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Singing and chanting echoed across Sproul Plaza on Wednesday morning when about 25 people took to the Mario Savio Steps to protest the Thirty Meter Telescope, or TMT, which is being constructed on top of the Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii.
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On Saturday, Sept. 8, 2018, I joined UC Berkeley’s Indigenous and Native Coalition, or INC-RRC, a bridges recruitment and retention center, in the Rise For Climate March in San Francisco. The estimated 30,000-participant march in San Francisco was one of the 800 global events that took place in 91 countries
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Two Standing Rock activists, Chase Iron Eyes and Daniel Sheehan, held a discussion at La Peña Cultural Center on Friday about the current state of the movement against the Dakota Access Pipeline, or DAPL.
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2016 has been a watershed year for folk music, what with Bob Dylan’s recent Nobel prize for literature, Paul Simon’s latest genre-challenging album and Leonard Cohen’s swan song of a final record. Neil Young joins them now with his upcoming (and 38th overall) album, Peace Trail. As is customary in
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Authors’ Note: A recent Daily Cal article explored some of the context of this movement. This piece seeks to highlight voices from UC Berkeley and impacted communities concerning collective responsibility to stand in solidarity. Both authors are affiliated with various groups involved in this movement. “We are water protectors, not
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More than 50 demonstrators gathered on Sproul Plaza on Wednesday afternoon in solidarity with protesters opposing the North Dakota Access Pipeline, which, if built, could threaten the Standing Rock Sioux tribe’s water and land.
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On Thursday, as more than 100 people protesting the construction of a pipeline were arrested in North Dakota, people gathered in the Multicultural Community Center on campus to raise awareness of the struggle in North Dakota and share in what Native American performer Supaman called “the good medicine of laughter and hip hop and prayer.”
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Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park was filled with the sounds of drumming and the bustle of vendors Saturday as community members gathered to celebrate the Indigenous Peoples Day Pow Wow and Indian Market, a daylong celebration of indigenous culture.
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