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		<title>Ron Paul to speak at Cal, raise $$$ in SF Thursday</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 18:08:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul will speak at UC-Berkeley this Thursday evening, addressing “the state of American politics today and … how limited government can solve our country&#8217;s woes.” That’s according to Students for Liberty, a Cal student organization, and Youth for Ron Paul, which are co-sponsoring the 7 p.m. event in the campus’ Zellerbach [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC Berkeley police speak out on Occupy protest</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/28/uc-berkeley-police-speak-out-on-occupy-protest/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:21:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Occupy Cal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporters this morning received an e-mailed statement from Concord political and media consultant Mary Jo Rossi on behalf of the UC Berkeley Police Officers Association regarding officers’ clash with students during the Occupy Cal protest on Nov. 9. Here’s the statement in its entirety; I’ve inserted the video to which I believe it refers. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Law profs blast Birgeneau&#8217;s Occupy Cal response</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/16/law-profs-blast-birgeneaus-occupy-cal-response/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 20:18:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[More than 85 faculty members at the University of California, Berkeley Law School have signed a letter to Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and other administrators condemning the police response to Occupy Cal protesters last week. The Boalt Hall faculty’s letter says police not only instigated violence at Sproul Plaza, but also were “unwarranted and excessive” in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What the Sheriff&#8217;s office said about Occupy Cal</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2011/11/10/what-the-sheriffs-office-said-about-occupy-cal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 06:53:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Berkeley]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Alameda County]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I helped my colleague Matt Krupnick gather some string for our coverage of Occupy Cal today, talking with Alameda County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. J.D. Nelson about decision-making and use of force. Several dozen sheriff&#8217;s deputies had assisted UC Police in dispersing the crowd and making arrests Wednesday on Sproul Plaza. As today’s Occupy Cal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Showdown looms over Berkeley&#8217;s Gitmo invitation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 23:25:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkeley City Council’s consideration this coming Tuesday, Feb. 15, of a resolution offering the city as a site to re-settle some already-cleared Guantanamo Bay terrorism detainees is making waves. The Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission voted Dec. 6 to recommend that the City Council pass such a resolution, which would ask Congress to remove any [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Jewish groups clash in South Berkeley</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/11/15/jewish-groups-clash-in-south-berkeley/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/11/15/jewish-groups-clash-in-south-berkeley/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 00:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two people were pepper-sprayed and police were summoned when pro-Israel activists crashed the meeting of a Jewish peace organization last night in Berkeley. Jewish Voice for Peace says several dozen of its members were meeting in the South Berkeley Senior Center when up to a dozen members of StandWithUs/San Francisco Voice For Israel arrived to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UC Berkeley speakers boycott gains steam</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/05/12/uc-berkeley-speakers-boycott-gains-steam/</link>
		<comments>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/05/12/uc-berkeley-speakers-boycott-gains-steam/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 19:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Add State Senate Education Committee Chairwoman Gloria Romero, D-Los Angeles, to the list of speakers who have withdrawn from commencement activities at the University of California, Berkeley due to ongoing labor strife. Romero, also a candidate for state Superintendent of Public Instruction, had been scheduled to keynote the UC Berkeley Latino Student ceremony this Saturday; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Toilet-paper prank targets Cal&#8217;s John Yoo</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/04/20/toilet-paper-prank-targets-cals-john-yoo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 22:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the many activists protesting University of California, Berkeley law professor John Yoo – who as a Justice Department lawyer helped build a legal framework for the “enhanced interrogation” techniques many now consider to be torture and for other perceived Bush Administration transgressions – has found a, well, creative new way to voice displeasure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Protestors can&#8217;t find Yoo, but Jon Stewart did</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2010/01/12/protestors-cant-find-yoo-but-jon-stewart-did/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:46:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Protestors’ targeting of Cal law professor and former Bush administration lawyer and torture-memo author John Yoo has taken an almost comical turn into cat-and-mouse territory: They want to keep disrupting his classes, but they can’t find him. Yoo is teaching a Tuesday-evening class this semester on “Constitutional Design and the California Constitution,” but Boalt Hall’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>John Yoo asks that torture lawsuit be dismissed</title>
		<link>http://www.ibabuzz.com/politics/2009/11/10/john-yoo-asks-that-torture-lawsuit-be-dismissed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:25:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Josh Richman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[University of California, Berkeley Boalt Hall Law School Professor John Yoo – widely recognized as an architect of Bush Administration policies on torture and detainee rights – has filed a brief asking the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to toss a lawsuit filed by a former prisoner. American citizen Jose Padilla claims Yoo, an [...]]]></description>
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