We hate to beat a dead horse (or a dead cause, as the case may be) but so long as people keep doing new stupid things, we’ll keep writing about them. As luck would have it, Friday was the culmination of a week’s worth of stup–er–Code Pink! (By the way, we officially recognize that we, like “The Daily Show“, are taking kind of a cheap shot here, but cut us some slack–we don’t have a whole country’s worth of idiocy to work with.)

Not even Jon Stewart could stop this indomitable bunch, and in honor of the fifth anniversary of the beginning of the war in Iraq they stepped up their game and set up a “green zone” outside the Marine recruiting center. Code Pink camped out last Sunday and bombarded the oppressors with Yoga, pot luck lunches, house plants, and eco-documentaries with what we’re assuming was eco-friendly popcorn. And yet, somehow, they still managed to get themselves arrested before the week was up.

On Friday afternoon, after a little scuffle with the Po Po, two women were cited for crossing the line and having themselves a little impromptu sit-in. Like “Degrassi,” they went there, and were taken downtown for apparently blocking foot traffic. Now that’s blind dedication to a dubious cause the likes of which we haven’t seen since Michael Schuck–well, minus his whole “avoid arrest at all costs” bit, anyway. But hey, no harm no foul, right?

Image Source: Patrici Flores
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Code Pink protests Berkeley Marines, Iraq War [SFGate]
Two Arrested in Protest at Marine Recruiting Center [Daily Cal]
Earlier: And Just Like That, He’s Gone

UC Berkeley treated our resident Cal parakeet, “Fresh,” to quite a spectacle yesterday–and we’re not talking about the performers for Pilipino Cultural Night who were practicing a heartfelt rendition of Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road” on Dwinelle Plaza, directly across from his perch.

No, Fresh had a gang of angry supporters by his police-lined fences on Sunday afternoon. Among the riled up company was our favorite all-purpose protester, Zachary RunningWolf–tricked out in his usual impeccably-selected anti-American t-shirt.

The Clog happened to be there when the grandmother-pushing and subsequent nonsensical yelling began. “White males kill their mothers!” declared one angry woman, repeatedly, after police forcefully prevented an elderly woman from giving Fresh a little nourishment.

One guy eventually snagged a heroically symbolic arrest after throwing a chain of water bottles to the Wheeler Hall treewok.

One of the bottles fell, however. A cop promptly picked it up and emptied it in silent revenge. Cue the cries of “YOU BASTARD!”

And then it got boring.

Apparently, RunningWolf was also there to protest against the university’s ownership of Native-American remains. Yes, at a tree sit. We don’t even know what tree-people are protesting anymore. Development? The lack of affirmative action? The last season of “The Wire”? Pick a cause, any cause– ’cause every protest has an element of anti-everything: anti-cops, anti-democratization, anti-shower.

Such is the multi-purpose nature of a tree-sit–in Berkeley, at least.

Image Source: Patrici Flores
Earlier: News from the Tree Front: ‘Fresh’ Makes Like a Cat and Scrambles

Last week, police issued a warning, telling the community to be on the lookout for a suspect or suspects in connection to two different incidents of assault that happened on the Southside in the last month.

The sketch on the left is of the suspect police are looking for in the Hillegass Avenue case. The sketch on the right is for the man police are looking for in the Haste Street incident.

If you have any information, police ask you to call either Berkeley police at 510-981-5900 or UCPD at 510-642-6760.

Image Source: Berkeley Police Department
Earlier: Police Issue Warning After Recent Assaults
Sketches Released In Berkeley Sexual Assault Cases [NBC11.com]

The suspect in both cases is described as a black man in his late 20s to early 30s, approximately 6 feet tall, with medium shoulder-length dreadlocks.

If you have any information, police ask you to call either Berkeley police at 510-981-5900 or UCPD at 510-642-6760.

Recent Assaults on Southside Lead Police to Issue Warning [Daily Cal]
2 women raped near UC Berkeley within the past month [SF Gate]