(Written by kencraw)

This isn’t new news but there is a meeting tonight to discuss the lawsuit and actions to take. The meeting is tonight at 5:00 P.M. at the Berkeley Unified School District Offices (Old City Hall Building), 2134 Martin Luther King Jr. Way on the 2nd floor. It sounds like they’ll be hearing public comments for a surprisingly short period of time (supposedly 20 minutes) for the potential number of comments that could be made. Never the less the more project supporters that are at the meeting the better. The council will then have a closed session to make any decisions they feel appropriate.

So show up if you can.

Also of note along these lines is just how well the Kitchen Democracy vote has gone. Only 26% of Berkeley registered voters are against the project and there are only 13 non-commital votes out of 742 at last count. The remaining 536 are in favor. If one looks at the comments, which are allowed for those who live outside the city, the situation is even more unbalanced with 133 pages of comments (I didn’t count them and it’s not one per page) in favor of the project with only 28 against (17%). All-in-all, this is very bad news for the protestors and good news for those who want to put heat on the city to settle.