Eco Alert: People's Park

This morning at 8AM, I was taking my usual morning constitutional across People's Park, on my way for a nosh at Nabolom Bakery, when I heard a voice in a tree say hello to me. Upon further examination, I saw that it was the Blackfoot tribal elder Zachary Running Wolf sitting upon a large branch of one of the black acacia trees near the children's play area. I offered to share my New York Times with Zach, but a circle of orange plastic netting as well as the presence of uniformed police officers disuaded me from doing so. Longtime Earth First! participant Arthur Fonseca was nearby, hollering at anybody who looked like a University of California representative "Where's the process?", and "Where's the public involvement in this?", and then he made a subtle reference to UC Berkeley being the the "terraists" who need to permanently disassociate from the park (which, I might add, ought to have been done at least 30 years ago). I attempted to be calm for the first time ever, and asked the curious morning onlookers why UC Berkeley hadn't just given People's Park over to the city years ago, when it was understood by the UC expansionist planners that the park was too small for any future plans. Noone answered. I continued on to Nabolom Bakery, and was greeted by the baker Crow, who was wearing his vintage People's Park t-shirt. It remains to be seen if Zachary Running Wolf will be kept alive in the tree on vegan pastries and politically correct coffee. News update at ten.