Following the direction of UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, the criminal charges against four protesters involved in the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal demonstrations were dropped Wednesday in court. The decision to drop the charges against UC Berkeley students Ashley Pinkerton, Justin Tombolesi, Ramon Quintero and Ricardo Gomez comes after charges Read More…
OAKLAND — A judge lifted stay-away orders issued against two protesters in connection with the Nov. 9 Occupy Cal protests at a preliminary hearing Friday. At their arraignments last month, a total of 12 stay-away orders were issued to protesters who were charged in relation to the Nov. 9 demonstrations Read More…
Candidates for ASUC external affairs vice president this year intend to advocate for students’ voice at the state and local levels of government, but the candidates differ in where they intend to focus and how they plan to achieve their goals. The external affairs vice president focuses on matters outside Read More…
About 50 people gathered outside of California Hall at noon Monday to protest criminal charges filed by the district attorney’s office against protesters active in the Nov. 9 protests. Protesters marched in a circle holding banners and chanting in unison, calling for the dissolution of the charges and hoping for Read More…
A group of UC Berkeley faculty members is calling upon Chancellor Robert Birgeneau to request that charges filed against demonstrators involved in Nov. 9 protests be dropped. The Berkeley Faculty Association is currently circulating a petition that states that the chancellor should ask the Alameda County district attorney to drop Read More…
The Alameda County District Attorney’s Office has issued criminal charges to four Nov. 9 protesters, documents show. UC Berkeley students Ricardo Gomez, Zakary Habash and Ramon Quintero and associate English professor Celeste Langan face several charges, including resisting arrest and remaining at the scene of a riot, according to county Read More…
UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza became packed with more than a thousand protesters Tuesday around 1 p.m., as the crowd attending the campus strike and Day of Action in solidarity with the Occupy movement continued to swell. The crowd steadily grew in size as students from the UC Berkeley School of Read More…
The ASUC Senate passed a bill Wednesday night that supports the Occupy Cal movement, which includes a Nov. 9 walkout and noontime rally on Sproul Plaza, and finances buses to transport students to the upcoming UC Board of Regents meeting at UC San Francisco. The bill, co-authored by Cooperative Movement Senator Elliot Goldstein and CalSERVE Senator Andrew Albright, provides support for the protest through Read More…
The November protests planned in response to potential increases in tuition have been renamed Occupy Cal in reference to the wave of Occupy movements that have swiftly swept the nation. The goal of the protests, scheduled for Nov. 9 and 10, is to raise awareness of the possibility of tuition Read More…