On 4/27, People's Park celebrated its 34th year in existence with a festival of music, politics, and history. Speakers ranged from Ed Rosenthal to Barbara Lee, representatives from the Emma Goldman Papers and the Arab Anti Discrimination Committee to East Bay Food Not Bombs and the X-Plicit Players. The small square of green land on the south side of UC Berkeley's campus has been a lightning rod of protest for a wide range of political causes, an important one being over who owns the park. An international campaign has been launched in an attempt to purchase the land from the UC Regents, who have done nearly everything in their power to "clean up" the park by encouraging the harrasssment and arrest of the homeless that inhabit the land, given that there are few other places open in Berkeley to go.

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