Berkeley and Caltech team up to build quantum network testbed (tags)
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, $12.5 millionLawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley) will be home to a cutting-edge quantum network testbed, thanks to a new five-year, $12.5 million funding award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). funding award from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE).
Berkeley Human Welfare Commission rejects BDS (tags)
"Divestment from the Israeli Occupation," the measure was defeated 5-2.
“Censoring Palestine” event at UC Berkeley (tags)
Report on UC Berkeley Event: Censoring Palestine at the University and Academic Freedom at the Crossroads, March, 6, 2015, Boalt Law School- “Censoring Palestine” Event at UC Berkeley claims denial of free speech from perch at prestigious taxpayer-funded venue
Are the Times A-Changin' at UC Berkeley’s School of Law? (tags)
Torture Memo, Racial Unrest & (Perhaps) a Job Applicant’s Cover Letter Wake Up the School’s Faculty, Staff and Once-Floundering Social Justice Center
Updating chaotic crumblings at Pacifica - affects KPFK too. (tags)
Events continue in the higher levels of a mixed-up Pacifica Fdtn with who is in charge and who is not and who has authority and who claims what. With most in Los Angeles not extending to keep up with details as others derail and destroy what was before a ‘radical’ variety of programming at KPFK, along with it’s sponsors, here are reposted excerpts to both advise, inform, and urge activism in any form an Indy reader will dare to help the mess from spilling over and out into KPFK and so into our lives here. Fuller information is available at the links provided here. Note that excerpts are for *Relevant Clarification * and those that may be pertinent how KPFK in LA is affected by what else is currently being disputed, declared and not questioned. The many detracting claims and counterclaims affect the operations and functionings of Pacifica Fdtn and it’s 5 stations, More specific detailed info can be read in the entire articles/ reports written by Tracy Rosenberg at the links included at facebook: “United for Community Radio KPFA “. Though the stories appear to emphasize the sibling station in Berkeley KPFA, the results affect our Local KPFK radio station 90.7 FM in LA equally, even when our station's ID is ignored in their stories. It was our own KPFK prior GM who was laddered Up into Pacifica's interim Exe Director position, but by Berkeley's group and it was not even discussed at the local KPFK LSB in April. Why ?
Has KPFK's GM Duncan just dis-appeared? (tags)
More confusing information appears to say that Bernard Duncan who thought he was moving UP some ladder, may have fallen off, gone to NZ to return home and his girlfriend, or gotten sick of all the mess served up at Pacifica ? Who knows what really happens when secrecy and silence and non-transparency reigns in this nonprofit and non-informative fdtn, never telling on itself and it's fluctuations ? How confusing. Where is the man now ? Why is he not fulfilling the apparent nomination to be interim Exe Director, seemingly authorized by KPFA people?
Summer Reese is the Pacifica Foundation’s Abe Lincoln (tags)
Is the Pacifica Foundation Board Trying to Dissolve the Foundation’s Five Station Union, Place Each Station’s Broadcast License under Local Ownership, Sell WBAI into the Commercial Marketplace and Distribute the Proceeds as "Endowments" to the Remaining 4 Stations?
More Info about Pacifica, which holds KPFK's license, etc. (tags)
– More than is visible in any informative[vs. those preferring to attack] LA medium . So here are some reposts - parts of what is on URL that appears to be about KPFA in Berkeley but that also affects all PACIFICA FDTN stations equally. The confusion, conflict about the Exe Director Reese has opened up the box and more info is being revealed, finally ! These links and information is intended to be Shared, Exposed, Discussed, and later Resolved too. Not to set up more conflicts or malicious actions, please !
