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Berkeley narrowly passes anti-war measure
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The left-wing bastion of Berkeley, Calif., narrowly
voted Tuesday night to condemn U.S. military action in Afghanistan and not before
the addition of an amendment denouncing the terrorist "mass murder" of thousands of
Americans on Sept. 11.
The resolution, which passed on a 5-4 vote, was believed to be the first official
statement by a U.S. city critical of the U.S. military response to the destruction
of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon.
Although public opinion polls show the American public in favor of the military
response by an unprecedented margin, former city council member Ying Lee Kelley urged
the panel to "continue to honor Berkeley's tradition of opposition to brute force
to solve profoundly difficult social problems."
Berkeley, home of the University of California at Berkeley campus, was the birthplace
of the free speech movement in the 1960s with Mario Salvo and has been a hotbed of
peace protests since the Vietnam War.
The San Francisco Chronicle said a recent poll of Berkeley students showed 65 percent
were opposed to the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan.
While the Chronicle Wednesday described the council's makeup as split between leftist
and centrists, there were a number of residents at Tuesday's meeting urging the resolution
be defeated.
"War does solve something," said Kelso Barnett, the head of a conservative student
group at the university. "Ask the people of Europe who were liberated after World
War II."
The council passed the measure, however not before changing the wording to call
for the bombing to end "as quickly as possible" rather than immediately.
At an Afghan restaurant in the "Little Kabul" district of nearby Fremont, home to
the largest U.S. population of Afghan people, a couple who appeared to be in their
70s and had attended Berkeley, told United Press International that they had organized
a group of 10-20 -- similar to the much larger group of 300 or so anti-war types in
nearby Palo Alto -- that hold daily protests against the bombings and were gaining
support from passersby.
"We get a lot of car horns honking and only an occasional call of 'traitor,'" said
the woman, who declined to give her name, noting that the reception was encouraging
given Fremont's overall conservative attitudes. "Smart bombs are not smart," she said,
echoing the sentiment on the sign she holds up for Fremont traffic.
(Reported by Hil Anderson, Fremont, Calif.)
BERKELEY, Calif., Oct. 17 (UPI) -- The left-wing bastion of Berkeley, Calif., narrowly
voted Tuesday night to condemn U.S. military action in Afghanistan and not before
the addition of an amendment denouncing the terrorist "mass murder" of thousands of
Americans on Sept. 11.
The resolution, which passed on a 5-4 vote, was believed to be the first official
statement by a U.S. city critical of the U.S. military response to the destruction
of the World Trade Center and the damage to the Pentagon.
Although public opinion polls show the American public in favor of the military
response by an unprecedented margin, former city council member Ying Lee Kelley urged
the panel to "continue to honor Berkeley's tradition of opposition to brute force
to solve profoundly difficult social problems."
Berkeley, home of the University of California at Berkeley campus, was the birthplace
of the free speech movement in the 1960s with Mario Salvo and has been a hotbed of
peace protests since the Vietnam War.
The San Francisco Chronicle said a recent poll of Berkeley students showed 65 percent
were opposed to the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan.
While the Chronicle Wednesday described the council's makeup as split between leftist
and centrists, there were a number of residents at Tuesday's meeting urging the resolution
be defeated.
"War does solve something," said Kelso Barnett, the head of a conservative student
group at the university. "Ask the people of Europe who were liberated after World
War II."
The council passed the measure, however not before changing the wording to call
for the bombing to end "as quickly as possible" rather than immediately.
At an Afghan restaurant in the "Little Kabul" district of nearby Fremont, home to
the largest U.S. population of Afghan people, a couple who appeared to be in their
70s and had attended Berkeley, told United Press International that they had organized
a group of 10-20 -- similar to the much larger group of 300 or so anti-war types in
nearby Palo Alto -- that hold daily protests against the bombings and were gaining
support from passersby.
"We get a lot of car horns honking and only an occasional call of 'traitor,'" said
the woman, who declined to give her name, noting that the reception was encouraging
given Fremont's overall conservative attitudes. "Smart bombs are not smart," she said,
echoing the sentiment on the sign she holds up for Fremont traffic.
(Reported by Hil Anderson, Fremont, Calif.)
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