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UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.
UC Berkeley and other authorities continue to clear People's Park and place giant shipping containers and stack them by twos to barricade the park on Thursday, Jan. 4, 2024 in Berkeley, CA.

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  • UC Berkeley is trying to build a new $312 million housing complex on the iconic People's Park.
  • But activists have delayed its plans for months, camping out on the site and tearing down a fence.
  • On Thursday, the university resorted to a wall of shipping containers to keep protestors out.

UC Berkeley's had to get creative when dealing with protestors trying to stop the university from building a new housing site.

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Education, Sustainability, uc-berkeley, peoples-park
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UC Berkeley is using a wall of shipping containers to block activists from the …