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On Monday, campus organization By Any Means Necessary held a public tribunal in Wheeler Hall in which they discussed their ongoing lawsuit with the university and encouraged campus and community members to join their cause.
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In the fifth day of an occupation that began Wednesday evening to protest tuition increases, occupiers started to bump up against shrinking numbers and the looming presence of Thanksgiving break, posing new problems and new opportunities for a largely leaderless movement.
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UC Berkeley administrators will not be dismissed from a lawsuit alleging that they authorized police violence during a November 2011 Occupy Cal protest, a federal judge ruled on Friday.
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In a hearing Tuesday, UC Berkeley administrators sought dismissal from a lawsuit that alleges they were complicit in the police response to the Fall 2011 Occupy Cal protests.
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When UC Berkeley administrators or police mismanage a controversial protest, steps must be taken to ensure such situations are handled better in the future. That’s one of the reasons the campus has a Police Review Board, and it’s why the university launched a systemwide review following the tumultuous protests last
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A bill passed by the state Legislature will request California’s public universities to designate a high-level administrator to act as a liaison between campus security and administrators and student demonstrators during large protests.
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The Daily Californian has obtained more than 1,000 emails sent to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other UC Berkeley administrators in response to the campus’ handling of the November Occupy Cal protests. The emails, received by the Daily Cal from the campus’ Public Records Office on Tuesday, illustrate widespread dismay over
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Beginning March 1, protesters in support of Occupy Education California plan to embark on a “99 Mile March for Education and Social Justice” to the capitol building in Sacramento, after holding rallies at UC Berkeley. About 25 people — many of them students — met at an office on Allston
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