeley camp was dismantled. The patches of grass in the foreground are discolored from where tents sat. Police have said tents can stay up during the day, but are prohibited between 10 pm […]
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Bulk of Occupy Berkeley camp cleaned out
Public works workers remove a Christmas tree from the Occupy Berkeley encampment in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, California, Thursday, December 22, 2011. Photo by David Yee Update 10:30 pm: By 10 pm Thursday there were no more tents in Civic Center Plaza. Protesters had left the park by then or […]
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Police Blotter: Occupy Berkeley
Dan Stone packs up his tent at the Occupy Berkeley encampment in case they are removed from Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, California, late Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Photo: David Yee In the two months since Occupy Berkeley set up camp in Civic Center Park, Berkeley police have responded to 33 […]
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Police and Occupy Berkeley protesters clash in streets
Berkeley police and some Occupy Berkeley protesters clashed Thursday morning around 12:30 am as police tried to clear a path for a public works truck. Protesters rushed a public works truck that was parked in front of the Berkeley police department on Martin Luther King Way. Some of them jumped into the back of the […]
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Despite eviction notice, no raid on Occupy Berkeley
Craig Evans keeps watch as his wife sleeps in their tent. Photo: David Yee By Frances Dinkelspiel and Judith Scherr Under the threat of eviction, protesters at Occupy Berkeley took down about 40 tents in Civic Center Park Wednesday night, preparing for the raid that never came. As a 10 pm deadline to stop camping […]
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Mayor Bates: City ‘not interested’ in confrontation tonight
Crime, including a recent attempted rape, and health hazards have increased at Occupy Berkeley. Photo: Lance Knobel Mayor Tom Bates told Berkeleyside today that the City of Berkeley is determined to avoid the kinds of confrontations that occurred in Oakland and other cities where Occupy movement encampments were removed, despite a decision taken to shut […]
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Occupy Berkeley shutdown likely at 10 p.m. tonight
The scores of tents in the Occupy Berkeley encampment sit next door to Berkeley High School. Photo: Lance Knobel The Occupy Berkeley encampment, which has operated without interference since it was established in late October, looks likely to be ended tonight at 10 p.m. A warning was issued yesterday that the park closure law and […]
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Councilman: Zero tolerance on Occupy Berkeley
New proposal calls for a zero tolerance policy for Occupy Berkeley. Photo: Lance Knobel Councilmember Jesse Arreguín, whose 4th district includes Civic Center Park, today urged the city to adopt a health and safety plan for the Occupy Berkeley encampment. It calls for a zero tolerance policy on “all violations of the law and park […]
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How long can Occupy Berkeley last?
The encampment in Civic Center Park includes food tents as well as rudimentary lean-tos. Photos: Lance Knobel Update, 2:58 pm: The Berkeley Police Department has issued a list of calls for police services at the Occupy Berkeley camp. There have been a total of 24 reported calls since October 23rd, 16 of which can be […]
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Berkeley High concerned about Civic Park Occupy camp
The Occupy Berkeley encampment at Civic Center Park has grown over the past few weeks. Photo: Arturo Snuze Berkeley High School Principal Pasquale Scuderi says supervising BHS students during the lunch hour and after school has become more challenging for the school with the growth of the Occupy Berkeley tent-city in Civic Center Park. In […]
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Occupy Berkeley remains, experiment is proving fragile
Around 40 tents are now pitched in Civic Center Park as part of the Occupy Berkeley encampment. Photos: Judith Scherr By Judith Scherr While Occupy encampments across the nation are being forcibly disbanded, be it in Oakland, Manhattan or right here on the Cal campus, the tent-city in Berkeley’s Civic Center Park, which was established in […]
