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Berkeley Watch is a University watchdog group working to promote democracy, social responsibility, transparency, and academic freedom on the campus of UC Berkeley. (learn more...)

Action

UC and the Bomb (DeCal Class)
Every Wednesday from 7:00 PM-9PM @ 140 Barrows
This student-facilitated course—The University of California and the Military-Industrial-Nuclear Weapons Complex: Past, Present and Future—will examine the role of the University of California in the development and production of nuclear weapons of mass destruction from the period of the Manhattan project through the Cold War to the current era of US global political and economic dominance. Click here for course website.

Come to Ignacio Chapela's last Class at UC Berkele and March to California Hally
December 9, 2004 @ 8:00 AM-11AM
An outspoken critic of the university's ties to the biotechnology industry, Dr. Chapela had his tenure denied after he published an article demonstrating that native corn in Mexico had been contaminated by genetically engineered corn. His tenure denial came in the face of overwhelming support by his peers at UC and around the world.

We hope to encourage as many people to come to this last class before Ignacio loses his job, which will be an open-mic session. We must fill the class and overflow to the outside. At the end of the class, we will then march to California Hall to demand from the Chancellor a full investigation of Ignacio's tenure case and to extend Ignacio's job while the investigation occurs. Wear a ribbon around your arm to show solidarity. For more information click here.

Harvest Festival at the Gilltract
October 23, 2004 @ 10:00 AM-3PM
Please join us for a celebration of the Fall Harvest at the Gill Tract. The Festival will include: Tour of Gill tract Riparian ecosystem: Focus on Cooper's Hawks; talk by Dr. Ignacio Chapela; Live Music; Talks By Marianne Walden (Albany Board of Education), Urban Roots representatives, and Albany city council members or candidates; Tour of Agroecology research at Gill tract; 1. Compost class with Berkeley Worms; 2. Seed Saving with Nicholas; and ongoing 10-3:00 kids activities. For more information click here.

Webcast of: A Century Without Biology: Biotechnology and the Supression of Scientific Inquiry
September 27, 2004 @ 5:30 PM
Some have forecast the 21st Century as the Age of Bio-Technology. We have indeed witnessed an unprecedented increase in our capacity and willingness to radically alter living systems through technological interventions. Yet, the science of Biology has not kept apace and we have not seen, since the Inquisition, such suppression and manipulation of biological inquiry. Together, these trends may mean an epoch defined by large biological transformations -- with an absence of infrastructure, physical and conceptual, to confront it. What is the character of this century without Biology? What are the possible options to weather its effects? Click here for webcast.

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Features

2004 Disorientation Guide (PDF File)
Note: 6 MB File size.

2003 Disorientation Zine (PDF FILE)
Note: Some pages might be out of order.

People's History of Berkeley
by the Barrington Collective

Links

UC Berkeley Environmental Coalition (ECo)

Students for Responsible Research

Berkeley Society for Bioethics

UC Demilitarization Project (Fiat Pax)

Berkeley Mic