Archive for the ‘Themes’ Category
Ollie’s
Archive Entry Date: 6/83
Pacific Center acted as a mediator when a gay-friendly business was accused of classism and racism
Diaz v. Oakland Tribune
Archive Entry Date: 1983
A trans woman of color wins a case against a transphobic op ed columnist
Robbing the Blind
Archive Entry Date: 03/24/82
Disability Rights Activist, Ken Stein, speaks at a Berkeley City Council meeting
West Coast Women’s Festival
Archive Entry Date: 11/81
When a show of solidarity with Latin America failed in the presence of white privilege, activists repaired to Pacific Center
John Seabury’s Pino Jam Extravaganza flyer
Archive Entry Date: 8/10/81
This fun flyer, drawn by Psycotic Pinneapple bassist John Seabury
Whose Fault?
Archive Entry Date: 08/81
How Cal bent science and the law to push out the Schools for the Deaf and Blind -- and how blind activists kept pushing back
Judy Yung Addresses a Federal Panel on Libraries and Cultural Minorities
Archive Entry Date: 6/1981
Yung called for more federal support for the Asian Community Library and cultural minorities in general
Dead Kennedys Stir Up Trouble At the Keystone (AUDIO)
Archive Entry Date: 6/28/81
The urgent sounds of the Dead Kennedys
Flipper play a KALX benefit at Keystone Berkeley (AUDIO)
Archive Entry Date: 6/28/1981
The slow churning sounds of Flipper
San Francisco Women’s Musicians
Archive Entry Date: 02/1981
The Bay Area women's music community was coalescing, but being a female musician still had its challenges
PDSP becomes DSP
Archive Entry Date: 1981-82
During the 1970s, many students with non-physical disabilities attended UC Berkeley
Pacific Center Campaign for Survival Shirt
Archive Entry Date: circa 1981
A shirt for the Pacific Center's 1981 Campaign for Survival
Duties of the Advisory Board
Archive Entry Date: 1981
The Advisory Board Was Authorized by The Chancellor in 1980 to function as a liaison between the PDSP and the Administration
Building Savers Set to Bag Bear?
Archive Entry Date: 12/24/80
Property vs. Culture - the battle over Douglas Tilden's "Bear Hunt" Sculpture
School for the Deaf Holds its Last Berkeley Graduation
Archive Entry Date: 06/02/80
43 graduating seniors are the last memories deaf students being on the Berkeley site
“Rosa Parks Visits Oakland Community School”
Archive Entry Date: 5/12/1980
Students create a play based on Rosa Parks when she visits OCS
Lou Sullivan Letter to Stanford Clinic
Archive Entry Date: 3/22/1980
Lou Sullivan rips the Stanford Gender Dysphoria progrma a new one after being denied to the program for the second time
Blind, Deaf Students Protest Relocation
Archive Entry Date: 01/04/80
Students and staff at the School for the Blind protested their new school's rural, secluded location in Fremont
A Last Ditch Effort to Stop Schools’ Move
Archive Entry Date: 01/04/80
Teachers for the School of the Blind led media on a tour of the new site to demonstrate its unsuitability
1980-81 Physically Disabled Students’ Program Chancellor’s Advisory Board
Archive Entry Date: 1980-1981
Funding problems effect DSP till this day
The Blue Ink Hassle, Writing Poetry
Archive Entry Date: 1980
Poems in the DSP Verbatim by Mark O'Brien
Stay or Move?
Archive Entry Date: 01/80
A crucial Deaf organization in the Bay Area rallied its members to oppose the relocation of the school
Asian Bookmobile Schedule
Archive Entry Date: 1970s
The Asian Bookmobile enlarged the reach of the ACL by stopping at nonprofits in Berkeley and Oakland
Asian Community Library Bookmobile
Archive Entry Date: c. 1977
The ACL used its Bookmobile to serve the larger Asian community in the East Bay
Community Services Listing
Archive Entry Date: 12/12/79
Community Services Listing featuring phone number for Pacific Center and Switchboard
A Coordinated Appeal to 60 Minutes to Investigate
Archive Entry Date: 12/23/79
Advocates for the Schools for the Deaf and the Blind reached out to 60 Minutes, lobbying for an investigative report
Breakdown of Trans Surgery Costs
Archive Entry Date: 1979
When a trans woman explored getting surgery, she also was directed to find community at Pacific Center