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BERKELEY Protesters and police are gearing up for a confrontation Wednesday over a visit from Milo Yiannopoulos, writer for Breitbart News and alt-right provocateur, who intends to kick off a campaign to withdraw funding from sanctuary campuses.

Yiannopoulos, who has outed a transgender student, called feminism a cancer and rape culture a fantasy, was blocked from speaking at UC Davis earlier this month after rowdy protests prompted the UC Davis College Republicans to shut down their event.

The planned Wednesday event, hosted by UC Berkeley College Republicans, will mark the start of the conservative David Horowitz Freedom Centers campaign to withdraw federal grants from campuses that protect from deportation students who are undocumented immigrants. The University of California system announced measures in November that would, in effect, make it a sanctuary campus.

The announcement of Yiannopoulos visit initially prompted calls for the campus to block the event. Instead, the university intends to charge the College Republicans for costs that far exceed the basic security costs of an event.

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks sent a message to students, staff and facultyThursday, affirming the universitys commitment to freedom of speech while also distancing the school from the decision by the College Republicans, a separate legal entity, to host the event.

We are defending the right to freeexpression at an historic moment for our nation, when this right is once again of paramount importance, Dirks wrote. In this context, we cannot afford to undermine those rights, and feel a need to make a spirited defense of the principle of tolerance, even when it means we tolerate that which may appear to us as intolerant.

Now, Berkeley-based groups have put out calls to shut down the Berkeley College Republicans event on Wednesday.

The event, which will be held at the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union Building, will begin at 8 p.m. and the doors will open at 7 p.m. The venue holds 500 people and has been sold out for weeks, according to campus officials.

Protesters intend to organize at 6 p.m. at Sproul Plaza and campus officials expect a significant number of people to gather outside in protest.

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One week after a University of Wisconsin student attempted to start an alt-right group on campus, students and community members alike marched to protest the movement and fight white supremacy.

In a mass demonstration entitled Take Back our Campus: Resist White Supremacy, around 70 protesters gathered Tuesday to marchfrom Library Mall to Bascom Hall to voice their list of demands. Beforeending their march, the group made its wayto the Student Activity Center to speak to UW Chancellor Rebecca Blank, who was attending a shared governance meeting.

The eventbegan at Library Mall featured speakers from a range of 30 different groups who addressed the protesters on issues related to fighting white supremacy. Laura Minero, a UW graduatestudent and member of DREAMers of UW-Madison, began the protest by encouraging the crowdto come together as one.

Conservative, liberal student organizations denounce alt-right movementIn a moment ofunity on the University of Wisconsin campus, student organizations from both the liberal and conservative camps have

Minero said people believe issues like xenophobia and homophobia are new, but in reality, they are not.

Its time that people get woke, and thats why were all here. Minero said. And were here to bring wokeness to this campus and not allow groups like this alt-right group thats trying to infiltrate our campus.

Ali Brooks, a member of Groundworks, an anti-racism group in Madison,discussed racial justice at the protest. She said white supremacy on campus is nothing new and the rise of President Donald Trump has revealed this.

People should use their privilege and power to do work that may be dangerous for people of color, she added.

White silence is violence, Brooks said.

UW students walk out of class in opposition to Trumps inaugurationAt 11 a.m. Friday morning, Donald Trump was sworn into the Oval Office, effectively becoming the 45th president of the

The speaking portionended with a discussion led by Acheh Fonkem, a UW student with a hearing disability, on the topics of white supremacy and immigration.

Protesters then marched to Bascom Hall chanting, No justice, no peace, and This is our university, fuck white supremacy.

Tina Trevio-Murphy, a member of the Teaching Assistants Association, discussed social change at Bascom Hall. She said individuals by themselves are not strong enough to make major changes. People must come together for a common cause, she added, to be stronger and create change.

Protesters continued by marching to the SAC to question Blank, who was in a shared governance meeting,about her plans to deal with the alt-right.

One attendee from the meetingasked Blank on how the community should respond when approached with subtle forms of racism, to which the protesters demanded Blank condemn all forms of racism, including hate speech.

Though the protesters appearance was unscheduled, Blank was able to address some of their concerns.

Oneorganizer of the demonstration,Ricardo de la Cruz II, called march successful because they had a list of demands. He said he hopes the event spurs political change on campus.

Part of the political change they hope to achieve, he said, is to have the administration make changes.

