Fuzzy image of publicity photo from April 21, 1999 Berkeley Daily Planet for Berkeley Mock City Council comedy performance.
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Published news story by Lurene Helzer, April 21, 1999, Berkeley Daily Planet, “Social service agencies make their cases”. Several agencies were requesting money from the city’s council
In this same issue of the Berkeley Daily Planet, the calendar of events on the back page listed what then would be the upcoming May 4, 1999 performance of the Mock Berkeley City Council. The comedy group’s publicity photo portrayed a city council for Berkeley as being in 1970s PLO-like head disguises.
In fact, the comedians were intending to portray themselves as the terror group SLA that kidnapped Patty Hearst in 1974, and did. They managed to insult the actual, 1999 city council in that city. Not only did the council not want to joke about Patty Hearst, they also did not want to joke about terrorism in general in the summer of 1999.
Kosovo was the 1999 site of terror for Europe. So, April and May of 1999 was a lively time to be in Berkeley. From original story:
Luis Vergara, executive director of Youth Radio, spoke on behalf of his organization, which has become nationally known for its dramatic re-enactments of e-mails for a girl in Kosovo they call Adona.
“As of a week ago, she’s still alive,” said Vergara.
Youth Radio has been featured on National Public Radio, radio station KCBS in San Francisco and Berkeley’s KPFA.
“We provide them with an opportunity” to work more effectively, he said of the disadvantaged youth the organization trains in radio broadcasting skills.
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