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People’s Park Mural

Posted on September 27, 2011 by admin

The words of Leon Rosselson’s The World Turned Upside Down painted on a colourful mural on the toilet walls in People’s Park, Berkeley.

People’s Park was the scene of a famous battle on 15 May 1969 when, on the orders of the University, the police seized the park and erected a chain link fence round it. Thousands demonstrated to take back the park. The police used tear gas and live bullets against the demonstrators. One man was killed and 128 hospitalised. Despite the attempts of the University to make it their exclusive property, the park still remains open to all.

 

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This is my letter to the Guardian which it refused to publish though it had well over 100 signatories:

"Since Gaza is uninhabitable, because Israel has made it so, and since most of Gaza’s citizens are refugees or the children of refugees, because Israel has made them so, the only just and humane solution is for them to be allowed to return to their homes in what was Palestine until Israel usurped it. Another Great March of Return, only this time without the violence inflicted on the marchers by Israeli snipers."

Leon Rosselson is a singer, songwriter and children's book author.
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