On the 49th anniversary of the largest protest marches Berkeley has likely ever seen, Tom Dalzell recalls a day when Berkeley demonstrated "moral outrage" in abundance.
Everybody knows about the People's Park created in 1969, when thousands of students, activists, and neighbors worked to establish the place. Few know about an earlier park.
Those suing say that police hid inside the MLK Student Union instead of protecting people from the violence perpetrated by black-clad demonstrators.
Students from a charter high school in San Jose traveled to Cal Monday to attend a small rally for immigrant rights organized by BAMN.
The student news organization, Berkeley Patriot, has filed a second complaint with the Dept. of Justice alleging its First Amendment rights were violated.
Outraged that UC allows the far-right to harass their student populations under the childish ruse of “free speech,” the author and his friend go to a rally to protest. Sort of.
The Berkeley College Republicans have a month to file a new complaint demonstrating that Cal suppressed conservative speech.
The last rally for "Free Speech Week," was uneventful. The 11 rallies in Berkeley since February, however, have catapulted some protesters to national prominence.
A right-wing rally and march and counterprotest at UC Berkeley on Tuesday afternoon ended with three arrests.
The two-hour rally, march and sit-in was put on by a diverse coalition of 30 groups. A security detail blocked right-wing news operations from entering the rally area.
Berkeleyside contributing photographers documented the response to Milo Yiannopoulos's visit to Berkeley on Sunday.
Authorities in Berkeley made at least 14 arrests Sunday in connection with an appearance at Cal by Milo Yiannopoulos.
After a student group withdrew support for "Free Speech Week," Milo Yiannopoulos showed up anyway Sunday.
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