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UC Berkeley Protestors Removed from Tree, Tree To Be Replaced With Treadmills

UC Berkeley Protestors Removed from Tree, Tree To Be Replaced With Treadmills

Protestor-monkeys at UC Berkeley left their tree yesterday after occupying it for almost two years to fight the decision of the school to cut down a redwood in favor of building a new athletic center. After the school built a structure to reach them at the top of the 90-foot tree, the four activists resigned themselves to ground level and were a...

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Latest comment by masquerade: Wow. Best protest I've heard of this year.
What a shame that they went ahead and cut the tree down, after they spent all that time sitting in it.

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Berkeley Officials Cut Tree Branches, Protestors in Tree Play Tarzan

Berkeley Officials Cut Tree Branches, Protestors in Tree Play Tarzan

Since December 1, 2006, diehard environmental activists have sat in a redwood tree by UC Berkeley’s Memorial Stadium in order to stick it to the man and protest the school’s decision to cut down a grove of redwoods to build an athletic center. Today Berkeley officials threw down though, cutting several limbs from the tree as the protestors swung...

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