Around 20 to 30 protesters have been camping overnight since Saturday to fight the sale of the historic 99-year-old Berkeley Post Office on Allston Way in Downtown. Read More…
I remember studying in the main lounge of my residence hall last fall when a custodian came in to vacuum, apologizing for the noise in the process. This gesture surprised me because 1) I had been worried I was an inconvenience to him throughout the ordeal, 2) he was only Read More…
These past few weeks have been full of intense political controversy, from the NSA surveillance leak in the United States to the anti-government riots in Turkey. Given all of the recent upheaval, we at the Clog thought it would be appropriate to feature tracks with poignant political messages that apply Read More…
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Around 70 protesters gathered at People’s Park Tuesday evening to protest the death of Kayla Moore while in Berkeley Police Department custody. Wielding banners and chanting slogans, protesters marched from People’s Park to the police station downtown, face to face with police in riot gear. Though the protest was non-violent, Read More…
Around 15 protesters dressed in black and holding flower-adorned coffins held a “Funeral for Workers’ Rights” on Sproul Plaza Thursday morning in protest of proposed cuts to UC workers’ benefits. Read more here.
With signs in hand and red tape covering their mouths, up to 40 UC Berkeley students silently protested against women’s violence and rape as a weapon of war in Syria. Read More…
About 100 UC Berkeley students and service workers blocked the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue Thursday afternoon, in protest of impending changes to the UC employee pension plan. Read More…
Footage of negotiations made on Tuesday, November 27 between university officials and the occupants of Eshleman Hall’s sixth floor was acquired by ASUC President Connor Landgraf. Read more here: http://www.dailycal.org/2012/11/27/protesters-occupy-eshleman-hall-to-press-for-multiculturalism-on-campus/
Occupy Cal is dead, but that doesn’t mean student activism should disappear. One year ago, protesters at UC Berkeley used the momentum of Occupy Wall Street to establish a movement that, at least for a short period of time, consumed the campus. However, since Nov. 15 of last year, turnout Read More…
