We owe it to our community and our neighbors to engage and transform Urban Shield

by Ben Bartlett

Berkeleyside

Urban Shield may be in need of a course correction, but that does not mean we should simply disengage from it.

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Berkeley’s zoning laws wall off communities of color, seniors, low-income people and others

by Ben Bartlett

Berkeleyside

In The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in an Age of Colorblindness, author Michelle Alexander notes that even in the age of Obama, the vestiges of slavery remained. Just as Jim Crow laws survive through mass incarceration, so does an American caste-structure continue through the use of zoning.

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