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Berkeley mayor Jesse Arreguin is calling for “Antifa” — the so-called “anti-fascist” group that proudly uses violence to silence views with which it does not agree — to be classified as a street gang by police.

UC Berkeley Chancellor Carol Christ has reaffirmed the institution’s commitment to free speech in an email that was sent to students on Wednesday morning.

The same “speech is violence” arguments used at Berkeley are being made in the wake of the violence at Charlottesville — not just by Antifa, but by widely respected members of the media and political establishment.

Prerna P. Lal of UC Berkeley’s Undocumented Student Center took to Twitter in the aftermath of the Charlottesville chaos to argue that “white Americans are the original Nazis.”

A team of University of California infrastructure risk management experts has warned that patches of green foliage growing on the face of Oroville Dam are indications of water saturation in the earthen structure that could cause a catastrophic collapse.

The UC Berkeley health system will soon add several health care benefits designed specifically to assist transgender students, according to a report from the Daily Californian.

The “Day of Action” for Net Neutrality, organized by the world’s biggest corporations for their own economic benefit, appears to be fizzling into a big yawn.

California’s Democratic-controlled government fought tooth-and-nail with the Trump administration about its travel ban, but has no problem imposing a travel ban of its own to forbid its employees from traveling to other states that don’t share its progressive agenda.

In a Senate hearing that took place this week, Senator Diane Feinstein defended the right of public universities to cancel controversial speaking events when they may lead to violence on campus.

Californians reject the new gas tax and vehicle registration fee increases passed by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrat-dominated California legislature.

A fan of former Breitbart senior editor Milo Yiannopoulos is suing UC Berkeley for $23 million, claiming routine abuse against conservative students on campus.

California’s increased crackdown on free speech on several of its college campuses has pushed several Republicans, and even some Democrats, to push back.

A UC Berkeley professor has come under fire after a Wikipedia edit project for one of his courses resulted in students branding President Donald Trump “racist” and “sexist.”

Former Breitbart Senior Editor MILO celebrated Cinco de MILO today where he announced a number of new Milo, Inc. ventures.

UC Santa Cruz surrendered to the demands of the Afrikan Black Student Alliance (ABSA) after a three-day occupation of the administration building — and after ABSA activists harassed Jews.

A Berkeley student argues that free speech puts student safety at risk in an op-ed for the Daily Californian this week.

Approximately 150 students at the University of California, Santa Cruz have occupied the school’s administration building since Tuesday afternoon armed with a long list of demands for the educational institution.

A discussion event on driving conservative speakers like Ann Coulter and Milo Yiannopoulos off of college campuses is taking place at UC Berkeley on Thursday evening.

The University of California, Berkeley paid police half a million dollars in overtime last Thursday to deal with the threat created by leftists opposed to letting conservative author Ann Coulter speak — even though she never did.

As estimated 200 people gathered in Berkeley, California, on Thursday to protest the threatened violence and university restrictions that forced Ann Coulter to cancel her scheduled lecture.

On Thursday’s broadcast of “The Laura Ingraham Show,” Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) said, “I think that Congress, and the people who appropriate the money, we should think about whether or not we should be sending money to universities that only

Sarah Palin, former Alaska governor and Republican vice presidential candidate, looked at the first one hundred days of President Trump’s administration on Thursday’s Breitbart News Daily with SiriusXM host Alex Marlow.

Thursday on Fox News Channel’s Fox & Friends, Dr. Phil McGraw, host of Dr. Phil, reacted to the threats of violence that forced the cancellation of conservative commentator Ann Coulter’s scheduled speech in Berkeley, CA, a night earlier.

Students at the University of California Berkeley may not be able to hear conservative commentator Ann Coulter speak on campus — however, they can take a school-sanctioned course on a made-up language used in a popular HBO fantasy show.

On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Hannity,” author Ann Coulter weighed in on the cancellation of her speech at UC-Berkeley and President Trump’s dropping of his demand for border wall funding by stating, “I think the GOP should change

WATCH: Berkeley College Republicans Hold Press Conference Following Cancellation of Ann Coulter Event

Former Breitbart Senior Editor Milo Yiannopoulos declared that he would “make sure” UC Berkeley would “become the free speech capital of the United States once again” in response to the cancellation of Ann Coulter’s event on campus.

Law enforcement sources have told Fox News that there is a “99 percent” chance of violence on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley if conservative author and commentator Ann Coulter speaks on Thursday.

Young America’s Foundation (YAF) has pulled out of Ann Coulter’s Thursday event at UC Berkeley, blaming the college for allowing left-wing extremists to terrorize conservatives on campus.

On Monday’s broadcast of CNN’s special primetime edition of “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) weighed in on the controversy over author Ann Coulter speaking at the University of California, Berkeley by stating, “My view is, let

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon, who is representing the Berkeley College Republicans over restrictions placed on an upcoming Ann Coulter event, argued that UC Berkeley’s policies on acceptable speech are “infinitely malleable,” in a press conference that took place on Monday.

Attorney Harmeet Dhillon branded former Vermont governor Howard Dean and California congresswoman Jackie Speier as “amateurs” at law and the Constitution during a press conference on Monday.

Harmeet Dhillon, a San Francisco lawyer representing the UCB College Republicans, held a press conference Monday to discuss the case being brought against UC Berkeley and suggested deploying the National Guard to provide security if Berkeley’s mayor could not maintain control of the city.

The Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation have filed a lawsuit against members of the University of California system for their role in restricting an upcoming speaking event featuring Ann Coulter.

Willie Brown, the first African-American mayor of San Francisco, has used his latest San Francisco Chronicle column to condemn liberal intolerance at the University of California, Berkeley towards conservative speakers as the reversal of that campus’s free speech legacy.

In a second legal letter, the Berkeley College Republicans and the Young America’s Foundation have demanded that administrators allow Ann Coulter’s upcoming lecture to proceed as it was originally scheduled.