Victory! - And it's over now.
The Court of Appeals has removed the injunction preventing Berkeley from cutting the trees down around the stadium. For preliminary information, see coverage here.
Paired with an existing ruling that allows the university to remove the trespassing tree sitters, we could see chainsaws on campus as early as first thing tomorrow morning. Bring the popcorn!
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Invisible hand moving this back to the top. And again.
All tree sitters have come down from their perch.
Paired with an existing ruling that allows the university to remove the trespassing tree sitters, we could see chainsaws on campus as early as first thing tomorrow morning. Bring the popcorn!
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Invisible hand moving this back to the top. And again.
All tree sitters have come down from their perch.
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posted by tj at 12:22 PM
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I was walking out of Boalt the other day and there was this grubby looking guy walking around barefoot yelling angrily into a cell phone about "the longest urban tree sit in history." At first I wondered who gave him the cell phone. Who pays the bill? Then I had to laugh because the whole scene was taking place right next to the stumps of all the trees that used to be in the courtyard. No wonder he was pissed.
A pet peeve of mine: Court of Appeal, not Court of Appeals...one of the many quirks of California. But great news, if one can call courts putting a stop to years of wasteful litigation that.
this could get real ugly real quickly.
The University will likely move swiftly, and take down the tree-sitters as well as the grove over the weekend. I think that Simon would be an excellent viewing platform for the festivities.
On a side note, they should have an auction for the right to drive the ceremonial bulldozer.
I wonder if 6:51 was talking about Armen and TJ?
6:51 here.
No, that's not what I meant.
Armen's been ugly for a long time now.
I envision the word going out to the Berkeley anarcho-bored-agitator crowd to rally 'round the trees. It could get ugly.
"Wow, that's cold." Bonus points to whomever names the episode.
Is that the one where Marge campaigns against cartoon violence? I don't know the name of it though.
It was totally stealth the way they axed the law school trees, btw. Clearly ninja work.
Code Pink does it again - they're disrupting McCain's speech. Do these bozos not understand that they just made conservatives hate liberals even more? I think one of them was trying to rip her shirt off - was she also in Breasts Not Bombs?
Close enough. Bonus points to Toney. "Ladies and Gentlemen, the screwballs have spoken."
Will the University publicly announce cut time so we can have a viewing party in Simon? I propose John Yoo's office.
nice try. Yoo's office faces the bay.
Can we discuss the BHSA e-mail about lockers? There is absolutely no reason to charge us $25 for them if, by sharing them, we have enough for everyone. What could the justification possibly be? This is BHSA trying to weedle additional funding out of us in a non-transparent way!
Come on, Armen, it should be "Bonus points to whoever names the episode."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whomever#Who.28m.29.28so.29ever
Uh, no. Whomever as I used it. [I will give] bonus points TO whomever...
Romani ite domum.
I should stop using shorthands. In the sentence I wrote, it is indeed whomever, even according to your wikipedia cite because it is used as an indirect object. My sentence, in a grammatically correct sense, stated "[I will give] bonus points to whomever..." I is the subject, will give the verb, bonus points the direct object, and whomever the indirect object.
Romani ite domum.
You're still wrong. The object is the phrase "whoever names the people." Whoever should be in the nominative because it is the subject of the relative clause. Inserting an ellipsis after "who(m)ever" does not make it otherwise.
It's an interesting point. It's nominative in the relative clause, but the clause is an indirect object in the sentence. I'll think about this some more and might reverse the call on the field upon further review.
An Update:
The trees are currently being cut down. So far it's just been branches and some smaller trees. The arborists haven't reached the central redwood that's home to the remaining 4 tree-sitters. I'm guessing they'll get to it later this afternoon.
The area is pretty quiet, there is a crowd of 50 or so, and a handful of news trucks, but nothing crazy yet. Side note, this reporter drew the ire of a few local hippies when he high-fived some of UC Berkeley's finest.
One more interesting tidbit, according to one of the landmark security guards on scene, security for the site is costing the university around $750k/month in terms of private security (16 at a time) as well as police (8-12 at a time).
Live Streaming Video:
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/feature?section=news&id=6372996
Video in link form
Hey Boris, a big FU. I have a tone of stuff to do this afternoon, now I'm doing issue spotting in the video.
*ton.
This is amazing.
There is a great view from the 8th floor of simon, north balcony.
I just drove through ground zero, and there are RIOTS IN THE STREETS!!! (To the extent that 50-100 hippies getting messed up by some cops can be considered a riot...)
The hippies have risen....woo hoo for Berkeley.
Can we maybe wrangle up a posse to go get a "drill, baby, drill" chant going over there tomorrow?
In their most recent demand, the tree-sitters said they would come down if the university gives $6 million to environmental and Native American groups, creates a public committee on campus land use, and allows protesters to use the stump from the oldest tree in the grove, which protesters called "Grandma," for a Native American drum.
You can't make this stuff up.
It's happening!
Links? For uh...others cuz I'm too busy.
They're coming down!
It's over!
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