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Know Your Rights Screening

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On Tuesday evening of October 16, Kiki Tapiero from Berkeley Immigration Group and La Raza, and Sam Hamilton, from Berkeley Law's chapter of National Lawyers' Guild, facilitated a know your rights workshop at the multicultural community center. The first half of the presentation consisted of watching videos created by the NLG and discussing it, and the second half of the presentation was moderated by Hamid Yazdah Panah and Ana Rodriguez. They helped answer questions and present about the importance of rapid response. One of the most important take-aways from the presentation was to call the hotline before sharing anything about ICE raids on social media, so that you don't create false panics in the community. 

Native Land Acknowledgement


We take a moment to recognize that Berkeley sits on the territory of xučyun (Huichin) (Hoo-Choon), the ancestral and unceded land of the Chochenyo (Cho-Chen-yo) speaking Ohlone people, the successors of the historic and sovereign Verona Band of Alameda County. This land was and continues to be of great importance to the Muwekma (Muh-wek-muh) Ohlone Tribe and other familial descendants of the Verona Band.

We recognize that every member of the Berkeley community has benefited, and continues to benefit, from the use and occupation of this land since the institution's founding in 1868. Consistent with our values of community and diversity, we have a responsibility to acknowledge and make visible the university's relationship to Native peoples. By offering this Land Acknowledgement, we affirm Indigenous sovereignty and will work to hold the University of California, Berkeley more accountable to the needs of American Indian and Indigenous peoples.