East Bay advocates reflect on immigration enforcement surge that wasn’t
Protesters gather in Oakland near the bridge to Coast Guard Island, which is situated in the channel between…
Neighbors paint street mural on Halloween to celebrate community
Dozens of Berkeley neighbors spent Friday painting a colorful sanctuary-themed street mural on the 1700 block of Virginia…
Feds rounded up immigrants and held them on Coast Guard Island in 1980s
Undocumented immigrants wait to be deported on Coast Guard Island, then called Government Island, on April 27, 1982.…
Berkeley, Oakland residents bracing for delay in SNAP benefits in November
Toward the end of the month, Lawrence Jeffries usually has about $200 left. The former auto painter lives…
UC Berkeley student found guilty of stealing chickens from Perdue
Animal rights activist Zoe Rosenberg, who is on trial for taking four chickens from one of Perdue Farms’…
A federal agent shot a pastor in the face with toxic chemicals. What can be done?
Rev. Jorge Bautista showed up to Dennison Road in East Oakland early in the morning of Oct. 23…
Trick-or-treating, Murder Ballads Bash, horror rave
Community altar outside of La Peña Cultural Center’s DÃa de los Muertos event in 2022, where neighbors and…
Berkeley City Council OK’s plan to close police radio traffic to public
Berkeley police will soon encrypt all its radio communications, in part, they say, to protect officers responding to…
Berkeley to ICE: Stay off city property
A federal agent pushes a protester at the entrance to Coast Guard Island last Thursday. With federal immigration…
Bayer evicts homeless encampment from street Berkeley gave it
A Berkeley police officer speaks last week with Robert Piraino Sr., who lived in an encampment on a…
Berkeley school district puts new restrictions on cellphones
Berkeley High School teacher Hasmig Minassian has already instituted a cellphone ban, requiring her students to place their…
Berkeley High cancels DÃa de los Muertos amid fears of ICE raids
A community altar at a DÃa de los Muertos festival in Fruitvale in 2021. Credit: Citizen reporter The…