Albany: Occupy the Farm raided by police (Updated)

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http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_23231229

ALBANY -- About 20 Occupy the Farm protesters were rousted early Monday by University of California Berkeley police at the Gill Tract in Albany and told to leave or they would be arrested.

One activist was arrested in the 4 a.m. sweep, on charges of trespassing and resisting arrest after he refused to leave, according to KGO.

Over the weekend, more than 100 marched at the UC land near Marin and San Pablo avenues to protest plans to build a grocery store, planting crops that they plan to tend in the future.

On Monday morning, police allowed protesters, two at a time to retrieve tents, seedlings not yet planted, water barrels and farming equipment. Most were off the property and onto the sidewalk by 7 a.m.

(More at the link.)

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#OccupyTheFarm video of police putting a farmer in a chokehold #M13 via @PFailBlog
http://ustre.am/_2dAqJ:1uGJ #Occupy #OWS #OccupyOakland #YAL



ღ*тяιχιє*ღ ‏@triixiie79

police just took a girl away in a choke hold... why is it always girls that get bullied by cops.... (live at http://ustre.am/FOi7 )


Harris from the Post ‏@rousseau_ist

#OccupyTheFarm LIVE police Brutality ~ with a female in a choke-hold (live at http://ustre.am/FOi7 )



mary mad ‏@marymad

Police protect #occupythefarm fields from being tended.

https://twitter.com/marymad/status/333941591356088320/photo/1

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KGO Radio ‏@kgoradio

RT @jennalane: #occupythefarm protesters console one another as tractor plows their seedlings. UCPD standing guard.

https://twitter.com/jennalane/status/333985573838655488/photo/1