UCPD send five Oak Grove supporters to jail for Thanksgiving

Five activists, including 2 UC Berkeley students, were arrested early Thanksgiving morning for supplying the tree-sit with food and supplies. They are being held on $10,000 bail each (previous arrests for violation of the court order have been $3,000 bail). The car they were driving was impounded, four were sent to Santa Rita jail, and one, who was a minor, was sent home to her parents. Friends have been working to bail them out of jail before Monday.

Although about fifty members of the community were able to successfully send up food and water on thanksgiving day, the video documentation recorded by police and the security guards will likely be used to implicate people in the future.

UCPD have been arresting anyone supplying the tree-sitters. Last week, one was arrested for announcing the arrival of Detective Wade MacAdam, under the direction of a UC's attorney who claimed that giving such a warning was a violation of the court order.

December 2nd will be the one-year birthday of the tree-sit at the Memorial Oak Grove. Please come by and show your support! We will have music, dance, art, and a reflection over the last year of the struggle to preserve green spaces everywhere.