Free Speech Free Trees Student Coalition
Why?
I’m climbing the fence because....
“…it’s time to walk the talk.” - Laili Falatoonzedah
“…Native sites need to be respected and the commons restored.”
“…the trees in the oak grove deserve to live and our voices deserve to be heard.”
– Miranda Redmond
“…we must imagine old trees and new sports facility centers coexisting.”
“…the oak grove is sacred to me and thousands of others. I love the grove.”
– Matthew Taylor, peace and conflict studies
“…I’m against the elimination of common space and the dangerous growth of the police state.”
- Jonathan Huang
“…I’ve grown to love this space, to study, meet people, and commune with nature. I want this grove to live because I love life.”
“…the fence is segregating and alienating, it violates my constitutional freedoms, and the oaks deserve to be preserved. I support Cal football. Go bears!”
- Kevin Barnum, Political Economies of Industrialized Societies
“…I love trees.”
“…I need these trees. We all need these trees.”
“…the UC is a government organization and they are denying people their basic rights to food, water, sleep, and peaceful assembly.”
“…I support the rights of indigenous people.”
(A few comments made by members of the Free Speech Free Trees Student Coalition the night before they climbed the fence surrounding the Memorial Oak Grove near UC Berkeley’s California Memorial Stadium.)