SF News Crowd-Funding Campaign For Berkeley Hot Dog Vendor Reaches $86,000 After video went viral last week of a UCPD officer "confiscating" the cash from a hot dog vendor outside of a Cal football game, a GoFundMe campaign to help support the vendor (who
SF News Latest On Free Speech Week: Coulter And Bannon Not On Schedule; And Who Is 'The Berkeley Patriot'? Well what do you know! The headlining acts, so to speak, of Milo Yiannopoulos's stunt of a speaking event next week, former chief strategist Steve Bannon and former Comedy Central Roast punching bag
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Insists 'Free Speech Week' Is On, And That He's Paid $65K For Venue Rentals Relentless alt-right provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos, who along with some alleged conservative/alt-right financial backing is dead-set on taking UC Berkeley to task for trying to stymie or cancel the Free Speech Week he
SF News Berkeley Police Fight Fake News Regarding Stabbing At Shapiro Protest A rumored story that was being perpetuated last week by Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman regarding a Ben Shapiro supporter getting stabbed in the neck by "Antifa terrorists," and which was subsequently spread around
SF News Full Speaker List For 'Free Speech Week' Includes Ex-Googler James Damore, InfoWars Radio Host Mike Cernovich The Milo Yiannopoulos-organized, mysteriously funded, very possibly still-to-be-cancelled "Free Speech Week" at Berkeley, which is set to begin a week from Sunday, has quite a roster of controversial names on its full schedule
SF News Ben Shapiro Backlash Protests Mostly Contained At Berkeley, Nine Arrests Made 9 arrested as protesters gather at UC Berkeley for talk by conservative speaker Ben Shapiro https://t.co/YyPvgZCXLJ pic.twitter.com/IKlalt970r— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) September 15, 2017 Despite a ton
SF News Berkeley City Council Tables Vote On Topless Ban, Gypsy Taub Loses It, Gets Naked, Yells True to form, Berkeley's City Council meeting on Tuesday night included some lengthy public debate about an issue that's not exactly vital city governance at the moment, and ultimately devolved into some yelling
SF News Berkeley Braces For Ben Shapiro Showdown With 'Extreme Security' This is why we can’t have alt-right things. The city of Berkeley is going into a state of lockdown today in anticipation of tonight’s 7 p.m. Ben Shapiro lecture at
SF News Right-Wing Berkeley Students Claim Steve Bannon Is Definitely Coming For 'Free Speech Week' Once again, Republican and other right-aligned students at UC Berkeley are upping the ante in booking speakers or pretending to book speakers that the general student population will find abhorrent, and as was
SF News Who Are Antifa In The Bay Area, And Can They Be Negotiated With? Is this black bloc's biggest ever showing in the Bay Area? pic.twitter.com/qX1Ck3j8Sh— Michael Montgomery (@MichaelMontCIR) August 27, 2017 We used to use the term "anarchists" or "black bloc" to describe
SF News Day Around The Bay: Disgraced VC Threatens Accuser With Legal Action Airbnb says “soon” all SF listings will be legal, as Berkeley hosts rush to comply with registration law by Oct deadline. [Curbed][Daily Cal] Supervisors are considering tossing out the sale of Presidio
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Alice Waters Debuts Long-Awaited Memoir, 'Coming To My Senses' Berkeley's grande dame of local eating, sustainability and Cal-Med cuisine, Alice Waters, has as of today released her first memoir, titled Coming to My Senses: The Making of a Counterculture Cook. The book
SF News Nancy Pelosi Calls For Violent Antifa To Be Arrested Heeding calls from some on the left to condemn the documented violence of "antifa" activists on Sunday who attacked the vastly outnumbered right-wing rally-goers who showed up in downtown Berkeley on Sunday, Nancy
SF News Berkeley Mayor Tells Campus That Yiannopoulos/Coulter Event Will Be Public Safety Disaster "I obviously believe in freedom of speech, but there is a line between freedom of speech and then posing a risk to public safety,” says Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin to the Chronicle, as
SF News Day Around The Bay: Local News Anchor Blames Left For Bringing 'Hate' In Berkeley KTVU news anchor Frank Somerville says he "experienced hate first hand" at Sunday's rally and counter-protest in Berkeley, but it was coming from leftist activists who threatened him after he took a couple
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SF News Berkeley Police Overwhelmed At Sunday Rally, Allowed Militant Activists Past Barriers Into Park Tense standoff at police command post. #ABC7now pic.twitter.com/yXZjWCAUuW— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) August 27, 2017 In contrast to the largely controlled chaos and peaceful rallying that went on a day earlier
SF News Patriot Prayer's Joey Gibson 'Rescued' By Berkeley Police; 13 Arrests Made During Sunday Demonstration Masked men and women with Anarchist banner chanting "Heather Heyer, rest in power." #ABC7now pic.twitter.com/yPrnUTgntw— Dan Noyes (@dannoyes) August 27, 2017 Thousands of people showed up in Berkeley Sunday, including
SF News Kyle Chapman, Out On Bail, Ordered To Stay Away From Berkeley Rally Kyle "Based Stickman" Chapman was remanded to custody Friday by a judge in the felony case stemming from his appearing to wield a leaded stick at a March 4 alt-right rally in Berkeley.
SF News Meet The Pro-Trump Trans Woman Behind Sunday's 'Anti-Marxism' Rally In Berkeley In the event description for Saturday's Patriot Prayer rally at Crissy Field in San Francisco, organizer Joey Gibson has been touting that he has a "transsexual" speaker in his lineup, and he's been
SF News Ann Coulter, Steve Bannon Might Join Milo Yiannopoulos's 'Free Speech Week' At UC Berkeley Conservative speaker, alt-right commentator and relentless controversy-stirrer Milo Yiannopoulos plans to hold a "Free Speech Week" at the University of California, Berkeley next month because, you know, things went so well last time.
SF News Berkeley Denies Permit For 'No To Marxism' Rally Sunday, But Expect A Street War Anyway In addition to the planned and permitted "Patriot Prayer" rally in San Francisco's Crissy Field on Saturday, there's been a planned "No to Marxism" rally in Berkeley on Sunday that is semi-connected, and
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Vows To Return To Berkeley For 'Free Speech Week' Controversial alt-right/conservative figure and former heavy Twitter user Milo Yiannopoulos is attempting to make a return trip to Berkeley in September for what he's dubbed "Free Speech Week," a four-day event on
Arts & Entertainment New Daniel Handler Play 'Imaginary Comforts' To Premiere At Berkeley Rep In October A new play by local author Daniel Handler, of Lemony Snicket fame, by the name of Imaginary Comforts, or The Story of the Ghost of the Dead Rabbit, will be having its world
SF News SF & Berkeley Mayors, Supervisors Seek Any Means To Halt Alt-Right Rallies The Bay Area is grappling with how with to solve a problem like Nazis in the Marina, as two alt-right/white nationalist rallies are planned for next weekend in San Francisco and Berkeley.
