SF Gate, “UC President Janet Napolitano wades into campus free speech debate”
Her remarks at the American Political Science Association’s conference in San Francisco came ahead of a conservative UC Berkeley student group’s “Free Speech Week” next month, which Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin asked the campus Monday to cancel in the wake of anarchist violence. Continue Reading
CBS 12 Bay Area, ” U.C. Berkeley group invites right-wing speakers”
This would not be the first time Yiannopoulos and Coulter were scheduled for events at Berkeley, one of the most liberal schools in the country. In February, violence erupted before Yiannopoulo was to speak on campus. Windows of businesses were smashed, anarchists burned municipal property, and the university ultimately canceled the Yiannopoulos event. Continue Reading
The New York Times, “Behind Berkeley’s Semester of Hate”
Antifa is actually more label than organization, its believers connected by calls to action on websites like It’s Going Down. Anarchist, communist or just liberal, they oppose fascism with militant zeal. But some formalize into affinity groups like the Pastel Bloc; dressed in pastels — a play on the head-to-toe uniform of black bloc — […]
Berkeleyside, “Pepper-sprayed woman who sued Cal, Berkeley for $23M, drops lawsuit”
Robles had come to campus Feb.1 to hear Milo Yiannopoulos speak. University officials canceled the speech after a group of about 100 to 150 black-clad protesters stormed the student center and threw objects at police and the building. The anarchists caused about $100,000 in damage to the campus and another $500,000 downtown. Continue Reading
The Olympian, “Man files initiative to rename The Evergreen State College in Olympia”
The initiative calls for the college to change its logo and seal to a “likeness of a young anarchist in a brown shirt, hobnailed jack boots, and a black face mask and hood.” It says the figure should be “vigorously trampling” upon the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights. Continue Reading
Times Free Press (TN), “Free speech on college campuses in the Senate spotlight”
But Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said the universities can’t always deal with the fallout when anarchists and others respond to the appearance of a speaker they oppose. She said the biggest threat of violence often comes from people who don’t attend the university. “You don’t think we learned a lesson at Kent State way back […]
The New York Times, “A Student Strike Becomes an Occupation, for 17 Years”
In 2013, for instance, self-proclaimed anarchists drove other groups out of the building, according to local news accounts. Three months later, however, a band of rivals stormed the auditorium and ejected the anarchists. Later the anarchists — armed with metal rods, fire extinguishers and sticks embedded with nails — violently retook control of the building. […]
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
The Spectator (Seattle), “SU Students Shut Down Chase Bank, Keystone Pipeline”
These students were part of Seattle U’s unofficial Anarchists Club, and they were there to protest Chase Bank’s funding of the Keystone Pipeline, an oil system that will transport crude oil from the Western Canadian Sedimentary Basin in Alberta, Canada to refineries in Illinois and Texas once completed. Continue Reading
The Huffington Post, “I tapped Mel Brook’s phone. Please, Mel, accept my belated apologies.”
It was 1970 – I was studying film with Marty Scorsese at New York University – and in my spare time shooting film with a bunch of Anarchist troublemakers known as Transcendental Student. Having shot a load of 16mm film for a film we called Inciting to Riot we needed a secure facility to cut […]