00:22:51 Cecile Pineda: Please put that address on the chat. Thank you. 00:25:20 Harvey Smith, Berkeley, CA: peoplesparkhxdist.org 00:25:46 Harvey Smith, Berkeley, CA: peoplesparkhxdist@gmail.com 00:30:08 Greg: Also, didn't about 30,000 people protest the authoritarian actions taken regarding the park? 00:33:51 Nhu Miller: What would be the best use of the park, or should it remain an open space for the homeless? 00:38:39 Ariane Eroy: It is important to recognize that the UC Board of Regents strategically employs these two methods before building on public land: 00:40:04 Ariane Eroy: 1) They employ the “Shock Doctrine”, stating that there is a housing emergency, and thus politicians can be convinced to build housing that seems good but merely benefits the few. 00:40:37 Ariane Eroy: Naomi Klein spoke about this when she wrote about disaster capitalism. 00:42:34 Ariane Eroy: 2). They degrade and verbally denigrate public land through relentless media products and projects purported by reactionary and bigoted Nativists, such that public lands be more readily discarded and developed. 00:49:06 Ariane Eroy: By razing not merely hundreds, but thousands of healthy trees, they not merely destroy the land itself, but the Public’s understanding of the value—and essential role— of these lands. People’s Park symbolizes the fact that the People’s Voice will be Heard, no matter what the force of elected officials, and governmental institutions employing clandestine interventions, acts of force or duplicity. 00:50:04 Tom Dalzell: Is not most of the logging out of eucalyptus being done on regional park lang and not university land? 00:54:46 Ariane Eroy: In San Francisco, activists have been fighting for the lives of our largest urban forest, Mount Sutro, for 4 decades. Mount Sutro is a dense cloud forest, that is 140 years old. Eucalyptus is drought-resistant, and can live to be 500 years old, if permitted to do so. But UCSF has partnered with Nativists, who use the same bigoted tropes that have been used against Native Americans and immigrants for hundreds of years: They claim that the Eucalyptus are “invasive” , “dirty”, “dangerous”, and worthy of being hated. But what is the Eucalyptus’s true crime? They live on highly coveted land. 00:57:14 Ariane Eroy: Mount Sutro Forest is located within the Parnassus Campus of UCSF. But UCSF has employed teams of lawyers, their marketing departments, and their relentlessly written anecdotal articles conditioning San Franciscans to discount, if not hate, Eucalyptus. Imagine teaching people to hate trees! 00:59:27 Isis: The destruction of eucalyptus is happening on East Bay Regional Park District land, as well as UC land in Berkeley and San Francisco, and in many other places around the state. UC has actively influenced this process with disinformation about the trees, as well as with resources. In the East Bay hills alone, half a million trees, most of them eucalyptus, were targeted by UC, the park district and the City of Oakland. The Coalition to Defend East Bay Hills has been fighting this deforestation for many years, including through the Hills Conservation Network's lawsuits. 01:01:40 Isis: To support the Hills Conservation Network's ongoing efforts to stop UC's deforestation, please donate to their legal fund at https://www.hillsconservationnetwork.org/donate 01:02:14 Maxina Ventura: The logging in the hills all is driven by UC. We’ve been working since Jan, 2005, to stop Oakland from starting to use pesticides in the hills where they had not for 9 years at that point. UC was pressing Oakland and EB Regional Park District to deforest and pesticide. We’ve been in EIR processes for a decade and one-half. In 2005, we had no idea the plan was to deforest the hills but were involved to resist pesticide use on what we then thought was about the occasional tree maybe one hanging over a heavily-traveled path. How innocient were we then. You can read some of the history at www.eastbaypesticidealert.org on our wildfire pages and the resistance to rolling back Oakland’s non-use on the hills lands they oversee. 01:03:06 Ariane Eroy: Behind all these actions are developers and speculators, employing disaster capitalism. 01:03:09 Maxina Ventura: You can get a lot more info on the webpage for the Coalition to Defend East Bay Forests and at HllsConservationNetwork.org 01:03:29 Maxina Ventura: Also SutroForest.com and SFForest.org 01:04:09 Isis: Coalition to Defend East Bay Forests: https://defendeastbayforests.wordpress.com/ 01:09:19 Rebecca (She/Her): Aidan, I heard you talking about how POC are impacted by the build on People's park due to environmental destruction. Could you elaborate more on that? 01:09:34 Aidan Hill (they/them): Yes absolutely. 01:11:30 Greg: I like Steve's idea of a petition. But it might be hard to go door-to-door (etc.) during the pandemic. So could the petition get started online? 