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When it did, the university allowed some former residents of the park and regular visitors like Brookins, who were also experiencing homelessness, to move to the Quality Inn.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With the university’s lease of the hotel expiring at the end of June, Brookins and around two dozen other residents who moved from People’s Park may soon be forced to split up, further splintering a group of people who had become accustomed to the park serving as a place to find both camaraderie and resources.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park did a lot for me,” Brookins said. “I hate that they closed the park. They messed up a good thing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988722\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988722\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-012-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Security officers guard People’s Park in Berkeley on June 1, 2024. UC Berkeley, which owns the site, closed the park in January and placed shipping containers around the perimeter to prevent entry as it waited to begin construction. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like many who frequented the park, his relationship with the space was an informal one; he wasn’t a resident there but a frequent visitor. Volunteers say that’s what made the space so critical: For decades, it served as a historic landmark, open green space and gathering place for unhoused and housed residents alike to get a free meal, a fresh set of donated clothing, medical care, or even just some respite. But concerns over crime and recreational drug use at the park, along with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">the lack of accessible student housing\u003c/a> around UC Berkeley’s campus, led to disputes over the space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier this month, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11989237/uc-berkeley-can-start-building-on-peoples-park-california-supreme-court-rules\">California Supreme Court ruled\u003c/a> that UC Berkeley could proceed with a \u003ca href=\"https://berkeleyca.gov/sites/default/files/documents/2021-04-13%20Special%20Item%2001%20University%20of%20California%20Berkeley.pdf\">plan to construct\u003c/a> a 1,100-bed dormitory at the park for students, along with 125 apartments for low-income residents — marking the end of the legal battle that capped a contentious, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history\">more than half-century-long fight\u003c/a> over the park’s fate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many of the park’s visitors, including unhoused people like Brookins, volunteers, activists and neighbors, the ruling marks a turning point as each group comes to terms with the closure and seeks different ways to adapt.[aside label=\"more people's park coverage\" tag=\"peoples-park\"]At a press conference following the decision, Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín said it was important for the university to honor the park’s history while still moving forward with its plan to build housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“History should not stop us from progress,” he said. “And the reality is that the current state of People’s Park — with rampant crime, widespread homelessness — is unacceptable.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Brookins has been unhoused on and off for at least three years. He said he didn’t sleep at the park regularly, preferring instead to spend some nights in shelters and other nights moving between cities within the Bay Area. But he often visited the open space when looking for a place to rest or to get free food, clothing and other resources that local nonprofits provided there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The park’s closure has made distributing those services a lot harder, said Enrique Marisol, a volunteer who helped provide harm reduction and mutual aid services to park residents and visitors. Marisol said they, along with other volunteers, tried to look for a new location to move their operations — at Sproul Plaza and the “chess corner,” at the intersection of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street, where people gather to play informal games — but got stymied by UC and city of Berkeley police, who told them they had to move their operations elsewhere.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers have settled on a small triangular strip of open space at the intersection of Dwight and Telegraph avenues — unofficially known as the Peace and Freedom Memorial Park — but Marisol said they continue to face police interference there, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There is literally nowhere for everyone in our neighborhood to go,” Marisol said. “There’s not a space where people can feel safe to gather and discuss community issues and work on community issues without being watched.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Berkeley Police Department spokesperson Byron White said in an email that the city does not allow loitering at the triangle park, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.berkeleyside.org/2024/01/19/with-peoples-park-walled-off-its-community-keeps-mutual-aid-alive-on-telegraph\">the city downgraded to a median\u003c/a> about five years ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While there is no increase in police presence for the area, the officers that regularly patrol the area have warned people that they are not permitted to loiter there,” wrote White, who also noted that the nearby “chess corner” involves private property.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley police did not immediately respond to requests for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In April, volunteers, community members and former park residents met at the triangle park to celebrate the 55th anniversary of People’s Park. Activists and city residents first took over the barren lot that would become People’s Park in 1969, planting trees and painting murals to transform it into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history\">community space\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Teague, a local volunteer and community activist, said the group planted seeds to mark the park’s anniversary and commemorate its legacy. But the triangle park — a small plot of concrete on city-owned land between the intersections of several busy streets — is a far cry from the open space previously provided by People’s Park, despite efforts by volunteers to beautify the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said people are still trying to find other ways to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need extra space — spaces that you inhabit when you’re not at home and spaces where you just hang out,” she said. “The loss of that is really difficult, especially for people who have been hanging out for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988723\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People on a street provide food and other aid to others. A man sits eating on the sidewalk. