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Will The Real Occupy Berkeley Please Stand Up? (News Analysis)

By Ted Friedman
Friday November 11, 2011 - 02:13:00 PM

As Occupy Oakland vies with Occupy Manhattan for world-attention, and Occupy Cal revives memories of the sixties' Free Speech Movement (40 arrests in two days), Occupy Berkeley is struggling to find its voice amid a vast national movement of same-sayers. -more-



UC Berkeley Police Defend Response to "Occupy Cal" Protests

By Bay City News
Friday November 11, 2011 - 12:29:00 PM

University of California at Berkeley police on Thursday defended their actions during demonstrations on campus the day before when the newly formed "Occupy Cal" movement drew thousands of people and resulted in dozens of arrests. -more-



Features

Veteran's Day In Berkeley: Did You Notice?

By Steven Finacom
Friday November 11, 2011 - 08:49:00 AM
One Berkeley World War I memorial stands along University Avenue next to a battered flagpole at West Campus.  It was placed in “Remembrance of the boys of the Burbank School who gave their lives for humanity during the Great War.”   Seven names are listed.

Friday, November 11, 2011 was a work or school holiday for many in Berkeley, including this writer. But it’s probably safe to say that very few people in Berkeley commemorated the date either for the original reason it was established, or for its later, broadened, purpose. -more-


Public Comment

Occupying: the UC Experience

By Steve Martinot
Friday November 11, 2011 - 09:31:00 PM

After a day of demonstrations (Nov. 9) to protest increasing tuitions at a state funded university, to protest cuts in staff and curriculum in an era of horrendously large administrative salaries and bonuses, though not yet calling for a return of the university to an educational rather than career focus, students at UC Berkeley decided to "Occupy" the campus. They set up a few tents on Sproul Plaza, as occupiers had been setting up such encampments all over the country. -more-


Statement on UC Police Violence from Veterans of the 1964 Free Speech Movement

Members of the Free Speech Movement Archives (www.FSM-A.com): Bettina Aptheker, Robby Cohen, Susan Druding, Lee Felsenstein, Barbara Garson, Lynne Hollander, Anita Medal, Jack Radey, Gar Smith, Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Stack
Friday November 11, 2011 - 02:58:00 PM

As veterans and historians of the 1964 Free Speech Movement that established the rights of students to freely express their concerns over critical social issues within the boundaries of the University of California's campus, we were shocked by the actions of campus police who seized banners from students peacefully demonstrating in Sproul Plaza and on the Sproul Steps. -more-


To Oakland City Council: Occupy Group FINALLY Brings Business and Renown to Oakland

By Virginia Browning
Friday November 11, 2011 - 12:13:00 PM

Dear Oakland City Council,

You are getting internationally known public figures visiting and publicizing Oakland in a positive way. Are you people SERIOUS about trying to remove something you've been wanting for years to create? -more-


Editorial

Berkeley's Booting Scheme Creates Maximum Problems, Minimum Revenue

By Becky O'Malley
Wednesday November 09, 2011 - 09:48:00 AM

Back to Berkeley, after the excitement in Oakland seems to have settled into a long slog, this week we have an example of the unintended consequences of the city management’s latest attempt to squeeze more moolah out of the citizenry.

You may remember that The Management, rubberstamped as usual by a complaisant group of electeds, has been sold Smart Boot, a computerized scheme for rapid collection of outstanding traffic tickets. Like many innovations which glom on to “Smart” branding, it’s a dumb idea which is looking dumber and dumber all the time. -more-


Columns

The Public Eye: Why Occupy Wall Street Won’t Make a Difference

By Bob Burnett
Friday November 11, 2011 - 09:01:00 AM

Occupy Wall Street is getting positive reviews and is viewed favorably by most Americans. Does OWS indicate the US political process has hit bottom and Americans are ready for radical change? -more-


On Mental Illness: Relapses, Big and Small, Revisited

By Jack Bragen
Friday November 11, 2011 - 09:13:00 AM

Many people think that the main cause of relapse for a person with mental illness is noncompliance with taking medication. However, much of the time, persons with mental illness are doing everything they’re supposed to do (including taking medication, attending therapy, and being a participant in life) and yet a relapse still takes place. Furthermore, when noncompliance is a major factor in a relapse, it is not always something that happens on a mere whim. Often, the person with mental illness first deteriorated to an extent, and this led to the poor judgment of choosing noncompliance. A very large percentage of people with schizophrenia, possibly more than half, will have a relapse within a year of getting stabilized—and this is despite being medication compliant. -more-


Senior Power: Alone

By Helen Rippier Wheeler
Friday November 11, 2011 - 09:24:00 AM

Living alone, in fiction, nonfiction and even children’s books, is generally regarded as unfortunate, something to be avoided. Being alone is assumed unpleasant, probably the result of misfortune. Aloneness is often associated with consolation, solitude, even secrecy -more-


Arts & Events

Comprehensive William Keith Art Exhibit At Saint Mary’s

By Steven Finacom
Friday November 11, 2011 - 12:29:00 PM
A bust of William Keith is grouped with several of his smaller, gold framed, paintings, in the exhibit.

With “Occupy” movements currently agitating our very urban inner Bay Area turf, it’s perhaps a strange time to think about bucolic landscapes. But there’s a good reason to switch mental gears, at least for a few hours, in the next month.

