Quote:The mayor of Berkeley, California, is a Facebook member of a leftist militant organization that has been linked to violent incidents in the city.

Mayor Jesse Arreguin’s personal page shows he’s a Facebook member of Defend Affirmative Action and Integration and Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary (BAMN).

According to a 2001 article in the East Bay Express, BAMN, founded in 1995, is “allegedly a front group for an obscure Detroit-based Trotskyist political party called the Revolutionary Workers League.” Even by UC Berkeley standards, students considered the group extreme.

The article in the East Bay Express recounts a number of disturbing incidents showing individuals affiliated with BAMN intimidating local teachers union members and instigating violence throughout Berkeley. One activist familiar with BAMN interviewed in the article describes the group as “like a cult.”

A spokesman for the mayor’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

BAMN’s official website describes the organization as “a mass, democratic, integrated, national organization dedicated to building a new mass civil rights movement to defend affirmative action, integration, and the other gains of the civil rights movement of the 1960s and to advance the struggle for equality in American society by any means necessary.”

Its statement of principles includes a vow that the group will “employ whatever means are necessary to oppose and defeat…attacks on the democratic and egalitarian aspirations and struggles of our people” and quotes black separatist Malcolm X.

A March 1 post on the group’s site entitled “Confront and Defeat the Trump Movement: COUNTER-PROTEST the Pro-Trump Berkeley Rally” urges members to confront supporters of President Trump and to “bring a hat or something else to cover your head and a bandana in case of tear gas.”

Videos at the link shows them in assault mode: https://heatst.com/politics/berkeley-may...ook-group/

I'm shocked.

(I'm not.)

I'd be surprised if he was not...

Is Berkeley the most batty-left city in the country? It's got to be.

Portland is up there, but they're more of the peacenik, green hippie types. Same with most of those Vermont cities.

Meanwhile, Berkeley sometimes reminds me of old-school Soviet.

Quote:The son and grandson of farmworkers, Jesse Arreguin was born in Fresno and raised in San Francisco. 

Anchor baby?





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