1969 · Los Angeles
by Ropkin, Bob
Los Angeles: Coalition Occupation Communications, 1969. 1p, 8.5 x 11 inches, mild yellowing, creasing and edgewear else good. Printed leaflet announcing the occupation of the UCLA Administration Building and the demonstrators' demands in the wake of the People's Park demonstrations in Berkeley. People's Park was a plot of land owned by the University of California which was seized by UC Berkeley students and Berkeley citizens as a park in April 1969. On May 15, 1969, local and state police attempted to fence off the park and destroyed the plantings and other improvements. When protesters resisted the changes, one man was murdered and another blinded. Reagan sent in the National Guard. which occupied the UCB campus and the City of Berkeley. (Inventory #: 165744)