Things are getting nasty at Oak Grove
(Written by kencraw)
Checkout the below videos for some details on the goings on at the Oak Grove:
- YouTube video produced by Tree-Sitter support group(note that you’re going to hear a LOT of bad language).
- KVTU’s evening report
- CBS evening report
Things are a lot more nasty there than I thought or understood from the articles on the subject, although to some degree they’re showing the 30 seconds of a scuffle amongst hours of people sitting around doing nothing.
The videos also give the best pictures of the nature of the fence. I keep going back and forth. Now I’m thinking they’re not very stoutly put in the ground. That fence was swaying all over the place and without much force. A tightly strunk (and hence well anchored) fence wouldn’t do that.
No word yet on the request to block the fence in the Alameda county courts.
August 30th, 2007 at 12:30 pm
I am all for protecting the environment and civil rights, but this is ridiculous. This Zachary Runningwolf talks about how the fence is taking away the basic human necessities…BS (censored)! Get (censored) out of the trees that don’t belong to you. If you need food and water, climb down and go get some.
What is (censored) unbelievable is that Cal has allowed them to stay up there as long as they have. Then you have all the people forming a human chain around the fence in an effort to save the trees…good God! Get lives, people. There will be loss of tree-life, but more then enough will remain and even more will be planted in their memory.
The UCB administration needs to grow a serious pair and take strong action to get this resolved NOW!!
August 30th, 2007 at 2:35 pm
TrumanHugh, I share your same disgust about the protestors. However, we run a clean ship here at EMFMV and foul language will not be tolerated. I always give people the benefit of the doubt so don’t worry about it this time, I just sensored the minimum amount of text necessary to leave the comment up. Just know that it is not acceptable here and everything will be fine.
August 30th, 2007 at 5:56 pm
Just a quick tip Ken censored, not sensored. Sorry to be a pendant, but we are Cal grads after all.
August 30th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
My apologies…I thought I was on one of several different Cal sites.
August 31st, 2007 at 7:30 am
T.: Can you tell I’m an engineer? Only us geeks who spend all day working with sensors (yesterday included a number of discussions about temperature sensors in fact) will be stupid enough to use the wrong word when censoring another comment. Thanks for the reminder…
TrumanHugh: No worries.