After 18 months of protests, a remade city council will debate if it should call for an end to the bombardment of Gaza and military aid to Israel.

The future of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) is at risk following recent statements and actions by Elon Musk, who claims President Trump has agreed to shut the agency down. Musk ...

Yom Kippur Jewish Holiday begins at sundown Friday, October 11 and ends at nightfall on Saturday, October 12. The next City Council meeting is October 15 at 6 pm. The agenda is available for review ...

On my kitchen wall there’s a poster with a slogan from World War II Britain: “Keep Calm and Carry On.” In the wake of the recent presidential debate (also known as The Debacle), pundit wannabes could ...

On July 21, Joe Biden announced that he was passing the presidential torch after four tremendous years (and several tempestuous weeks). In reply, the activist org MoveOn, published a note of ...

Berkeley City Hall’s efforts to enable the University of California's expansion in Berkeley have taken a new turn. Having already facilitated the school’s colonization of residential areas in ...

Now that I have been so slow to finish off this Activist’s Diary and fallen into covering two weeks of meetings, it feels like the world has shifted again. Trump’s visit with Viktor Orban at ...

After multiple stops and starts, I hope to finally get this off my desk. It has taken nearly three weeks from my first day of COVID episode two (the first was Delta in 2021) to feel normal again. I am ...

Two disturbing responses to last night's City Council meeting. The first, Sophie Hahn's shocking statement at Kate Harrison's resignation. Ms Harrison carefully delineated her principled stand in her ...

Update: Councilmember Harrison has informed the Planet that she is continuing her campaign for Mayor of Berkeley. The election for that office is in November. I have decided to resign from the ...

Russian-born pianist Daniil Trifonov exhibits what can only be called wizardry, for no matter what music he plays, Trifonov turns it to gold. I have heard Trifonov play Chopin, Rachmaninoff, Bach, ...

A crowd showed up at City Council on October 2, 2023. It was a new crowd, a young crowd, full of people who hadn’t been there before. And many of them appeared to be new to council’s procedures. There ...