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The Berkeley City Council banned facial recognition technology from use by any city agencies, making Berkeley the fourth city in the U.S. to do so.
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It was an emotional night for City Council members and constituents, as the community said its goodbyes to long-time councilmembers Linda Maio and Kriss Worthington at Tuesday’s regular meeting.
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Elisa Cooper, an activist and resident of South Berkeley, died unexpectedly in her home last June. She was 47.
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South Berkeley residents and city officials gathered Saturday morning for the opening of an exhibit on the city’s plans for the future of the historic Adeline Street Corridor.
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The Pacifica Foundation Radio National Board of Directors, overseeing a network of nonprofit radio stations headquartered in Berkeley, held a strategic planning meeting Thursday to try to keep their business alive.
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The California attorney general is conducting an audit of Pacifica Foundation Radio — a network of nonprofit radio stations headquartered in Berkeley — to investigate the foundation’s finances.
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We understand you have issued no regulation nor taken any steps to restrict political advocacy or “uncivil” speech on campus. Nonetheless, we are concerned that your call for “civility” may have — or already has had — a chilling effect on the exercise of free speech by UC Berkeley faculty and students.
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Following years of financial and managerial crises, Pacifica Foundation Radio— a national listener-sponsored radio network with a local station in Berkeley — will soon see an interim executive director step down and another step up.
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On the bottom floor of a Downtown Berkeley radio studio, hosts of Berkeley’s free-speech radio station KPFA revive the spirit of Malcolm X and denounce critics of climate change. In between segments, they urge listeners to donate money to the financially frail station.
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The Alameda County Superior Court issued a temporary restraining order at a hearing Wednesday morning, instructing the Pacifica Foundation to sequester the ballots of Berkeley-based radio station KPFA’s recall election.
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