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1969 People's Park
1media/Screen Shot 2021-12-01 at 3.27.21 PM_thumb.png2021-12-01T23:27:41+00:00Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a4913People’s Park (UC Berkeley) was born in a spirit of optimism in April and May 1969 after thousands of students, activists and community members transformed a university-owned muddy parking lot into an open, inviting green park. The builders of the park were determined to create a space controlled by the community, not by a conservative university that had a history of squelching free speech. The site has been a contested space ever since then.plain2021-12-03T19:34:10+00:0005/1969Gina Leonf0ac362b4453e23ee8a94b1a49fbeeafde2a0a49