Moments later, more than 100 protesters toppled fences to the ground all across the park. “Looking at the fence, we have the numbers here,” he said. “What are we trying to do, take down this fence?” Delacour asked, and was met with cheers. Then, he eyed the fences erected by the university 10 days earlier in preparation for the development of student housing on the site. Photo: Pete Rososįifty-two years after founding People’s Park, Michael Delacour stood in front of a crowd that had gathered Friday afternoon to protest UC Berkeley’s plan to develop housing on the park’s grounds.ĭelacour, now 83 years old, told the crowd how he helped turn a vacant lot into a park during the heart of Berkeley’s anti-Vietnam war movement. What kind of student wants to go to a school where that is the norm? If Berkeley caves, I would encourage you to get your degree somewhere else.People’s Park co-founder Michael Delacour at a rally to stop UC Berkeley from building on People’s Park. If UC-Berkeley caves to these demands, what message will that send? That an openly racist protest movement can dictate real estate decisions to a university, all while impeding the learning process which universities exist to enable. By what authority do these students think they can force the university to surrender a building to them? Indeed, have they not just undercut their own arguments for “diversity” by shutting down a bridge to white people? This moral narcissism is truly beyond the pale, and it should terrify Americans who have to live with the people graduating colleges today. Nevertheless, the racism and the “eviction notice” really stood out. People end up trapped in their cars, as protesters chant right in front of them. Blocking a key intersection is not the same as blocking a highway, but it can produce similar effects. “Sorry, blocking the interstate is dangerous, and trapping people in their cars and surrounding them is a threat,” Reynolds wrote about the protest in Charlotte, North Carolina. Such protesters are so sure of themselves that they are willing to take the law into their own hands.įurthermore, the blocking of public streets is indeed dangerous, as PJ Media’s own Glenn Reynolds explained. The overt racism of closing off a major thoroughfare to white people is stunning, as is the temerity of posting an “eviction notice” on behalf of the student population. While this protest did not involve physically attacking anyone, it was nevertheless violent and dangerous. This was not an official document, but the protesters deemed themselves worthy of making such demands, despite their inability to decide whether the ever-expanding alphabet soup of the LGBT movement required one or two Is. This space exclusion is one step in an ongoing process to remedy the historical devaluation of students of color and LGBTQIA+ students.
If you fail to vacate immediately, community action will continue to escalate with the goal of eliminating any revenue generation. We demand, instead, that the university facilitate the expansion of the bridges and QARC (Queer Alliance Resource Center) spaces into this two-story facility … These spaces have been chosen by students based on the need for visibility, accessibility, and adequacy of size … The work that these student-run spaces to produce and recruit students of color and provide support for the LGBTQIIA+ student community is invaluable and must be affirmed by the university. University administration wrongly allocated this two-story facility to a third-party corporation, keeping in line with its intensifying legacy of prioritizing financial profit over student needs. You are hereby notified by the students of the University of California, Berkeley to vacate the premises immediately.
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