The droghte of March hath perced to the roote. . Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages. . . The good-humored, almost jovial gathering there, which looked to number in the thousands, was pitched as ...

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Berkeley City Council will take up Gaza ceasefire resolution Monday night After 18 months of protests, a remade city council will debate if it should call for an end to the bombardment of Gaza and ...

Here is a quote I will probably keep coming back to in these uncertain times, “Once you sow ethnic hatred in this country you harvest a willingness among your supporters to be done with democratic ...

While Trump got trounced, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris did not do as well in Berkeley as previous Democratic presidential candidates. Berkeley is not number one in percentage of votes for Harris ...

Government is a disaster in the U.S. But let's refrain from saying the Democrats are horrible, the Republicans are horrible--or refer to any particular politician. The net result is the same: The ...

[Editor’s Note: We believe that “if in doubt about how to vote, ask Margot”. She’s the best candidate for Berkeley’s Assemblymember. As such, she’s been to all the candidate forums, so she’s gotten a ...

the entire consent and action calendar from the November 14, 2023 city council meeting was moved to 9 am on November 21. Most people missed the rescheduling announcement (it was in the Activist’s ...

I often think I should approach writing the Activist’s Diary like plein air painting by picking a .point in time and stopping, but the world and the City keep moving on while I write. I finished Naomi ...

It was another full week and there is plenty to report on what I did attend even though I missed the Cedar Rose Park Renovation, the Solano Business District meeting, the Zero Waste Commission, the ...

If you haven’t been following the Hopkins Corridor Project, the redesign to replace parking with bike lanes along the section of Hopkins with the Monterey Market and locally owned shops has created an ...

In Berkeley (California), there is a struggle against developers for the preservation of People’s Park, a memorial to decades of opposition to police violence and brutality. In Atlanta (Georgia), ...