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The arraignment hearing of By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, activist Yvette Felarca was postponed Wednesday to Nov. 8. Felarca is facing a felony charge of assault and two misdemeanor charges of rioting and inciting to riot.
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Right-wing activists, police and counterprotesters converged in People’s Park on Tuesday afternoon in response to a rally organized by anti-government group Patriot Prayer.
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Despite the cancellation of “Free Speech Week” at UC Berkeley, about 200 people marched from Crescent Lawn to Wheeler Hall on Monday afternoon to protest militarization and police presence on campus.
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Controversial conservative writer Milo Yiannopoulos spoke to a crowd of about 50 people on UC Berkeley’s Sproul Plaza on Sunday before hurriedly leaving campus on what would have been the first day of the now-canceled “Free Speech Week.”
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Though the campus had prepared extensively for potential violence, Ben Shapiro’s speaking event at UC Berkeley on Thursday went on largely uninterrupted, drawing a peaceful protest that ended in a short march through Berkeley’s streets.
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The U.S. Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals heard oral arguments from both UC Berkeley and activist group By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, in the latter’s ongoing lawsuit regarding the Occupy Cal protests in 2011.
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The University of California released a statement Monday in support of California Attorney General Xavier Becerra’s lawsuit against the Trump administration’s decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, or DACA.
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Amber Cummings, organizer of the “No to Marxism in America” rally that was canceled the Friday before Aug. 27’s far-right rallies and counterprotests, is holding another rally during Milo Yiannopoulos’s Free Speech Week at UC Berkeley.
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Sunday’s rallies in Downtown Berkeley featured clashes between “alt-right” ralliers and counterprotesters, but some activists and residents still consider it a largely “peaceful” and “successful” event.
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BUSD teacher Yvette Felarca was formally arraigned Thursday on one count of assault, one count of participating in an illegal riot and one count of causing a riot, according to the Sacramento District Attorney’s office.
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