01:13:11 Nhu Miller: I suggest tonight’s speakers draft a petition for the preservation of PP and present it to both UC Berkeley and the City. 01:14:00 Nhu Miller: The petition could be circulated through social media, Berkeleyside, etc 01:14:44 Nhu Miller: Others can help with press and publicity. 01:15:30 Signe's iPad: UC is seizing prime Ag space at UC Gill Tract Community Farm for 01:16:09 Nhu Miller: Aiden’s comments about the value of PP from a historical point of view were very good 01:16:49 Sheila Jordan: Social Media is a good place to get the word out. Letter to Berkleyside and the Planet...any of that being done? I haven't seen it. 01:17:27 Signe's iPad: public/private partnership grad student housing. 01:18:40 Isis: Neglect of student housing seismic issues: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-29/how-would-uc-berkeley-fare-in-a-big-earthquake-officials-looked-and-its-scary 01:18:54 Isis: and: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-29/ucla-uc-berkeley-risky-earthquake-building-list 01:20:11 Rebecca (She/Her): Yes!! Thank you for that well detailed and clear explanation. 01:20:23 Aidan Hill (they/them): <3 01:20:27 Maxina Ventura: https://bit.ly/Maxtalkingaboutfaucets 01:20:28 Ariane Eroy: In San Francisco, 37% of the homeless are African American men, although African Americans only make up 7% of the city’s population of 3.3. million. In the wealthiest country in the World, the Homeless stand in direct confrontation to our societies and politicians about our cities progressive nature. “There will be no peace without justice, no justice without sharing.” Maitreya, London 01:23:28 Ariane Eroy: I would like to voice my own comment, if this is truly an open meeting. But it is about the use of language. UCSF and developers employ the word “Open Space”—which is not a phrase that behooves us using, as it conveys that our public lands are “open” for development. In San Francisco, for instance, UCSF has misnamed our dense cloud forest, Mount Sutro, the Mount Sutro Open Space Reserve- so that they can re-create a new image of the public space in people’s mind. Such language is dangerous. So I would strongly urge Aidan and others not to use it. 01:23:31 Nhu Miller: Important to get a broad spectrum of petition signers, including people like Robert Haas, Elsberg, etc. (ps this is Tom Miller using Nhu’s computer) 01:24:59 Aidan Hill (they/them): @Ariane, that's a good point. Thank you for bringing it to my attention. I'm open to learning a new phrase to discuss space that is widely available and accessible to the public. 01:27:12 Ariane Eroy: “Open Space” is a term created by developers and speculators as a means to transform the Commons, first in the Public’s imagination, and then in the material world. UCSF strives to build 1250 apartments within San Francisco’s largest forest, and in addition, thin Mount Sutro by 71%. They only intend to preserve the acreage, not the forest itself. 01:28:35 Greg: UC alumni might also be key (besides Berkeley residents), regardless of where they live. If thousands of alumni sign an (online) petition saying that they oppose building on the park, I think UC will pay attention! 01:28:41 Isis: I call it our 'commons'. 01:30:18 Ariane Eroy: If the Republicans can obtain 3 million signatures to recall Governor Newsom —with Swarzenneger waiting in the wings—certainly circulating a petition is possible. 01:34:21 Maxina Ventura: To see the state of the bathrooms and UC’s ongoing neglect over decades: https://bit.ly/Maxtalkingaboutfaucets 01:35:57 Ariane Eroy: Yes, it is important to focus on Right Relations. 01:42:52 Ariane Eroy: A petition can be done on line through Move-on 01:43:23 Ariane Eroy: And this could be circulated nationally, if people were educated about the symbolism behind the Park, and its historic importance. 01:43:40 Rebecca (She/Her): Yes, or through change.org 01:43:53 Greg: Be sure to put that positive vision of the Park in the petition! 01:46:26 Ariane Eroy: The Homeless situation also needs to be addressed: The Homeless are our brothers and sisters. 01:47:11 J Copeland: I think in part you are fighting a PR battle, with the University and others painting the picture of the park as dangerous eyesore , that would be remedied by building a housing tower. You will need to engage the positive stakeholders and re-gain the narrative: the neighbourhood residents and students, who want a decent city park; the environmental activists, who want green spaces in general; the historic and academic crowd, who see the historic value of People’s Park; the business crowd, who will gain more from the historic/tourist draw than from a high-rise. Knock on doors, send e-mails, get a Twitter feed, use the media. Write to City Hall, appeal to old and new media… 01:47:16 Rebecca (She/Her): Thank you! 01:47:17 Maxina Ventura: peoplespark.org and FB and Instagram pages … Lisa 01:47:45 Maxina Ventura: Facebook/peoplesparkcommittee 01:48:00 Maxina Ventura: FB/Peoplesparkgarden