Students and community members spoke Monday in protest of campus plans to build housing on People’s Park. Attendees met at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park before marching to UC Berkeley’s Capital Strategies office to oppose development on the park. Speakers discussed the history of the park, what they described as one-sided messaging from campus and the larger issue of gentrification. Dayton Andrews, a member of the United Front Against Displacement, said those who do not understand the history of People’s Park may be surprised to see the enthusiasm from community protestors against development. “It’s not just a park, it’s a 50-plus year legacy of popular struggle,” Andrews said during the event. “People’s Park was born of the anti-Vietnam War protests of the ‘60s. Students took the park as a space so they could actually organize, not just against their own oppression, but against all forms of oppression.”