BERKELEY With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as the heart of organizing efforts and community aid. Instead, community members showed up on Friday to the nearby Amoeba Music at the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street, which one activist on the scene, Aiden Hill–a Food Not Bombs volunteer and former vice-chair of Berkeley’s Homeless Commission–found to be a good metaphor for the People’s Park protest movement, since amoebas move freely and alter their shape. Hill, who helped […]
BERKELEY — With People’s Park successfully walled off by a fortress of double-stacked shipping containers following an overnight hostile takeover, activists lost the base that for years had served as the heart of organizing efforts and community aid. Instead, community members showed up on Friday to the nearby Amoeba Music at the corner of Telegraph […]
On Jan. 5, First Friday @ First Presbyterian will feature pianist Darren Luft, who will present a program of Contemporary Christian keyboard music. The concert is from 12:05 to 12:35 p.m. at the church at South Fourth and Ash Streets, and it is free and open to the public. It will be performed both in […]