REPORTS OF TREES TAKING THE STREETS, 2001:



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On Mon, 8 Jan 2001, Jym Dyer wrote:
 
> =v= This was great.  32 people showed up by my count.  Whee!
> 
> > 1st Annual Bicycle Xmas Tree Drag 'N' Compost!
 
> Ever the eco-biker, I snagged some trees that were definitely not
> headed for mulching (people are throwing 'em into dumpsters!), and got
> to Noriega and The Mediocre Highway in the nick of time.
 
 
As those of you who have seen the solemn "From the Files of the
FBI" episode, "Revolt of the Christmas Trees" will know, the Christmas
Tree Insurrection continues in Berkeley, California.
 
Recent highlights include a very large tree climbing out of a dumpster
downtown to proudly stand in the center of a much-trafficked street at the
entrance to a bleeping honking flashing gaping hole of misery (multi-level
parking garage).  Motormorons cowered and clumbered around like cows and
that's why they should be called Cowrs rather than Cars from now on.  
However, an Angry Man worker emerged from a hotel and muscled the tree
back into a dumpster before taking a chain saw to it.
 
Trees have taken intersections all over Berkeley, especially in the
centers of major arterials.
 
There is an all-trees bulletin for cut and cast trees to join bicyclists
this Friday, January 12, 2001, for a rag-tag drag around town during
BERKELEY CRITICAL MASS.
 
Gather 5:30 PM at the downtown Berkeley BART, to depart after 6:00 PM.
 
From SF, you can take your bicycle on AC Transit, the Caltrans Bike
Shuttle, the Ferry, sneak onto BART during the blackout, bike the bridge,
or take BART early before the blackout.
 
 http://www.bclu.org/couch/
 
--Jason


 
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A lovely day on Telegraph Avenue, many a smile to see a stout little tree
so upright in mid-January.  Bright-eyed and bushy tailed!  Reminded me of a
dolphin.  Just sitting out there on the central man-hole cover as the
cars all slowed and acted apoplectic around it.  Once in a while some 
tightiebootie would go out grumbling and take the tree to the curb, 
sometimes violently.  Cries would erupt from the crowd, "Fascist!" and
"Asphalt Asshole!" etc.  The tree started its protest tree-in at
Channing Way but when an employee of the corporatist Rasputin's came
out and tugged the darling to the gutter the tree made its way with
its supporters south to Haste near more friendly waters (the independent
delight, Amoeba Records).

At one point the police even came by to take the tree from its rightful
spot at intersection's center, but the tree made its uncompromising move
back to its spot as soon as they puttered away in their belchmobile.

Many a smile in an otherwise dreary world erupted, all because of this
poetic and touching form of resistance to a world gone mad.



(3)

Hey y'all, way to go!

   thankye thankye thankye
 
     i did see a tree at Ashby and Claremont Ave

         it was a sight for sore eyes



(4)

that's what I call a traffic calming tree!




(5)

that was so cool, I was waiting at a bus stop and this crazy
guy came walking down the sidewalk 
only you could jus see his leg s because he had this huge tree
it was the funniest thing we all laughed but the biggest surprise
was and when the light changed he
went right out into the middle of the intersection and plopped
it threr, are there a lot of these people?

no one moved the tree for like fifteen minutes and it was still
there when we got on the shcool bus

then I saw a poster for the webstie taht's how



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