On Oct. 18, hundreds of Berkeley High School students, with the blessing of some of their teachers, left their classrooms in the middle of the day and gathered at a nearby park.
Just as on the nearby campus of the University of California — famed since the 1960s for its marches, sit-ins and progressive ideals — students at Berkeley High have a long history of hitting the streets in dissent.
In the 1960s, they walked out to oppose the Vietnam War.
More recently, they have shown up in droves to advocate for Black Lives Matter, immigration reform, reproductive rights and L.G.B.T.Q.
But this walkout reverberated in unexpected ways through the Berkeley public school system and the city’s ordinarily tight-knit community.
Persons:
”, Becky Villagran
Organizations:
Berkeley High School, University of California —, Berkeley
Locations:
Gaza, Vietnam, Berkeley