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Free speech

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If you ask for help, UC Berkeley’s attorney...

October 15, 2019
The student-sponsored Free Speech Week event in September 2017 drew hundreds of demonstrators to the campus. (UC Berkeley photo by Khaled Sayed)

Author Andrew Marantz talks trolls,...

October 15, 2019
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Chancellor Christ: ‘We aspire to a...

September 9, 2019
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UC Berkeley police identify suspect in Sproul...

February 22, 2019
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A message from campus leaders in condemnation of...

February 21, 2019
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Settlement reached in free speech case

December 3, 2018
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How do we talk politics in these heated times?

October 26, 2018

A friendly chat between rivals: Robert Reich...

March 21, 2018
UC Berkeley sophomore Manu Meel (middle right) speaks during a forum on Free Speech at the BAMPFA. The other panelists included, from left: Ira Glasser, the former head of the ACLU; Charlene Stern, director of "Near Normal Man;" Ben Stern, an activist, educator and Holocaust survivor; moderator Edward Wasserman, dean of Berkeley's journalism school; Meel; Luis Tenorio, a sociology Ph.D candidate and director of Queer and Trans Advocacy Project at UC Berkeley; and Simone Dill, a senior film and media studies major and president of the Cal Black Student Union. (UC Berkeley photo by Jeremy Snowden)

Do Nazis have free speech rights? Campus...

January 29, 2018
Under the revised Major Events policy, event organizers who want to invite guests who could draw large crowds — like Senator Bernie Sanders, who visited UC Berkeley in June 2016 — will need to give campus six weeks notice instead of eight. (UC Berkeley photo by Brittany Hosea-Small)

New campus event policy simplified after student,...

January 18, 2018
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December 13, 2017
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November 21, 2017
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November 14, 2017
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November 9, 2017
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November 2, 2017

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October 12, 2017

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