After two years of continuous effort in research, agitation and direct action, the organizers of the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) celebrated a landmark organizing victory in late June. Their “Mask ...

Free expression on campuses, a right established through student activism in the 1960s, now faces legal and political pressures at universities. A look at the Free Speech Movement in1964 at UC ...

Hundreds of people gathered on the University of California, Berkeley campus Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s latest attack on academic freedom. They stood before the famed steps named ...

“While many people can be leaders, it takes an extraordinary person to show others how to lead.” Those were the words spoken by Sonoma State University alumna Mette Adams. She used them to describe ...

Good morning, it’s Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2024. Sixty years ago today, 814 demonstrators, most of them students, were arrested at the University of California, Berkeley and hauled off to jail in nearby ...

The owner of a small medical office south of UC Berkeley wants to replace it with a 63-unit apartment complex in a newly rezoned part of the East Bay city. Studio KDA Architects has filed plans on ...

Mario Savio was born in New York City and graduated at the top of his high school class. He attended Manhattan College and Queens College before moving to Berkeley. In 1964 he travelled to Mississippi ...

A June 18 Letter to the Editor included the following “lament”: “The hypocrisy of the protesters to demand compassion and justice for the people of Gaza, while showing no compassion and inflicting ...

Now that Cal has the go-ahead from the State Supreme Court to build student housing in People’s Park I thought of Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the ’64 Free Speech Movement who was also for ...

“Just because you have the right to say something doesn’t mean it’s right to say,” said Carol Christ, who is retiring as chancellor at the end of this month. By Kurt Streeter Reporting from the ...