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May 21, 2012

Occupiers Take to the Farm

by Azeen Ghorayshi, Mother Jones, USA- Early Monday morning, around 100 University of California police raided a five-acre patch of land owned by UC Berkeley and used occasionally for agricultural research. The raid came three weeks after roughly 200 activists, community members, and students took over a small patch of the land, known as the "Gill Tract," located in the small city of Albany, just north of Berkeley.

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