In a moment of "Where Are They Now..."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/03/13/BAQ316F0PT.DTL&feed=rss.bayarea
QuoteAn Oakland man who was among the tree-sitters who fought to save a grove of oaks and redwoods next to UC Berkeley's Memorial Stadium was critically wounded in the West Bank today by an Israeli-fired tear-gas canister, officials and acquaintances said.
Tristan Anderson, 38, was injured during a protest over the separation barrier that Israel erected between it and the West Bank. An Israeli soldier fired the canister during a clash with protesters and hit Anderson in the head, said Ulrika Jenson of Sweden, an activist with the International Solidarity Movement.
Jenson, who saw the incident, said in a statement released by the group that "the Israeli soldiers were standing on the hill looking over us, firing tear-gas canisters straight into the crowd."
"Tristan was hit and fell to the ground," Jenson said. "He had a large hole in the front of his head. I tried to stop the bleeding, but he was bleeding heavily from the head, nose and mouth."
Anderson underwent brain surgery at Tel Hashomer hospital in Tel Aviv and was in the intensive care unit, Woody Berch, who works in civil-rights law in Israel, said after visiting the hospital.
Orly Levi, a hospital spokeswoman, told the Associated Press that Anderson's condition was "life-threatening."
Paul Larudee, co-founder of the Berkeley chapter of the International Solidarity Movement, said, "He's really touch-and-go. He's hanging from a thread."
Anderson's girlfriend Gabrielle Silverman, 25, was keeping a vigil at the hospital, group members said.
Anderson and Silverman were among those arrested during the 21-month-long tree-sitting protest at UC Berkeley over the university's plan to cut down a grove to build an athletic training center. The standoff ended in September and the university cut down the trees.
The couple went to Israel because they are "concerned about human-rights violations," Larudee said. "They are involved in defending human rights in many different places. They just felt compelled to do that in Palestine."
The protest took place in the West Bank town of Naalin, where Palestinians and international backers frequently gather to demonstrate against the barrier.
Israel says the barrier is necessary to keep Palestinian attackers from infiltrating into Israel. But Palestinians view it as a land grab because it juts into the West Bank at multiple points.
The military says the area where the protests take place is a closed military zone off-limits to demonstrations.[/quote[
Couldn't have happened to a nicer asshole.
lol
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:31:08 PM
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
He's not dead yet. :contract:
Quote from: garbon on March 13, 2009, 06:33:26 PM
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:31:08 PM
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
He's not dead yet. :contract:
Well if he survives a "large hole in the front of his head", more power to him :D
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:39:22 PM
Well if he survives a "large hole in the front of his head", more power to him :D
There's a photo of him in that link (all bloody and on a stretcher). I wonder where the hole actually is.
That's a shame. :D
He never used to be me. Stop misrepresentin' dude >:(
Quote from: garbon on March 13, 2009, 06:04:30 PM
Woody Berch
At least the trees remember their own.
Anyway, I hope he survives. I lived right next to Memorial Stadium when they were supposed to start construction, and that would have been frickin' loud.
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 13, 2009, 10:29:52 PM
Anyway, I hope he survives. I lived right next to Memorial Stadium when they were supposed to start construction, and that would have been frickin' loud.
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Who are you? You went to Berkeley?
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 13, 2009, 11:33:51 PM
Quote from: Grinning_Colossus on March 13, 2009, 10:29:52 PM
Anyway, I hope he survives. I lived right next to Memorial Stadium when they were supposed to start construction, and that would have been frickin' loud.
???
Who are you? You went to Berkeley?
Great. Another person who went to Camp Couldn't Hack It At Stanford.
Better watch out Israel, this might have roused the Ents from their long slumber and convinced them to go to war... :o
Quote from: garbon on March 13, 2009, 11:40:02 PM
Great. Another person who went to Camp Couldn't Hack It At Stanford.
:D
Kinda true in a way. Met lots of people who applied to Stanford and didn't get in. Not as many the other way around. Though once in Cal I think is much more hard core with grades than just about any school in the country.
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 13, 2009, 11:51:16 PM
:D
Kinda true in a way. Met lots of people who applied to Stanford and didn't get in. Not as many the other way around. Though once in Cal I think is much more hard core with grades than just about any school in the country.
Yes, it's the constant refrain of Stanford students when we think about our rival in the bay.
so why is this funny? old growth trees suck and he smells?
Quote from: DisturbedPervert on March 13, 2009, 11:33:51 PM
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Who are you? You went to Berkeley?
Yep, right after I got out of the slammer. I was still hooked on smack at the time, and I made my home in the bushes next to Bancroft Steps. Lots of pretty girls made their way through there. I got most of my food from the International House dumpster, which is why I say I lived there. Good eats.
... For some reason, most people seem just as surprised when I tell them, but yeah, I'm class of '08. :) I was Testy on the old forum - posted about 3 times a year.
Quote from: saskganesh on March 13, 2009, 11:54:23 PM
so why is this funny? old growth trees suck and he smells?
He's pro-Palestianian, and a tree-hugger. One or the other of those is gonna rub a lot of people the wrong way.
Cool dude. Lived in Unit 1 and then on College Ave most of the time, and for a bit near Telegraph. Never tried the I House dumpsters, but they used to have some nice parties. And the cafe used to serve booze without ID. ;D
I lived in Unit 1 my first year, too -- in Slottman, one of the new neo-brutalist buildings with the rectangles sticking out of them -- then I moved up to Panoramic, right across from the stadium.
When I was in unit 1, I was in Freeborn...which fucking sucked.
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:31:08 PM
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
The trees
are terrorists. :-X
And people say I am a predictable poster. I could have predicted all the responses in this thread before even opening it.
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2009, 04:46:50 AM
And people say I am a predictable poster. I could have predicted all the responses in this thread before even opening it.
Okay, what was I going to say?
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2009, 02:57:29 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:31:08 PM
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
The trees are terrorists. :-X
get a grip. wood is really not that dangerous.
Quote from: saskganesh on March 14, 2009, 07:54:16 AM
Quote from: Syt on March 14, 2009, 02:57:29 AM
Quote from: derspiess on March 13, 2009, 06:31:08 PM
Both the trees and the terrorists lost a good friend :(
The trees are terrorists. :-X
get a grip. wood is really not that dangerous.
Tell that to the South African lesbians.
Quote from: Martinus on March 14, 2009, 04:46:50 AM
And people say I am a predictable poster. I could have predicted all the responses in this thread before even opening it.
You predicted that Testy went to Berkeley, despite the fact that we don't really know much about him?
You know, you're a terrible lawyer, but a first-rate psychic.
I had a post planned in this thread but I'm waiting for Marty to predict what it is. He'll probably just say "there's no way to predict you and then insult me". :( That sounds like something that jerkweed would do.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 15, 2009, 07:00:14 AM
I had a post planned in this thread but I'm waiting for Marty to predict what it is. He'll probably just say "there's no way to predict you and then insult me". :( That sounds like something that jerkweed would do.
He knew you were going to post that. :)
Quote from: dps on March 15, 2009, 09:47:20 AMHe knew you were going to post that. :)
And his tears can cure cancer. It's a shame he never cries.
Oh, sorry, wrong hullabaloo. :(
Oh well what I was going to post wasn't that clever to begin with.
Quote from: Razgovory on March 15, 2009, 09:44:50 PM
Oh well what I was going to post wasn't that clever to begin with.
Heck, all of us knew that. We didn't need Marty to tell us. :)