The encampment in Civic Center Park includes food tents as well as rudimentary lean-tos. Photos: Lance Knobel Update, 2:58 pm: The Berkeley Police Department has issued a list of calls for police services at the Occupy Berkeley camp. There have been a total of 24 reported calls since October 23rd, 16 of which can be […]
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Berkeley High concerned about Civic Park Occupy camp
The Occupy Berkeley encampment at Civic Center Park has grown over the past few weeks. Photo: Arturo Snuze Berkeley High School Principal Pasquale Scuderi says supervising BHS students during the lunch hour and after school has become more challenging for the school with the growth of the Occupy Berkeley tent-city in Civic Center Park. In […]
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Occupy Berkeley remains, experiment is proving fragile
Around 40 tents are now pitched in Civic Center Park as part of the Occupy Berkeley encampment. Photos: Judith Scherr By Judith Scherr While Occupy encampments across the nation are being forcibly disbanded, be it in Oakland, Manhattan or right here on the Cal campus, the tent-city in Berkeley’s Civic Center Park, which was established in […]
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Occupy Oakland and Cal march in Berkeley, to campus
Occupy marchers on Shattuck Avenue in Berkeley today. Photo: Queena Kim Hundreds of Occupy demonstrators marched through Berkeley this afternoon, as Occupy Oakland protestors joined with Occupy Cal demonstrators to walk down Bancroft Way, then on a path that took them past Berkeley City College and Berkeley High School. The marchers arrived on the Cal campus […]
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Protesters vote to set up Occupy Cal camp at UC Berkeley
Protestors met for a general assembly at around 1:45 pm today at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus. Photos: Tracey Taylor Update, 7:52pm: Video footage of police beating protesters at today’s Occupy Cal demonstrations has emerged. The following video was uploaded to YouTube by Miles Mathews [Hat-tip: Bruce Love]: Update, 4:36 pm: Protesters have […]
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Occupy Berkeley consolidates camp, supports Oakland
Site of Occupy Berkeley protest at the corner of Shattuck and Center Streets. Photo: Michael Roberts The group of Occupy Berkeley protesters who had made their base the space in front of Bank of America on Shattuck and Center Streets has left that location to join the Occupy Berkeley encampment at MLK Park, according to […]
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Berkeley police lent support to Oakland police at Occupy Oakland demonstration
Occupy Oakland demonstrations on Tuesday October 25. Photo: Queena Kim/The Bay Citizen The Berkeley Police Department sent fifteen officers to the Occupy Oakland demonstration Tuesday evening to support the Oakland Police in its efforts to break up the protests. “The Oakland Police Department (OPD) requested mutual aid through the Alameda County Mutual Aid Coordinator, who in […]
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Berkeley joins 900 cities to condemn corporate greed
Around 300 people marched through downtown Berkeley Saturday as part of the worldwide Occupy movement. All photos: Judith Scherr By Judith Scherr Update, 10.16.11: A video of the October 15th Occupy march in Berkeley has been added at the foot of this story. It was created by Digital Asphalt/East Bay Media Center/Paul Kealoha Blake. ……………………………………. Some […]
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Wall Street protests come to Berkeley
By Judith Scherr A movement to fight corporate power that began with Occupy Wall Street reached Berkeley Saturday with some 200 people converging around noon outside the downtown Bank of America to plan an October 15 “occupation” of a site in Berkeley. Students piling up debt, retirees on fixed income, homeless people, the unemployed and […]
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Anti-torture protest on Cal Law’s commencement day
Anti-torture protestor aims her message at UC Berkeley professor John Yoo. Photo: Bob Patterson A small anti-torture protest took place today, Friday, at the entrance to UC Berkeley’s Law School on its commencement day. The protestors’ message was targeted at Cal law professor John Yoo.
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On Day of Action, protesters on campus, Bank of America
About 12 people gathered at 1pm to protest outside Bank of America on Telegraph. Photo: Lance Knobel. Groups of students have been gathering on the UC Berkeley campus today to voice their opposition to education budget cuts, in what is being billed a Day of Action for Public Education. The Daily Californian reported that at […]
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UC students hold ‘die-in’ to support Egyptian protesters
Dozens of UC Berkeley students held a rally and “die-in” on Sproul Plaza today to offer their support to the millions protesting in Egypt. “This is to commemorate the people who died because of our aid to Egypt,” said Nuha Massri, a senior, told the crowd. She mentioned that the the U.S. gives Egypt $1.5 […]
