After police enforced an eviction notice on protesters camped in downtown Oakland as part of "Occupy Oakland" this morning, transit through the area was affected. -more-
City officials are advising downtown Oakland employers to consider having employees delay their arrival downtown this morning after police action at the "Occupy Oakland" encampment. -more-
Oakland city officials said this morning police are enforcing a notice of violation issued last week to protesters at the downtown "Occupy Oakland" encampment. -more-
A dozen bay area teachers, joining Occupy Berkeley, engaged in a peaceful "grade-in" Saturday at Berkeley's Martin Luther King Civic Center, but a growing tent city in the park could clash with the city if grounds maintenance problems are not solved. -more-
Southeast Berkeley was full of fear and chaos October 20, 1991. People poured down Tunnel Road, evacuating from the fire above. Emergency vehicles chugged and sirened in the opposite direction. Homes along some of Berkeley’s most charmed streets—Alvarado Road, Vicente Road, Roble Road—were ablaze, along with hundreds of residences in Oakland. For hours, it looked as if the Claremont Hotel would become a gigantic torch. -more-
An Oakland city official has tipped off the Occupy Oakland protest group that a raid tonight is "highly probable." Such a raid would happen after midnight, and would most likely occur between 3 a.m. and 5 a.m. -more-
Berkeley, CA – The teachers at Realm Middle and High Schools became the first charter schools in Berkeley to receive union recognition last week when they were informed by California’s Public Employee Relations Board (PERB) that their request to join the Berkeley Federation of Teachers (BFT), an affiliate of the California Federation of Teachers, had been granted. -more-
While no one’s paying much attention, a substantial part of the last remaining open space in flatlands Berkeley is being reconfigured by the Berkeley Unified School District in collusion with bureaucrats working for the City of Berkeley. There has been almost no meaningful public discussion either of the goals of planned lavish and well-funded building projects or of the schedule for carrying them out. -more-
With Halloween just a week away, you'd be wise to stock up on candy to hand out to those little Trick or Treaters when they come knocking at your door. You may not know that Pope Gregory III designated Nov. 1 as a time to honor saints and martyrs. The evening before was known as Halloween's Eve and then later Halloween. Obviously this holiday has little religious meaning today. -more-
The City Council and the School District Play Fast and Loose with Public Funds in Berkeley 10-24-2011
New: Hancock Sponsors "Gut-and-Amend" Bills in Sacramento 10-19-2011
Cartoon Page: BOUNCE: By Joseph Young 10-20-2011
Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins: The Answer Dan O'Neill 10-18-2011
Letters 10-22-2011
Possible New Council Chambers By Councilmembers Jesse Arreguin and Kriss Worthington 10-22-2011
Two Haiku for Yemen By Gar Smith 10-22-2011
Letter: Arreguin and Worthington Submit Agenda Item re Council Move to West Campus From Councilmember Jesse Arreguin 10-20-2011
Letters to the Editor 10-19-2011
A Framing Memo for Occupy Wall Street By George Lakoff, Reader Supported News 10-19-2011
Resurrect Berkeley's Rink By Wendy Schlesinger, MJ, CIP 10-18-2011
Oakland 12th Street BART Re-Opens By Sasha Lekach (BCN) 10-25-2011
Downtown Oakland Workers Asked to Come Late By Sasha Lekach (BCN) 10-25-2011
Oakland Police Shut Down Occupy Oakland By Sasha Lekach (BCN) 10-25-2011
Occupy Berkeley's Growing Tent City Occupied Saturday at Civic Center by Peaceful Bay Area Teachers; But How Long Will Peaceful Vibes Last? by Ted Friedman 10-24-2011
1991 Firestorm Remembered At 20th Anniversary Ceremony By Steven Finacom 10-23-2011
Press Release: Raid on Occupy Oakland "Highly Probable" Tonight From Kevin Seal 10-24-2011
Press Release: Teachers at Berkeley's Realm Charter Schools Join Union From Cathy Campbell 10-24-2011
More Aftershocks Today By Sasha Lekach (Bay City News Service) 10-22-2011
Updated: Second Earthquake Strikes Berkeley Tonight: 3.8 By Bay City News Service 10-20-2011
Updated: Earthquake in Berkeley Now Estimated to be 3.9 Magnitude 10-20-2011
Berkeley City and BUSD Consider Moving Meetings to West Berkeley, Abandoning Old City Hall By Steven Finacom 10-20-2011
New: Occupy Berkeley Deliberates Reviving "How Berkeley Can You Be" Oct. 30; Calls for "Grade-in" and Lawn Watering Saturday--in Lieu of a March by Ted Friedman 10-21-2011
Berkeley City College Student Wins Norman Mailer Writing Award 10-20-2011
Earthquake Advice By Dorothy Snodgrass 10-20-2011
Press Release: Village Movement Takes Root among UC Berkeley’s Dynamic Elders By Yasmin Anwar | UCB Media Relations 10-20-2011
Berkeley City Officials Push UC to Choose West Berkeley for New LBNL Site--
With No Public Review(News Analysis)
By Zelda Bronstein
10-18-2011
Inside "Occupy Berkeley"—A Week in the Life of a Nascent Revolution by Ted Friedman 10-17-2011
The Unfinished Legacy of 2010: How a massive Democratic voter cop-out in last year’s elections put the reactionary right in the driver’s seat (News Analysis) By Frank Viviano (New America Media) 10-18-2011
One Fountain, One Hundred Years: The Circle Has a Centennial Party By Steven Finacom 10-18-2011
Add Your Opinion to the Downtown Berkeley Perceptions Survey By Deborah Badhia, DBA 10-18-2011
Remembering the Firestorm (First Person) By Dorothy Snodgrass 10-18-2011
The New American Revolution: Occupy Wall Street By Bob Burnett 10-22-2011
On Mental Illness: Children on Medication By Jack Bragen 10-22-2011
My Commonplace Book (a diary of excerpts copied from printed books, with comments added by the reader.) By Dorothy Bryant 10-20-2011
Senior Power… “Always my best day of the week.” Part 1. By Helen Rippier Wheeler 10-20-2011
Warbler Variations and the Origin of a Species By Joe Eaton 10-18-2011
Don't Miss This Around Halloween By Dorothy Snodgrass 10-24-2011
Around & About Theater: Central Works Premieres Brian Thorstenson's 'Embassy: A Domestic Diplomatic Comedy' By Ken Bullock 10-20-2011
New: Kronos Quartet Resets the Clock By Lou Fancher 10-19-2011
Around & About Theater, Music--& John Malkovich: The Infernal Comedy, Friday at Zellerbach By Ken Bullock 10-18-2011
Eye From the Aisle: Rep’s HOW to Write a NEW Book for the Bible—too funny, often too tragic to abide By John A. McMullen II 10-18-2011
Press Release: School Violence: Myths and Reality - Rescheduled - A Discussion with Annette Fuentes and Jody Sokolower at the Berkeley Public Library, Tuesday, November 1 at 6 p.m. From the Berkeley Public Library 10-19-2011
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