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Cease-fire Resolution Stalled in Berkeley

Friday September 06, 2024 - 02:15:00 PM

The Berkeley City Council has not passed a resolution calling for a cease fire in Gaza, unlike most Bay Area city councils, and the city's Agenda Committee has not even considered a proposed draft of such a resolution. Members of Berkeley's Peace and Justice Commission, due to a bureaucratic snafu, have not been able to consider such a measure either. They held a rally last Tuesday on the steps of the South Berkeley Senior Center, where the commission was supposed to have met, which was attended by about 200 people and featured many speakers, including this one: