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Dream Team: Desiree Rogers, Van Jones and Gavin Newsom?

Alexia Parks | Posted 05.25.2011 | Impact
Read More: John F. Kennedy, White House, Banks, New Economy, Ecotopia, Dream Job, Economy, President Barack Obama, UC Berkeley, Washington DC, Jobs, Obama, Business, Van Jones, California, Uc-Berkeley, Gavin Newsom, Finance, Desiree Rogers, San Francisco, Financial Crisis, Jfk, Business News, Stanford University, Silicon Valley, Impact News
Alexia Parks

Should Americans be looking west to San Francisco and cities ringing the San Francisco Bay as the new ecotopia?

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COLUMN: Dude, This is Just Like the '60s

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: The West, UC Berkeley, Daily Californian, University of California, Berkeley Protests, Berkeley, Protests, College News

I was walking across Sproul Plaza when I heard the following proclamation: "I don't actually go here. I just came to Berkeley to fuel the revolution."...

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Interrogation Memos Author Spurs Protest At Berkeley

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: University of California Berkeley, Berkeley Protest, John Yoo, UC Berkeley, The West, John Yoo Panel, John Yoo Protest, Daily Californian, College News

Protesters stationed themselves at Boalt Hall School of Law yesterday to protest Law Professor John Yoo's moderation of a debate about the meaning of ...

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March 4: Students, Professor Hurt (WATCH)

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Protest Videos, California Protest Videos, March 4, Student Day of Action, Police Brutality, Cal State, UC Berkeley, Cops Protesters California, The West, Protesters Beaten, UC Davis, California Student Protests, Cal State Northridge, Student Protest Videos, California Protests, Video, College News

**UPDATED: An earlier version of this story reported that Karren Baird Olson was injured during a protest at California State University in Fullerton....

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Post-Protest, UC Berkeley Split On How To Move Forward

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Student Activism, Student Day of Action, Student Protest, UC Budget Crisis, Berkeley Protest, UC Berkeley, Uc Berkeley Protest, The West, College News

Tens of thousands united March 4 in support of public education, but the UC Berkeley community remains divided as to whether to direct efforts toward ...

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Student Activists Beaten After Rally On Interstate (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

HuffPost Citizen Reporting | Brandon Jourdan & David Martinez | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: March 4 Oakland, California State University, March 4, Los Angeles Protests, Los Angeles Student Day of Action, Berkeley Student Day of Action, March 4 Berkeley, UC Berkeley, The West, Eyes and Ears, Interstate 980, Highway 980 Student Day of Action, Berkeley Protests, Activism, Student Protest, College News, San Francisco Protest, College Student Day of Action, San Francisco March 4, March 4 California, University of California System, California Budget Crisis, Berkeley March 4, College Protest, California Protests, Video, College News

Produced by HuffPost's Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the stree...

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Day Of Action: TOP MOMENTS

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: UC San Diego, March 4 Oakland, March 4, Los Angeles Student Day of Action, Los Angeles Protests, University of California System, Ucla, Berkeley Student Day of Action, March 4 Berkeley, California Protests, Berkeley Protests, The West, UC Berkeley, Ucsc, UC Santa Cruz, California State University, Student Day of Action, Student Protest, College Student Day of Action, UC Irvine, March 4 California, California Budget Crisis, College Protest, Uc Riverside, Highway 980, San Francisco Protest, Mark Yudof, San Francisco March 4, Berkeley March 4, College News

Though yesterday's California-born Day of Action to Defend Public Education became a national event, activity was anchored in the Golden State. The st...

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March 4: Daily Californian Journalist Arrested On The Job

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: UC Berkeley Protests, University of California-Berkeley, Student Day of Action Berkeley, March 4, Student Day of Action, Cameron Burns Arrest, Daily Cal Arrest, California Protests, Daily Californian Arrest, Cameron Burns Daily Californian, Oakland Highway Arrest, Oakland Arrest, Cameron Burns, UC Berkeley, Berkeley Protests, The West, College News

A student journalist from The Daily Californian is awaiting release from jail Friday after being arrested while filming Thursday's demonstrations. ...

