Unforgettable Change: 1960s: People’s Park Fights UC Land Use Policy; One Dead, Thousands Tear Gassed
Click image to zoom in.Or view larger version. Park Here Any Time. 1969. Unknown artist. Poster. Collection of Oakland Museum of California, All of Us or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
This simple street poster with a fist and a tree is about People’s Park, and parodies conventional city parking signage. Rather than actually defining vehicular parking rules, it encourages the viewer to physically occupy “liberated” land, identified with iconic graphics for both militancy and nature.