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Free Speech Fight at UC Berkeley - Professor Michael Mark Cohen

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On Friday the fate of a much anticipated “Free Speech Week” sponsored by conservative provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos at UC Berkeley continued to be in limbo, as student organizers, campus officials and Yiannopoulos engage in an escalating war of words. Meanwhile, a group of faculty members spearheaded by professor Michael Mark Cohen is urging a boycott of the event, should it go forward. We talk to Professor Cohen about why he opposes the event.

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