Janet Yellen Likely New Fed Chairwoman: Hold the Cheers (tags)
class war
"A Menace to Society: Or How An Uppity Black Man Got Banned From Cody’s Bookstore" (tags)
Joseph Anderson is the outspoken author of a number of commentaries (available online) criticizing the racist stereotyping and pathologizing of Black males from young to old – and sometimes even by those particular *Black* authors, filmmakers and documentary makers eagerly given investment financing, contracts, buy-outs, royalties, grants, distribution, or platforms by white corporations and institutions to do so – attitudinally leading to the legalized, collectively *serial* murders of unarmed Black males by cops, white (or even 'honorary white') wanna-be cops (like George Zimmerman), and other racist assailants all over this country, as well as to Black males' systematic incarceration. This important, exemplified, 'vintage' article, asked for and published (at the literary journal "Konch") by the internationally famous African American author and UC Berkeley professor emeritus, Ishmael Reed, REVISITS and DETAILS some of Anderson's own experience with, and reflections upon, this – including, especially, white liberal racism. Unfortunately, like all prophetic writing, these reflections are all too true even today.
Open Letter re: anti-Israel student nominated to UC Regents (tags)
Sadia Saifuddin, a UC Berkeley senior and a member of the MSA and Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood front groups that regularly sponsor “Israel Apartheid Weeks,” was recently nominated to become the University of California student regent for the 2014-15 academic year.
Protest Sadia Saifuddin's nomination to UC Regents (tags)
Editors’ note: Sadia Saifuddin, a UC Berkeley senior and a member of the MSA and Students for Justice in Palestine, Muslim Brotherhood front groups that regularly sponsor “Israel Apartheid Weeks,” was recently nominated to become the University of California student regent for the 2014-15 academic year
The Black Panther Party’s Living Legacy --Touring Oakland and Berkeley w/ Billy X Jennings (tags)
Last week, the "Dismantling Racism" class from St. Catherine University in Minnesota was taken on a Black Panther History Tour in Oakland and Berkeley, California, led by Billy X Jennings from It's AboutTime BPP Alumni & Legacy. Angola 3 News came along and filmed the tour. This is part one.
Berkeley's Free Speech Movement (tags)
freedom
A few Berkeley sitting-ban ordinance articles and images... (tags)
Right-Wing Mayor Tom Bates is attacking the homeless in Berkeley -- Adopt a Resolution placing the attached measure to adopt an ordinance prohibiting sitting on commercial sidewalks on the ballot for the November 6, 2012 General Municipal Election.
Archive Of Housing News by Lynda Carson: Struggle for Just Cause / Tenant's Rights (tags)
The battle over rent control, just cause eviction protections, tenant's rights and poverty issues are a never ending struggle.
City Council loans Berkeley Housing Authority $300,000 to privatize public housing units (tags)
On April 3, 2012, the Berkeley Housing Authority asked Berkeley's City Council for $400,000 in general funds from Berkeley's Housing Trust Fund (HTF), to cover the costs associated with the privatization and sale of Berkeley's 75 public housing units to some out of state billionaires!
"The Activism Entry Point: Critiquing The Cancer in Occupy Debate" — by Joseph Anderson (tags)
Longtime Berkeley activist Joseph Anderson weighs in on the ongoing debate around Occupy Oakland on the issue of diversity of tactics and the use of BlackBloc style tactics. He weighs in on the recent debate between Chris Hedges and Occupy Oakland organizer Kristof Lopaur. The Occupy movement, Anderson says, cannot have both a diversity of people and a ”diversity of tactics” at this time – and the movement can’t shortcut the process of attaining, and retaining, the first by jumping to the second. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Berkeley woman reclaims home seized by Wells Fargo (tags)
Berkeley resident Tanya Dennis broke back into her home, seized by Wells Fargo, and remained in possession. Dennis says that he has a forensic audit establishing that Wells Fargo is not the holder of the note, and that she lost an unlawful detainer action on process rather than pleading, because she is a Pro se litigant, i.e., she is acting as her own lawyer, and Wells Fargo has better attorneys than herself.
