The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 NATURE / Plants / General Aguilar's photos defy the romanticized

Aguilar's photos defy the romanticized and melodramatic images by which Native people are often depicted

precise prose—handed forth as calmly and equitably as an ice cream cone

Within the sprawling metropolis of Los Angeles and its suburbs

This love letter to idiosyncrasy champions the revolutionary idea that we can build a vibrant community not by demanding conformity but by celebrating difference

whom Dalzell is careful to portray not as stereotypical “Berzerkeleyites” but as individuals who have found their true north of exuberant self-expression

The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 NATURE / Plants / General Aguilar's photos defy the romanticizedResplendent. A masterwork of history.Ron Jacobs, CounterpunchIn eyewitness testimonies and hundreds of remarkable photographs, The Battle for People's Park, Berkeley 1969 commemorates the fiftieth anniversary of one of the most searing conflicts that closed out the tumultuous 1960s: the Battle for People's Park. In April 1969, a few Berkeley activists planted the first tree on a University of California owned, abandoned city block on Telegraph Avenue.