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members provide food to unhoused residents in Berkeley on June 1, 2024, at a small open space near People’s Park, which UC Berkeley closed in January. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For other neighbors and residents, People’s Park has long played a pivotal role in Black history and activism — even inspiring Marvin Gaye’s iconic anti-war anthem, “What’s Going On,” which was written in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/People-s-Park-Bloody-Thursday-50-years-later-13845759.php\">a bloody clash in 1969\u003c/a> between protestors and police that led to the death of a 25-year-old bystander named James Rector. Some fear that the park’s closure puts the preservation of this history at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park is a historic location of Black organizing in the Bay Area, and that is an important reason why it needs to endure as an open space to gather, to remember and celebrate that history,” said Whitney Sparks, a longtime neighbor of the park. “It’s not about housing. It’s always been about silencing movements for civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof acknowledged the historical significance of People’s Park. He said the university plans to highlight the park’s important history by installing commemorative plaques and murals in collaboration with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the unhoused residents who relied on the park for services, Mogulof said the university collaborated with the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley and the nonprofit Village of Love to provide community members with a \u003ca href=\"https://thevillageoflove.org/drop-in-center\">new daytime gathering center\u003c/a>. There, visitors are provided with amenities, including showers, restrooms and mental and physical health services, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we closed the park, the university committed — and made good on the commitment — that we would not close the park unless and until we could provide those who have been gathering in the park with an alternative gathering place during the day,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof noted that \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">60% of the site will remain open green space\u003c/a>, while 40% will be developed into housing. There’s no exact date yet for when construction will start, but Mogulof said it would likely begin sometime this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To secure the site for construction, the university in January installed shipping containers stacked more than 17 feet high around the full perimeter of the park, blocking public access to the space after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921415/protesters-block-construction-at-berkeleys-peoples-park-after-standoff-with-police\">previous demonstrations there\u003c/a> had resulted in damage to construction equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988721\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign says 'No Trespassing'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No Trespassing’ sign is displayed on a shipping container at People’s Park in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teague said her home used to look out onto trees, grass and people playing basketball. Since the park’s closure in January, it’s just been shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shipping containers kind of bring down the neighborhood,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the closure of People’s Park at the beginning of the year, UC Berkeley leased the Quality Inn and partnered with the local nonprofit Dorothy Day House to turn the motel into transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbi Montoya, executive director of Dorothy Day, said plans are in place to help former park residents relocate to one of the organization’s other shelters and its transitional housing sites while staffers continue working with residents to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The permanent supportive housing way can be hard on people,” Montoya said, noting it can take anywhere from six months to a year to find someone a permanent home. In the meantime, her group has worked to help move former park residents into transitional housing, a task that she said has been no small feat. “We look at them as big successes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, Brookins plans on moving to another motel managed by Dorothy Day House. But in the long term, he hopes to find permanent housing in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley did a lot for me, and it’s still doing a lot for me,” Brookins said. “It’s a place to stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Activists and city residents first took over the barren lot that would become People’s Park in 1969, planting trees and painting murals to transform it into a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971915/peoples-park-fight-pits-housing-against-history\">community space\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lisa Teague, a local volunteer and community activist, said the group planted seeds to mark the park’s anniversary and commemorate its legacy. But the triangle park — a small plot of concrete on city-owned land between the intersections of several busy streets — is a far cry from the open space previously provided by People’s Park, despite efforts by volunteers to beautify the area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said people are still trying to find other ways to come together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You need extra space — spaces that you inhabit when you’re not at home and spaces where you just hang out,” she said. “The loss of that is really difficult, especially for people who have been hanging out for years.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988723\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988723\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"People on a street provide food and other aid to others. A man sits eating on the sidewalk. \" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-026-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Community members provide food to unhoused residents in Berkeley on June 1, 2024, at a small open space near People’s Park, which UC Berkeley closed in January. