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Berkeley approved their ‘reimagining public safety’ plan. Why does it include more funding for police?

By Berkeley Copwatch on June 10, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
As Berkeley wraps up discussions of their “reimagining public safety” process, Copwatch asks, why are we continuing to fund a racist police force?

There’s no care in Newsom’s ‘CARE court’ for unhoused people

By Jade Arellano on June 10, 2022
Commentary   Features   Opinion
Newsom has explicitly discussed CARE Court as a tool to address street homelessness. But the only real investments in this proposal are in the court system.

Berkeley is ‘reimagining public safety’ all wrong

By Berkeley Copwatch on May 5, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
In 2020, Berkeley committed to reimagining the role of police. Where are we in that process now?

We need compassion, not code enforcement

By Berkeley Copwatch on April 1, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
The city government works in tandem with police to enforce anti-homeless policies.

The revolving prison door

By Jose Carlos Grant on April 1, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
Home is a crucial component of the stability that keeps communities safe, and people out of prison, Grant writes.

Gov. Newsom says Berkeley advocates are ‘slowing progress’

By Where Do We Go Berkeley on April 1, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
Where Do We Go Berkeley responds to a press release in which Governor Gavin Newsom says the group is "slowing progress" with encampment sweeps.

Ashby/Shellmound: space, place, history

By Alastair Boone on March 1, 2022
Arts and Culture   Commentary   Features
Though the encampment community is disappearing, a sense of place remains in the minds of these six former residents.

King was a revolutionary: the ‘spiritual death’ of our cities

By Cat Brooks on February 11, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
Dr. King’s vision remains light-years away, Brooks writes, as police brutality and homelessness in cities like Oakland continue to ravage our communities.

How Berkeley made it illegal to live in a vehicle

By Berkeley Copwatch on February 11, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
Here are the Berkeley laws effectively make it illegal to live in a vehicle.

‘Nothing’s a dollar’: Why it matters that the Dollar Tree upped its prices

By Andy Pope on February 11, 2022
Commentary   Opinion
There’s something about a “Buck- Twenty-Five Tree” that doesn’t quite have a nice ring to it.

A note on our cover and the year ahead

By Alastair Boone on January 10, 2022
Commentary   Features   Opinion
The images you see were cut from old issues of this newspaper spanning decades, the earliest from 1999 and the latest from just last month.

My teacher lives on a bench

By Janny Castillo on January 10, 2022
Commentary   First-person   Opinion
"This beautiful elder is my teacher. In other parts of the world, she may be considered holy because of her ability to sit in the same place for so long"
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