Berkeley allocates more than $2M to homeless programs, aid
The city of Berkeley will allocate $3.5 million to fund multiple homeless aid programs, as unanimously approved by the City Council at its regular meeting Tuesday night.
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Berkeley officials, residents to address racial profiling by Berkeley police
At its Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council unanimously voted to pass a measure that directs the city manager to analyze and address disparate racial outcomes in policing.
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Student homelessness, low income housing addressed at Berkeley Progressive Alliance meeting
Taylor Harvey, chair of UC Berkeley Homeless Student Union and Housing Commission for ASUC, raised awareness of student housing insecurity at the Berkeley Progressive Alliance, or BPA, general membership meeting Sunday.
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Campus administration successful in preventing violence during Shapiro appearance
On Sept. 14, 2017, Antifa lost. Antifa lost because they were unable to turn the city of Berkeley and UC Berkeley campus into a madhouse of violence and vandalism as they did in February. Antifa lost because their threats of violence in the face of speech with which they disagree
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Berkeley City Council rejects indoor entertainment fee increase for students
UC Berkeley students, including representatives from the ASUC and Berkeley Student Cooperative, filled the crowd at the City Council meeting Tuesday to oppose an increase in the city’s Indoor Entertainment Inspection Fee.
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Berkeley firefighters helping on ground of Hurricanes Irma and Harvey
After landing Monday night at the Oakland Airport to applause, members of the Berkeley Fire Department who were deployed in Texas to deal with the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey were awarded only a short break to catch their breath and replenish supplies before being swooped into another mission.
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UC Berkeley chancellor and Berkeley mayor should stop obstructing anti-racist speech
On Aug. 27, about 7,000 people came out in Berkeley at several rallies and marches to oppose white supremacy and the far right’s latest attempt to use Berkeley as a staging ground for their campaigns of hate. This is a sea change. While 1,500 protested against Milo Yiannopoulos at UC
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Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguín urges cancellation of Yiannopoulos’s upcoming visit
Mayor Jesse Arreguín urged the campus to cancel plans to host Milo Yiannopoulos during a student group’s upcoming “Free Speech Week,” as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
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The story behind the poster: An interview with Lena Wolff
You might have seen it displayed on the window of your favorite coffee place, handed out on Sproul or, perhaps most dramatically, emblazoned on the giant screen outside of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in the past week. The tweetable message, “Berkeley Stands United Against Hate” —
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Berkeley mayor on Sunday rally: ‘It went as well as it could have’
Sunday’s rallies in Downtown Berkeley featured clashes between “alt-right” ralliers and counterprotesters, but some activists and residents still consider it a largely “peaceful” and “successful” event.
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