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DESCRIPTION:PRESS RELEASE-JAN. 13, 2012\nUC BERKELEY SLAMSCAPES\nPEOPLE’S PARK FOR 
 CHRISTMAS\n     By Some accounts, it was as early as 4 am on Dec. 28 that 
 UC\nBerkeley Police and contracted landscape workers hired by UCB started 
 setting up orange plastic fencing around the west end of People’s Park.  
 By 2pm the damage had been done: Bulldozers, backhoes, and bobcats… 
 chainsaws and chippers… the berms of pavement lifted by activists in 1979 
 and stacked next to both the Dwight and Haste sidewalks as a reminder of 
 our history were leveled.  Dozens of mature plants tended by community 
 gardeners were turned to mulch, long-existing pathways were 
 indiscriminately blocked off with no consideration for handicapped access. 
 Perhaps worst of all was the indiscriminate vandalism of a volunteer-built 
 structure that existed along the fence line on the west side, starting near 
 the NW corner and running southwards about 72 ft. This structure, called a 
 “pergola”, was built by volunteers in 1999 and 2000 out of the 
 old-growth redwood lumber that had been recycled from the University’s 
 ill-fated volleyball courts. The University required an incredibly involved 
 and drawn out approval process for the pergola structure that took almost a 
 year to accomplish.  Both the City of Berkeley Planning Department and the 
 University of California’s Landscape Architect, Jim Horner, signed off on 
 the project.  The structure was inspected after it was completed\n> and 
 passed, also by Jim Horner. That the University of California at Berkeley 
 came in the middle of the night and chainsawed off the trellis portion of 
 the pergola, killing both a mature grape vine and a mature kiwi vine in the 
 process was dreadful.  That they ran the old-growth redwood that had 
 been\ntransformed by volunteers from a volleyball court to a pergola 
 through a chipper before anything could be done about it was shocking.  
 That they accomplished their vandalism without once notifying any of the 
 many volunteers who had worked on that project about their plans, although 
 they themselves had required the volunteer activists to go by the letter of 
 the book, was a rape…\n   There is some possibility of redress, perhaps a 
 civil case\nagainst the University, as the project was documented 
 thoroughly from beginning to end…\n    Mostly, right now we are working 
 on a benefit at the\nART HOUSE GALLERY AND CULTURAL CENTER\n2905 SHATTUCK 
 AVE. (between Ashby and Russell)\nSATURDAY, FEB. 4, 2012\nfrom 6-10pm\nThis 
 is an Acoustic Show\nFeaturing performances by\nPHOENIX,ANTIOQUIA, ANDREA 
 PRICHETT, AND FRIENDS, FOOD NOT BOMBS!\n$10 SUGGESTED DONATION\nCONTACT 
 INFO-(510)830-7787\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/19/18705032.php
SUMMARY:People's Park fundraiser at Berkeley's ART HOUSE
LOCATION:ART HOUSE GALLERY AND CULTURAL CENTER\n> 2905 SHATTUCK AVE. (between Ashby 
 and Russell)\nBERKELEY, CALIFORNIA
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/01/19/18705032.php
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