They can’t keep us out! While the University of California says they’ve been taking care of the Farm, we found it overgrown with weeds and delicious, organic, but unharvested food. We soon fixed that, and had a lot of fun in the process. See what you’ve been missing at the Farm and stand up to the corporate domination of our food supply that takes money out of your pockets. Music: [...]
*Occupy the Farm* The events are true, names have been changed to protect the innocent. Sunday, May 6th, I went to Gill Track Farm in Albany. Laura picked me up from B.A.R.T. with shovel and tiller in hand. We arrived, unpacked in the makeshift parking lot across from the Farm, and were greeted by Ally in the Information Booth. I began dialogue with two women by the same name, Rachelle [...]
On Earth Day, April 22, 2012, activists from around the Bay Area marched from a North Berkeley Park and into Gill Tract, a 10-acre plot of land owned by the Regents of the University of California. The University of California plans to develop the tract, which had previously been actively used for agriculture, but has been under utilized in recent years. This video, which features Billy Bragg’s rendition of “The [...]
22 April 2012 Albany, California Occupy the Farm, a coalition of local residents, farmers, students, researchers, and activists are planting over 15,000 seedlings at the Gill Tract, the last remaining 10 acres of Class I agricultural soil in the urbanized East Bay area. The Gill Tract is public land administered by the University of California, which plans to sell it to private developers. For decades the UC has thwarted [...]
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