Let me be clear. I am a pretty normal guy who believes in certain things and sometimes these things are worth fighting for...protesting and all that fun. That said I find out today that the 21 month (Yes, Month) standoff at Berkeley ended. The standoff was over the plan to cut down multiple redwood trees on campus to make way for a new athletic center.
I'm not going to get into the protest itself but rather that these people were up there for 21 months. They are either extremely well off or...well homeless or something. I mean if I could just hang out for 21 months I definitely would. 21 fucking months of doing nothing but sitting in a fucking tree? Where can I sign up?! Or better yet I'll do a sit in at a bedroom...even if it means urinating and defecating in a bucket that I empty from a 7th floor bedroom I can stay isolated that long if I'm drawing in money/donations.
I guess I do have one bone to pick with the protestors. Evidently they were against the building of this new athletic center and cited the fact that this building would sit on the Hayward fault line and is therefore dangerous. I have some news for you...all of California is sitting on various fault lines and it is inherently dangerous to live in and around California. The good news is that at least one of the "mature redwoods" is being relocated.
Edit/Update: Upon further investigation and checking the L.A. Times, I've found out that at times tree sitters rotated. One of the tree sitters who was up for 7 months calls herself "Dumpster Muffin." Right.
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I like the part where the protester's attorney said that the trees were possibly on the site of a Native American burial ground.
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