UC sues Occupy farmers for Albany takeover

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Source: San Francisco Chronicle

A standoff between UC Berkeley and Occupy activists who planted renegade crops on university land is headed from the farm to the courts.

The University of California Board of Regents filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 14 protesters, claiming they and others conspired to cut through chains that secured gates and trespass onto the Gill Tract, a patch of land along bustling San Pablo Avenue in Albany.

The activists, who call themselves Occupy the Farm, moved onto the tract April 22. They are pressuring the university to preserve part of the tract, which has been the subject of development debates for years, for agricultural study and urban farming.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/05/09/BABF1OFNUS.DTL

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1. For background:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-holt-gimenez/occupy-the-farm-democracy_1_b_1494968.html

http://takebackthetract.com/index.php/17-general-content/52-gill-tract-farmers-collective-responds-to-uc-ultimatum

To sum: big money of corporate profit against food and health. The people fighting this good fight are fighting the battle that really counts: reoccupy farming land and commons and build a sustainable future.