Over 100 community activists occupied and farmed a portion of UC-owned research land in Albany this weekend in the latest iteration of the Occupy the Farm movement. Read More…
I’m being selfish when I say that UC Berkeley needs to go back to its roots. As a member of the Student Organic Gardening Association, a facilitator of our organic gardening DeCal and a student deeply passionate about food systems and sustainable agriculture, I can clearly see how little stock Read More…
Members from Occupy the Farm and Albany Farm Alliance held a community forum Wednesday evening to discuss the current state of the Gill Tract and plans for future mobilization. Read More…
The original Occupy movement reimagined how people engaged with a space that represented an elite group that became a symbol of capitalism gone wrong. However, Occupy the Farm — a grassroots movement that began in April to protest development around UC-owned land in Albany — lacks the same ideological strength. Read More…
The Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities touted the benefits of public education and called for increases in state appropriations for higher education in a report released Tuesday. Read More…
Dozens of advocates of community urban farming took over the university’s Gill Tract on Earth Day, April 22, establishing a camp and planting about two acres of vegetable crops. Their goal is to prevent development of this five-acre piece of land that represents one the few remaining agricultural spaces with Read More…
A study co-authored by UC Berkeley researchers found that women who are exposed to more air pollution while pregnant have an increased risk of giving birth to underweight babies. Read More…
Acting under the direction of campus administrators, UC Berkeley officials cleared crops Friday planted by Occupy the Farm protesters at UC-owned research land in Albany. Read More…
Occupy the Farm protesters held a community meeting Wednesday at UC Berkeley to outline a vision for the future of the Gill Tract. Read More…
I lived with an engineer last year, and while I never envied her late-night sessions solving problem sets or 8 a.m. hikes across campus to a lab on Northside, she and her fellow rocket scientists did hold a distinct advantage: Her undergraduate adviser knew her name. Not only did she have Read More…
