With the passage of SB 160 on April 18, the UC Berkeley campus has been packed with people pointing fingers at their peers for the controversial decision. Even the Daily Cal has been going crazy about the vote, talking about how so-and-so was harassed by so-and-so and is now pointing Read More…
The ASUC Judicial Council lifted its gag order on a case regarding the settlement of charges against controversial Senate bill SB 160 on Tuesday. Read More…
What does the marginalization of a large and diverse coalition of students look like? It looks something like Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s statement that was recently released in response to SB 160, the ASUC bill that calls for targeted divestment from companies complicit in Israeli apartheid and illegal settlement. Birgeneau explained Read More…
The ASUC Judicial Council backtracked on its previous decision to approve a settlement of charges against controversial divestment bill SB 160 on Saturday. Read More…
Nothing like a scandalous political quid pro quo, complete with new information about an ideologically stained physical assault on Sproul alongside bylaw violation charges galore to awaken our senses. I give you, Divestment: Season 2. After this latest flood of melodrama, politicians in Washington, D.C., and Sacramento look like snoozers. Read More…
Let’s get this straight: Wednesday’s ASUC Senate meeting was not just about supporting human rights through targeted divestment. No one will refute the challenge faced by Palestinians living in Gaza and the West Bank, but there is another narrative that was conspicuously absent in the language of SB 160, “A Read More…
The ASUC Senate’s deeply misguided vote to divest UC funds from companies affiliated with the Israeli military is, in one sense, utterly irrelevant. Despite its best efforts, the coterie of far-left activists that dominates student politics rarely influences university policy — Chancellor Birgeneau helpfully reminded us that the regents’ investment portfolio will Read More…
Last Monday, after much dialogue and debate, the Organization of African Students unanimously decided to support the ASUC bill that calls for divestment from companies profiting from, or investing in, the occupation of the West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The decision to support divestment is a result Read More…
The ASUC Senate voted to table a bill that called for the ASUC to seek “investment opportunities that strengthen Israeli-Palestinian cooperation” at its meeting Wednesday night. Read More…
Holding Israeli flags and standing with locked arms, a group of students gathered at noon Thursday on Sather Gate to protest a recent ASUC bill pushing for Israeli military divestment. Read More…
