Matthew Artz: Berkeley teachers and supporters rally outside of Old City Hall..
Matthew Artz: Berkeley teachers and supporters rally outside of Old City Hall..

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Teachers Vote to Extend Work Action By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday May 06, 2005

With no end in sight to either the impasse in contract negotiations or the ongoing work-to-rule action, Berkeley teachers held an hour long demonstration in front of the Berkeley Unified School Administration Building Tuesday afternoon. -more-



Restoration or Destruction for Willard Middle School Mural By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday May 06, 2005

Eight years ago, in an act that Willard Middle School Vice Principal Thomas Orput calls a “total fiasco,” the Berkeley Unified School District painted over the Telegraph Avenue mural on the school gymnasium’s outside wall without contacting the artists. -more-



Building LLCs Present Tax Collection Problems By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday May 06, 2005

When is the sale of a building not a sale, at least for property tax reasons? -more-



Sequoia To Vie for School Name By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday May 06, 2005

Sequoia has beaten out second-place Ohlone and six other alternatives for the chance to replace the name of Thomas Jefferson Elementary School, according to the results of a school-wide vote. -more-



Danner and Yoo Debate Wars on Terror and Iraq By JUDITH SCHERR

Friday May 06, 2005

Prisoners in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and Iraq have been hooded, isolated, humiliated, injured, made to feel hopeless and close to death. Mark Danner, UC Berkeley journalism professor, says such treatment is systemic, a flagrant violation of rules of war and morality and the fault of “policy makers in the department of justice, policy makers including Professor (John) Yoo, policy makers in the Department of Defense (and) policy makers in the White House.” -more-



Features

Landlord Group Fumes Over Rent Board Fee Increase By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday May 06, 2005

After Berkeley’s Rent Stabilization Board decided to raise landlord fees by 13 percent, the city’s leading landlord association is threatening to once again file suit. -more-


Doctor’s Presence at Protest Questioned By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

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Friday May 06, 2005

As long-running battles continue over two highly contaminated South Richmond sites—one owned by UC Berkeley—two new questions have surfaced: -more-


Berkeley Program Focuses on Black Infant Health By MATTHEW ARTZ

Friday May 06, 2005

Back in February, Ashawn Walker was smoking cigarettes, guzzling down soda, eating junk food and unbeknownst to her, two months pregnant. Now, with the help of a Berkeley program for African American moms-to-be, she’s drinking water, eating fruit, and keeping her distance from nicotine. -more-


ZAB Revisits “Flying Cottage” By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday May 06, 2005

Reports of an imminent soft landing for South Berkeley’s “Flying Cottage” have been greatly exaggerated, says Dave Blake. -more-


Possible Hate Crime at Congregation Beth El Site By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday May 06, 2005

Berkeley Police are investigating a Wednesday night fire at the Congregation Beth El building site as a possible hate crime, said police spokesperson Officer Joe Okies. -more-


State Calls for Public Input On LBNL Cleanup Proposal By RICHARD BRENNEMAN

Friday May 06, 2005

With a draft plan in hand for the cleanup of contaminated soil and groundwater at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) is calling for public input on the proposal. -more-



Letters to the Editor

Friday May 06, 2005

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Column: The View From Here: We Need to Learn New Ways of Judging People By P. M. PRICE

Friday May 06, 2005

In recent weeks both the San Francisco Chronicle and this newspaper have featured essays and letters lambasting the “arrogance” of UC Chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s efforts to affirm the value of diversity, castigating black leaders and parenting skills a nd accusing blacks of using the “victim card” instead of acting more like Asians. And just how do Asians behave? -more-


Column: Undercurrents:Mr. O’Connell Comes to Oakland With No Exit Plan In Hand J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR

Friday May 06, 2005

Sorry to continue to be a bother about this, but I continue to be puzzled over the details of how Oakland’s schools got taken over by the state, and what needs to be done to get the schools back in Oakland’s hands. -more-



