This fight protected speech at the following campuses University of California Berkeley University of California Davis University of California Irvine University of California Los Angeles University of California Merced University of California Riverside University of California San Diego University of California San Francisco University of California Santa Barbara University of California Santa Cruz YAL State...Read More
In the summer of 2019, Chapter President West Below researched the policies at his own school and found there were unconstitutional free speech zones and assembly permits. During the Fall semester West took action several times, violating the schools policy in the hope of getting them changed. The school told West several times that he...Read More
In late November 2018, the YAL Chapter at Santa Ana College held a speech ball event on the campus of the Southern California community college. Chapter President Andrew Rivas and member Boston Bolles rolled the ball around and talked to students about the First Amendment until they were stopped by campus administration. The administrator informed...Read More
State Chair Alec Andres held a free speech ball event on his home campus at Palomar college. Very shortly after he and his fellow YALers, including West Coast Regional Director Isaac Edikauskus, began rolling the speech ball around campus and distributing constitutions, campus security intervened and told the students they had to fill out paperwork...Read More
It was just before the general election in November 2016 when Shaw had attempted to distribute Spanish-language copies of the Constitution during a recruiting drive for his student group, a campus chapter of Young Americans for Liberty on the main quad at Pierce College. An administrator told him he could not distribute literature outside the...Read More
Khader Kakish set out his Fall semester with one goal in mind: to receive official club status from the University of California at Berkeley. With a team of half a dozen excited young activists, the YAL Chapter waited for months as the University threw everything plus the kitchen sink at them. Khader learned that they...Read More
At the beginning of the Fall Semester, Taylor Arietta and Fight for Free Speech Veteran, Isaac Edikauskas took to the UC Merced campus with a free speech ball, hoping to spread the good word of liberty. That was until they were stopped by an ornery campus administrator. The administrator told Isaac and Taylor, on camera,...Read More
Like many students on campuses in California, Dakota Locke and his Young Americans for Liberty chapter were upset with the blatant disregard for the First Amendment on campus. At Merced College, the school believed they could limit the ability of students to engage in free expression on campus to one small area on campus. The...Read More
Modesto Junior College (MJC) agreed to settle a First Amendment lawsuit filed by student Robert Van Tuinen, whom the college prevented from handing out copies of the Constitution on Constitution Day. The videotaped incident drew national media attention. As part of the settlement, MJC has revised its policies to allow free speech in open areas...Read More
On September 17, 2013—Constitution Day—Citrus College (Glendora, California) student Vincenzo Sinapi-Riddle (“Vinny”) was threatened with removal from campus by an administrator for asking a fellow student to sign a petition protesting NSA surveillance of American citizens. Vinny was petitioning outside of the college’s tiny “free speech area.” Vinny challenged two other policies that attempt to...Read More
