By Julia Kuchman, staff writer 2012 marks fifty years since United Farm Workers (UFW) was founded, a key union that has advocated farm worker rights. Numerous UFW campaigns, boycotts and acts of civil disobedience— beginning with the 1965 Delano Grape Strike— have drawn the suffering of farm working communities from rural back roads into statewide discussion. But in the years [...]
California Reeling – Can the Golden State piece itself back together?
by Alex Kravitz, Opinion Editor ~~~~ U.S. politicians cry wolf about China because it suits them in their quest to govern domestically.
Compromise reached between Governor’s Tax Initiative and Millionaire’s Tax Proposal By Julia Kuchman, staff writer In the first week of April Governor Jerry Brown announced he was suspending signature-gathering on a tax referendum he had proposed to decrease the state budget deficit, instead supporting a compromise measure with proponents of a more progressive “Millionaire’s Tax.” Shifting his support to [...]
A Retrospective By Hanene Saidi, photographer; Elena Kempf, California editor Tunisian photographer and graphic designer Hanene Saidi captured the big feelings and little details of her home country’s uprising in the quest for democracy like few others. Now, in light of the happenings of April 9th when citizens and the military clashed again on the capital’s main boulevard Avenue Habib [...]
As prudish and as puritan as this will inevitably sound, the problem lies not in the amount, but in the principle. The proposition was ultimately shut down for its violation of an obscure ASUC bylaw, yes, but this is merely a trivial detail of an initiative with a much larger fundamental problem.
A report on the November 18th pepper spray incident was released on Wednesday, April 11. The report finds fault with how the UC Davis police handled the situation, as well as with the leadership of school officials.
A true crime drama of murder and politics in the Middle Kingdom ~~~ by Alex Kravitz, Opinion Editor ~~~ A Chinese Lord & Lady Macbeth conspire to enhance their wealth and power, murder a British expatriate with dirt on them to keep him silent, and are betrayed by their former police chief.
An Opportunity to Reform U.S. Agriculture By Wil Mumby, staff writer On April 5, Wheeler Hall played host to a panel on the U.S. Farm Bill. The bill has, historically, been the centerpiece of U.S. food policy and continues to have lasting impacts on the livelihoods of farmers, the health of the Americans, and the state of the environment. Gordon [...]
Less than a year after the assassination of Osama Bin Laden, Al-Qaeda has been given a new lease of life in the form of an eager and frustrated sub-Saharan Africa. Although 2011 was a year of much promise--4 out of 10 of the world’s fastest growing economies were in Africa--the reality across the Sahelian border remains largely the same as countries juggle the precarious balance between sparse areas of rapid industrialization and large expanses of extreme poverty.
By Julia Kuchman, staff writer 2012 marks fifty years since United Farm Workers (UFW) was founded, a key union that has advocated farm worker rights. Numerous UFW campaigns, boycotts and acts of civil disobedience— beginning with the 1965 Delano Grape Strike— have drawn the suffering of farm working communities from rural back roads into statewide discussion. But in the years [...]
An Opportunity to Reform U.S. Agriculture By Wil Mumby, staff writer On April 5, Wheeler Hall played host to a panel on the U.S. Farm Bill. The bill has, historically, been the centerpiece of U.S. food policy and continues to have lasting impacts on the livelihoods of farmers, the health of the Americans, and the state of the environment. Gordon [...]
A Retrospective By Hanene Saidi, photographer; Elena Kempf, California editor Tunisian photographer and graphic designer Hanene Saidi captured the big feelings and little details of her home country’s uprising in the quest for democracy like few others. Now, in light of the happenings of April 9th when citizens and the military clashed again on the capital’s main boulevard Avenue Habib [...]
The distinction between Nazca and “Occupy Cal” in direct meaning can be made, but the artistic appeal of both movements blur where art begins and ends in shaping media attention surrounding them.
by Alex Kravitz, Opinion Editor ~~~~ U.S. politicians cry wolf about China because it suits them in their quest to govern domestically.
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