Photo: Nancy Rubin Around 100 people gathered on Monday evening at 7:00 p.m. near Monterey Market at the corner of Hopkins and California streets in North Berkeley to make known their opposition to a proposed air attack by the U.S. on Syria. The protesters organized a candlelit vigil via a MoveOn.org campaign. “Congress is likely to […]
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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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Peaceful Pacific Steel protest ends at West Berkeley plant
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Occupy Berkeley: the day after
Citizen reporter Robert Singer sent in this striking picture of Civic Center Park. It was taken today, a day after the Occupy Berkeley camp was dismantled. The patches of grass in the foreground are discolored from where tents sat. Police have said tents can stay up during the day, but are prohibited between 10 pm […]
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Bulk of Occupy Berkeley camp cleaned out
Public works workers remove a Christmas tree from the Occupy Berkeley encampment in Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, California, Thursday, December 22, 2011. Photo by David Yee Update 10:30 pm: By 10 pm Thursday there were no more tents in Civic Center Plaza. Protesters had left the park by then or […]
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Police Blotter: Occupy Berkeley
Dan Stone packs up his tent at the Occupy Berkeley encampment in case they are removed from Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park in Berkeley, California, late Wednesday, December 21, 2011. Photo: David Yee In the two months since Occupy Berkeley set up camp in Civic Center Park, Berkeley police have responded to 33 […]
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Police and Occupy Berkeley protesters clash in streets
Berkeley police and some Occupy Berkeley protesters clashed Thursday morning around 12:30 am as police tried to clear a path for a public works truck. Protesters rushed a public works truck that was parked in front of the Berkeley police department on Martin Luther King Way. Some of them jumped into the back of the […]
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Despite eviction notice, no raid on Occupy Berkeley
Craig Evans keeps watch as his wife sleeps in their tent. Photo: David Yee By Frances Dinkelspiel and Judith Scherr Under the threat of eviction, protesters at Occupy Berkeley took down about 40 tents in Civic Center Park Wednesday night, preparing for the raid that never came. As a 10 pm deadline to stop camping […]
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Mayor Bates: City ‘not interested’ in confrontation tonight
Crime, including a recent attempted rape, and health hazards have increased at Occupy Berkeley. Photo: Lance Knobel Mayor Tom Bates told Berkeleyside today that the City of Berkeley is determined to avoid the kinds of confrontations that occurred in Oakland and other cities where Occupy movement encampments were removed, despite a decision taken to shut […]
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Occupy Berkeley shutdown likely at 10 p.m. tonight
The scores of tents in the Occupy Berkeley encampment sit next door to Berkeley High School. Photo: Lance Knobel The Occupy Berkeley encampment, which has operated without interference since it was established in late October, looks likely to be ended tonight at 10 p.m. A warning was issued yesterday that the park closure law and […]
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Councilman: Zero tolerance on Occupy Berkeley
New proposal calls for a zero tolerance policy for Occupy Berkeley. Photo: Lance Knobel Councilmember Jesse Arreguín, whose 4th district includes Civic Center Park, today urged the city to adopt a health and safety plan for the Occupy Berkeley encampment. It calls for a zero tolerance policy on “all violations of the law and park […]
