LOL
Berkeley as a city really doesn't care about the protesters like they might have 40 years ago...
but there are still enough local, tax-paying supporters that would flip a **** if police started spraying rubber bullets or paintballs or shaking the trees with almond harvesters to get the 'sitters down. Berkeley likes to work peacefully. Sometimes that's good, sometimes that's not. Berkeley is the antithesis of
1984, and I really like that fact. Human rights are highly respected. That includes the right to not be injured by fake bullets or forced to fall out of a tree because of a roving nut-harvesting machine.
On the side of the University, the trees in that grove are maybe only 80 years old. They are nice oak trees. I like trees a lot, also. But the University is going to plant THREE trees for every one they cut down, and in 80 years, Berkeley still will be flush with trees. And I don't think the area is really a sacred Native American burial ground, because if it were, people other than dumpster-diving hippie kids from Marin county would care about it
