Added: Feb 5, 2010
From: dogmanscreek1
Duration: 3:53
Here it is Colleen! This is the Project proposal For Anthro136J I Really hope this video get's stamped with the time I started the upload (the time now is 4:53PM Friday 2/5/2010. I'm still in the classroom, but the upload time is taking over 20 minutes! Please don't count it late, and of course Enjoy! •Peoples Park is just off Telegraph Avenue. Although it served as a place of political activism, debate, and rallying for the anti-war and anti-segregationist movements of the 1960s, the current state of the park seems to be a sanctuary for the masses of homeless people who congregate there. •This was something of interest and Id like to get involved in this topic because it seems as though the park has lost most of its former glory. Certainly there are still community events and youll see students using basketball courts, but the parks mythology and its lore as a social activism site seems long gone. That sketchy park as it is known colloquially is a far cry from the original status and Im interested in figuring out how locals and non-locals, the campus faculty, and various sides of the activist debate feel about peoples park. More importantly though, how have the recent protests on campus regarding the budget crisis stirred up some once familiar sentiments about authority and community activism? •The message of the story is not to vilify the homeless or glorify the past. Rather, it is to understand how the park began is transformation from one era to the next through research and interviews with the people involved with the activism in the past, as well as the current denizens of the present. •Students of UC Berkeley and the resident living around the park would be interested and hopefully take part in this documentary because it involves their community as well as their history. The bonds of the past are present in the present, many of us walk by that place and see only one version of the park: a park full of dirty homeless people, a place to be avoided. •What prompted me to investigate this story was seeing the wooden performance stage in Peoples Park that read Peoples Park on the front, and Whos Park? on the side. Now this seems to be a word play of sorts, but the origin of the Whos Park? scrawl is a mystery and Im curious about the possible meaning. Should we read, whos park is it? The peoples of course, or should we read. Peoples ParkWHOs Park is it actually? •Ive seen a couple of student films on the subject of peoples park but nothing that has addressed what I want to address regarding the ambiguity of the message on the stage. Also, Ive been speaking to my friend who made a film about the homeless at PP for Campus Movie Fest last semester and Ill be using that for some reference. •In order to tell the story effectively, Ill be using a time machine approach that was outlined in the Lambert reading where we have a present state of a location is discussed (IE, Jonestown) and then Ill revisit Peoples Park in the past in order to see its transformation from activist locality to just a regular park. The narrative will be told with a variety of techniques including interviews, voiceovers, and filmed archival footage from other documentaries if possible. The usage of relevant period (1960s) music may apply as well. -Michael From Anth 136j UC Berkeley
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