Worth Noting:

Busy week ahead. The meetings and announcements of special interest are bolded.

• Sunday: Daylight Savings Time ends (fall back)
• Monday:
  • At 10 am the Land Use & Economic Development Committee meets in the hybrid format on retail/commercial in residential zones.
  • At 3 pm Council meets in closed session.
  • At 6 pm the Peace and Justice Commission meeting precedes the 7 pm Round Table Forum on the release of nuclear waste from Fukushima.
  • At 7 pm the HSPE subcommittee on homeless encampment guidelines meets in person.
  • At 7 pm the Personnel Board meets in person.
• Tuesday: At 6 pm City Council meets in the hybrid format with concentrated animal feeding, ALPRs and surveillance and building electrification on the action agenda.
• Wednesday:
  • At 5 pm the Commission on Disability meets in person.
  • At 6 pm the PAB meets in the hybrid format.
  • At 6 pm the update on the Ashby BART Transit Power Substation meets on ZOOM.
  • At 7 pm the Parks, Recreation and Waterfront Commission meets in person.
• Thursday: From 6 – 7:30 pm is the presentation and discussion of Parker-Addison Improvements (bicycle lanes on Dwight) meets on ZOOM
• Friday: Veterans Day Holiday
• Saturday: At 10 am the Berkeley Neighborhoods Council meets on ZOOM.

The November 14, 2023 City Council regular meeting agenda is available for comment.

Check the City website for late announcements and meetings posted on short notice at: https://berkeleyca.gov/

On November 14 at 4 pm there is a special City Council meeting on the Alameda Country Transportation Commission San Pablo Avenue Multimodal Corridor Program Safety Enhancement and Parallel Bike Improvements Projects. Council will vote on the project. The 50-page packet includes diagrams photos and project descriptions. https://berkeleyca.gov/city-council-special-meeting-eagenda-november-14-2023



Activist’s Diary for October 29, 2023 https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2023-10-29/article/50458?headline=A-BERKELEY-ACTIVIST-S-DIARY-week-ending-October-29--Kelly-Hammargren

Two more editions of the Activist’s Diary are in the works with a summary on the three forums with State Senate candidates Kathryn Lybarger, Jovanka Beckles and Dan Kalb coming next.

The link to the recording of the Kristina Hill webinar on Contaminated Sites and Sea Level Rise is posted https://berkeleyneighborhoodscouncil.com/

Directions with links to ZOOM support for activating Closed Captioning and Save Transcript are at the bottom of this calendar along with how to change a YouTube video to a readable transcript.



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BERKELEY PUBLIC MEETINGS AND CIVIC EVENTS

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Absence of communication can be interpreted in any way, and the imagination is tempted to fill in the blank. If someone fails to communicate, you have no way of knowing their thoughts, unless a person is physically present, which allows you to observe their actions. And, they say 'actions speak louder than words.' -more-

Anti-Israel sentiment and anti-semitism are growing about Israel’s indiscriminate and disproportionate response to Hamas’s slaughter of innocent Israelis on Oct. 7. Israel has continued its incessant bombing of Gaza and sealing its borders, leaving Gazans with no power, no food, no clean drinking water, no gas, and no proper sanitation and healthcare. -more-

Spooky Speaking

On my Sunday morning run, I got a great pre-Halloween scan at porches populated with pumpkins and fences covered with fake webs and lobster-sized spiders. But one display on Eunice Street stood out. It consisted of three large figures leaning over a front-yard fence and each holding a sign. Together, their message read: "We really thought/Climate Change/Was a Hoax!" All three figures were life-sized skeletons.

Washington's Debt Spiral -more-

Introduction:the question of justice

Sean Monterrosa was shot by a cop in Vallejo (California) in May, 2020, during demonstrations all over the country protesting police brutality, police criminality, and police racism and violence against civilians. George Floyd and Bryonna Taylor were the icons for this movement, chosen to represent the hundreds of people shot and killed by police during those months. They became emblems for the call to rein in the police. Defunding, abolition, ending plea bargaining, and humanizing responses to persons experiencing psychological episodes and emotional trauma were proposed. The police response was (in general), “you can’t abolish us; you need us.” Yet now, not only is Monterrosa dead, but the cop who killed him got his job back with back pay and benefits. -more-

This is a response to Ralph Stone's essay of November 5, that appears in the Planet: "Blame for War in the Holy Land." -more-