Occupy the Farm

From Emeryville to Berkeley, the Ohlone tribe, one of the dominant Native American tribe in the Bay Area, has protested development on what they believe to be sacred land. But according to Phenocia Bauerle, director of the Native American Student Development, they have yet to be federally recognized.

Two Occupy the Farm protesters were arrested and one cited and released Monday morning for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract, which is a university-owned site in Albany, California.

Two protesters from the agricultural advocacy group Occupy the Farm were arrested and cited for trespassing on a plot of land on the Gill Tract — a site of university-owned land in Albany — during a Thursday protest of the university’s plans to develop the land.

The day before Thanksgiving, a group of about 45 protesters gathered at Sprouts Farmers Market in Walnut Creek, a grocery store that plans to build a new branch as part of a development project on UC-owned land.

On Thursday, opponents of a land development project protested a state court ruling that would allow the project to advance.

In what may be the final legal hurdle in a long-running battle, a state court ruled in favor of a contentious land development project near the UC Gill Tract Community Farm in Albany earlier this month.

“Occupy the Farm,” a documentary chronicling the urban agricultural activist movement of the same name, premieres in Berkeley Friday.

An incoming student-parent at UC Berkeley, Cynthia Leimbach faced 48 days without food stamps, a holdup caused by her move from Orange County.

After months of controversy, students and administrators will sit down to discuss the campus’ plans regarding a parcel of land in Albany, although the campus does not intend on altering its original plans to develop the plot into retail markets and senior housing.