Several hundred demonstrators gathered Friday lunchtime on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the newly inaugurated President of the United States.
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Berkeley prepares to resist the Trump agenda, protest the inauguration
We provide a travel guide to the movement, from the banging of pots and the Ghostlight Project through an anti-inauguration Blue Ball and three Women’s Marches.
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Arlie Hochschild: Looking for answers from Berkeley to the Bayou
Sociologist Arlie Hochschild ventured from Berkeley to ask people in Louisiana why they were voting against their best interests.
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Thousands of women knit pink pussy hats to wear at Trump protest marches
Celia McCarthy and Pamela McKinstry, co-owners of Piedmont Yarn in Oakland, show off the pussy hats they made. Their store will host a knit-in and will serve as a drop-off place to deliver hats to marchers in Washington D.C as well as the Bay Area. Photo: Celia McCarthy Almost every day for the past few […]
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Protests in Berkeley, Oakland over Trump election
A protester holds a “Not my president” sign after Donald Trump was elected Tuesday. Photo: Daniel McPartlan A protester holds a “Not my president” sign after Donald Trump was elected Tuesday. Photo: Daniel McPartlan Update, 10:45 p.m. About 150 people remain in downtown Oakland on Wednesday night after a huge protest earlier in the evening that included […]
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1,500 walk out of Berkeley High in election protest
At around 1:20 p.m. many student protesters were at the UC Berkeley Campanile, just as several hundred had been in the morning. Photo: Arielle Gordon-Rowe Update 1:45 p.m. The student protest on the UC Berkeley campus is disbanding. Update, 1:20 p.m. The group of protesters that marched through downtown has headed on to the UC Berkeley […]
