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This pin issued and sold circa 1969 in Berkeley California to raise funds and support for maintaining the People's Park at the University, at Berkeley. The 1969 confrontation grew out of the counterculture of the 1960s. The People's Park protest, also known as Bloody Thursday, took place at People's Park on May 15, 1969.
The Berkeley Police Department and other officers clashed with protestors over the site of the park, using deadly force. Ronald Reagan, then-governor of California, eventually sent in the state National Guard to quell the protests.
The pin displays a clenched fist and reads: DEFEND THE PARK
BACKGROUND
On April 13, 1969, local merchants and residents decided to develop a vacant, unused lot owned by the Berkeley campus into a public park, a "Power to the People's Park". Construction started on April 20 and continued for weeks.
However, on April 28, Berkeley vice chancellor Earl Cheit announced that the university planned to build a soccer field on the site, though he promised he would notify park supporters before construction. On May 13, Berkeley chancellor Roger Heyns announced that the university would soon erect a fence around the park to begin construction.
In the early morning of Thursday, May 15, 1969, local police cleared the park, arresting three people who refused to leave. University work crews arrived later, destroyed many of the changes that had been made to the park, and erected an 8-foot -tall perimeter chain-link wire fence around the site. The action came at the request of Berkeley mayor Wallace J. S. Johnson. It became the impetus for the "most violent confrontation in the university's history".
This pinback button pin or badge relates to Counterculture Movement, be it hippie or hippy, in the psychedelic Sixties (1960's) or to political and social causes such as peace, protest, civil rights, radical, socialist, communist, anarchist, union labor strikes, drugs, marijuana, pot, weed, lsd, acid, sds, iww, anti draft, anti war, anti rotc, welfare rights, poverty, equal rights, integration, gay, lesbian, women's rights, black panthers, black power, left wing, liberal, progressive.