East Bay Bike Party at Cesar Chavez Park at the Berkeley Marina in 2012. Photo: Matt Werner Two local lads — Matt Werner, a Cal English grad who now works at Google, and Joe Sciarrillo who is studying for his masters at Cal — have published a book that embraces many of the Bay Area’s […]
Occupy Cal
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DA serves stay-away order on Occupy Cal protesters
A number of people charged in connection with Occupy Cal protests on Nov. 9 2011 were today served with a stay-away order, according to Assistant District Attorney Teresa Drenick. Drenick confirmed that protesters being arraigned in Alameda County Superior Court today were given an order that they stay away from all UC property, except when going […]
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Criminal charges filed against four Occupy Cal protesters
A November 9, 2011 Occupy Cal rally — before the confrontation with police. Photo: Tracey Taylor Three UC Berkeley students and one professor have been charged with resisting arrest and other charges in connection with their participation in a Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest. Professor Celeste Langan, who became well-known after a video was posted […]
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Occupy protesters set up new tent camp at UC Berkeley
Tents on the steps of Sproul Hall at UC Berkeley. Photo: Frances Dinkelspiel The wet weather did not deter a group of protesters from setting up a new Occupy Cal tent settlement on the steps of Sproul Hall, on the UC Berkeley campus. The group set up five tents on Thursday Feb. 9 to commemorate […]
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City looks to tackle noise issue from news helicopters
It's been a news-heavy few months in Berkeley recently with an unusually high number of media helicopters taking to the skies The city government will consider taking action on the issue of the noise pollution caused by news helicopters with councilmember Jesse Arreguín (district 4) bringing an item to the consent calendar at Tuesday’s City Council meeting […]
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UC Police hit back on protest violence with open letter
The UC Berkeley Police Officers’ Association says it was not their decision to engage campus protesters on November 9th, claim some of their tactics, which have been widely criticized, were responses to violent protesters, and call out the Cal administration for not standing by the police after asking them to enforce its policies. The UCB Police […]
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Chancellor apologizes for Occupy Cal police response
Chancellor Robert Birgeneau Chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued an apology today for police tactics during Occupy Cal protests on November 9 on campus. In a recording made while en route to spending Thanksgiving with his children and grandchildren on the East Coast, Birgeneau said he took full responsibility for the events that day and would do “his […]
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Poet writes about Occupy Cal, protesters plan next steps
Robert Hass: the Cal professor joined Occupy Cal protesters on campus recently and was beaten by police. Photo: Copyright 2005 Margaretta K. Mitchell Robert Hass, professor of poetry and poetics at UC Berkeley, attended Occupy Cal this month and wrote about his experience in an op-ed piece for the New York Times on Sunday titled “Poet-Bashing […]
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At Occupy Cal: Let books take the place of banned tents
The police may have forcibly evicted slumberers and their tents set up Wednesday night by Occupy Cal protesters on campus, but never let it be said that Berkeley students aren’t creative. Replacing the tents we have — fittingly enough for a storied institution of learning — books, or rather books made to look like tents. […]
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UC police dismantle tent city on steps of Sproul Hall
UP Police dressed in riot gear dismantled the small tent encampment on the steps of Sproul Hall around 3:30 am Thursday.
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After night of camping, weary Cal protesters settle in
The mood at the new Occupy Cal encampment was calm Wednesday morning. Photos: Frances Dinkelspiel A few dozen bleary eyed protestors who spent Tuesday night camped on the steps of Sproul Hall vowed Wednesday morning to stay in UC Berkeley’s main square as long as possible, even though UC Berkeley police announced numerous times Wednesday […]
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Cal students vote to set up Occupy camp on campus
General assembly of Occupy Cal protesters on Sproul Plaza on Tuesday evening. Photo: Tracey Taylor At the Occupy Cal general assembly held Tuesday night on the UC Berkeley campus, protesters voted to set up an encampment in the style of the Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Oakland tent-cities both of which have been forcibly dismantled […]