Get your protest seats ready – A few weeks ago UC Berkeley announced their plans for a “free speech week” after a lot of bad press about having to cancel previous events for, let’s say controversial “fad” mouthpieces.
You’d think those folks would tell UCBerk to f*ck off but instead they grabbed the chance (and paycheck). – PB/TK
Conservative provocateurs on their way to UC Berkeley after cancelled appearances – By Emily Zentner (sacbee.com) / Aug 24 2017
This September, controversial conservative speakers Milo Yiannopoulos, Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon will be coming to UC Berkeley as a part of the university’s “free speech week” honoring the 1964 free speech protests on campus.
The trio was invited by The Berkeley Patriot, a conservative campus newspaper, to attend the event on Sproul Plaza, where much of the original protests happened, from Sept. 24-27, according to the East Bay Times.
Appearances by Yiannopoulos and Coulter scheduled for early on this year after fiery on-campus protests led to safety concerns and security disagreements between the Berkeley College Republicans and the campus administation, according to the Daily Californian. Yiannopoulos has vowed to return since his earlier event was cancelled, saying that he would be back in September for a week-long free speech event, according to the Washington Post. With this news, it would seem that his prophecy has come true.
Continue to sacbee.com article: http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/article169188062.html
