Experts say COVID-19 presents threats to democratic process in general election
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Five campus experts talked about the challenges the coronavirus pandemic will present for the 2020 general election in an event Friday.
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BART ridership declines in wake of COVID-19 pandemic
BART has temporarily reduced service hours and is requesting emergency funds after seeing an immediate loss in ridership in the wake of the “shelter in place” order initiated across the Bay Area.
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Democratic primaries winner will be new status quo
The radical change we need in the world will not come from the benevolence of a good candidate, even one who claims to have a vision for a mass movement.
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A look back on the past decade at UC Berkeley
As the end of the decade fast approaches and every single publication known to man is releasing their “best of the decade” lists, we thought we would take it upon ourselves to put together an eclectic list of the most interesting, exciting and cool things that have happened each year of the past decade here at UC Berkeley.
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Impeachment inquiry brings mixed feelings to Berkeley
The 2016 election of President Donald Trump brought political controversy to the UC Berkeley campus, and now that an impeachment inquiry is underway, campus and city of Berkeley officials have noted that the controversy is likely to continue into the forthcoming election year.
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Berkeley City Council to vote on resolution supporting Trump impeachment proceedings
On Nov. 12, Berkeley City Council will vote on adopting a resolution that supports impeachment efforts to immediately remove President Donald Trump from office.
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More than 1,000 people gather on Sproul Plaza for climate strike
Over a thousand students, alumni, residents and community members packed Sproul Plaza on Friday to rally for immediate action on climate change at UC Berkeley’s local climate strike.
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The Democratic presidential candidates should hold a climate debate
The decision for the DNC to not hold a climate debate shows that the majority of DNC members do not seem to value these connections. A debate focused purely on the climate would allow Americans to hear about the substantive differences between the various candidates’ plans to address the climate emergency.
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500 people protest border detention centers at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office
Five hundred Jewish people and allies marched to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office in San Francisco on Friday morning to protest what many are calling concentration camps at the United States-Mexico border, which currently hold undocumented immigrants in allegedly terrible conditions.
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Democratic candidates Tony Thurmond, Marshall Tuck vie for California superintendent of public instruction
California state Assemblymember Tony Thurmond and New Teacher Center educator-in-residence Marshall Tuck — both members of the Democratic party — are running for the role of state superintendent of public instruction. Current superintendent Tom Torlakson is stepping down after holding the position since 2010, having narrowly defeated Tuck for re-election in 2014.
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