...migrant men and women were to exploit their children for citizenship status, they will effectively be punished with a ten-year separation from their families. Moreover, according to a 2010 report by University of California, Berkeley and University of California, Davis, when undocumented parents were deported, their children, who had permanent residencies, had no choice but to go along. “We are de facto deporting American citizens,” points out R...
...response to a question about the possible outcomes if Grutter gets overturned Bollinger said there would be “major consequences” for higher education and pointed to the low numbers of African-American students at places like Berkeley, where race is not taken into account because of California’s Proposition 209....
...nd a proud Republican, as are many of our members. But we are not about ideology, we are about working together. Rush Limbaugh doesn’t have any interest in people working together so I’m not surprised that he would attack us. Berkeley Political Review: Has the Tucson Shooting affected your movement? Do you think that it takes unfortunate tragedies like this to make Americans realize the importance of bipartisanship, even if the Tucson shooting wa...
...re murdering thousands of people in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Pakistan as we talk. The French writer Jean Genet once said, when asked about the Weathermen, “The Weathermen have little bombs, the U.S. has big bombs.” Berkeley Political Review: Looking back at your time with Weather Underground, what are you most proud of? MR: I’m proud of very little having to do with the Weather Underground. It was completely misguided. On the oth...
...w. Best of all, many of the fears of financial ruin have been largely dispelled—employment and profits have not been effected. According to a study by Ken Jacobs, the Chair of the Labor Center at the University of California, Berkeley quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, businesses have seen no negative consequences since the implementation of the HSF’s employer mandate in 2008: “the city’s growth rate across all employment sectors was similar...
...of Uighurs to discuss and plan new strategies to help save the Uighur people from Chinese assimilation. We will present our new plan of action in February 2011. A Uighur protest in Berlin. PHOTO COURTESY of Wikimedia Commons Berkeley Political Review: There has been much talk in American academia in recent years of the need for a more open and democratic China. While government officials in China have generally proven highly reluctant toward thi...
...ce their opposition to the murky and diffused phenomenon of globalization. A group of Columbia students from Students for Global Justice, an ad hoc group under the Columbia Student Solidarity Network (CSSN), collaborated with Berkeley students to organize a counter-summit to the WEF. They planned the counter-summit, they say, to educate people about the repercussions of what they call “neoliberal economics.” The ramifications of globalization are...
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