The Things They Carried Home: Young Soldiers By JOSUE ROJAS

Pacific News Service
Friday May 06, 2005

Tim O’Brien was 21 years old when he was sent to fight in Vietnam. More than two decades later, he wrote the literary masterpiece The Things They Carried. The book describes a handful of soldiers in Vietnam, and the things they carried—a girlfriend’s panties, a Cherokee hunting hatchet, comic books, illustrated bibles, dope, cigarettes, condoms, photographs, chewing gum and so forth. For years, O’Brien carried inside him the things his fellow soldiers carried, before setting them down on the page. -more-


Commentary: Outcry at Library Meeting Justified by Substantial Issues By ZOIA HORN

Friday May 06, 2005

I was sorry to read the public meeting of the Library Board of Trustees last Wednesday characterized as resembling a “high school pep rally.” I have attended public meetings when important issues that meant a great deal to the attendees, and this one was another good example of democracy in action. (In San Francisco Public Library during the fees for computer service fracas, in Oakland, when a Military Academy was foisted on the city despite the standing room only meetings and negative votes by Boards of Education of Oakland and Alameda County). The Berkeley Public Library Board of Trustees President, Laura Anderson quietly, but firmly determined that everyone who wanted to speak, would do so. Surely there were outcries, clapping and some booing, but all were heard. It was the substance, the sharing of information and concerns, the search for solutions that mattered more than the formal manners that often suppress what needs to be aired. -more-


Election Section

Commentary: Zoning Study Masks Destruction of Plan By JOHN CURL

Friday May 06, 2005

The City Council voted 5-4 to burn the West Berkeley Plan. It wasn’t worded like that, of course. On April 19, they approved funding to begin an “incremental” evaluation of the Plan by studying changing the zoning of Ashby and Gilman west of San Pablo from industrial to commercial, to bring in more sales tax revenue from regional retail. -more-


Commentary: White Washing the Spanish Civil War By LAWRENCE JARACH

Friday May 06, 2005

I would like to comment on the announcement of the publication of The Frontlines of Social Change: Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (Daily Planet, April 26-28). Not having read the book, I cannot say anything about its contents, but the subject of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War deserves something more than the glowing pro-Stalinist whitewash usually presented in such volumes—and in Brenneman’s puff piece. -more-


Revolution, Racism and Family in “Angela’s Mixtape” By FRED DODSWORTH

Friday May 06, 2005

Angela Davis came back home to Berkeley for her birthday. No, not that Angela Davis, but her niece, Angela Eisa Davis, known as Eisa to her family, fans and friends. The former Berkeley High School graduate, class of 1988, left Berkeley for a degree at Harvard followed by an master’s of fine arts from the Actors Studio Drama School, in Manhattan. -more-


Berkeley Symphony Presents Premiere of “Manzanar” By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet

Friday May 06, 2005

The Berkeley Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Musical Director Kent Nagano, will present the world premiere of Manzanar—An American Story, a semi-staged oratorio for orchestra, chorus and narrators, on Tuesday May 10 at Zellerbach Hall. -more-


Arts Calendar

Friday May 06, 2005

FRIDAY, MAY 6 -more-


Berkeley This Week

Friday May 06, 2005

FRIDAY, MAY 6 -more-


Editorial

EDITORIAL: LRDP Lawsuit: Is There a Deal? By BECKY O'MALLEY

Friday May 06, 2005

Wild rumors that the City of Berkeley is about to sell its citizens down the river have been sweeping the city ever since the University of California opened the discussion of what its future plans for growth might be. We’ve had anguished voicemail messages from citizens who’ve picked up crumbs of information ever since last fall. Neither the much trumpeted City of Berkeley lawsuit challenging U.C.’s environmental impact report on its latest Long Range Development Plan nor the city’s threats that it would finally begin to collect sewer and parking fees from the university assuaged these anxieties. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

EDITORIAL: LRDP Lawsuit: Is There a Deal? By BECKY O'MALLEY 05-06-2005

Next Stop for BART: Parking Fees? By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-03-2005

News

Teachers Vote to Extend Work Action By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 05-06-2005

Restoration or Destruction for Willard Middle School Mural By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 05-06-2005

Building LLCs Present Tax Collection Problems By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-06-2005

Sequoia To Vie for School Name By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 05-06-2005

