Muwekma Park - Free Arboreal Camping!

Sunday morning, on my way to the weekly lecture at Berkeley Vedanta Society across the street from People's Park, I stopped by the tree with the banners hanging down to deliver a Sunday Oakland Tribune to whomever was occupying the tree platform. To my wonderful surprise, it was Mark Creekwater! I met Creeky at the end of his 800 mile Family Spirit Walk for Mother Earth years ago, when he walked across the southwest in August with other peace walkers and the Shoshone...all the way from Los Alamos, NM to the Nevada Test Site, arriving in time for the opening ceremony of the annual protest led by Shoshone elder Corbin Harney. Many years later, after the radical alternative to the DNC in Denver concluded, I went on to Washington D.C. for yet more radical politicing, and was a guest in Creeky's room above the People's Media Center, where he was active. This morning, he's in a tree in People's Park advocating for basic sanity in regard to: 1.capitalism's victims who need to live in the park rather than die, 2.the 41 year stupidity of People's Park's absurd management by the University of California, which really does not need the park for any of its future expansion plans, 2a.the City of Berkeley which has fundamentally failed the mentally ill as well as the mentally healthy "street people", 2b.and less importantly, the self-appointed Berkeley anarchist leadership which believes that it is somehow protecting the park from UCB, but nobody can rationally prove that UCB has any secret plans to build anything in People's Park in the future, which therefore makes the Berkeley anarchist leadership's claim to be the savior of the park somewhat difficult to understand, and 3.to advocate for the return of the land called People's Park to the Ohlone Tribe, which represents a philosophical turnaround from the historical lies and theft of indigenous tribal land on Turtle Island (i.e. the United States). Please enjoy going by the tree in the northeast corner of Berkeley's People's Park and meeting Creeky, and bring him all kinds of gifts and presents. PEACE AND LOVE