Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unexpected 18-year-old vote, a Vietnam peace initiative, the construction of low-cost housing, a city affirmative action program, stricter antipollution legislation, prosecution of war researchers at the university, the elimination of sexist books from school libraries, guaranteed adequate severance pay to workers in firms leaving Berkeley to escape unionization, the construction of bicycle paths, youth hostels and more parks, and even the addition of long cords on all public telephones so that people in wheelchairs and children could reach them more easily...
...mayoral candidate expected to side with the Coalition on nearly all issues except the police initiative. At the Coalition's victory party, Newsweek reported, the exhilarated crowd waved red flags and clenched fists and clapped in rhythms reminiscent of The Battle of Algiers. The Revolution had apparently come to Berkeley...
...particular issues. Its black members were unsympathetic to its feminists. "If this doesn't benefit the black community, I'm not voting for it," one black councilman explained, opposing the funding of a women's health center. In a 1973 election for four new councilors--which the conservative Berkeley Gazette described as "the last effort of rational, reasonable people"--Mayor Widener endorsed not his ex-partners in the April Coalition but a slate of liberal Democratic types, the Berkeley Four. With student turnout down 20 per cent from 1971 and an impressive 75 per cent turnout in wealthy Berkeley Hills...
...Coalition members were able to make a lot of symbolic changes in the way Berkeley was run. Rather than have half its members abstain from saluting the American flag at the beginning meetings, for example, the council agreed to stop saluting the flag altogether...
...many ways, the election that made Paul Soglin Madison's mayor last April was similar to the 1971 Berkeley election. In fact, some of Soglin's opponents accused him of trying to turn Madison into "another Berkeley." Like the Berkeley radicals, Soglin got some help from divisions among his opponents, defeating a couple of liberals in a primary and then going on with liberal support and a massive student registration drive to beat the conservative incumbent...