100% Cal Assembly Honors Fascist Ronald Reagan (tags)
Are you still registered Democrat? On June 28, 2010, the entire California Assembly, Democrats and Republicans together, voted 100% to honor the fascist Ronald Reagan with a remembrance day, his birthday, February 6. In case you forgot or are too young to remember, here is a remembrance you should memorize, as you change your voter registration to Peace & Freedom or Green IMMEDIATELY.
Court Quashes Search Warrant, Orders UCPD To Return Indybay Journalist’s News Photographs (tags)
For Immediate Release June 21, 2010 Contact: David Greene, Geoffrey King, First Amendment Project 510.208.7744
HUD's Public Housing Privatization Scheme "PETRA" Is Rejected (tags)
People across the nation are speaking out against the scheme to privatize 1.2 million public housing units, under a HUD proposal called Transforming Rental Assistance (TRA) initiative. The struggle against the privatization of public housing in Berkeley and Oakland has blossomed into a nation wide struggle against the profiteers that are trying to terminate public housing programs across the nation! On May 25, 2010, at a congressional hearing, Congresswoman Maxine Waters and many housing advocacy organizations from across the country spoke-out against HUD's proposals, and submitted written statements for the hearing record opposing TRA, including the Los Angeles Coalition to End Hunger and Homelessness and other Los Angeles housing and human rights organizations.
SAVE AMERICA's PUBLIC HOUSING - No on PETRA! - NO on TRA! (tags)
Public housing in Berkeley and Oakland are under attack by corporate profiteers, and if HUD and the Obama Administration have it their way, public housing across the nation will be next on the chopping block of corporate privatization! Join the struggle against the privatization of public housing!
An ICF International / BHA Disposition Plan Conflict of Interest? (tags)
Did ICF International infiltrate the Berkeley Housing Authority through the Berkeley Housing Authority Chair Commissioner Carole Norris, as a way to help it's shareholders (including Wells Fargo Bank) to make a financial profit with the scheme to dismantle Berkeley's public housing program, and plan to dispose of Berkeley's public housing units?
BDS Loses Big at Berkeley (tags)
Berkeley anti-Israel Bill fails in 9 hour debate
UC Berkeley Divestment Vote (tags)
Write to the Student Senate. Time is of the essence.
Nonprofit does not want the poor in public housing units (tags)
Long-time public housing residents face displacement!
Nonprofit developers interested in Berkeley's public housing, minus the poor (tags)
Berkeley's mostly African-American public housing residents are not wanted by local nonprofit housing developers that are interested in the proposal to sell Berkeley's 75 public housing units!
"Banned in Berkeley" Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty (tags)
SF Anarchist Bookfair Afterparty in Berkeley at Kip's, Saturday March 13th from 8PM onward.
Berkeley public housing residents demand resignations (tags)
Berkeley's Public Housing Residents Say "Hell No" To The Privatization Of Their Housing & Demand Resignation Of Housing Director!
UC Occupations Southern Tour (tags)
Some comrades 'associated' with the occupations at UCSC and Berkeley are coming down to Southern California. We will be answering questions about the occupations at meetings on the UCLA, UC Irvine and Cal State Fullerton campuses.
KPFA/Pacifica: Conn Hallinan misinforms Doug Henwood (tags)
an intriguing email exchange
The Sorceress at Pacifica Radio (tags)
The Sorceress at Pacifica Radio
Photos from Gilad Atzmon Protest (tags)
The Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalist made the decison to continue renting space to Gilad Atzmon- who is on record as calling the burning of synagogues a "rational act"
berkeley fellowship unitarian universalist sponsors Holocaust denier (tags)
calls and letters needed
Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists sponsoring Holocaust denier (tags)
Free speech has become hate speech in this Berkeley church, with Gilad Atzmon on the calendar
Stifling Pro-Israel Views at UC Berkeley (tags)
More anti-Semitism at the University of California
Israel Apartheid Week Berkeley (tags)
http://blog.z-word.com/2009/03/israel-apartheid-week-hypocrisy-and-betrayal/
Pacifica = KPFK's parent corp, problems are there too .... (tags)
This is a reposting from a distant discovered site that relates to KPFK as part of PACIFICA. Sad news all around.