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For other neighbors and residents, People’s Park has long played a pivotal role in Black history and activism — even inspiring Marvin Gaye’s iconic anti-war anthem, “What’s Going On,” which was written in response to \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/chronicle_vault/article/People-s-Park-Bloody-Thursday-50-years-later-13845759.php\">a bloody clash in 1969\u003c/a> between protestors and police that led to the death of a 25-year-old bystander named James Rector. Some fear that the park’s closure puts the preservation of this history at risk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People’s Park is a historic location of Black organizing in the Bay Area, and that is an important reason why it needs to endure as an open space to gather, to remember and celebrate that history,” said Whitney Sparks, a longtime neighbor of the park. “It’s not about housing. It’s always been about silencing movements for civil rights.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an interview with KQED, UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof acknowledged the historical significance of People’s Park. He said the university plans to highlight the park’s important history by installing commemorative plaques and murals in collaboration with the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for the unhoused residents who relied on the park for services, Mogulof said the university collaborated with the First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley and the nonprofit Village of Love to provide community members with a \u003ca href=\"https://thevillageoflove.org/drop-in-center\">new daytime gathering center\u003c/a>. There, visitors are provided with amenities, including showers, restrooms and mental and physical health services, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Before we closed the park, the university committed — and made good on the commitment — that we would not close the park unless and until we could provide those who have been gathering in the park with an alternative gathering place during the day,” Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mogulof noted that \u003ca href=\"https://peoplesparkhousing.berkeley.edu/\">60% of the site will remain open green space\u003c/a>, while 40% will be developed into housing. There’s no exact date yet for when construction will start, but Mogulof said it would likely begin sometime this summer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To secure the site for construction, the university in January installed shipping containers stacked more than 17 feet high around the full perimeter of the park, blocking public access to the space after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11921415/protesters-block-construction-at-berkeleys-peoples-park-after-standoff-with-police\">previous demonstrations there\u003c/a> had resulted in damage to construction equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11988721\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11988721\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A sign says 'No Trespassing'\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/06/20240601-PEOPLESPARK-JY-001-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A ‘No Trespassing’ sign is displayed on a shipping container at People’s Park in Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Juliana Yamada/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Teague said her home used to look out onto trees, grass and people playing basketball. Since the park’s closure in January, it’s just been shipping containers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The shipping containers kind of bring down the neighborhood,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before the closure of People’s Park at the beginning of the year, UC Berkeley leased the Quality Inn and partnered with the local nonprofit Dorothy Day House to turn the motel into transitional housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Robbi Montoya, executive director of Dorothy Day, said plans are in place to help former park residents relocate to one of the organization’s other shelters and its transitional housing sites while staffers continue working with residents to find permanent housing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The permanent supportive housing way can be hard on people,” Montoya said, noting it can take anywhere from six months to a year to find someone a permanent home. In the meantime, her group has worked to help move former park residents into transitional housing, a task that she said has been no small feat. “We look at them as big successes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the short term, Brookins plans on moving to another motel managed by Dorothy Day House. But in the long term, he hopes to find permanent housing in Berkeley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Berkeley did a lot for me, and it’s still doing a lot for me,” Brookins said. “It’s a place to stay.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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All that is being ignored.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Speaking to reporters from his Berkeley office Friday, Mayor Jesse \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arreguín \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">acknowledged the park’s more than half-century-long role as a center for political activism and community building. But, he said, “H\u003c/span>istory should not stop us from progress\u003ci>.”\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We face these huge challenges as a city, as a region, as a state, of rampant homelessness and housing affordability,” he said. “And I think that the city of Berkeley and the university need to do something to address those those challenges, too.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The neighborhood groups had sought to make a novel case under state environmental law, arguing that noise generated by the future student residents would be a form of pollution, requiring UC Berkeley to study the impacts on neighbors. Although noise is considered pollution under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), it had previously been used exclusively in arguments against concert venues or industrial sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2023, an appellate court agreed with the groups and ruled that the university had to study the noise from future residents and its impact on neighbors, as well as consider alternative sites for the proposed development at People’s Park and housing built elsewhere on campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Supreme Court ruled that none of Make UC A Good Neighbor’s claims about social noise had merit and reversed the Court of Appeal’s judgment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We decline to consider Good Neighbor’s alternative locations argument with respect to potential future housing projects,” the opinion read. “In short, as all parties have effectively acknowledged, this lawsuit poses no obstacle to the development of the People’s Park housing project.