If there weren't protesters and civil disobedience.
UC Berkeley is planning to build a new athletic center. It released an environmental impact statement in October 2006. In response to a lawsuit opposing the plans, Superior Court Judge Barbara J. Miller issued an injunction preventing the university from proceeding with its plans.
UC Berkeley is planning to build a new athletic center. It released an environmental impact statement in October 2006. In response to a lawsuit opposing the plans, Superior Court Judge Barbara J. Miller issued an injunction preventing the university from proceeding with its plans.
On Tuesday, however, Judge Miller said the university had "submitted competent evidence" that the center would "not result in safety risks."The injunction will now expire next Tuesday. But of course, it won't stop there. Opponents of the project have been living in a grove of oak trees at the site. The University erected a 10-foot high fence to prevent others from joining them in 2007. But yesterday
[T]he tree sitters managed to connect a new support cable between their perch and a tree about 200 feet away, allowing supplies and new protesters to reach the oak grove. On Wednesday afternoon protesters climbed across the new cable, dangling some 50 feet in the air as Berkeley police officers blocked access to the tree outside the fence.
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