Take action! New UC Berkeley animal research facility! (tags)
Call to action against the companies assisting in construction of UC Berkeley's new Biomedical Facility, which would lead to a seventy percent expansion of UCB's existing Northwest Animal Facility. 40,000 non-human animals are currently being exploited and tortured to death at the university.
SF Chronicle smears Berkeley animal rights activists (tags)
A sensationalist and trash piece that appeared in the San Francisco Chronicle on June 11. Full of flat-out lies and deceptions. Foremost among the deceptions being the portrayal of vivisector Frederic Theunissen's experiments on songbirds as painless and innocent. These birds are immobilized and bolted down in stereotaxic devices, have holes drilled into their skulls, and electrodes inserted into their brains for recording. In most of the studies, the birds are killed to have their brains studied. Another deception is that Ralph Freeman's torture of kittens and cats is shedding light on Epilepsy. I haven't even read Freeman make this claim. No big surprise from Robert Sanders, who has compared animal rights activists to Al-Qaeda.
May 1 - UC Berkeley primate vivisector Jack Gallant home demo report-back (tags)
The campaign in opposition to University of California-Berkeley vivisection continues.
4/12 UC Berkeley anti-vivisection home demonstration reportback (tags)
Despite talk of a new law (AB 2296) meant to stifle free speech, anti-vivisection activists in Berkeley, CA are continuing the campaign. UC Berkeley cat killer Ralph Freeman receives another home demonstration!
3/23 UC Berkeley home demonstrations report back (tags)
Despite recent low-level acts of police intimidation and talk of restraining orders against them, activists opposing UC Berkeley vivisection are continuing their campaign. www.freewebs.com/stopucberkeleyvivisection for more info on the campaign.
Stop UC-Berkeley vivisection. 40,000 animals currently tortured. (tags)
For informational purposes only!
Restraining Orders to be sought against UC-Berkeley anti-vivisection campaign (tags)
Restraining orders to be sought against legal, above-ground protesters in Berkeley, CA.
McCarthy Building Contractors building new UC Berkeley vivisection lab (tags)
McCarthy Building Companies, with offices in Southern California, has plans to build a new vivisection lab in Berkeley. This would lead to a 70 percent expansion of Berkeley's Northwest Animal Facility.
UC Hunger Strikers, Supporters Confront UC Regents On Nuclear Weapons, 13 Arrested (tags)
More than 100 people, including 40 on the 9th day of a fast to protest the University of California's ties to the US nuclear weapons complex, delivered their demand for UC nuclear weapons lab severance directly to the UC Board of Regents at their meeting at UC San Francisco on May 17th. After several of the protesters vocally and persistently confronted the Regents on refusing to consider the demand, Regent Norman Pattiz ordered the dozen or so UC Police officers on hand to clear the room, moments after telling them to "go out and have some lunch."
Prayer for peace and an end to war and violence (tags)
Peace Fire for a Cease-Fire - AN INTERFAITH SERVICE for Peace
Lifting the Fog on 9/11: Experts Present Scientific Evidence at UC Berkeley (tags)
An all day symposium, titled "Lifting the Fog", took place Saturday at the Valley Life Science Building at UC Berkeley. To an auditorium full of attentive listeners, a number of experts (most notably Dr. Steven Jones, a renowned physicist) gathered to present their findings about the destruction of the World Trade Center on 9/11/2001.
Sign Petition: Save the Berkeley Housing Authority (tags)
The Berkeley Housing Authority is in a crisis and needs you help!
An Uncertain Future For Berkeley's Section 8 Tenants (tags)
City Officials Take The Heat For Housing Authority Failures
Berkeley City Councilwoman Dona Spring Double-Crosses Tenants Group (tags)
Berkeley Councilwoman Dona Spring Double-Crosses Berkeley Tenants Group!
