Berkeleyside, “Berkeley police report 30 instances of slashed tires, graffiti near Cal campus”
“Multiple cars, and fences were spray painted with Anarchist symbols, painting out license plates and slogans such as, F$%# white people, Class Warfare sometime during the night,” one local resident near Hillside Avenue and Prospect Street reported on private social network Nextdoor. The messages also included “FTP,” an anti-police term. Another resident who saw the […]
Berkeleyside, “Woman pepper-sprayed at Milo Yiannopoulos rally sues UC Berkeley, city for $23M”
On Feb. 1, about 150 anarchists disrupted a slated speech by Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley. Continue Reading
SFist, “Berkeley Student And Trump Supporter Sues University For $23M Over Attacks By Liberal Protesters”
The cancelled event with Yiannopoulos on February 1 was followed by a pair of pro-Trump/alt-right rallies in downtown Berkeley that also turned violent, with anarchists and various liberal factions seeking to face off against conservatives and those they deem to be neo-Nazis. Continue Reading
Fox 40 Sacramento, “Oakland ‘Anti-Fascist’ Activist Charged with Assault”
Berkeley police officers arrested Eric Clanton, 28, Wednesday at his Oakland, California, home. Police seized “flags, patches, pamphlets” and labels associated with “anti-fascist and anarchist political groups,” according to the complaint filed by prosecutors charging Clanton with four felony counts of assault with a deadly weapon and a misdemeanor charge of wearing a mask while […]
CBS SF Bay Area, “Former Professor Charged With Assault During Berkeley Trump Event”
Detectives later located Clanton at his new address in West Oakland and aresteed him there at about 12:15 p.m. on Wednesday, according to Bejarano. Detectives recovered evidence at that home, such as flags, patches, pamphlets and indicia, associating Clanton with anti-fascists and anarchist groups, Bejarano said. Continue Reading
Berkeleyside (Op-ed), “Opinion: Cry terrorism — Berkeley must say no to Urban Shield”
Besides “training” Urban Shield has been a place to buy “Black Rifles Matter” T-shirts and other “tchotchkes” that glorify a culture of death and destruction. They practice in scenarios that include “Arab terrorists threatening to kill Jews” and “Anarchist Occupy protesters” using violence to take over our public spaces. Continue Reading
East Bay Times, “Peter Schrag: Berkeley and free speech lose as agitators dance”
You have to feel for UC Berkeley. If it’s not the anarchist street mobs tormenting it like a dumb animal, it’s the opportunists on the right who know how to provoke the mobs. Together, they’ve perfected an agitators’ kabuki dance that couldn’t have been more perfectly scripted. Continue Reading
Salon, “Well, shut my mouth!: Berkeley protests put the obedience back in civil disobedience”
That right is protected in the First Amendment, under the emoluments clause. But instead you have bandana-clad anarchist morons battling bloody in the streets with barely sentient sides of beef. All I want is the free exchange of ideas that was promised to me when I was a graduate student at Harvard. Is that too […]
Los Angeles Times, “Protesters trying to turn ‘our city into Fight Club,’ Berkeley mayor says”
After brawls at demonstrations two weeks ago sent seven people to the hospital and resulted in 20 arrests, anarchist and pro-immigration activists were present in the April 27 crowds but did not don masks and attack with explosives and pepper spray. When battle-ready members of the alt-right rushed forward to confront those on the other […]
The Daily Californian, “Antifa aims to preserve safety of community through response”
Our opponents push the misconception that, by militantly confronting them, we are stifling their free speech. We may be a bunch of leftists and anarchists, but we’ve still read the Constitution. Continue Reading