Threats from the 1%
Micah Fry/Staff
Updates, photos from Occupy Oakland’s march to UC Berkeley
Occupy Oakland protesters marched on Saturday evening toward the UC Berkeley campus, arriving around 10:30 p.m. They decided to head towards the International House on Piedmont Avenue, where an encampment has been set up and where an “Occupy the Truth” conference is being held this weekend. This march comes one
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Overcooked occupation
CAMPUS ISSUES: Occupy Cal is back with tents in front of Sproul Hall, but celebrating three months since Nov. 9, 2011, isn’t enough.
Although members of the Occupy movement acknowledge the lack of a uniform message, they nevertheless proved their ability to stand as one. Last semester, Occupy Cal reached its peak when public policy professor Robert Reich spoke to thousands on the evening of Nov. 15. In the time since that moment
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Weekly Recap: Jan. 30 – Feb. 3
Here is what is covered in the third “Weekly Recap”: -Last Friday, Josh Radnor (“Ted” from “How I Met Your Mother) came to Berkeley to talk about his new Sundance film, “Liberal Arts.” -On Tuesday, UC officials, Occupy Cal protestors, and members of the campus community met for a Town
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Educating the enforcers
UNIVERSITY ISSUES: The recent incidents of excessive force by police on two campuses should be a wake up call for officers and campus administrators.
The University of California has been receiving negative attention in the media recently, and this time it’s not for tuition hikes. Police officers at UC Davis on Friday pepper-sprayed docile student protesters directly in their faces while they sat on the ground linking arms. Videos of the incident have since
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Deconstructing occupation
I’m a rhetoric major, which always seems to beg the same question from snickering science students: “What do you plan to do with that?” While I would like to think that Michel Foucault’s insights on power could help me in a job interview one day, I realize that most of
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The whole world is watching and we’re getting angry
I write this because I cannot say nothing, but I feel like my outrage is inexpressible. I write this because I am just too angry not to write something. I try to see the good in everything, but virtually nothing in my life has made me angrier than the behaviour
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Pulling strings
Our campus is not a war zone
In person, Bob Birgeneau is an affable man — a textbook example of a gentle Canadian neighbor. Years ago, as MIT’s Dean of Science, he used to command universal adoration and respect. Sadly, today’s Chancellor Birgeneau appears largely divorced from the Dean Birgeneau that I once admired while a graduate
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You keep using that word — I don’t think it means what you think it means
In a truly Orwellian move, last week the UCPD insisted that nonviolence is violence, saying that “linking arms in a human chain when ordered to step aside is not a nonviolent protest.” In fact, that’s exactly what a nonviolent protest is. But this patently false claim is revealing of an implicit
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