Leuren Moret Describes Vicious Attacks on Whistleblowers (tags)
June 15, 2006 by Leuren Moret To the Berkeley City Council and City Manager:
California Left Candidates for 2006 Elections (tags)
The State Central Committee of the Peace and Freedom Party has endorsed a full slate of 2006 candidates for statewide offices.
"'NEVER AGAIN' OVER AGAIN" — on Holocaust Remebrance Day (tags)
I thought that “Never again!” meant never again for all humanity — not just never again for European Jews.
GABRIELA Network Intl Women Day March & Rally, Women's History Month Activities (tags)
From California to New York, GABRIELA Network, a Philippine-US women's solidarity mass organization, commemorates Intl Women's Day, demand end to war and occupation, calls attention to the impact of these on women of Philippine ancestry.
Berkeley Pries Open Votergate, Calls for Immediate U.S. Election Investigation (tags)
"Politically, technologically and bureaucratically, undemocratic forces have stopped America from counting every vote." Berkeley first known city to vote for election investigation
VOTERGATE! Suppression in Ohio, and the best evidence yet in Florida (tags)
A neutral body must conduct the recount - not Ohio’s Republican Secretary of State. Meanwhile, a well-vetted study from a reputable UC Berkeley research team has found that electronic voting machines in Florida apparently mistallied hundreds of thousands of votes.
Pacifica Radio: FREEDOM TO SPEAK LARRY BENSKY'S LANGUAGE! (tags)
Many people in the KPFA listener community in the San Francisco Bay Area have asked me, Joseph Anderson, for a copy of my UC Berkeley "Daily Californian" newspaper guest column on Pacifica Radio's KPFA character Larry Bensky. At the time of its original publication, I knew nothing about Bensky other than how he came across on the air. I guess it is time for a confirming retrospective. Bensky hasn't changed a bit. This was written during the Pacifica Radio crisis of 1999, when Bensky was fired (thanks to *me*, now it can be told!). I immediately notified and talked to Mary Berry, then, about his insubordination and symbolically offered to let her have Bensky in exchange for Pacifica Radio back. But, it was still nice to have someone Black shut *Bensky* up!
END of SUBURBIA Producer Coming to Los Angeles June 21-23 (tags)
"Peak Oil is the story of the decade, and virtually no one was talking about it...I instantly recognized an opportunity to present some very complicated ideas in a very visual way that most of us could relate to" - Barry Silverthorn
A four day workshop session sponsored by Free Radio Berkeley to teach you how to build FM broadcast transmitters (and other related items such as antennas) and set up a low power (15-100 watt) community radio station capable of covering a broadcast radius between 5 and 15 miles depending on power, terrain and antenna height.
The 1st Annual BADASS Tournament: March 13-14, 2004 (tags)
Announcing the 1st Annual BADASS (Bay Area Direct Action Soccer Series) Tournament 2004. March 13 - 14, 2004. San Francisco Bay Area
DEATH THREAT RESULTS FROM UC BERKELEY DEBATE ON ISRAEL-PALESTINE (tags)
Israeli Soldiers Make Death Threats to Berkeley Based Non-Profit After Israel-Palestine Debate on UC Campus
OPEN LETTER TO DIANE FEINSTEIN (tags)
Sherman's situation remains of critical concern. Please take a moment and e-mail ahurley@stanford.edu to add your name to the signature list.
ADD YOUR NAME TO FEINSTEIN'S LETTER (tags)
Sherman's situation remains of critical concern. Please take a moment and e-mail your signature to ahurley@stanford.edu
The Suitcase Clinic-A Friend Of The Homeless (tags)
The Suitcase Clinic Of Berkeley Ca, Offers A Helping Hand To The Homeless.
Whole Food's Vote to Unionize Upsets Libertarian Founder (tags)
Whole Foods union problems erupted in 1990, when they took over a failed co-op in Berkeley, CA. Founder John Mackey believed that union demands sunk the co-op, so he refused to hire its employees -- an unpopular move in leftist Berkeley.
