Save The Oaks High Stakes Parade and Rally JULY 24th Thurs.-PRESS RELEASE

Ed gave up and walked in front of the train and got NO PRESS.
many DISaBELD AND POOR NOT so pretty or loved as a tree.
i live behind the homeless shlter i couldnt afford. and the cil bothced advocay for the other one ,housing and cap advocacyit goes on

discriminated against in shlter housing mh and voc rehab and none but the vicitm pays the price.
i was at 4 citycouncil meetings never heard of dona being a supposed disbled reperesntative.
she wasn't at the meetings i was.
she did pets in one news articel now trees too?

but while scity used her as a photo opportunity disabeld still had no representaionadn got left in the road?

if only we weren't funny looking adn disabled and so much work!
if only i was a tree.
i wonder if Ed is looking down and thinking the same thing.

uc and everything must expand to support the expanding population.
maybe with the trees you can fashion some shelter/ benches fro us less lovely than a tree
those wrong disabled or too many medical conditions for help
so the trees are used to stop some of the pain
a roof to sleep under in the cold winter winds and rain?

matthews, I think a lot of anti-student center advocates would rather have the city of Berkeley spend hundreds of thousands on a lawsuit that they know they will lose instead of having he city fund critical social issues like helping the homeless or the handicapped.

To th authors of the text above, who wrote: "the University and the City of Berkeley are being urged to do the right thing and realize the incredible lasting harm if the trees are allowed to go down."

No lasting harm, because more trees are planted than ill be cut. Within two decades, the tree cover around the stadium will be thicker. The parking lot north of the stadium will be a tree-lined pedestrian plaza.


Further writing:" "It would be a huge slap in the face to the diverse broad based community and tree sitters that include local residents and students, who have been fighting to protect these trees"

FALSE. You DO NOT represent the student or campus community, which is overwhelmly in favor of the new student center, which will potentially save the lives of hundreds of students and staff currently wroking in seismically dangerous facilities! There is a petition of 8,000 signatures IN FAVOR of the project, while the main advocate against this project, Zachary "running Wolf", couldn't even get TWENTY SIGNATURES that wuold have allowed him to run for mayor!



"and have the new Sports facility built at identified alternative sites that are more appropriate."

What alternative sites? The new gym needs to be close to the stadiums that the teams use, it include gyms and locker room for the women's field hockey and softball teams, the men and women's rugby teams and the football team, all of these facilities are in the area. You want to put their locker rooms in Albany?

Furthermore, the college football experience at Berkeley is one of the greenest big-stadium experience in the US. very limited parking, most spectators take public transit or walk to the stadium. No tailgating or car-based experience! People who hate the football program want to move it to Oakland, where many more people will end up driving as the parking lot around the Coliseum is enormous. If anything, environmentally-conscious citizens should support Memorial Stadium and the football program it houses and join the 70,000 local students, alumni and fans who watch the games in person every home game.


All this for 44 oak trees, who will end up being replaced by 120 trees. WHY THE PROTESTS? and why is no one protesting the TEN THOUSAND trees that will be cut just behind the stadium in Tilden and on UC property? Why put this on the same footing as the removal of old growth redwood near Eureka? Pointless and sad.