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UCSC Tree-Sitters Hold Their Perches

Posted Sep 11, 08 2:40 PM CDT in US 

(Newser) – UC Berkeley’s tree-sitters may have surrendered their perches earlier this week, but demonstrators at UC Santa Cruz are not ready to give up their redwood-saving fight. The activists, nearing the 1-year anniversary of their protest, suspect the university will cut down trees before classes begin in two weeks, but acknowledge they have no reason to believe so, the Santa Cruz Sentinel reports.

A tree-sitter spokeswoman said activists remain “on guard” for suspicious activity around the redwood grove where university officials plan to break ground on a biomedical facility and other buildings to accommodate 4,500 new students by 2010. UCSC has no immediate plans to remove the tree-sitters, whom a county judge ordered to leave. “We are holding our place,” insisted the spokeswoman.

Source Santa Cruz Sentinel

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Tree sitters raise their arms towards supporters while sitting atop a redwood tree on the campus of the University of California in Berkeley, Calif., Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2008.   (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez)
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Casey Shobe, known as "Crow" in the grove of oak trees he has inhabited for four months, descends the trees for supplies.   (AP Photo/Ben Margot)
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