Dania Matos

Following escalating violence in Israel and Gaza since Saturday, students have taken to campus to mourn and protest actions overseas.

Antisemitic graffiti reading “No Jew Go Away” was found scrawled on the doors of the MLK Student Union Jan. 24.

The Latinx Caucus at UC Berkeley submitted a letter to Chancellor Carol Christ on Jan. 12 regarding the needs and issues facing Latine students. The letter emphasized finding a new temporary space for their Latinx Student Resource Center, or LSRC, which has been without a meeting space since Dec. 8, alongside demands for financial aid reevaluation, affordable housing and further retention efforts.

More than three weeks after a vigil held by the local Iranian community for Mahsa Amini, Iranian students persist in asking for direct support from UC Berkeley as protests continue to escalate around the world. 

All eyes turned to New York May 14, when 10 people were killed and three injured at a supermarket in Buffalo, a massacre some alleged to be racially motivated with 11 out of 13 victims being Black.

Six days after Russia invaded Ukraine, UC Berkeley students and researchers from Russia and Ukraine rallied to express concerns over the humanitarian crisis and the inadequate support from campus.

The city of Berkeley, UC Berkeley and the Berkeley Unified School District, or BUSD, planned several events in honor of Black History Month.

On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was murdered by former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, sparking worldwide protests against police brutality and racism.

Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state of California signed the California Equal Pay Pledge on Jan. 27 in an effort to close the gender pay gap.

Students walking through Sproul Plaza say they have heard offensive rhetoric from preachers who stand on the edge of campus.