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In 2011, seven years after Mark Zuckerberg sat in a Harvard dorm room and birthed a monstrosity, I made my Facebook profile. For someone born in the very last years of the 20th century, that was considered late. I sat at a school computer, a black, bulky Windows desktop. Of
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It began when students who held a rally commemorating the 30th anniversary of the creation of UC Berkeley’s ethnic studies programs moved in mass to Barrows and locked its front doors with chains.
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Today, Christ says that she wouldn’t have addressed the protest in the same way.
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2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the Summer of Love, as BAMPFA’s “Hippie Modernism: The Struggle for Utopia” is quick to remind you, but this year also hosts a more ignoble anniversary for the hippie: the publication of Joan Didion’s chronicle of ‘60s depravity “Slouching Towards Bethlehem.” With its shocking
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Hours after the noontime rally, the police arrived on Sproul Plaza in riot gear. Riot gear, I thought. Were they kidding? The police told us — a few hundred students — to leave. We linked arms around the tent. This was the moment I became an Occupier. They jabbed clubs
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On Saturday morning, Cal football fans arrived at the steps of Sproul Plaza for a pre-game rally, only to find the space already occupied — by three tents and a small group of sleep-deprived protesters.
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Occupy Cal is dead, but that doesn’t mean student activism should disappear. One year ago, protesters at UC Berkeley used the momentum of Occupy Wall Street to establish a movement that, at least for a short period of time, consumed the campus. However, since Nov. 15 of last year, turnout
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Almost exactly one year later, a walkout planned for Thursday on campus hopes to rekindle the spirit of 2011’s Occupy Cal protest.
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On Wednesday April 4 there was an economic inequality conference in Lewis Hall on UC Berkeley’s campus.
A teach-in hosted by the UC Berkeley Labor Center Wednesday entitled “Economic Inequality Teach In: Causes, Consequences and Solutions,” featured some of the campus’s prominent economic and political thinkers and social justice activists analyzing the causes and consequences of injustices that continue to exist. Solutions to growing economic inequality include
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