Just Students, or Powerful Grassroots Leaders? May 19, 2011 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 [...]

It’s Easy Being Green May 19, 2011 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 [...]

Lessons From Soweto Apr 25, 2011 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*?!!” [...]

Rise of the Blue Tiger: Asian Americans and the Democratic Party Apr 25, 2011 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 [...]

Inappropriations: The House’s Ideological Budget Apr 25, 2011 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 [...]

A Failed Catharsis

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By Daniel Osborn 2008 was a watershed election year. For the first time ever, Americans elected as President a black man, who, in historic fashion, contended with the most competitive and qualified female Presidential candidate ever. In 2008, Hillary Clinton spoke openly and often about her gender, and Barack Obama spoke eloquently and candidly about [...]

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“We’ll Give You the Liberal Media”

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An Interview with Paul Hogarth, Co-Founder of The Smart Ass By Anaïs LaVoie and Zoe Kornberg Paul Hogarth is the Managing Editor of the Bay Area political blog, Beyond Chron. In addition to being a founding member of this magazine and an active member of Cal Berkeley Democrats during his time here at Cal, he [...]

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