Even the Beatles have history with People’s Park
Yoko Ono and John Lennon at their first Bed-In for Peace in Amsterdam. Mark and Colleen Hayward/Redferns In May 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono made Berkeley history while lying …
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Berkeley’s People’s Park is already almost unrecognizable
The operation, which began in the early hours, marks the university’s most brazen attempt to move ahead with its plans to build housing for students, unhoused people and low-income people …
Protesters decry ‘maniacal fantasy’ to close People’s Park in Berkeley
Protester Atma Das (right) presses his body on a police barricade as a line of CHP Police stand behind a barricade to keep protesters away from People’s Park at the …
Oakland’s First Fridays announces temporary closure
FILE: Artists paint a wall at First Fridays in Oakland, Calif., March 1, 2013. Thomas Hawk via Flickr CC 2.0 The organization that runs First Fridays, Oakland’s most popular monthly street …
East Bay highway partially closed as police investigate shooting
File photo of an Oakland police car. MediaNews Group via Getty Images Oakland police arrested multiple suspects after an apparent police pursuit shut down roads Wednesday afternoon. Officers from the …