A People’s Park Panel Discussion: What Comes Next?

People’s Park: What Comes Next

A panel discussion + community forum

🗓️ Date: Tuesday, November 18, 2025
🕕 Time: 4:30 PM – 6:30 PM PST
📍 Location: ASUC Senate Chambers, 5th Floor, Eshleman Hall, UC Berkeley

The park is under siege — but we are not done.

Join us for a powerful gathering to speak truth and organize for the future of People’s Park. After more than a year of blockade, razor wire, and displacement enforced by UC Berkeley and the City, we are coming together — to remember, to strategize, and to act.

Panel + Forum Participants

• Park defenders and long-time caretakers
• UC Berkeley students, alumni, and researchers
• Former city officials, Southside neighbors, and cultural workers
• Encampment residents and frontline activists

Topics We’ll Explore

• What the park has meant, as home, history, and resistance
• What happened during the 2023–2025 siege and why
• The deeper systems at play: surveillance, privatization, and displacement
• What comes next, and how we move forward together

💬 This event grows out of the Fall 2025 People’s Park Community Survey, a space for honest reflection, shared memory, and strategy rooted in care and resistance.

📣 Complete the survey HERE:
https://cryptpad.fr/form/#/2/form/view/Mbbb9hSs3PTcpT3OBHRWqKLVbvrMBm6ZPyjcrNQdGSM/

Your voice matters — and will help shape what comes next.
💬 The panel will be followed by open mic and discussion. Your voice is needed.

What to Expect

• 🪑 Non-hierarchical semi-circle seating and open participation
• 🎤 Community mic and dialogue-based format
• 📄 Printed materials and multilingual resources
• ♿ Accessible entrance, elevator, and seating options available

We aim to make the space inclusive — if you need specific accommodations, please message us on Instagram or Facebook @thepeoples_park, or email peoplespark@protonmail.com. While we may not be able to meet every request, we are committed to doing what we can.

Location & Directions

📍 ASUC Senate Chambers, 5th Floor, Eshleman Hall
2465 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, CA — directly across from Lower Sproul Plaza

✊🏽 Why Now

People’s Park is not just a site of struggle — it’s a living question: Who has the right to speak, to learn, to remain, and to shape the world around them?

Amid climate collapse, intensified policing, and university-led displacement, this event offers a space to gather, plan, and imagine new futures — rooted in care, truth, and collective power.

🧡 Out of love, we continue the fight.

RSVP

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