Fever dreaming of America
American Pie?
From rising hate speech to the travel ban to the attacks on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, our country is staggeringly anti-immigrant.
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How nice is sugar and spice?
Fresh off the BART
This disastrous miscarriage of health management is built upon a health care industry that too often caricatures its patients and treats them with a one-size-fits-all mindset.
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Appreciating random acts of kindness
Cal in Color
Growing up with random acts of kindness as a part of a daily routine instilled me with compassion and encouraged me to continue practicing them.
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Are immigrants really so unworthy?
When irrational assumptions are cleared out, the family separation policy seems more like a failure of empathy and understanding.
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Lessons on citizenship, from your local naturalization ceremony
To vote is to claim agency — to use the freedoms subscribed to you by law as a source of empowerment within our democratic system.
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Berkeley community ought to defend students from ICE
It is because we are not safe on this campus. And under these circumstances, we cannot continue to choose to be reactive over being proactive.
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Current immigration law for border patrol needs to change
We should be welcoming immigrants with open arms and seeking to provide them with full access to the gains that we have necessarily made by exploiting the entirety of world.
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Tear down the wall
Berkeley Got Back
As college students who construct lenses to perceive the outside world rather than directly immerse in it, the cognitive dissonance is too real.
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UCPD’s priorities, systemic racism underlie viral food vendor incident
On Sept. 9, a video of UCPD Officer Sean Aranas writing a citation for and taking earnings from a street vendor was posted on Twitter. This street vendor was selling hot dogs from his cart during UC Berkeley’s first home football game of the season when two officers found that
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VMAs descend into mediocrity
The MTV Video Music Awards have never been about subtlety. Since its inception in the 1980s, the MTV’s trademark summer entertainment has been notorious for throwing prestige to the sidelines and letting spectacle takes the stage. The show has cultivated numerous iconic and scandalous pop culture moments, from Britney Spears’
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