Danner and Yoo Debate Wars on Terror and Iraq By JUDITH SCHERR 05-06-2005

Landlord Group Fumes Over Rent Board Fee Increase By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-06-2005

Doctor’s Presence at Protest Questioned By RICHARD BRENNEMAN Staf 05-06-2005

Berkeley Program Focuses on Black Infant Health By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-06-2005

ZAB Revisits “Flying Cottage” By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-06-2005

Possible Hate Crime at Congregation Beth El Site By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-06-2005

State Calls for Public Input On LBNL Cleanup Proposal By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-06-2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS 05-06-2005

Letters to the Editor 05-06-2005

Column: The View From Here: We Need to Learn New Ways of Judging People By P. M. PRICE 05-06-2005

Column: Undercurrents:Mr. O’Connell Comes to Oakland With No Exit Plan In Hand J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 05-06-2005

Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-06-2005

The Things They Carried Home: Young Soldiers By JOSUE ROJAS Pacific News Service 05-06-2005

Commentary: Outcry at Library Meeting Justified by Substantial Issues By ZOIA HORN 05-06-2005

Commentary: Zoning Study Masks Destruction of Plan By JOHN CURL 05-06-2005

Commentary: White Washing the Spanish Civil War By LAWRENCE JARACH 05-06-2005

Revolution, Racism and Family in “Angela’s Mixtape” By FRED DODSWORTH 05-06-2005

Berkeley Symphony Presents Premiere of “Manzanar” By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet 05-06-2005

Arts Calendar 05-06-2005

Berkeley This Week 05-06-2005

Berkeley Cancels Pedal Express Contract Despite Protests By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-03-2005

Neighbors, ZAB Blast University Ave. Project By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-03-2005

Plaintiffs Finally Victorious in Third Pepper Spray Lawsuit By LYDIA GANS Special to the Planet 05-03-2005

‘Flying Cottage’ Approval Near By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-03-2005

Academics, Community Teach on Torture, Look for Answers By JUDITH SCHERR Special to the Planet 05-03-2005

Rap Legends Push Personal Responsibility at Laney Conference By J. DOUGLAS ALLEN-TAYLOR 05-03-2005

ZAB Resolves Marin Ave. Views, University Ave. Condo Units By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-03-2005

Berkeley Commemorates Holocaust 60th Anniversary By MATTHEW ARTZ Staff 05-03-2005

Police Review Commission Rules Against Protest Honker By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-03-2005

Synagogue and Neighbors Spar Again Over Parking By MATTHEW ARTZ 05-03-2005

Correction 05-03-2005

Letters to the Editor 05-03-2005

Editorial Cartoon By JUSTIN DEFREITAS 05-03-2005

Column: The Public Eye: Peak Oil Looms, While U.S. Remains Gluttonous By BOB BURNETT 05-03-2005

Column: Kaiser’s Voice Mail Jail Leaves Patient on Hold By SUSAN PARKER 05-03-2005

Fire Department Log By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-03-2005

Police Blotter By RICHARD BRENNEMAN 05-03-2005

Commentary: Disemboweling Berkeley’s Disaster Response By JESSE TOWNLEY 05-03-2005

Commentary: Looking Toward the Future in Downtown Berkeley By RAUDEL WILSON 05-03-2005

Commentary: Holocaust Remembrance By KRISS WORTHINGTON 05-03-2005

Commentary:Instant Runoff Voting Held Up by Diebold By LAURENCE SCHECHTMAN 05-03-2005

Commentary: Bogotá Mayor Rules with Theatric Enforcement By AARON TUKEY 05-03-2005

News Analysis: Iraq Labor Leader: ‘We Will Defend Our Oil’ By DAVID BACON Pacific News Service 05-03-2005

UC’s International House Has Fostered Friendships for 75 Years By STEVEN FINACOM Special to the Planet 05-03-2005

Motor Oil and Mortality: What Would Jesus Do? By KEN BULLOCK Special to the Planet 05-03-2005

‘Words and Music’At UC Berkeley By KEN BULLOCK 05-03-2005

Arts Calendar 05-03-2005

Cliff Swallows Use Social Strategies for Survival By JOE EATON Special to the Planet 05-03-2005

Columns

Berkeley This Week 05-03-2005