Day two of the national Occupy Wall Street Movement presently encamped (by night) in the Bank of America Civic Plaza at Shattuck and Center streets was a planning session which will determine the course of the protest. -more-
The wave of protests that began with "Occupy Wall Street" in September is continuing to expand in the Bay Area, and activists plan to begin camping out in Oakland's Frank Ogawa Plaza this afternoon. -more-
Having frequently heard about Ashby Village, I had only the vaguest notion of what it actually is. But this past week, during an informal discussion group at the Berkeley Town House, lead by Andra Lichtenstein, we were provided details on the history and growth of this organization. (With over 30 years of experience in public and private sectors with a focus on community health centers, and as Planning and Development Director of Lifelong Medical Care, Andra is well qualified to describe the virtues of this very admirable organization.) -more-
As Jimmy Durante used to say, ever’body wants tuh ged in tuh duh’act. (If you’re too young to remember him and/or don’t come from Brooklyn, Everybody Wants to Get into the Act.) After a frustratingly slow start, the Occupy Wall Street action finally has legs.
Over the weekend, it became front page news in the big national papers. They all ran approximately the same story, recounting how the previously invisible campers took to the road and were arrested in impressive numbers while trying to cross the Brooklyn Bridge in the auto lane. Most of the stories featured approximately identical quotes from various Poli Sci professors at second-tier institutions, ones easily located in the metropolitan areas where the newspapers were published, on the order of “If they want to accomplish anything, they’ll need a program and identified leaders.”
Well, no. The most useful analysis of what seems to be going on could be found on the front page of yesterday’s New York Times Science Section, in a fascinating article about slime molds. Here’s the basics:
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"Occupy Wall Street" Comes to Berkeley 10-05-2011
This Is the Weekend Issue: Good until Monday 10-09-2011
Hancock Bill Extends Berkeley Solar Finance Scheme to State: Was it a Success or a Failure? 10-06-2011
UC Mines Our Brains for the Sake of Corporate Profit 10-04-2011
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New: Occupy Berkeley Report By Steve Martinot 10-09-2011
New: Hancock's Senate Bill 555 Release is Wrong: Berkeley's Solar Program Went Up in Flames By Nigel Guest 10-08-2011
A Nurse's Viewpoint By Berit Block, RN 10-07-2011
Beware the Hurry to Build at Haste and Telegraph By Carol Denney 10-05-2011
How Berkeley Employee Costs Eat Up the Rest of the City's Budget By David M. Wilson, Berkeley Budget SOS 10-04-2011
Pepper Spray Times Grace Underpressure 10-04-2011
Official Statement from Occupy Wall Street Forwarded by Estelle Jelinek 10-05-2011
Day Two: As Occupy Wall Street Movement Builds in Berkeley, How Berkeley Will it Be? By Ted Friedman 10-10-2011
Occupy Oakland Starts Today at 4 at Oakland City Hall By Scott Morris (BCN) 10-10-2011
Berkeley Meeting Introduces Ashby Village By Dorothy Snodgrass 10-10-2011
New: Berkeley Dodges End of the World, Joins National Anti-Wall Street Revolution Saturday at Bank of America Plaza Downtown By Ted Friedman 10-08-2011
U.S. Prosecutors Announce Crackdown on Medical Marijuana Stores By Julia Cheever (Bay City News Service) 10-07-2011
Berkeley's New Smart Boot System: The Potential for Abuse (News Analysis) By Thomas Lord 10-06-2011
Steve Jobs: Arab-American By Shirin Sadeghi (New America Meda) 10-06-2011
Parking Ticket Scofflaws Take Note! Berkeley's About to Boot Your Car By Thomas Lord 10-04-2011
Mumps Outbreak on UC Berkeley Campus Prompts Call for Vaccination Boosters By Patricia Decker (BCN) 10-05-2011
Charles Rawson Collier, 1935-2011 10-05-2011
Updated: Nobel Prize News Wakes Berkeley Professor By Jeff Shuttleworth(BCN 10-04-2011
Berkeley's Northbrae Neighborhood Called One of America's Great Places 10-04-2011
Updated: Daniels to be Interim Berkeley City Manager 10-04-2011
Press Release: UC Berkeley's Saul Perlmutter awarded 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics From Robert Sanders, UC Berkeley Media Relations 10-04-2011
It’s the Water, Stupid: The Perils of Clearcutting By Bob Burnett 10-07-2011
On Mental Illness: Smoking, Obesity and Type II Diabetes By Jack Bragen 10-09-2011
Senior Power: The older the fiddler, the sweeter the tune. English proverb. By Helen Rippier Wheeler 10-06-2011
American Pie: A Cautionary Tale About Three Sixth Grade Misfits By Ruth Rosen 10-06-2011
Dispatches From The Edge: Why The Drone Wars Threaten Us All By Conn Hallinan 10-04-2011
My Commonplace Book (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comments added by the reader.) By Dorothy Bryant 10-04-2011
Berkeley Arts Festival Continues By Bonnie Hughes 10-06-2011
American Teacher Has a Lesson: Superman Is a Myth; Teachers Are the Real Heroes Review by Gar Smith 10-04-2011
Theater Review: Patience Worth by Symmetry Theatre Company By Ken Bullock 10-05-2011
Friends of Negro Spirituals Heritage Day is Saturday By Ken Bullock 10-05-2011
Press Release: Afghanistan Peace Day: On the 10-year anniversary of the US war in Afghanistan, the Afghan and American people call for peace. From Adam Hudson and Fatima 10-04-2011
Eye From the Aisle: PHAEDRA at Shotgun Players—heart-rending, masterful drama By John A. McMullen II 10-04-2011
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