You have to fight for something, de la Cruz II said. Especially since theres so many identities on this campus, why wouldnt you, especially if youre a person of color, why wouldnt you fight for your own identity especially when its being oppressed.

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UW-Madison students and members of the Madison community held a rally against the Madison American Freedom Party, an alt-right group on campus.

Ten days after the Womens March on Madison drew 100,000 people to State Street, UW-Madison students and members of the community once again picked up their signs Tuesday and protested what some see as a byproduct of the rise of President Donald Trump.

The rally, titled Take Back Our Campus: Resist White Supremacy and organized by Student Coalition for Progress, attracted roughly 200 people to downtown Madison on a weeknight, who voiced their opposition to an alt-right group on campus.

Protesters gathered at 5 p.m. at Library Mall to listen to speakers for about one hour before marching up Bascom Hill to deliver a list of demands to Chancellor Rebecca Blank and Dean Lori Berquam.

The raucous crowd chanted no justice, no peace AFP, go away and f--- white supremacy between speeches and while marching.

Students and community members representing a diverse array of organizations took the mic to denounce racism and white nationalism.

We are not allowing Nazis to the table, said speaker Kiah Price, who represented the International Socialist Organization. My existence is not up for debate.

The protest was a response to the formation of the Madison American Freedom Party, a group headed by Daniel Dropik, a UW-Madison student who served prison time after committing two counts of racially motivated arson in 2005.

Over 35 organizations, including College Democrats of UW-Madison, the Teaching Assistants' Association and the Student Labor Action Coalition, collaborated to plan the rally.

Kat Kerwin, a member of Student Coalition for Progress, said that although the Madison American Freedom Party is small, it is still important for students to mobilize against it.

This is the new KKK, this is the new Jim Crow, Kerwin said. It is important to make clear that these people dont have a place on our campus.

Leland Pan, a UW-Madison graduate student and former Dane County supervisor, echoed Kerwins sentiment.

We need to ensure that white supremacist viewpoints are shown to be not normal and shown to be not accepted by the campus community, Pan said.

Although the protest was largely a resistance effort against Dropik and his group, its speakers and attendees also spent a great deal of time addressing the election and presidency of Donald Trump.

White people, we are responsible for electing Trump, said Ali Brooks, speaking on behalf of Groundwork, a group that works for racial justice in Dane County. White people who care about white supremacy need to be 10 times louder than white supremacists on this campus.

After the protest, some students entered the shared governance meeting where Chancellor Rebecca Blank was speaking, chanting hey, hey, what do you say, make these fascists go away. Blank was criticized by some students for her statement regarding the group, in which she suggested that criminal records may be considered in admissions in the future.

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Budweiser is know for its 'Red White and Blue' label and use of brash patriotic imagery (it even changed its name to 'America' temporarily during the US election) - but it's new Super Bowl TV spot hits on more complicated themes.

One week after US President Donald Trump introduced new border controls which block entry to the state from 7 prominently Muslim nations, the brand has highlighted its immigrant origins.

The 60 second Super Bowl advert titled 'Born the Hard Way' tracesAdolphus Busch's journey from Germany to the US in 1857.

After being confronted by a barman who remarks, "You don't look like you're from around here" the newcomer is comforted byEberhard Anheuser who buys him a beer.

The two formed Anheuser-Busch - now AB InBev - the world's largest beer company.

"Even though it happened in the 1850s, its a story that is super relevant today. Thats what were honing in on; its the pursuit, the effort, the passion, the drive, the hard work, the ambition, thats really what this is about more than anything else," the company's head of marketingRicardo Marque commented.

Breitbart - the alt-Right news service which came to prominence during the 2016 US presidential election summarisedthe ad as 'Ugly Americans harass hero immigrant.' Its founder Steve Bannon is oneof MrTrump's key-advisers.

"Theres really no correlation with anything else thats happening in the country," Budweiser's Ricardo Marques said, speaking toAd Week.

"We believe this is a universal story that is very relevant today because probably more than any other period in history today the world pulls you in different directions, and its never been harder to stick to your guns," he added.

Last year's event provoked complaints from some viewers as Beyonce's halftime performance featured dancers dressed as Black Panther members - while Clodplay's appearanceused the colours of the rainbow flag and the message 'Believe in Love' which was read by some as an endorsement of gay marriage.

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