Calling All Bear Fans : Descend Upon The Berkeley City Council
The tree-sitters are a fun distraction, but they’re not the big enemy in the effort to fix Memorial Stadium: that distinction belongs to the Berkeley City Council. Don’t like their stance? Don’t like that they’re wasting taxpayer money on this ridiculous lawsuit? Want to tell them in person? Tuesday night, you’ll get your chance. From devoted bear fan Erin Proudfoot:
"We have just learned that the Berkeley City Council will be holding a
special meeting that has been called by Mayor Tom Bates. The sole
topic for discussion will be the lawsuit.
The meeting will be on Tuesday, September 4th at 5:00 P.M. at the
Berkeley Unified School District Offices (Old City Hall Building),
2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the 2nd floor.
At that time, there will be an opportunity for all interested parties
to give public testimony before the council retires to closed session
for discussion and possible decision-making. It will be CRITICAL that
a large group of supporters show up in force at that time. Please
save the date — plan to join us — let your friends/colleagues know."
Also, if you haven’t already, check out the Berkeleyans for Cal Athletics website. They’ve got more information and can tell you how to get involved in this fight.
The Bears Are Roaring (Leftovers from Cal-Tennessee)
So I said I’d write up some analytical thoughts…but the Cal football blogosphere seems to already be a thousand steps ahead of me. It makes my job easier to focus on the mundane and the sublime, and turn over the analysis to them. Here are…
Trackback by Bears Necessity — September 3, 2007 @ 4:02 pm
Am I right in assuming this is a prelude to a settlement with the university?
Comment by Jason — September 4, 2007 @ 12:11 pm
From what I’ve heard, the City is also meeting with the University today (Tuesday), at which time the University will present a settlement offer. UC and the COB are pretty far apart at this point, so I don’t see a compromise coming today, but that’s how negotiations work. If there is a settlement, I’d bet it comes in the last 24 hours before the trial is set to begin.
My guess is that this meeting with the public is to both gauge and encourage support for the lawsuit. If it goes well for them, they’ll make UC come to them or see the trial through. However, if public opinion appears to be against them, they could be more likely to broker a face-saving settlement. That’s why this meeting is important, and why it’s important that supporters of the Stadium Project let their opinion be known.
Comment by ragnarok — September 4, 2007 @ 3:07 pm
‘I’d say the crowd was maybe 60-40 in favor of the lawsuit, although that began shifting as the meeting ran on, as Cal supporters who’d said their piece headed off, while all the retired Berkeley activists with nothing better to do hung around. A good number of Cal alums were present, but not all of them were against the lawsuit. Anyway, I was going to write a more coherent summary, but I think you can get a pretty good idea of how the meeting went from the notes I took at the meeting, which follow.
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Representative from Berkeley Chamber of Commerce calls for a settlement, to a large smattering of applause.
Cal Lacrosse Player pleads for Stadium with prepared speech. Talks about lack of funds, support, poor locker rooms, etc.
Next speaker feels that essence of Berkeley and the community, and human values supports the lawsuit. Good applause from activist.
Angry guy rambles about legal arguments and precedence and such. No idea.’
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Guy ONE needs to get out of town, for coming to the meeting where all kinds of fakers are hustling freaks, to false agendas on all sides of the Memorial Stadium issue.
We don’t need ANY lousy thugs, coming to town, or to my area of California, from some other area or state or country, WHERE A CRIME SCENE IS ACTIVE.
The remark against Mayor Bates was just designed to split the gathering, right away, making rational decision-making less likely, especially since one Councilmember is named WOZNIAK, which means the same as IDIOT.
STEVE Woz was with Jobs at Apple, the first solderer to get going for Jobsie, who was the brainier of the two, but don’t get confident, if you depend on either of them.
STEVE Woz got away from Jobsie back in the early eighties, and he immediately squandered his Apple fortune, on a massive rock concert, in the SoCal Desert, somewhere.
He had Halen and all kinds of wack. Problem IS the same as it always WUZ: The corporate rock suckas had bugged Berkeley to make all that vertigo crap, anyway! So WOZ puts up bands like ‘original Halen, maaaahn!’ and that was when Dave was heckling Eddie about faking all those overproductions, sounding dead lousy at anything but ERUPTION, but he had four years running of GIT of the YEAR, from GIT ZINE, in Stuportino. So they jumped, and Woz lost lots and lots of money. New Halen was sync, so don’t get overconfident when POLICE drummer Stu gives CAL some money.
STU and all the other Warhol-lookalikes are part of a solemn them party by the corporate deadheads, to market illegal overproductions, yet FINK ON THEMSELVES.
They bug CAL, copy riffs, overproduce what WAS one good guitar part, played straight through. Or no AC-ZZ, DDDs!!!
The CAL Band just let fat power deals run six years, and they sold CANDY and ate some of it, for six years.
The CAL Band has a Tuba section that likes HUBA and cannot play bass or drums, to turn professional. But they hear EWF and Opies and Lionel and Stevie, and think, what made Cherries play Funky White Boy? Aren’t the composers BLACK?
NO. See Urkel? FOIBLES. Black men give the blues, BUT THEY CANNOT REALLY PLAY THE STUFF. It is all corporate overproduction, in our lifetimes.
So why does California need to fund YOUR appetite for fraud, and then suffer YOUR media, which is directed to injure the public, by gathering STEP-RICO thugs, which injure the public, which has anything at all, then bilks the public at large?
YOU large weasels masking up as BEARS get in the pit. Let’s see what you have. You idiots pretending to be Indians get a LIFE, go open a casino in Emeryville. If you are REALLY out of your tree, we need no boo-birds, here only to diss Mayor Bates, whom I believe deserves a chance to LEAD, here. AT LEAST ONE CHANCE, a-holes and elbows!
The crowd was more in favor of the lawsuit toward the end of the meeting because at least one or two students and retirees were SMART enough to notice that if, under Prop.64 as I allege, City of Berkeley is liable and responsible for protecting ALL members of the public from unfair business, then the stadium project AND its illegal media AND the a-holes all gathered in bad faith for speculative conspiracy must desist and disperse, here proven at RIOT, to deliberately violated unfair business practices law AND the Constitution of California, the Unitied States Constitution, the ADA, and all laws US-California, for discovery, evaded by the University and State, at fraud.
Since you are seditious DURING WARS, want to get called TRAITORS, next? Punks doesn’t bother you, but we know that is what you ARE, since I rock, you know it, and YOU cannot and do not rock, or play well, at anything. Do you?
Comment by Bob Gaebler — September 6, 2007 @ 2:50 pm