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The demonstrations demonstrate Trump
The opponents are not alone
Re: “Thousands of people in mass protests” (page A1, April 6).
I attended a demonstration on Saturday as opposed to the nightmare that has descended from the last elections. Without speakers, without famous people, only thousands of simple citizens gathered, thousands who made their own signs, making music, singing and walking. I touched the edge of tears. I felt part of a great tribe that feared it no longer existed.
I can’t do justice. Donald Trump is a fixed president, and all the terrible things that could happen could happen. But all those thousands of people, walking, blackmail, singing, carrying signs, some fun, others not, all understanding in the difficult times in which we are, they gave me hope that the war will not be lost and that I was noton.
Michael Steinberg
Berkeley
Pollutions must pay
For deception
As the earth is heated, the Californians will pay more for the damage caused by climate change, even disasters such as Los Angeles fires that are more serious as a result of hotter temperatures. But not everyone assumes the same responsibility for the crisis.
Petroleum and Gas companies knew about the damage of climate change for decades, but lied to the public and pressed legislators to slow down climate solutions. They should go to clean their own disaster. That is why state pollINATORS pay the 2025 Superfund Climate Law would evaluate the larger pollutants a rate based on their past emissions, and financing is used for climatic solutions such as clean energy, invest in fire extinguishing and recovering from disasters.
Nicolas Riani
Oakland
Trump is dismantling
Freedom of speech
Re: “Trump requests details about professionals” (page A1, April 4).
Donald Trump has applied in an encouraged pressure to universities that are spreading the “alarm virus”, and we are seeing the consequences as students disappear.
Students have ice tasks or abandoned the country after being accused or spreading the propaganda of Hamas. Recently, we learn about UC Berkeley and Stanford students who revoke their visas. Now, they go after UC Berkeley professors who asked for support from Jewish staff and students and the security of students and the faculty with the Palestinian family in Gaza. Showing any empathy seems to be shocking.
It is not about protecting national security. It is about silencing voices that do not align with the vision of the regime for the United States.
We need to contact the representatives and put an end to this.
Jackie Cochrane
Richmond
Private capital makes
Worse richness inequality
One of the most serious problems in the United States is the inequality of wealth.
A substantial portion of that wealth is concentrated in private capital (6.5% or US GDP.). While it is originally a field in which rich investors could benefit from risky investments, it has become a recreational court They find the capital they need to acquire the capital they need to acquire companions.
CALPERS plans to assign 17% of its total investment portfolio to private capital. Wouldn’t pensions be better, and the rest of America, if they did not have to pay the excessive invoices of the hospital due to the participation of Calpers in private capital?
Jim Wolpman
Walnut Creek