Archive for December, 2014

Berkeley’s Avenue of Thrills

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene on December 24th, 2014 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Dec. 23, 2014

ONE WEEK, RIOTS–THEN TELEGRAPH RETURNS TO “NORMAL”

Doris Moskowitz cleans up Moe's after recent protests. Photo by Ted Friedman.

Tienda Ho, formerly a few doors from Berkeley’s oldest espresso, was a classy womens’ clothes shop with a branch in Santa Barbara. “Our Berkeley customers were intimidated by the neighborhood,” a Ho owner told espresso, explaining Ho’s decision to close its Berkeley location on a block of Telegraph Ave. swollen with transients.

The Ho Location recently opened as an artsy tea purveyor. Trouble followed, last week, when an unstable Telegraph habitué harassed a tea-shop customer and followed her to the Caffe Mediterraneum.
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FIRST LOOK AT TACTICS IN BERKELEY’S FUCK THE SYSTEM PROTESTS

Posted in Occupy Berkeley, The Berkeley Scene on December 15th, 2014 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Dec. 15, 2014

OCCUPY CAL REVIVES TO JOIN NATIONAL PROTESTS

Day 7, Cal Berkeley Black students--historic march through the affluent Elmwood District. Photo by Ted Friedman.

One week of protests do not a movement make. Unless this week’s protests have DNA from the long-running occupy movement of 2012–which first roused long-silent Cal Berkeley students to renewed activism.

This reporter has logged at least 30 miles walking with protestors as a photo-journalist.
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3rd Time Was The Best Time: Berkeley 4-Days of Protest

Posted in Telegraph Avenue, The Berkeley Scene, The Global Scene Through Berkeleyan Eyes on December 10th, 2014 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Dec. 9, 2014

2 NIGHTS OF VIOLENCE REDRESSED BY CAL

Photo by Ted Friedman.

“The whole system is corrupt; shut it down”–a popular protest chant

Moni Law, a Berkeley activist/attorney, spoke at the start of the first night of a three-night [Update: four night] protest against questionable police tactics exonerated by grand juries.
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