Are Colleges Swinging “Right” or Is The Right Swinging Colleges? (tags)
Mainstream media suggests college campuses are becoming more conservative. Is that so, or is that what we’re being led to believe?
Nasty Brutish Americans and Free Mumia Chanting Dildos (tags)
Nasty Brutish Americans and Free Mumia Chanting Dildos
AUDIO: UC Berkeley Talk by Edward Said: PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN (tags)
PALESTINE AND THE UNIVERSALITY OF HUMAN RIGHTS // mp3 for download or streaming
pbnberkeley news notice - 2/5/03 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news notice - 1/27/03 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley new notice - 1/7/03 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/30/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/27/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/20/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR ON IRAQ!
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/13/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity and NO WAR!
pbnberkeley news notice - 12/9/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity WITHOUT WAR!
pbnberkeley news notice - 11/30/02 (tags)
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity!
pbnberkeley news notice - 11/27/02
Publishing, republishing and compiling community news and event information promoting global peace and working class solidarity!
Free Speech Under Attack by Pro-Israel Lobby (tags)
Free Speech Under Attack at Berkeley Law Foundation
MayDay Convergence in SF Bay Area (tags)
May Day: Anti-capitalist Convergence & Autonomous Festivals of Resistance is a week-long series of direct actions, demonstrations, marches and celebrations to oppose Global Capitalism and all forms of oppression.
1999 Letter to LA Weekly re: slanted coverage about Pacifica (tags)
In July 1999, the LA Weekly published an article on the conflict surrounding Pacifica's lockout of the KPFA staff in Berkeley. Though that article was vastly superior in reportage to Ella Taylor's recentwork, then as now, the coverage was slanted and erroneous. This letter was sent to the Weekly in response.
RCP's Bob Avakian Father Judge Avakian Dead at 88 (tags)
Appointed a Superior Court Judge of Alameda County in 1964, he made a landmark ruling abolishing the Alameda County jury selection test that effectively barred African Americans from serving on juries. After retirement from the bench in 1980, he took various Judicial Council assignments.
Desert Movies: Tanks and off-roaders trash CA deserts - SAN DIEGO DEC. 17 (tags)
DEC. 6: Come to this free Southern California screening of 2 new indy films about the US military, off-roaders and their harmful effects on the California Desert.
Another Report From Berkeley (tags)
This is a report from a local activist who went up to Berkeley. It's posted anonymously at their request.
URGENT: AntiWar Action Opportunity supporting Berkeley (tags)
By Supporting Berkeley We Can TURN THIS STORY AROUND!
Despite Death Threats, Berkeley Council Condemns U.S. Bombing of Afghanistan (tags)
Despite death threats, members of the Berkeley City Council Tuesday night voted to urge a quick halt to the U.S. bombing of Afghanistan.
Thousands March Against War in Berkeley (tags)
Thousands of students and community residents marched against war and racist hysteria in Berkeley, CA today. The march ended at the Daily Californian, where an encampment will be held until they apologize for a racist cartoon published this week. See SF Indymedia for more coverage.
KPFK Listeners' Internet Forum (tags)
Five weeks ago the KPFK Listeners' Forum appeared on the internet at: http://disc.server.com/Indices/165346.html The KPFK forum is one of five forums provided for listeners to all of the Pacifica stations: KPFK in Los Angeles; KPFA in Berkeley; WBAI in New York; WPFW in Washington and KPFT in Houston.
BioDevestation at UC Berkeley (tags)
recenlty at sf.indymedia.org we published an article on Novartis and UC Berkeley.
Protest at Taco Bell, June 21st, Pasadena (tags)
Support Florida Tomato Pickers Boycott Taco Bell Protest in front of Taco Bell, 1953 E. Colorado Blvd., Pasadena. June 21. NOON. (at intersection of Berkeley and Colorado, about five blocks east of Pasadena City College)