Groups behind Berkeley protest encampments call for the movement to spread across the state

BERKELEY — After spreading their footprint in Berkeley, the groups behind multiple protest encampments in the city are encouraging others across California and the nation to use the same form of ci…

Advocates with Where Do We Go? Set up a third unhoused encampment at Fourth Street and Bancroft Way after they were moved out of the Civic Center Park in Berkeley, Calif., on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2024.

Following that decision, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order directing state agencies to clear encampments “with urgency and dignity” and threatened to withhold funding from local jurisdictions that failed to comply. He then announcedapproved a new policy allowing staff to sweep encampments “This is also a call to action for the rest of California, the rest of the West Coast, the rest of the United States to take action, to join us in establishing these guerrilla encampments, to join us in resisting, to join us in fighting to change what is happening here, because if we don’t fight now, we may never get the chance again,” Morales said.

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