Publisher's Synopsis
"A color collection of cartoons created for and about People's Park highlighting its history, gardens, cast of characters, and its strangely comedic 50-plus year struggle against the University of California's efforts to convert it into sports courts, housing, anything but what it is; a community-built, user-developed garden that played a role in stopping the Vietnam War. Carol Denney was born in East Los Angeles, attended UC Berkeley in 1972, and used People's Park by her Davidson Hall dorm room to study, play music, garden, and work with the activists who created the first university-accredited native plant garden open to the community. She started the satirical Pepper Spray Times thirty years ago to help highlight local and national political issues and worked several years as a songwriter and cast member of TwitWit Radio for KPFA in Berkeley. She became a cartoonist after Donald Trump's election in 2016, chronicling the overwhelming
