The Berkeley Tree Sitter Don't put anything here Page Content Page Name (for URL) Page Title Breadcrumb Text Back in February some guy climbed the tree in the middle of the Berkeley campus as a protest. (Sadly, most people seem to have never figured out what exactly he was protesting for or against, but it seemed like a rather long list of issues, from Berkeley's plan to cut some ancient oaks to their ties with oil companies.) Berkeley police wasn't happy about this and wanted to arrest him for trespassing, but decided to not drag him down from the tree - for the fear of liability, I heard. (They did drag down the poster that he had - part of the reason nobody was quite sure what he was protesting against.) So, instead, they camped near the tree, while he camped _in_ the tree. Yes, he had a hammock, so he slept in the tree and he had a bucket with him to do you-know-what. They were at it for quite some time - two and a half weeks. He then finally agreed to come down in mid March. The police then cited him, supposedly for "tresspassing" and "illegal lodging." <2~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x2 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_011_6033 ------ x2 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_021_2301 ------ x2 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_025_3248 ------ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- --- --- --- --- --- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ x2 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_016_8941 --- 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_014_1597 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_022_6607 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --- --- 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080312_018_0867 2008-03-12-b-tree-sitter/20080314_002_1964 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~> Advanced Fields Category 2002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014E. AsiaE. EuropeL's FamilyL's FriendsN. AmericaN. EuropeS. AmericaS. AsiaW. EuropeY & LY's FamilyY's Friends Prototype Redirect Permissions0 Actions Config Markup Module HTML/Meta/Keywords HTML/Meta/Description Save Hook HTML Fields Main Head Body Header Menu Logo Page Content Template Sidebar Footer Tags Allowed for XSSFilter HTTP Fields Cache-Control Expires Guru Fields Templates Translations Fields Edit UI Admin Edit UI Don't put anything here A summary of your changes Edit Summary Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here Don't put anything here save preview cancel