SF News Berkeley Campus Braces For Potential Protest Chaos As Ann Coulter Arrives Conservative opportunist Ann Coulter has landed in the Bay Area for a speaking engagement at UC Berkeley — making good on her promise to set foot in the home of the Free Speech Movement, albeit two years late.
SF News Hong Kong Protests Cause Rift Between UC Berkeley Summer Session Students A bulletin board covered in Post-It notes expressing support for pro-democracy protesters in Hong Kong has been vandalized several times on the UC Berkeley campus, and some Chinese students find it offensive.
SF News Former Trump Press Secretary Sean Spicer To Speak At Berkeley Wednesday UC Berkeley's College Republicans group is hosting Sean Spicer Wednesday evening for a talk "about media bias and the threat that it poses to our republic."
SF News Now Trump Is Issuing An Executive Order On Campus Free Speech Inspired By UC Berkeley Punching Incident In the latest example of President Trump's baldfaced pandering to a rabid conservative base that gets worked up every time they see UC Berkeley in a headline, he's signing an executive order about free speech on college campuses.
SF News UC Berkeley Campus Police Make Arrest In Viral Video Attack Case Campus police at UC Berkeley on Friday announced the arrest of 28-year-old Zachary Greenberg in a felony assault on a conservative activist, a video of which has since gone viral and sparked right-wing outrage.
SF News National Park Service Nixes Black Panther Homage Amid Conservative Backlash In the latest chapter of right-leaning newsgroups and placing a high value on disrupting the proceedings of Berkeley, California, the Chronicle reports that an almost-$100,000 grant from the National Park Service
SF News UC Berkeley Paper Apologizes, Retracts Anti-Semitic Cartoon A satirical cartoon of recent UC Berkeley campus speaker, the attorney Alan Dershowitz, that many saw as having anti-Semitic overtones has been retracted by the Daily Californian, and the editor of the student-run
SF News Berkeley Student Paper In Hot Water Over Arguably Anti-Semitic Cartoon Of Alan Dershowitz U. Cal Berkeley chancellor condemns antisemitic cartoon attacking Alan Dershowitz in student newspaper. https://t.co/SFocUOZ6Zs— Jeremy Burton (@BurtonJM) October 25, 2017 There's long been a tension in left-wing politics over the
SF News UC Berkeley Chancellor Calls Out 'Free Speech Week' As A 'Fiction' "When I get on my knees, it's not to disrespect the flag," Milo Yiannopolous told @UCBerkeley crowd https://t.co/08JMtfByjo @Berkeleyside— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 25, 2017 After having to placate the
SF News Judge Tosses Berkeley College Republicans' Lawsuit Against School Lost in the mercurial leadup to and catastrophic flop of Berkeley’s late September “Free Speech Week” was the footnote that two conservative student organizations have had a lawsuit against UC Berkeley arguing
Arts & Entertainment Undiscovered Mark Twain Story Found In UC Berkeley Archive Published This Week As this week sees the much awaited publication of a brand new, previously undiscovered Mark Twain children's story, one scholar at UC Berkeley is talking about the day he found evidence linking it
SF News Attorney General Jeffrey Sessions Decries UC Berkeley's 'Crackdown On Free Speech' Speaking at Georgetown University on Tuesday, Attorney General Jeff Sessions lashed out at universities for their supposed restrictions on "free speech." According to the SF Chronicle, Sessions specifically named UC Berkeley as an
SF Restaurants, Food & Drink Harassed Berkeley Hot Dog Vendor Juan Macias Says He'll Use Crowdfunded Donations To Launch Food Truck An unpermitted hot dog vendor who was videotaped outside a UC Berkeley football game having his meager earnings confiscated by a campus cop was presented with a hefty $87,000 windfall over the
SF News Milo Yiannopoulos Spent 15 Minutes At UC Berkeley, Cost Them $800,000 "When I get on my knees, it's not to disrespect the flag," Milo Yiannopolous told @UCBerkeley crowd https://t.co/08JMtfByjo @Berkeleyside— Carla Marinucci (@cmarinucci) September 25, 2017 Milo Yiannopoulos and alt-right friends
SF News Berkeley Patriot Backs Out Of Free Speech Week, Milo Insists He's Still Coming Sunday Though it seemed yesterday that Milo Yiannopoulos was almost certainly planning to pull out of his imagined three-ring circus of alt-right speech-making called Free Speech Week, he continues to insist in a Facebook
SF News 'Free Speech Week' Likely Cancelled, Milo To Give Theatrical Press Conference Blaming Berkeley As we've pretty much assumed all along, the grand gesture that has been Milo Yiannopoulos's Free Speech Week appears to be little more than a gesture intended to incite a media frenzy and
SF News UC Berkeley Students Find Anti-LGBTQ, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Abortion Chalk Graffiti On Campus Late last night, UC Berkeley students found Sproul Plaza covered in chalk graffiti containing hateful anti-LGBTQ, anti-immigration, anti-abortion messages. A few of the tags read: "Illegals, ICE is coming"; "Build a wall, deport
SF News Ex-Google Guy James Damore Says He Wasn't Asked To Speak At Free Speech Week, Will Not Be There In further evidence that Milo Yiannopolous was at the very least padding his list of "confirmed" speakers for Free Speech Week with names of people he'd like to see there but whom he
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 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
