Berkeleyside
September 26, 2017
Even though the Berkeley Patriot, a student group, canceled Berkeley’s “Free Speech Week,” a left-wing counterdemonstration went on as scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. Monday on the crescent lawn on the western edge of the UC Berkeley campus.. Read More
Berkeleyside
December 14, 2016
A coalition of civil-rights groups and one of the nation’s largest law firms have taken on the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans), asking for a state-wide, permanent injunction to stop the sweeps which end up confiscating and often destroying the property of homeless people. In Berkeley, this lawsuit would protect homeless people living on state property, such as those who camp at the Gilman underpass. Read More
Berkeleyside
January 24, 2017
A day after hundreds of thousands of people in the Bay Area gathered in peaceful protest against the Trump administration, the hard work of political organizing for the next four years was already in full swing.
An email went out to grassroots leaders nationwide to fight the Trump agenda, and a surprising thing happened: Read More