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Racial Breakdown of the LARGEST California PUBLIC Colleges

Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: San Francisco State University, University of California, California, College, California Budget Cuts, The South, The Midwest, Ucla, San Jose State University, Slidepollajax, UC Berkeley, College Tuition, UC Davis, The North, The West, College News

Students are rallying across the country today in protest of rising tuition fees and increasing budget cuts in public colleges. And it all began in ...

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How Sports Attacks Public Education

Dave Zirin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Sports
Read More: Sports, Day of Action to Defend Public Education, Public Education, UC Berkeley, University of Maryland, Jeff Tedford, National-Day-of-Action, College Sports, Sports News
Dave Zirin

This is the world that students see every day: boosters and alumni come first, while they've been instructed to cheer their teams, pay their loans, and mind their business.

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Day Of Action Dawns With Excitement; Protests Underway

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, March 4, Ucla, March 4 Day of Action, UC Berkeley, Csu, The West, Uc, Higher Education Protests, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Day of Action to Defend Public Education, Berkeley, Sacramento Protests, Day of Action, UC Fullerton, California Protests, College News

Students, professors, teachers and unions around the country will organize today to protest America's imperiled education system with more than 100 ev...

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Day Of Action UPDATE: At March 4 Protests Rowdy CA Students, Reportedly Armed, Block Campus

AP | TERENCE CHEA | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: UC Santa Cruz, San Francisco State, March 4, March 4 Protests, Ucla, March 4 Day of Action, UC Berkeley, Csu, The West, Uc, Higher Education Protests, UC Santa Barbara, UC San Diego, Day of Action to Defend Public Education, College News, Berkeley, Sacramento Protests, Day of Action, UC Fullerton, California Protests, College News

BERKELEY, Calif. — Students staged raucous rallies to protest education funding cuts on college campuses nationwide Thursday, but some demonstra...

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California Readies For Day Of Action

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Statewide Day of Action, Statewide Protest, UC Santa Cruz, March 4, Ucla, March 4 Day of Action, UC Berkeley, The West, Sacramento Lobby, UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, California Protest, University of California, UC Protest, March 4 Strike and Day of Action, Berkeley Protest, Student Day of Action, Day of Action to Defend Education, UC System, Sacramento Protest, UC Davis, College News

University of California students are gearing up for Thursday, Mar. 4, the state's designated Student Day of Action to protest higher education budget...

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Five UC Students Arrested Lobbying At Capitol

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: UC Arrests, UC Santa Cruz, UC Riots, Ucla, Mark Yudof Budget Crisis, UC Berkeley, UC Rally, Mark Yudof, Daily Californian, Arnold Schwarzenegger, UC Budget Cuts, California State Budget, UC Santa Barbara, Filiberto Nolasco, UC San Diego, The West, UC Protests, Student Day of Action, UC System, UC Budget Crisis, Jim Nielsen, UC Tuition Increases, California Arrests, California Higher Ed, California Budget Crisis, California Education, College News

While hundreds of students rallied in the state Capitol Monday, five students were arrested during the UC Student Association's annual lobbying day or...

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The College Insider: Admissions Freak-Out Countdown #13: Deja Vu All Over Again, As UCs Protest

Karen Stabiner | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: UC Berkeley, California Budget Crisis, Living, Free Speech, The College Insider, College Tuition, California, The Balanced Life, Healthy Living News
Karen Stabiner

Last week, what was supposed to be a party turned into the full monty, protest-wise: flaming dumpsters, cops, and the occupation of a building, all in protest of a thirty-plus percent tuition hike for UC students.

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Berkeley RIOT: Fire, Destruction

The Huffington Post | Leah Finnegan | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Riots in Berkeley, Berkeley Riot News, Durant Hall, UC Berkeley, The West, The Daily Californian, Ucsd, Higher Ed Protests, Berkeley Protests, Student Day of Action, UC System, UC Irvine, University of California System, Berkeley Riot, Berkeley Riot 2010, The Daily Californian Riots, California Budget Crisis, Univeristy of California Berkeley, Zachary Miller, Riot Berkeley, Marika Goodrich, Video, College News

Overnight, an impromptu riot to protest budget cuts and tuition increases at the University of California-Berkeley snowballed to include more than 200...

