For more than 50 years, Berkeley residents have shown they care about developments overseas by lending assistance and money to grassroots movements.
Tom Miller
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Op-ed: Cuba commits funds to Berkeley ‘Sister City’ water project
In what might be an indication of warming relations and cooperation, the Cuban Government has committed over one million dollars in Cuban currency to a project designed by UC Berkeley river restoration experts to help restore Cuba’s longest river, the Cauto. The project will divert sewage from Berkeley’s “Sister City,” Palma Soriano, from polluting the […]
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Op-ed: Berkeley should be the first city in the US to host the ‘Anything to Say?’ public art project
On Nov. 3, 1964 Mario Savio stood in defiance of the establishment on the UC Berkeley campus and called out words now embedded in history: “There’s a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can’t take part; you can’t even passively take part. And […]
