Ann Coulter, Milo Yiannopoulos, and the Breitbart News executive and former White House chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon have been invited to speak this September at the University of California at Berkeley.
The Mercers will continue the Bannonist-Breitbart campus offensive this fall.
Mercer was involved in funding the canceled Coulter speech with the event collapsing not only because of security concerns but with the withdrawal of their support money.
Chances are that other external money will be filtered to UCB student group’s California Patriot via the usual RW campus media resources of Campus Network (Intercollegiate Studies Institute).
Dan Mogulof, a spokesman for the university, confirmed to The Chronicle on Wednesday evening that a student group, California Patriot, had invited the speakers for a series of events set to take place on the campus from September 24 to 27. Messages to the event organizer identified by Mr. Mogulof weren’t immediately returned on Wednesday afternoon. Carol Christ, the university’s new chancellor, also said in a statement on Wednesday that Mr. Yiannopoulos has been invited to speak on campus.
“The university has the responsibility to provide safety and security for its community and guests, and we will invest the necessary resources to achieve that goal,” she said in her statement. “If you choose to protest, do so peacefully. That is your right, and we will defend it with vigor. We will not tolerate violence, and we will hold anyone accountable who engages in it.”
Asked if the university was worried given the outbreak of violence that has emerged around recent rallies and demonstrations, Mr. Mogulof said yes. He added that it was important that the university host the event, though he said it would be “deeply upsetting” for some people.
Two of the speakers, Mr. Yiannopoulos and Ms. Coulter, had previously been scheduled to speak at the campus this year. But the event featuring Mr. Yiannopoulos, in February, was canceled after protests of the event turned violent. And Ms. Coulter’s planned speech was called off over safety concerns.
In the wake of the deadly violence in Charlottesville, Va., this month, at least four universities have refused to host the white nationalist Richard B. Spencer, citing security risks.
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This weekend will feature more of the same...
Authorities in San Francisco and Berkeley are planning a large show of force this weekend at two right-wing rallies, enlisting hundreds of officers each day in a bid to prevent violence from erupting in the wake of the killing of an antiracism protester in Charlottesville, Va.
@AntifaBoston is one of a small circle of Antifa accounts, though the others are associated with locations that one wouldn’t expect to have an Antifa presence. That includes one-percenter locations like Beverly Hills Antifa, Newport Antifa (whose header photo is of famed Vanderbilt mansion the Breakers), Wall Street Antifa, Martha’s Vineyard Antifa, Nantucket Antifa, Scarsdale Antifa, the now-suspended account for Harvard Yard Antifa, and last but not least, Mar-a-Lago Antifa. The accounts frequently mention, retweet, and tag each other in photos. Here’s one of the accounts arguing that the solar eclipse is problematic because the moon has an American flag on it.