Basic Needs 2021

Our collective care for others reflects our society's values and achievements. We must strive to share resources to meet our basic needs together.

Although the pandemic has interrupted multiple university and campus resources, many programs continue to provide places for students to learn about healthy sexual activity and receive sexual health care.

Berkeley Student Farms volunteers are expecting a harvest with crops that will help them alleviate student food insecurity through campus's Food Pantry.

At a college with thousands of students, it can seem difficult to find a community. However, communities on campus have coalesced to offer support.

There is no reason why Telegraph Avenue — the street we use most as students to access destinations and meet our basic needs — should be dominated by cars. 

As the world enters the second winter of the COVID-19 pandemic, the city of Berkeley’s homeless shelters remain at reduced capacity and continue to have pandemic precautions in place, with more people in need of shelter than there are beds available.

Decentering productivity and “work” culture, or at least finding a balance between self-identity and the need to be productive are crucial in rediscovering eccentricity and individualism in the way we express ourselves in clothing.

Glück meets the basic needs for her garden by compensating its physical meagerness with rich imagination and satirical fun.

For all workers, a union would provide a direct line to the school to address topics that may be difficult and time-consuming to negotiate individually.

We have come a long way since I was a UC Berkeley student, and yet, there’s still much more we need to do to adequately represent the people of California.