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Clinton: 'You Have To Be Willing To Put Yourself On The Line'

The Daily Californian | Posted 05.25.2011 | College
Read More: Bill Clinton, Clinton Global Initiative, Bill Clinton Speech, University of California Berkeley, The West, Bill Clinton Talk, Daily Californian, Daily Cal, Uc-Berkeley, College News

Former President Bill Clinton came to the UC Berkeley campus Wednesday to speak on the need for innovative action as a means to combat poverty in an i...

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Will This Study Finally End Democrats' Magical Thinking About the 'Cadillac Tax'?

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011 | Politics
Read More: Health Excise Tax, UC Berkeley, Ken Jacobs, Excise Tax, Cadillac Tax, Health Reform, Unions, Barack Obama, Politics News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

Zombie ideas -- like the Cadillac tax and trickle-down economics -- are hard to kill. If they sound good to you the first time you hear them, then you fall in love with them.

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Green Makes Green ($): How Sustainability Creates Jobs

Jonathan Kim | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Wind Power, Thomas Friedman, Economics for Equity and Environment, Carbon Emissions, University of California Berkeley, Green Jobs, UC Berkeley, Green, Jobs, Wind Energy, Green Energy, Pollution, AB 32, Hsbc, Energy Efficiency, Union of Concerned Scientists, Pew Research Center, Green Economy, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Pew Charitable Trusts, China, Green News
Jonathan Kim

Dirty energy companies are fighting to be the last of the dinosaurs, forestalling the inevitable day when they join the fossils that created their fortunes.

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Parenting Advice: Staying Together For The Kids?

Christine Carter, PhD | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Psychology, Parenting, Relationships, Children, Judith Wallerstein, Sociology, Christine Carter, UC Berkeley, Healthy Living News
Christine Carter, PhD

When couples aren't getting along, their irritation or anger with each other often spills over into their relationships with their children. They suffer the consequences.

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Smart Profs, Teabagger Administrators -- UC Berkeley Proposes Shutting Invaluable Water Library

Patrick McCully | Posted 05.25.2011 | Green
Read More: Water, Tax Cuts, Teabaggers, UC Berkeley, International Rivers, Water Resources Library Uc Berkeley, California Budget Cuts, Green News
Patrick McCully

This is intellectual vandalism in keeping with the know-nothing, no-tax tendencies of the teabagging conservatives, but surely not of UC Berkeley administrators.

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Jon Stewart Questions John Yoo, Author Of 'Crisis and Command', On Legality Of Torture (VIDEO)

Comedy Central | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Crisis and Command, Books, The Daily Show, Jon Stewart, John Yoo Torture, John Yoo, Guantanamo, UC Berkeley, CIA Torture, Terrorists, Terrorism, Waterboarding, Books News

Jon Stewart's interview with Bush's former Deputy Assistant Attorney General John Yoo, about his book "Crisis and Command" was an uncomfortable one. I...

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Ralph Anspach: Monopoly Game's Creator Spent Decades Fighting Corporate Owner

Wall Street Journal | MARY PILON | Posted 05.25.2011 | Home
Read More: Monopoly History, Economics, UC Berkeley, Monopoly, Origins, History of Monopoly, Ralph Anspach, Great Depression, Monopoly Game, Landlord's Game, Monopoly Board Game, Hasbro, Supreme Court, Elizabeth Magie, Economist, Professor Anspach, Parker Brothers, Home News

Ralph Anspach, an 83-year-old economics professor, spent decades locked in a real-life battle with Monopoly and its corporate owners. The campaign den...

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How to Make Your Alma Mater Matter in LA

Sylvia Sukop | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Read More: Holiday Spirit, Volunteering, Giving Back, Alumni, Bucknell University, Posse Foundation, Youth Activism, College Scholarships, Public Education, Grinnell College, Kalamazoo College, Ucla, Tulane University, UC Berkeley, Dickinson College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, PEN Center USA, Los Angeles News
Sylvia Sukop

You went to college back East, down South, or in the Midwest and whether you're five or 25 years out, now that you live in Los Angeles your relationsh...

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Hot New Social Network, PhoneBook, Could Be Game-Changer

Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Comedy
Read More: Borowitz Report, Andy Borowitz, Twitter, Social Networking, Google Buzz, UC Berkeley, Facebook, Silicon Valley, Comedy News
Andy Borowitz

A new social network is about to alter the playing field of the social media world, and it's called PhoneBook.

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