The Berkeley Student District Campaign: Draw a student district for Berkeley City Council!

UC Berkeley ASUC Endorses Student District

On Wednesday, the UC Berkeley ASUC Senate endorsed the student district! The vote was 16 yes, 0 no, and 2 abstentions, showing overwhelming support for the student district. This vote means that both the ASUC Executives and the Senate have now endorsed our cause! The resolution passed on Wednesday included four elements, which all passed [...]
Berkeleyside: Council Defers Redistricting

Berkeleyside covered the exciting events of the Council last night in their article “Council Defers Redistricting, Plans Charter Amendment.” From the article: “Redistricting in Berkeley will be deferred to 2013 after a 7-2 vote by the City Council last night. In the same vote, the Council agreed to draft an amendment to the City Charter [...]
Success! Redistricting Was Delayed

We won! Last night, City Council agreed to delay redistricting until after the 2012 election. Last night, the Berkeley City Council held their final redistricting hearing, and it was a packed house. Thank you to all the students who came and supported us! We’ve heard from many people that they’d never seen so many students [...]
Protest Dishonest Campaigns About Redistricting!

There is a really dishonest campaign being run in Berkeley right now. You may have seen a notice telling you that the legal and democratic process of redistricting is going to “disenfranchise” voters in Berkeley. It’s important for you to know that this is factually incorrect and misleading. There are about 4,000 Berkeleyans who will [...]
Join Us On January 17th for City Council’s Redistricting Hearing

Is the process of redistricting fair to students? If you’ve been reading the news, you know the answer is a resounding “no!” The student community is currently split over 4 Council Districts and thus our voice is silenced. Many prominent media outlets – from the New York Times to the East Bay Express – have [...]
Public Hearings Need to Be Accessible to Students! City Council Should Delay the Redistricting Hearing

Today, the Student District Campaign sent a letter to City Council asking them to delay the second public hearing on redistricting. It is currently scheduled for January 17th, the first day of class in the new Spring 2012 semester. We feel that this is unfair to students: holding hearings on the first day of class [...]
The New York Times on Splitting Communities

The New York Times recently featured an article on how redistricting affects cities throughout the nation. We posted it here because we recognize the similarity between the problem outlined in the article and the problem the student community in Berkeley faces. The article outlines numerous cities from Toledo to Salt Lake City that have had [...]
Video From City Council’s November 15 Public Hearing

Last Tuesday, four students spoke at the City’s Council’s public hearing on redistricting. After we spoke advocating for student representation and a fair timeline for redistricting, the Council members voted on a motion to delay redistricting until we have time to amend the Charter. Watch the video of our testimony at the public hearing below. [...]
City Council Considers Delaying Redistricting

At the City Council meeting on Tuesday the 15th, Council members considered a motion to delay redistricting until after November 2012. We at the Student District Campaign were very glad they addressed this, because we’ve been advocating this whole time to delay redistricting until it’s legal to empower the student community. As ASUC Vice President [...]
The City Council’s First of 2 Public Hearings On Redistricting Is Tuesday, November 15

By City law, any ordinance that City Council wishes to enact must have 2 public hearings. This includes the redistricting ordinance, and the first hearing is on Tuesday, November 15th. (The second hearing is on January 17th, 2012.) Join the Berkeley Student District Campaign as we attend the City Council meeting to talk about how [...]

What Is The Problem?

The problem is that the students’ voice is silenced by City Council districts that are drawn to split us up. Downtown housing is in District 4, north-side housing is in District 6, the Units and Co-ops are in District 7, and the fraternities, sororities, and Foothill, Bowles, and Stern are in District 8. — Map of [...]

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Who Are We?

We are the Berkeley Student District Campaign, a coalition of progressive students and community members who support drawing a student district for Berkeley City Council. This coalition began when Joey Freeman ran for ASUC Vice President of External Affairs in April 2011 on the platform of giving students the voice they deserve in the City of [...]

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