Thanks to everyone who’s wondered what’s happened to the Planet in recent weeks. The short answer is that we’ve had a couple of family medical surprises which have occupied my time. I haven’t even ...

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At 1:30 pm the Commission on Aging meets in person. At 6 pm the Planning Commission meets in person. At 6:30 pm the Human Welfare and Community Action Commission meets in person only in a conference ...

Here in Oakland California, we had our own slip into darkness on election day. Our local version of the reactionary backlash in the deep Democrat part of dark Blue California does not conform to the ...

Monday, September 30, 2024 was the long overdue meeting of the Peace and Justice Commission on a “Resolution for an Immediate and Permanent Ceasefire in Gaza, and an End to U.S. Military Aid to Israel ...

The election to fill the vacant District 7 Council position is April 16. City Council Committees except the Agenda and Rules Committee and undefined “certain exceptions” are suspended until May 1.

I often think I should approach writing the Activist’s Diary like plein air painting by picking a .point in time and stopping, but the world and the City keep moving on while I write. I finished Naomi ...

It is with deep sadness that I am reporting that my longtime dear friend and tenant activist Eleanor Walden of Berkeley, passed away last Friday, April 7, 2023. Eleanor, of Redwood Gardens in Berkeley ...

Only a few weeks are left to see Berkeley’s beloved burrowing owl before it departs from its winter home at the water’s edge of Cesar Chavez Park. Whether this rare and beautiful creature will return ...

In the past, some psychologists theorized that schizophrenia passes from one generation to the next because the parents are or were "schizophrenogenic." This was a way of blaming parents for the ...