UC Berkeley

Young immigrants torn between their future and their families

Luis Flores — Thu, 02 May 2013 01:13:38 +0000

Tucked away in the student center at University of California Berkeley, the Undocumented Student Program is designed to be a national model. It makes college possible for students without legal status.

Arts/Culture/Weekend: Goats, poetry, and Cuban dance

Steven Short — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:25:08 +0000

THURSDAY

Poems Under the Dome // Go to San Francisco's City Hall to celebrate National Poetry Month. It’s an open-mike event, so bring something to recite, or just listen. It’ll be sheer poetry in either case. // DETAILS: Poems Under the Dome, City Hall, San Francisco, April 18, 5:30pm. Cost: FREE

FRIDAY

Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for June 18, 2012

Zoe Brezsny — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:51:03 +0000

(SF Bay Guardian) // Creative, artistically minded people are leaving San Francisco in search of affordable housing in the East Bay. Oakland is fast becoming the new hip location for the working class and young artists driven out of San Francisco by sky-rocketing rents. Oakland City Council member Rebecca Kaplan says those moving into Oakland and surrounding East Bay cities are of many different ethnicities including Ethiopian, Eritrean, and Vietnamese...

Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for June 11, 2012

Lisa Ratner — Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:16:13 +0000

(LA Times) // High-Speed Rail construction is facing challenges over its environmental impact on both air quality and endangered species.

Connecting the Dots: Top news stories for June 7, 2012

Isaac Silk — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 21:21:24 +0000

(San Jose Mercury News) // There are still 1 million votes left to tally in the vote for Proposition 29, the San Jose Mercury News projects a loss for the proposed cigarette tax hike. A vast majority of the votes left uncounted come from districts in the southern part of the state, where there was less support for the initiative to raise the state tax on packs of cigarettes to $1...