By Anais LaVoie During the first weekend in April, students from Cal Berkeley Democrats, CALPIRG, and College Democrats at UCSC gathered at UC Berkeley for a Campus Camp Wellstone training. Campus Camp Wellstone is a two-day intensive training on grassroots organizing, based on the strategies of the late Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone. We spent the [...]
By Maxim Levet and Emily Koppel At UC Berkeley, many of us would like to consider ourselves environmentalists: we recycle, print double-sided, and carry reusable water bottles, among many other things. However, the student groups we participate in, by printing thousands of flyers and generating hundreds of pounds in waste every year, often fall short [...]
By Mia Pskowski The most difficult part about coming home after a semester or year of study abroad is not the culture shock, the sadness of leaving behind a new home, or even the return to the more intense academic standards of Berkeley; it is answering the dreaded, vague question, “How was *insert country here*?!!” [...]
By Chasel Lee The 2010 census results paint a rapidly changing demographic picture for California. Asians are the fastest growing racial group in the state, increasing 31.5% in between censuses to almost 4.8 million people, or 12.8% of the state population. Asian American population growth occurred over the entire state, in both traditional regions such [...]
By Tom Hughes As hectic as it may be, the battle over the federal budget gives us a window into the minds of our country’s key political players. A budget expresses our values, quite literally; it shows the amount we value everything the government does in plain dollar terms. So now that the madness is [...]
By Michael Manset On January 22, 2009, only two days into his presidency, Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13492, which called for the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facilities no later than one year after the signing. January 22, 2010 came and went, as did January 22, 2011, and yet the detention camps at [...]
By Jonathan Uriarte March 23rd marks the one-year anniversary of healthcare reform, a significant step forward for the American middle class and a monumental achievement for the Democratic leadership of our time. However, a year later we still feel the sting of the bitter political battles—the most notable casualties being the loss of the Democratic [...]
Photo courtesy of Alain McLaughlin and the Office of Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi By Paula Villescaz This March marks the one year anniversary of the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, otherwise known as the 2010 Healthcare Reform Bill. The bill brought sweeping provisions to an American healthcare system very much in [...]