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11981358,news_11971915,news_11971858 label='related coverage']In the face of the state’s and UC Berkeley’s student housing crisis, many California legislators had sought alternative ways to protect the university’s campus expansion plan. Assemblymember Buffy Wicks (D-Berkeley) \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11959483/legislation-that-could-push-peoples-park-student-housing-project-forward-heads-to-newsom\">penned AB 1307\u003c/a>, a bill specifically tailored to this project. It amended CEQA so developers don’t have to consider noise generated by future residents as having a “significant effect on the environment” and allowed public universities not to have to consider alternative locations for projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That bill was quickly signed into law and effectively cleared the way for the People’s Park development, but it left the door open on whether UC Berkeley would have to study noise impacts and consider alternative sites for other housing projects in its Long Range Development Plan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling closed that door, stating that “the new law applies to both the People’s Park housing project and the development plan.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Arreguín, who is \u003ca href=\"https://oaklandside.org/2024/03/06/state-senate-results-district-7-berkeley-oakland/\">running for a state Senate seat\u003c/a>, lauded the ruling, calling the lower court’s decision “misguided” and “not based in fact or law.”\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Imagine how that could be weaponized by NIMBYs throughout California to stop affordable housing, to stop permanent supportive housing and stop student housing?” he said. “Thankfully, that will no longer be a barrier for this project or any project in California.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Historically, courts have taken a more expansive view of CEQA seeking to protect the environment, according to UC Davis land-use law professor Chris Elmendorf. This ruling suggests a shift in perspective.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The California Supreme Court is interpreting CEQA in light of current legislative sentiments rather than in light of judicial sentiments from the 1970s,” Elmendorf said. “The court is sort of trying to make CEQA responsive to present-day needs, as expressed by the political branches of government, rather than carrying forward a vision of CEQA that was first advanced in the courts in the 1970s.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The university currently provides the lowest amount of student housing within the UC system: about 22% of its more than 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students have access to university-provided housing. 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A dozen private security guards roamed the perimeter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Signs hung by the protesters and graffiti on the building read “Free Gaza” and “Avenge Al Shifa,” referring to Gaza’s Al-Shifa Hospital, whose destruction has \u003ca href=\"https://www.who.int/news/item/06-04-2024-six-months-of-war-leave-al-shifa-hospital-in-ruins--who-mission-reports\">“broken the backbone” of the region’s ailing health system\u003c/a>, according to the World Health Organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters allege 18% of the university’s $32 billion California endowment is “invested in assets that support Israeli occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Photos of graffiti inside the building equating Zionism to Nazism and the Star of David to a swastika were shared online by the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area, which \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/SFJCRC/status/1790938003831136720\">said it was “deeply disturbed.”\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986579\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986579\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/E08245BF-C0B5-4CAF-A719-C712141E530F_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Barricades and flags surround Anna Head Alumnae Hall in Berkeley on May 16, 2024, an abandoned UC Berkeley building near People’s Park that is occupied by pro-Palestinian activists. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>According to Mogulof, the occupation was not initiated by the coalition that the university agreed with Tuesday to end the weeks-long encampment on campus. “Some portion” of the protesters occupying the building “appear to be students,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley Graduate Students for Justice in Palestine, a protest group, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C7BSv4oOyBL/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&img_index=4\">pushed back against the university’s support of a police response\u003c/a> to the occupation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Let it be clear: the administration CAN NOT and MUST NOT respond to the protesters occupying Hind’s House with police violence,” the group wrote on Instagram, using a new moniker for the building from protesters. “Sanctioning police brutality will only entrench UC Berkeley further in their genocidal complicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11986580\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11986580\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/591D962C-935F-4A8E-8E07-25A7D95B5467_qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A message says, “This is 4 Hind” on a window at Anna Head Alumnae Hall in Berkeley on May 16, 2024, an abandoned UC Berkeley building near People’s Park that is occupied by pro-Palestinian activists. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group critiqued Mogulof in particular, saying he is trying to divide pro-Palestinian advocates.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We reject the ‘good protester’ vs ‘bad protester’ and ‘inside’ vs ‘outside’ dichotomy,” the group wrote. “We are united in this movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The occupation of Anna Head Alumnae Hall comes as protesters continue pressuring academic institutions in California. 