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That diverse coalition was on glorious display at a July 31 rally in the city's Martin Luther King Park. More than 10,000 people turned out for the rally, the largest in Berkeley since the Vietnam War, the San Francisco Chronicle reported. Political cross-pollination was the rule. Tables set up around the perimeter advertised the Sierra Club, the Peace and Freedom Party, the Police Review Commission and even the Rally to Prevent Y2K Catastrophe...
Progressives at Harvard could take a page from the Berkeley playbook. Hundreds of people backing each other's causes is more impressive than small handfuls at isolated candlelight vigils and demonstrations. In that vein, the Rally for Justice in March was an important step. Conservatives criticized the rally which linked the Progressive Students Labor Movement, the Coalition against Sexual Violence and the Living Wage Campaign, for bringing together causes that had nothing in common. But it's no accident that the Rally for Justice made CNN and The New York Times and brought students' complaints to the fore...
...Here in Berkeley, Pacifica finally relented a bit last week allowing staff to return to their building and restart programming as usual. Activists caution that the battle over the station is far from finished. They are planning another rally for this weekend. But with the left united behind it, KPFA's future is looking brighter than before...
Most of the country, that is, except for Berkeley, the city that invented the Sixties. This university town across the bay from San Francisco may be the only place in America where a cry of "power to the people" isn't hopelessly outmoded and ironic. Berkeley's storied liberalism is still in evidence: On the campus of the University of California, for instance, a marker on Sproul Plaza declares the spot "shall not be a part of any nation...
...surprising, then, that the newest battle for Berkeley's left may provide an inspiration for liberals nationwide. In recent weeks, an escalating controversy over KPFA, the Bay Area's pioneering non-commercial radio station and a Berkeley institution, has rallied the far-flung factions of activists under a single banner. That newfound unity proves that the left can have a powerful voice, if only those factions attempt to speak...