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Hours after the cancellation of an event where Breitbart technology editor Milo Yiannopoulos planned to target undocumented students at UC Berkeley, community members gathered to clean up shattered remains of the night’s chaos — largely the work of outside anarchist groups. Yiannopoulos, per usual, played the victim. After he fled
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Against an authoritarian administration that blurs the lines of constitutionality and throws checks and balances out the window, we must protect the country’s legacy as a home for displaced peoples. Trump’s inhumane Muslim ban — he refuses to call it by that name, but that is what the executive order
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At 1951 Coffee, people whom our new president has labeled dangerous Trojan horses “who are definitely, in many cases, ISIS-aligned” serve coffee like any other baristas. The refugee-centric business embodies Berkeley at its best. But with his executive order Wednesday to cut federal funding for sanctuary cities, President Donald Trump
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Whether the city of Berkeley likes it or not, homeless encampments save lives. By repeatedly dispersing those encampments because of public complaints, the city has failed to value the demands and the lives of the homeless. Several homeless people have already died this winter from exposure to the rain and
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A movement draws power from its numbers, but it should not pursue numbers at the cost of marginalizing its own intended participants. On Saturday, millions joined the Women’s March — an impressive worldwide effort after Donald Trump was inaugurated — carrying the banner of “unity” under an administration that has
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After six years of living in a frozen paradise, UC students once again face the possibility of increased tuition. And this time, it’s not only reasonable — it’s necessary, for all the wrong reasons. The UC Board of Regents has proposed a $282 tuition increase that would go into effect
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The Berkeley College Republicans have created an appealing narrative: A small but vocal minority stands up to oppression from fellow students, the campus and hostile liberal strangers to defend open discourse and freedom of speech. Except it is not true. Milo Yiannopoulos, an editor for the far-right news website Breitbart,
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