The expanded and renamed museum at St. Mary’s College of California is hosting a splendid exhibit of the artwork of William Keith the prolific, famed California landscape painter—and once-notable Berkeley resident, I should add—of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

The exhibit, entitled “The Comprehensive Keith”, commemorates the centennial of the death of the painter in April 1911. It runs through December 18 and features well over one hundred of his oil paintings and some watercolors. Most are landscapes, but there’s also a selection of his lesser-known portrait paintings. -more-


Back Stories

Opinion

Editorials

Berkeley's Booting Scheme Creates Maximum Problems, Minimum Revenue 11-09-2011

The Editor's Back Fence

Blogging Occupy Cal 11-10-2011

Cartoons

Cartoon Page: BOUNCE By Joseph Young 11-09-2011

Cartoon Page: Odd Bodkins By Dan O'Neill 11-09-2011

Public Comment

Occupying: the UC Experience By Steve Martinot 11-11-2011

Statement on UC Police Violence from Veterans of the 1964 Free Speech Movement Members of the Free Speech Movement Archives (www.FSM-A.com): Bettina Aptheker, Robby Cohen, Susan Druding, Lee Felsenstein, Barbara Garson, Lynne Hollander, Anita Medal, Jack Radey, Gar Smith, Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Stack 11-11-2011

To Oakland City Council: Occupy Group FINALLY Brings Business and Renown to Oakland By Virginia Browning 11-11-2011

About Ted's Position By Thomas Lord 11-09-2011

"Some things never change": Student Protests at UC Berkeley By Jane Stillwater 11-09-2011

Student Non-Violence Succeeds in Berkeley By Gar Smith (Free Speech Movement Veteran) 11-10-2011

Call Yudof and Brown re Occupy Cal By Mary Rose Kaczorowski 11-10-2011

Letters 11-10-2011

Occupy America By Michael Parenti 11-09-2011

KPFA, A Year Later – A Reflection By Akio Tanaka 11-09-2011

Occupy Yourself! By Ted Friedman 11-09-2011

News

Will The Real Occupy Berkeley Please Stand Up? (News Analysis) By Ted Friedman 11-11-2011

UC Berkeley Police Defend Response to "Occupy Cal" Protests By Bay City News 11-11-2011

Veteran's Day In Berkeley: Did You Notice? By Steven Finacom 11-11-2011

Fatal Shooting Near Occupy Oakland Apparently Unconnected By Bay City News 11-10-2011

Updated: Thirty-Nine Protesters Arrested Yesterday at UC Berkeley--Meeting at 6pm Today By Scott Harris (BCN) 11-10-2011

Press Release: City of Berkeley Police did not Participate in Campus Actions re Occupy Cal From Sgt. Mary C. Kusmiss,BPD Public Information Officer 11-10-2011

UC Berkeley Police Remove Tents, Protest Continues By Erika Heidecker (BCN) 11-09-2011

Flash: Video of UC Berkeley Police Beating Up "Occupy" Students By Miles Matthews 11-09-2011

Scenes from a Protest By Ted Friedman 11-10-2011

“Occupy” Protests Come to UC Berkeley Campus By Steven Finacom 11-09-2011

Chronology of a Protest By Steven Finacom 11-10-2011

Creative Cal Tuition Protest Signs By Steven Finacom 11-09-2011

Open Letter to Chancellor Birgenau and Chief Celaya re Free Speech on Berkeley Campus By Councimember Kriss Worthington 11-09-2011

Flash: UC Berkeley Police in Riot Gear Pull Down "Occupy Cal" Tents By Scott Morris 11-09-2011

Updated: UC Berkeley Students, Employees "Occupy Cal" By Scott Morris BCN) 11-09-2011

Berkeley's Solar Calendar Rocks By Gar Smith 11-09-2011

From Port to Plaza and Back Again (First Person) by Daniel Borgström 11-09-2011

Columns

The Public Eye: Why Occupy Wall Street Won’t Make a Difference By Bob Burnett 11-11-2011

On Mental Illness: Relapses, Big and Small, Revisited By Jack Bragen 11-11-2011

Senior Power: Alone By Helen Rippier Wheeler 11-11-2011

Wild Neighbors: The Incredible Non-shrinking Birds By Joe Eaton 11-09-2011

Dispatches From the Edge: Playing With Fire In Korea By Conn Hallinan 11-09-2011

Eclectic Rant: Time for the Super Committee to Bite the Bullet By Ralph E. Stone 11-09-2011

Arts & Events

Comprehensive William Keith Art Exhibit At Saint Mary’s By Steven Finacom 11-11-2011

Around & About Music: Opera Lab's reading of Massenet's 'Sapho'; Greenlief, Kjaerkgaard, Perkis--and Empty cage--at Berkeley Arts Festival; Dazzling Divas at Bateau Ivre By Ken Bullock 11-09-2011

Reviews: The Residents' Randy Rose at the Marsh; 'The Internationalist': Just Theater at Ashby Stage By Ken Bullock 11-09-2011

Around & About Theater: "Cracked Clown'--David A.Moss at the East Bay Media Center; 'Shoot O'Malley Twice'--Virago Theater; Gesture Vocabularies, lecture & video on mudras in Indian ritual & traditional theater at UCB By Ken Bullock 11-09-2011

Fred Frith at the Berkeley Arts Festival on Friday: 11.11.11 Cosmic Portal Transit Date! 11-09-2011