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Cal has made its most decisive move in an eighteen-month standoff with the group of up to 11 environmental activists bunkered down (err, up) in the trees outside Memorial Stadium: Today, 40 police officers cordoned off the sidewalk on Piedemont Avenue, where arborists, a crane, and a cherry picker have been hauled in to literally cut the treesitters out of their aerial encampment. "We are removing gear and removing lines. We are not removing people," said a university spokesman in a dubious statement that prompts us to wonder where, exactly, the protesters have relocated to. Up, up, up! The surprise ambush comes a day before a Alameda County Superior Court judge rules to rule on a lawsuit filed by those protesters, city and a neighborhood groups against the University, which plans to raze the area in order to construct a new, $125 million sports training center. In a tactical maneuver designed to make said judge take their petition extra super seriously, protesters have taken to throwing human waste at the team of arborists charged with their removal. Savages!
· UC cutting tree-sitters' lines in grove outside Memorial Stadium [SF Gate]
· Will Break Bones for Trees [Curbed SF]
· Tree Huggers be damned [Curbed SF]
[Image courtesy the Chron]
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