By Any Means Necessary

The BUSD Board continued conversations of reopening plans and spotlighted plans to aid marginalized groups at Wednesday's meeting.

On Wednesday, civil rights organization By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, will continue speaking against the reopening of Berkeley schools during the Berkeley school board meeting.

Wednesday’s demonstration that attracted more than a thousand protestors in opposition to conservative author Ann Coulter’s immigration policy speech on campus resulted in several arrests, one reported injury and a human barricade that surrounded the entire venue. 

Conservative author Ann Coulter spoke Wednesday to a crowd of about 400 in UC Berkeley’s Wheeler Hall, as more than a thousand protested outside.

On one side were conservative demonstrators — led by Trump supporter Amber Cummings — who believe that they were participating in a righteous crusade to rid UC Berkeley of its leftist hegemony. On the other side were left-wing groups that call themselves “anti-fascists” while making true fascists proud of their attempts at censorship.

By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, activist Yvette Felarca has filed a petition to the California State Supreme Court to reverse the order that she must pay over $11,000 in legal fees to former president of the Berkeley College Republicans, or BCR, Troy Worden.

UC Berkeley sophomore Stephanie Gutierrez has been an advocate for marginalized communities since high school, and if elected ASUC president, she hopes to use her own experience in activism to inspire action in the campus community.

The Defend Affirmative Action Party/Fighting for Immigrant Rights and Equality, or DAAP/FIRE, announced three senate candidates for the spring 2019 ASUC election Saturday, with one candidate also running for an executive position.

Berkeley teacher Yvette Felarca and other supporters of By Any Means Necessary, or BAMN, attended a Jan. 22 hearing in Sacramento, affirming that they have to stand trial in an assault case connected to a neo-Nazi rally and protest in 2016.

Former Berkeley College Republicans president Troy Worden is raising money through a GoFundMe to cover legal fees for a lawsuit involving Yvette Felarca, a member of activist group By Any Means Necessary.