Berkeley City Council
October 1, 2003 21:14 by ManagingTeamThe Berkeley (CA) city council recently passed a foreign policy statement, calling for an investigation into the death of Rachel Corrie. A rejected version of the statement called for an investigation into the deaths of all Americans in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict (including UC Berkeley grad Marla Bennett, a Palestinian terror victim).
An excellent response from Berkeley local John Gertz, printed in the SF Chronicle.
Sefton
7:49 pm
Oct 22, 2003
Emailing the Berkeley City Council or the Peace and the Justice Commission of Berkeley City Council to complain about their motion to demand that Federal government representatives launch an investigation into Corrie’s death resulted in an absolutely horrible conversation, via email, with someone who would only identify themselves by their email address of windmill10@earthlink.net.
Her/His position was that municipal officials are elected for Berkeley City Council based on their positions on State and Federal issues. The bulk of the discourse related to my claims of abuse to the individual’s assertions that the actions of the Peace and the Justice Commission of Berkeley City Council were covered under “freedom of speech”
(She/He never made reference to the hypocrisy of responding anonymously and asserting “freedom of speech” (without consequences)) .
Apparently, I “misunderstood” much of what was being discussed, and I particularly failed to grasp how the motives of those seeking to move a motion to request an investigation of all American death’s based was rejected on perceived motives (“Absolutely no concern was shown about these issues except and until it was raised to undermine other pending resolutions.”).
The Peace and Justice Commission of Berkeley City Council, as a majority, placed emphasis on the motives, not the motion, and deemed the motion to call upon the US to investigate all US deaths in Israel/Middle East to be unacceptable, but did approve a motion to investigate the death of a member of the terrorist-supporting ISM because the motives were perceived to be virtuous. The individual failed to accept that the Peace and Justice Commission of Berkeley City Council has made themselves both judge and jury for deterring the level of freedom of speech allocated to the local citizens.
Afterwards, I received an email from Mayor Tom Bates, who reiterated his pre-election position that municipal politicians should focus on their assigned task and should refrain from engaging in matters not agreed upon by consensus of the community.
(Apparently, residents of Berkeley were against the freedom of Iraq)
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Chloe Fortin
7:22 am
Sep 06, 2004
I am a high school student and i need to know is the members of the Berkeley city council are. If you could email a list of their names, and if possible the length of one term and how long each member has been in office. Thank you
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