Progress has reportedly been made between several people sitting in trees on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley and campus authorities.The protestors have been up in arms over a plan to remove several trees on campus to make way for the construction of a new sports center.
The agreement states that the protestors will remove a line that was formed along Piedmont Avenue to the trees Wednesday morning in order to move bags of food to the tree-sitters. The tree-sitters will also leave a new tree that they took over earlier Wednesday. Those occupying the trees will also reportedly lower all the human waste they have been compiling and keep lowering it on a daily basis.
In what is a long agreement, the backers of the tree-sitters will halt attempts to re-supply them with food or storm the barricades the university placed around the trees, he said. In return, supporters gain approval on a daily basis to send up a bag of food that has been searched by university officials. University officials also agreed to give a 72-hour notice if they intend to either end the agreement or use force to remove the tree-sitters.
A UC Board of Regents committee approved building the sports training center in December of 2006. Earlier this week, a 2007 preliminary injunction that had temporarily halted the construction of the sports center was lifted.
A spokesman for UC Berkeley said a deal was reached Wednesday between university police and protestors on the building of a new sports center.
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