By Micky Duxbury In 2021, Maurice Monk lay motionless for three days in his Alameda County jail cell. Body camera videos showed sheriff’s deputies and nurses from Wellpath, the for-profit jail healthcare company, throwing his meals and medications through a…
Berkeley Speaks comment: A grassroots lawsuit against the City of Berkeley for violations of the California open meetings law (Ralph M. Brown Act) has won on appeal. Background: For months beginning in October 2023, the beginning of the intense bombardment…
The Ongoing Struggle for Climate Justice A year ago in the Fall 2024 edition of Berkeley Speaks, we wrote about Measure GG, or “Go Green!” This measure would have taxed owners of the large buildings in Berkeley for the climate…
By a UC Berkeley student “Everyone told me Berkeley had our backs” For years, the University of California system has presented itself as a place that would protect vulnerable students from hostile government action. In September 2017, the University of…
By Lily It was a quiet, misty morning on October 3, 2025, when a group of UC Berkeley students and union members gathered around Hearst Mining Circle and Oppenheimer Way. California governor Gavin Newsom was to appear at Campbell Hall…
In the space of one day, Thursday October 23, immigration authorities set up camp at the Coast Guard Station in the city of Alameda, preparing for a wave of sweeps across the Bay Area. The president threatened to send National…