Posted in Education, Environment, Police on Jan 10th, 2008
On January 10th, a tree-sitter on Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz dangled a lime green shopping bag from a platform high up in a redwood, presumably with the desire of receiving food, dry clothing and other supplies for occupying the crown of a coastal redwood during a stormy winter. UC police officers stood [...]
Posted in Education, Environment on Jan 9th, 2008
A tree-sit on Science Hill at UC Santa Cruz is entering its third month since it began on November 7th, 2007, as a protest against UCSC’s 2005 Long Range Development Plan (LRDP). The tree-sit has opened up a social space, both below and beyond the trees, for students and community members to visualize their [...]
Posted in Animal Rights, Education, Environment on Dec 25th, 2007
In 2003, the Princeton Review ranked UC Santa Cruz as having the ‘most beautiful campus’ in the nation. This year’s rankings are in and UCSC placed 8th in the ‘most beautiful campus’ category for “The Best 366 Colleges: 2008 Edition.”
Since November 7th, 2007, Coast Redwood trees on UCSC’s Science Hill have been bases of [...]
Posted in Animal Rights, Education, Environment on Dec 21st, 2007
On December 21st, security guards at the Physical Sciences Building diligently watched over the parking lot on Science Hill where tree-sitters have been occupying Coast Redwoods since November 7th in protest of UCSC’s Long Range Development Plan. Someone up in the cluster of trees dubbed “Tree 1″ confirmed what Grrr reported in a comment [...]
Posted in Animal Rights, Audio, Education, Environment, Police on Nov 7th, 2007
UCSC Students Launch Tree-Sit at Site of Controversial Biomedical Sciences Building
Early in the morning of Wednesday, November 7th, activists opposed to UC Santa Cruz’s Long Range Development Plan (LRDP) launched a tree-sit in redwoods near Science Hill. UCSC plans to develop the occupied site into a new Biomedical Sciences Facility.
One person was arrested by [...]
