streetwise berkeley

I am not sure if Berkeley is as radical as one (read: I) like to think. According to Lye it has become very conservative and there are churches on each corner. That may also be product of history.
As we drove around passing the first Dog Park in the United States of America I saw this sign:It was made by a homeless man and you can find these signs in a vast radius around Berkeley/Oakland(/San Francisco?) area. He was arrested because he stencilled in broad daylight... people protested the arrest, and because he didn't have any money to pay they let him go (...). Nice work!

And Martin Luther King Jr Street is appropriately marked: