On behalf of 29 plaintiffs, BAMN has filed a $15 million lawsuit against UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, other administrators and police for excessive force, false arrest and violating the First Amendment on Nov. 9, 2011. We obtained thousands of pages of administrators’ internal emails through the Public Records Act Read More…
Thursday, protesters will attempt to rekindle the spirit generated by the Occupy Cal movement on campus last fall with a new set of demonstrations. Set to coincide with the third day of the UC Board of Regents meeting and the day campus professor Robert Reich spoke to thousands on Sproul Plaza Read More…
Protesters set up tents on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza Friday, exactly one year after an encampment last fall ultimately resulted in campus police using batons on protesters. Read More…
The ends don’t always justify the means. Eleven of the 13 protesters arrested for their involvement in the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstration have had their criminal charges dropped in the last two weeks, 10 since this past Wednesday. The remaining two protesters are UC Berkeley professor Celeste Langan, who Read More…
We’ve all seen photographs, read accounts and watched video of police officers attempting to clear an Occupy Cal encampment on Nov. 9, 2011. Now, more than four months later, an operational review of UCPD’s actions during the protest sheds further light on the issue but focuses it on criticism of Read More…
By its very nature, experiencing the due process of law is not a punishment. While the Occupy Cal protesters being charged with crimes for their actions on Nov. 9 surely endured grave wrongs under police baton, they should not be exempt from their day in court. However, when the mechanisms Read More…
Most students at UC Berkeley cannot remember a time when the campus was not continually shaken by budgetary concerns — when the cost of their education wasn’t constantly being launched to greater heights. Neither can Robert J. Birgeneau, who will be resigning his post as chancellor here in December. Though Read More…
This time last year, a movement was beginning in New York City that would spark numerous others across the country — including one on the UC Berkeley campus — and bring attention to national issues of inequality. Read More…
Members of BAMN announced Wednesday that they will seek $15 million in a lawsuit filed against UC Berkeley administrators and police for the use of force on demonstrators during the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protest. In a press conference on Sproul Plaza Wednesday, organizers said they filed an amended complaint Read More…
The Daily Californian has obtained more than 1,000 emails sent to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other UC Berkeley administrators in response to the campus’ handling of the November Occupy Cal protests. The emails, received by the Daily Cal from the campus’ Public Records Office on Tuesday, illustrate widespread dismay over Read More…
