Coastal cleanup day is Saturday Sept. 20 — a chance to help keep our local coastal areas beautiful. Photo: Clean Water Program COASTAL CLEAN UP DAY On Saturday Sept. 20 citizens throughout Alameda County will join volunteers worldwide for the 29th annual Coastal Cleanup Day. Last year the international event drew close to 650,000 participants in 92 countries, who […]
Free Speech Movement
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There ain’t no one Berkeley: ‘Daylighting’ a city on stage
Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement started 50 years ago. The central characters in a new Shotgun Players production bookend the turbulent times of the FSM. Photo: Courtesy of Bancroft Library Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement started 50 years ago. The central characters in a new Shotgun Players production bookend the turbulent times of the FSM. Photo: Courtesy of Bancroft […]
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The FBI’s secret war against Berkeley
In his book Subversives, Seth Rosenfeld details how Hoover’s FBI feared Communists were controlling the Free Speech Movement and sought to sabotage it. Photo: UC Berkeley Libraries Seth Rosenfeld’s book on the FBI and UC Berkeley, a culmination of 30 years of work, has been out for just a week, but its revelations are already […]
