Steve Berkeley does not own this land.
They do not own this land.
Even the farmer who owned this land before him
did not own this land.
The people, we, the people, own this land.
All of us. We, the people, own this land.
And it's up to us to hold this government accountable
for all the things that they've done to all of us.
Each and every day.
Stand up like that!
What are we doing?
Stand up like that!
We want to, you know, protect the soil and this community resource.
This public land grant university is not serving its role to the people
and so we're here to, you know, reclaim it for our communities,
for the East Bay as a resource for everyone to grow food,
to learn how to grow food.
They let people come and make comments at their meeting
and then they proceed with plans to develop the land for private interests.
And all the while, the research on the land itself
has been going more and more towards corporate interests.
UCS demonstrates the history of mismanagement.
Chopping it up and selling it off!
Chopping it up and selling it off!
The UC is not a capable or trustworthy steward for this land.
The UC is not capable or trustworthy steward for this land.
We will see it preserved through a form of commons.
In the morning, a bunch of police came.
I woke up to them announcing that they're not here to arrest us.
They're closing the Jackson Street entrance
and if you interfere with this, you'll be subject to chemical
and projectile weapons and arrest.
Whole Foods plans to be here,
but there's a lot of community resistance to it
because it's such a traffic area anyways.
It would just build up more traffic.
There's public land for public farming,
so we're just keeping it what it was meant for.
This is the Ohlone People Land.
Now you look over here,
this street sign over here even says,
it's Ohlone Way.
One of the problems that the Ohlone Nation is facing today
is they're not federally recognized,
meaning that the Bureau of Indian Affairs,
fully Indians around,
does not recognize them as human beings.
Therefore, they do not have their jurisdiction here
as far as their ancestral lands.
Now my name is Quona Parker Brightman.
I'm Vice President of the United Native Americans.
We were involved in the takeover of Alcatraz,
Moondini, couple long walks across country.
We led a group on time that took over Mount Rushmore,
reclaimed it, my nation, the Lakota Nation.
This is still our ancestral lands through treaty rights.
We signed 389 treaties,
and we lost over a billion acres of land.
One billion acres of land.
Now, when you think about what we're going through today,
as far as us, as the human race,
you know, it really sickens me
that our children are growing up
and they're eating this genetically altered food
thanks to Masato.
You know, speaking about them,
they genetically alter all of our food,
and you think about the poisons that's going on in our water,
the poisoning of our earth.
The 18 days that I have been here have been amazing.
There is so much beauty in what is going on here.
We will see it preserved through a form of condoms.
This is a collective farm.
It's an integrated system.
Not individual gardens or personal plots.
But a communal effort.
We have a horizontal decision-making process.
That takes our principals into account.
So those putting in the work
can decide how to farm the land
and how to distribute the food.
The camp culture
is committed to hard work
being inclusive
family friendly
and respectful of the neighbors.
All of us around the world should be practicing this.
Everywhere we should have community gardens.
Every backyard, every place around the globe,
we should be getting off the grid.
We need to stop going over the safeway.
We need to stop going to railies.
We need to stop going to all these places
that genetically alter our foods.
We need to shut them down.
And we need to start building more of these communities
everywhere around the world.
All of God's children coming together
to decolonize the world.
Thank you so much.
Thank you so much.
