In this “special” leaflet sent to members of the Bay Area Deaf community, the Deaf Counseling, Advocacy & Referral Agency (DCARA) collected testimony against the relocation of Berkeley’s School for the Deaf and called for their community to join a Berkeley City Council meeting on January 21, 1980.

DCARA was established in 1962 mainly with members and allies in the Bay Area Deaf community.  From the beginning DCARA was an advocate for the Deaf school to remain in Berkeley, where a rich educational and cultural community of Deaf individuals have thrived for over 100 years.

DCARA hoped to attract Deaf community members to join the meeting to share concerns for their community to move at the end of the academic year to help the Berkeley City Counsel know how a drastic move could alter the reality of the future for their community.

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The pamphlet is notable for featuring testimony from a parent of a deaf child affected by the move.