Protests, Rallies, and Marches Attend a protest by joining others on the streets to fight collectively for a cause. Marches are held often across the Bay Area and are a straightforward way to get involved.
Ranked-choice voting is an election system where voters rank candidates by preference, as opposed to choosing only one candidate, as the current “winner take all” system requires.
On November 3, 2020, Berkeley residents and Americans alike went to the polls to cast their votes in local, state, and national elections. By election day, the majority of voters had already voted early, either by mail or in person.
The expansion or “packing” of the Supreme Court has been long debated. The most recent attempt at doing so was made by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1937.
Over the past four years, one of Donald Trump’s miscellaneous obsessions has been eliminating voter fraud. To the uninitiated, this sounds completely reasonable.
Berkeley has often planted the seeds of global social change, ranging from the Free Speech Movement led by University of California Berkeley students to the more recent tax on soda.
Wayne Hsiung is the spitting image of the media’s portrayal of Berkeley citizens. A vegan animal rights activist with a record of fighting against injustice, Hsiung has an impressive ability to unite people.
At this pivotal moment before the election, many people are questioning how we got to this point. How can the democracy that we value so highly have brought us here, to where more than 200,000 people have died of a single virus, and over 8,500 wildfires have burned in California since the beginning of the
Young people are the ones leading the fight for political reform. From the students who refused to obey segregation laws in Greensboro in 1960, to the thousands of children who walked out of school to demand gun reform in 2018, social and political progress has always been driven by youth.
Naomi Monahan Miller A senior in Communication Arts and Sciences, Naomi Monahan Miller, shared that this year’s election makes her feel both hopeful and terrified.
How to Register to VoteRegistering to vote is simple. Visit IWillVote.com to find out how and where to register. You can register online in California as long as you have your California driver’s license or California identification card number and know the last four digits of your social security number.
The privilege of voting in a free and fair election has been squandered by all but 36 percent of young voters in recent years, according to statistics from the US Census.
The importance of voting has been a major topic of discussion as the 2020 election draws nearer. Being ineligible to vote does not mean that students cannot participate in the election.
Two thousand protesters gathered on Market Street in San Francisco for the October 17 Women’s March. Across the country, citizens in cities such as Los Angeles and Washington D.C.
Proposition 14: Prop. 14 would continue to fund California’s stem cell research by allowing the state to borrow up to 5.5 billion dollars. Proponents argue that investing in stem cell research could lead to breakthrough medical treatments for Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, epilepsy, cancer, and strokes.
