By Jane Stillwater The Berkeley Barb used to be my hometown’s most famous “newspaper of record” and we also had another hometown rag called Grassroots. However both these papers have been out of print for more than 40 years and now most of our local Berkeley newspapers have gone digital — except for Grassroots, which […]
Politics
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Comment: Does anyone else have protest fatigue?
When I heard the news on Wednesday that: 1) The organization World Can’t Wait will be picketing the Berkeley Law School graduation at the Greek Theater on Friday to protest the presence of John Yoo on the faculty; 2) State Senator Gloria Romero won’t be attending the Latino students’ graduation to protest the fact that […]
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Berkeley grads detained in Iran may get visitors
The mothers of the three UC Berkeley graduates who have been detained in Iran since July will soon be able to visit their children. The Iranian foreign minister announced on Iranian television Monday that the mothers of Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal would soon be issued visas to travel to the country. The […]
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Berkeley home of liberal rabbi vandalized
Rabbi Michael Lerner The north Berkeley home of the editor of the liberal Jewish magazine Tikkun was vandalized early Monday morning after the magazine announced it would present an award to Judge Richard Goldstone, the controversial South African magistrate who oversaw a report that accused Israel of human rights violations during its winter 2009 incursion […]
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Berkeley senate: We will not boycott Israel
ASUC Senators spent another lengthy night (and morning) debating whether to override President Will Smelko’s veto of a bill calling for divestment in Israel. After hours of talk (again), there were not enough votes to overturn it. But the vote was close, with 13 senators in favor of overriding the veto, 5 opposed, and one […]
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What happened with that call for UC divestment from Israel?
Figuring out the problems in the Middle East is a lot of work. Students in the ASUC Senate are figuring that out. Despite two marathon sessions discussing whether to overturn the veto of a bill that called for divestment of companies doing business in Israel, nothing has been decided. That seems just like the Middle […]
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Berkeley in the White House
The White House yesterday released a list of 45 art works that the president and first lady have borrowed to decorate the Obamas’ private residence and the East and West Wings. Among the works is Richard Diebenkorn’s “Berkeley, No. 52”, painted in 1955, and part of the collection of the National Gallery of Art. Diebenkorn […]
