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Exploring what it looks like to be a neighbor to all Berkeley residents.

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Exploring what it looks like to be a neighbor to all Berkeley residents.

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Highlighting the effects of the Russian invasion on Berkeley students. In particular Ph.D. student Anna Vakarova shares her story.

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Berkeley's iconic Telegraph Avenue is set to undergo a redesign to prioritize pedestrians and public transit.

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Current and prospective students at UC Berkeley react to the court's decision to freeze enrollment and Newsom's subsequent overturning of said ruling.

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After nearly four semesters in effect, UC Berkeley finally lifted its mask mandate for vaccinated students, staff, and faculty earlier this month. While some students are relieved to remove their masks in class, others are more apprehensive.

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In this video, news reporter Lucy Huang investigates the funding crisis in the UC Berkeley Computer Science department and explores potential ways the university could address it.

(Note that the diversity mentioned in the video with regards to the CS department refers to accessibility for undeclared students, non-CS major students, or students who were uncertain about their major choice when entering college.)

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Election day is 4 days away, but voters aren’t wasting any time getting to the polls.

According to the United States Elections Project, more than 6.6 million Americans have already cast their ballots. That’s ten times the number of voters that voted at this time during the 2016 Election.

Within the next several days, eligible voters will continue to show up to the polls to cast their ballots. But one group, in particular, is showing up in record numbers: younger voters.

“My observation is that younger voters are more actively involved than ever before,” explains UC Berkeley professor and former Secretary of Labor, Robert Reich.

The reason? A consequential election following a global pandemic and summer of civil unrest combined with the benefits of mail-in voting.

Reich laments that because younger, college voters are busy with school, face logistical challenges with voter registration, and don’t often want to wait in long lines which have contributed to lower turnout rates in previous elections.

However, with the addition of 2 drop boxes for mail-in ballots on campus and classes canceled on Election day, the barriers that were once there, are reduced.

But voting is just one step. Now it’s up to younger voters to hold politicians accountable.

Reich agrees, saying it’s important we remember that voting is just the start because, “even if you do get the people you want in office, you need to continue to organize and mobilize to make sure they do good things.”

Ritika Kuppam shares with us the experiences of the international students stranded in the struggles of the pandemic.
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Texas power outages have exposed the vulnerabilities of our energy infrastructure. Parker reports the details.

George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Ahmaud Arbery.

Names that have filled streets from Minneapolis, Minnesota to Sydney, Australia as demonstrators continue to protest police brutality.

Wanda Johnson has been fighting for change for more than 12 years after her son, Oscar Grant, was killed.

It was New Year’s Eve in 2009. Bart police officers Anthony Pirone and Johannes Mehserle were responding to reports of a fight. The officers removed an unarmed Oscar Grant from the train and a struggle broke out. Pirone kneeled on Grant’s neck as Mehserle drew his pistol and shot Grant in the back, killing him. The whole scene played out on a cellphone video.

“Until we begin to acknowledge that wrong is wrong we’ll still be right here 10 years from now talking about the same things,” says Johnson.

So, Johnson and her brother, known in the community as Uncle Bobby, started the “Love, not Blood Campaign.” It’s a nonprofit organization that seeks to connect families that have been impacted by police brutality.

“Even as we continue to see people that look like us get murdered in broad daylight, it’s a reminder that our work is too important to stop,” Uncle Bobby says about starting his nonprofit.

He says the organization has helped him get through Grant’s death, explaining, “When George Floyd was murdered. I am George Floyd. When Eric Garner was murdered. I am Eric Garner. And that same embrace of love that gave me the energy to have a voice to speak on behalf of Oscar is that same embrace that continues for me to speak on behalf of Eric Garner. Jacob Blake. George Floyd.”


Johnson has also found her own community, a close-knit group of mothers from around the country who have also lost their children to police violence. They’re using their collective traumas as a form of resiliency.

“Michael Brown’s mother. Eric Garner’s Mother. Trayvon Martin’s Mother. We encourage one another. Sometimes we cry together. Sometimes we laugh together. We all collaborate and talk about the different changes that need to take place.”

And while that road to change seems longer some days as Black Lives Matter demonstrations become more diverse and policing laws begin to change, the Grant family says they have hope of better days so they’ll continue to fight for racial justice with Oscar Grant leading that way.

Through tears, Oscar Grant’s mother remembers her son, “If I could say something to Oscar I would say ‘Boy you know. You’re supposed to be right by my side and we’re supposed to be working together hand in hand making a change but since he’s not here we’re still working together hand in hand making a change.”