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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (191817)	10/13/2001 1:15:53 PM
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Some of the 7% see a profit in being anti-American. City Council Fails to Consider Resolution to Denounce Violence Condemnation of Military Action to be Decided Next Week Daily Cal Staff/Sean Boyd COUNCILMEMBER DONA SPRING sits at a City Council meeting Tuesday. Her emergency agenda item condemning U.S. airstrikes failed to be heard. Discuss this article in the Daily Cal forums. By NATE TABAK Contributing Writer Wednesday, October 10, 2001 A last-minute condemnation of the ongoing U.S. military action against Afghanistan fell short of the support needed for the resolution to be heard Tuesday by the Berkeley City Council, but is expected to be considered next week. Presented as an emergency agenda item by progressive Councilmember Dona Spring, the measure would have implored the City Manager's Office to send letters to President Bush and members of Congress demanding that the bombing in Afghanistan stop. The proposed condemnation, which required six votes to be added to the agenda at the last minute, failed in a partisan-split 5-4 vote. The four center-leaning moderates voted against taking up the item, while the five more liberal progressives voted in its favor. The resolution, added to next Tuesday's agenda, is expected to be approved by the progressive majority of the council. Only five votes will be needed for approval. "Berkeley has always been an island of sanity in terms of the war madness that has prevailed in this country," Spring said. "The U.S. is now a terrorist. According to the Taliban these are terrorist attacks." Spring said she had a "moral obligation" to denounce the attacks and acknowledged that the resolution is purely symbolic. Although recent anti-war protests in Berkeley have attracted hundreds of pacifists, Spring said she did not know if most Berkeley residents share her view. Council members who opposed adding the item to yesterday's agenda argued that a symbolic measure against the war was not urgent business and said Spring is trying to polarize the city. "I think the country will continue doing what it's doing regardless of what the City Council has to say tonight," said Councilmember Polly Armstrong, who questioned the appropriateness of the resolution. The council should step aside and let individual city residents express their opinions to their congressional leaders, Armstrong said. But Spring said it is only fitting that Berkeley adopt a position against the war. A war, she said, will only lead to retaliatory attacks on the United States. "The violence of bombing will only increase and exacerbate the terrorism," Spring said. Councilmember Miriam Hawley, a moderate, characterized her constituents as "ambivalent" about the bombing of Afghanistan. She said Spring's proposal does not reflect the true sentiment in Berkeley. Spring's political ally, Councilmember Kriss Worthington, who voted to add the proposal to last night's meeting, said he laments that the resolution does not pay tribute to the victims of the Sept. 11 attacks on New York and Washington. This sort of proposal, he said, plays into the "Berserkeley" image that attracts national attention to the city and benefits the economy. "Tourists come to Berkeley because of all the attention the bastion of liberalism generates," Worthington said. Mayor Shirley Dean, who has said she dislikes the "only in Berkeley" stereotypes, said council members will be able to think through the implications of the measure before the council considers the proposal next week. Had the proposal been approved last night, the City Council would have closed its meeting in memory of the "innocent civilians in Afghanistan being harmed and made refugees due to the bombing." dailycal.com