Learning from the experts

I was kinda disappointed when I went away to college that I missed out on the Peo-ples' Park riots. College was a small art school in Oakland adjoining Berkeley. Peoples' Park was a vacant lot full of trash owned by the university and acquired through eminent domain (they stole it). Locals cleaned it up, removing derelict cars and demolition debris, planting flowers, trees and shrubs, and installing play-ground equipment. They claimed it as their own.