◼ Meet the New Farm, Same as the Old Farm? Occupy Seizes Berkeley’s “Gill Tract” ◼ Crossposted at PJM
...on Earth Day, the Occupy movement illegally took over an entire farm and transformed it into…a farm!
The farm they seized was not a working farm per se, but rather a “research farm” for the University of California, near its Berkeley campus. The only difference between the way the farm used to be (prior to a week ago) and the way it is now is that the Occupiers have transformed what was essentially a well-maintained and important open-air laboratory into a disheveled and ultimately purposeless pretend-farm for trustafarian dropouts....
...prior to the Occupation, this tract of land was used exclusively for agricultural research (and not establishing a grunge encampment), there’s actually less farming going on now than there was before.
