CALPIRG at UC Berkeley

Weekly Meetings:

CORE MEETING – Monday, 8pm, Barrows 104
INTERN CLASS – Monday, 7pm, Barrows 104
CAMPAIGN MEETINGS - Meet in 303 Eshleman:

Ban the Bag Campaign: Tuesdays, 5 pm
Energy Service Corps: Tuesdays, 8 pm
Stop Subsidizing Obesity: Mondays, 5pm
Affordable Education: Tuesdays, 7pm
Hunger and Homelessness: Thursdays, 4pm
Toxics: Tuesdays, 8pm

Get Involved!

Apply for a CALPIRG Berkeley Internship
Visit us in 303 Eshleman Hall.
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Contact Info: Email | 510-642-7313
Campus Organizer: Coreen Weintraub

Latest news

Testimony of Lucas Zucker on Textbooks Affordability 02/03/2012

Thank you Chairman Lara and committee members for the opportunity to speak on behalf of the student perspective on this important issue. My name is Lucas Zucker. I am a... More ›

Great Pacific Cleanup Update 12/30/2011

Students across the state from San Diego to Davis have been working hard to address the problem of plastic pollution in the Pacific. A great pacific garbage patch twice the... More ›

UC Berkeley Chapter Slideshow

CALPIRG works with ASUC to help register students to vote on Sproul.
CALPIRG students asking Governor Jerry Brown what his plan is to make higher education more affordable.
Calling on the state legislature to protect CalGrant funding, we presented our Doors of Opportunity, signed by hundreds of students, on the capitol steps.
All the cool kids register to vote with the Vote Boat. Check out the “I’m Gonna Vote” video on youtube!
It’s getting hot in hurr- call your Senator to help stop global warming! And take off all your clothes…
Look Mom, I’m on TV! Talking about why politicians should pay attention to young people outside the gubernatorial debate in Sacramento.
Kat and Lucas with Van Jones at a No on Prop 23 phonebank. CALPIRG students collected over 160,000 pledges to vote no on the Dirty Energy Proposition in what the LA Times calls the largest environmental campaign in the nation’s history.
City Councilman Kriss Worthington, two time Nobel Laureaut Bob Hass, and many other partners joined CALPIRG students and the 3000 petitions we gathered for a press conference calling on Berkeley City Council to ban plastic bags.
Six media outlets covered a stop on the Textbooks Rebellion tour to promote affordable alternatives to outrageously expensive textbooks.
Christophe donned some superhero gear to fight Methyl Iodide, a toxic pesticide, at the downtown Berkeley farmer’s market.

Ban The Bag!

California uses 12 Billion Plastic Bags every year, and only 3% is recycled. Most of them end up in storm drains, never to bio-degrade. The amount of plastic waste gathering in the Pacific Ocean is twice the size of Texas-- passing the ocean's most toxic pollutants up the food chain, and killing over 1 Million sea animals every year. For something we only use for a few minutes, plastic bags cause a lifetime of harm.

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