Somerville. Berkeley is seen as a magnet for radical social politics. The university of berkeley has battled over protesters over cals developing plans. The most ferocious of those protests began 45 years ago when a violent demonstration over uc plans for a small plot of land left one person dead and dozens of others injured. In 2000, rob roth had this look back at the events that put peoples park on the map. Reporter perhaps things you notice in people parking in berkeley these days is how quiet it is. All seems peaceful much the way peoples park began 31 years ago. In april of 1969 with the anti Vietnam War Movement in full throttle hundreds of uc Berkeley Students responded to an ad in the underground newspaper the berkeley ard. They asked for people to make a park out of the parking lot. But the University Said it planned to use this space for a sports field, ordered the people at the park out and put up a no trespassing sign. Reporter in 1969 he was captain of the Berkeley Police
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