30 minutes of live coverage of Milo, Mike Cernovich and Pamela Geller behind a line of UCPD, taking selfies, signing MAGA hats, and arguing with tiny crowd on Sproul steps: Singing the US national anthem as some guy tried to slip Milo his hotel room key. www.pscp.tv/…
Much like Trump promoting steaks during a presser, apparently that’s what Milo or his “fans” celebrated yesterday, since his FB live presser promoted a book and his annoyance with the UC Berkeley student group who canceled Free Speech Week events yesterday morning.
“The university has made it impossible to hold the event,” said Marguerite Melo, a Visalia attorney with the firm Melo and Sarsfield. “A lot of these speakers have withdrawn. To have an empty gesture of ‘Free Speech Week,’ when there are no speakers is impossible. And the university couldn’t guarantee our speakers would be safe.”
“We are very disappointed,” she said. “We are going to cancel. We have made a determination, or our clients have, that it is just not safe. If we had had Zellerbach Hall, that would be a different story. But my clients didn’t want to be responsible, even morally, if something happened.”
The Berkeley Patriot notified UC Berkeley officials in a letter sent by email about 6:13 a.m.
The withdrawal of the group’s support means that Milo Yiannopoulos and the people he has invited to talk cannot come officially to public spaces at UC Berkeley.
Non-student events must be “academically-driven” according to the ASUC outdoor space policies.
While Lower Sproul can be rented, Sproul Plaza itself cannot.
Yiannopoulos said in a live-streamed statement Saturday that he still intends to carry out a push for “free speech” but in a different form.
He will march through Sproul Plaza at noon on Sunday, accompanied by two fellow right-wing writers, Mike Cernovich and Pamela Geller.
Then came the sell. Yiannopoulos promoted some future events at other California universities — part of what he’s dubbed his “Troll Academy” tour — and took time to announce that his company, Milo Inc., would be publishing a new book by Pamela Geller: Fatwa: Hunted in America.
Yiannopoulos had wanted his “Free Speech Rally” in Berkeley to be the Woodstock of the far-right: a big, bad gathering of prominent far-right figureheads, including Ann Coulter and Steve Bannon. And his student co-organizers had hoped left-wing riots at the event might amplify Milo’s message.
But here was Milo on Saturday, his Woodstock canceled, talking to a camera in a poorly lit hotel room, hawking a yet-to-be published book to less than 3,000 live viewers. It was as if no one but Sha Na Na had shown up at Yasgur’s Farm.
According to Twitter, it was Yiannopoulos who led the harassment campaign against Ghostbusters actor Leslie Jones — an effort that inspired the SNL cast member to leave Twitter. The barrage of tweets, many of which decried Jones for being black and a woman, were the final straw for Twitter, which is working to try to solve its harassment problem.
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Milo Yiannopoulos publicly posted the photos and identifying information of ASUC Senator Juniperangelica Cordova-Goff and campus doctoral student Adam Jadhav on Wednesday, spurring harassment from his supporters.
Yiannopoulos posted a screenshot of one of Cordova-Goff’s Facebook posts on his Instagram account after she condemned chalk graffiti that targeted undocumented and LGBTQ+ individuals. Yiannopoulos also published a photo of Jadhav after Jadhav notified his political ecology students that Tuesday’s class would be cancelled for “Free Speech Week.”
Cordova-Goff initially deactivated her official Senate Facebook page, but it has since been reactivated, and she published a statement titled “On Being Targeted and Doxxed” in response to the incident Thursday.
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