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Though Berkeley’s 2024 mayoral race is still more than a year out, the slate is taking shape early, as Councilmembers Kate Harrison, Sophie Hahn and Rigel Robinson all announced their candidacies this week. 

To commemorate music’s transformative ability to preserve and promote free speech, here are five songs curated by the arts editors.

When you disappear, none of us notice until you’re gone. Turning the corner, we make a left and descend the stairs to the parking lot. It’s littered with vehicles, waste and gum on the concrete. Someone is screaming, I don’t know who. Maybe we’re all screaming all at once. 

We only have one Earth, so let these songs remind you that we must treat it with care. Listen to this playlist to keep you motivated and inspired.

Throughout the album, Marina makes a point of being more overtly political, and her lyrics leave careful incisions in the skin of the patriarchy. 

With new albums every month, there’s no room for “Summertime Sadness.” From Prince to Billie Eilish, the options are limitless.

For the last time before it resumes in September, Berkeley City Council met Tuesday night to continue discussion on RV owners’ rights and parking restrictions within the city.

On Memorial Day on Marina Boulevard, the sun rose over a field of dry grass and fell on a row of RVs and campers in which people had been living for up to a year. Now they were scurrying about in a panic, some angry, some despairing, some resigned, because Berkeley police had arrived in two squad cars and announced that everyone had to leave or they would be ticketed and their vehicles towed. I heard people say: “Where can we go?”

Extremely accessible via public transportation, West Berkeley is home to a rich diversity of people, activities and food options.

While they may disagree on how the film is experienced, they seem to have found a genuine rallying point around the limitlessness of their protagonist.