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"content": "\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian activists at UC Berkeley ended their weekslong encampment on the campus’ central plaza following last week’s commencement ceremonies and a letter from the university detailing steps it had agreed to take based on protesters’ demands.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ria Raniwala, the executive news editor of the Daily Californian, told KQED that as of Wednesday morning, all that remains on Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza is a large sign reading “Off to Merced,” where Berkeley activists are gathering with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11986194/pro-palestinian-protesters-stay-put-on-ucsf-campus-a-day-after-initial-police-sweep\">other UC campus coalitions\u003c/a> to protest as the Board of Regents meets there this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University Chancellor Carol T. Christ said she was greatly relieved to “bring this protest to a peaceful end.” The camp was set up on April 22 to put pressure on the university to divest from companies with ties to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ agreed to take steps to review the campus’ investments and develop a transparent process for assessing whether any of its global exchange and internship programs are out of step with the UC’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, according to \u003ca href=\"https://chancellor.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/encampment_letter_051424.pdf\">a letter Christ sent Tuesday\u003c/a> to the Free Palestine Encampment detailing the agreement between the university and encampment representatives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ said in her letter that the campus is committed to ensuring investments are aligned with the UN Principles of Responsible Investments and will be “investigating the alignment of UC Berkeley’s investments with our institution’s core values,” including respect for equality, human rights, and abhorrence of war, although she noted that the University of California Office of the President has stated that “divestment from companies on the basis of whether or not they do business with or in Israel is not supported.” She also said that the decision to sell direct investments is decided by the UC regents, not the university chancellor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We realized a lot of the power lies with the regents. A lot of this … is not as local as UC Berkeley,” Yousuf, a student organizer who gave only his first name for fear of retaliation, told KQED. “These tents are going down, but, you know, people are going to be here — today, tomorrow, the next day after that, and next semester especially.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As regents hold their bimonthly meetings at UC Merced — including committees related to investment and finance — activists are setting up a joint encampment on the campus, according to Raniwala.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of these tents have packed up and gone to Merced,” Raniwala told KQED. “The California regents have been meeting there yesterday, today and tomorrow to discuss investments, academic policy, and a lot of other things, and I guess the protests across UC campuses plan to congregate there.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11986194,news_11985856,news_11985245\"]Another of the UC Berkeley encampment’s demands was an academic boycott of Israel, which Christ said she did not support. However, the university agreed to review its global exchange and internship programs to ensure they are not violating the UC’s Anti-Discrimination Policy, Christ said in her letter, adding that any programs found in violation will be remedied or terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Future programs will also be evaluated on a continuing basis, and the campus will develop a transparent process for reviewing complaints about academic programs by December. Christ said the UCB Divest Coalition and the Academic Senate Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Campus Climate will be invited to participate in the development of this process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ also said she would make a public statement “by the end of the month sharing my personal support for government officials’ efforts to secure an immediate and permanent cease-fire. Such support for the plight of Palestinians, including protest, should not be conflated with hatred or antisemitism.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While other universities have called in police or \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11984762/ucs-campus-safety-plan-under-fire-as-violence-breaks-out-at-ucla-protest\">seen violence at similar protests\u003c/a>, Berkeley’s camp has been largely peaceful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UC Office of the President, meanwhile, confirmed that the building in Oakland was damaged by vandalism on Saturday and was working with law enforcement to investigate. According to \u003ca href=\"https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2024/05/14/18866217.php\">an anonymous post on Indybay.org\u003c/a>, a Bay Area independent media collective, people acting “in solidarity with the Palestinian Resistance” said they smashed seven windows, used a fire extinguisher to spray red paint on the building and released hundreds of cockroaches inside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Matthew Green of KQED News contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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I earned a master’s in creative writing from Mills College.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I mention all of this to second what Mora told me: The ability for students to see themselves reflected in faculty and course material isn’t the be-all and end-all, but it can lead to meaningful, life-altering connections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What I really admire about Mora is that she is focused on changing how Latino students experience higher education in ways that benefit non-Latino students and faculty, too. Still, revamping any longstanding, powerful institution is challenging and daunting. I asked what keeps her going.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t have an option but to keep pushing,” Mora said. “I’ve had the chance to move to the East Coast or become a professor at an elite private school. I choose to stay here, and many of my colleagues choose to stay here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We stay here because we believe in teaching the students here. We believe in the future of California. 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