Six Arrested for Planting Oak Seedling

Every week we meet at 2:00 pm on Sundays to support the Memorial oak Grove tree sit. We tried to get the tree sitters food in past weeks but the police have made it so difficult to succeed. For instance this Sunday, and last, they stationed a cherry picker to block the tree sitters from being able to get to the trees near the sidewalk. This week we decided to have a different kind of action. We all gathered and then marched to the Chancellor's mansion. Police got there before us and kept us away from the building. We gathered on a lawn outside of the hedge around the yard proper. We held a prayer for Rosebud Denovo, killed in this building in 1992 and for Donna Spring, recently deceased Berkeley City Council member who supported the Oaks.

We gathered in a circle. A small oak seedling that was grown from an acorn from Memorial oak grove was placed in the middle. Several people went to it and began to dig a hole in the ground. The police came closer and filmed. The soil was hard and they scraped it away with sticks and bits of metal. Finally they had a nice hole ad planted the young tree. We relaxed around it and tried to imagine it in 200 years. Some people split off and headed up to the Oak Grove. In a bit we got a call. The police were arresting some of the people for damage to the lawn. More people rushed up there. Others headed off to get away but two cops cars sped after us and the cops arrested two more people for the supposed crime of planting a tree. Eventually five people were arrested for planting a small tree and one for objecting to the arrests.

Please come next Sunday at 2:00.

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