A network of nonprofits that allegedly worked together to block Turning Point USA at Cal Berkeley. (Fox News Digital)
The motion passed unanimously to "stop fascist recruiting in schools" by amplifying the work of "By Any Means Necessary," which collects tax-deductible donations under the 501(c)(3) nonprofit umbrella of the Detroit-based nonprofit, Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality.
The members closed the 90-minute meeting with one-word salutations.
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"Solidarity!" said Felarca.
This year, Democratic activists and far-left groups have increasingly exploited the term "fascist" as a sweeping label to justify denying political opponents their constitutional rights. The word was allegedly scrawled on the bullet casing left by the man arrested for killing Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, in a chilling reminder of how language can be weaponized to rationalize violence.
November 10, 2025: Protesters outside of the Turning Point event at UC Berkeley with police protecting the event (Elizabeth Heckman-Fox News)
Using the "fascist" term to vilify youth, Felarca continued: "And so, you know, I just think it's super incumbent on us to, like, work, talk to, obviously, other teachers, but also, most importantly, students to really stop this and prevent Turning Point or any fascist organizing to take place."
The group talked about a protest activated this month against a new youth Turning Point USA chapter at Royal Oak High School in Royal Oak, Mich.
Representatives from Berkeley High School and Berkeley Unified School District didn’t respond to requests for comment.
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"I know it's possible to stop it, and if we take the same approach that we took to protesting Turning Point last week – to not just ignore this, because then they'll just go away or, you know, but to also use collective action, and it was crazy, like, find ways to express collectively the power of the movement and not just leave it and hope that the administration will take care of it, because they're clearly not," Felarca said. "They've already approved the group. Then it's super, super important that we do that."
The group’s members also voted unanimously to move forward with a plan to "stop and block" law enforcement officers from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In one plan, they agreed to order "ICE whistles," increasingly used in neighborhoods in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York City to alert residents that ICE officers are in the area. Felarca said they would brand the whistles with the "By Any Means Necessary" name.
The escalation comes at a moment of intense scrutiny from the Trump administration, which has opened a federal investigation into whether "By Any Means Necessary" and allied groups engaged in an organized conspiracy to deny Turning Point USA participants their free speech rights through coercion and disruption at last week’s UC Berkeley event.
November 10, 2025: Flyers found on UC Berkeley campus promoting protests (Fox News Digital-Elizabeth Heckman)
The metadata on the protest flyers directly identify "United for Equality and Affirmative Action Legal Defense Fund" and Cruz as the owners and creators of the posters designed to coordinate the protest and smear Turning Point USA. This relationship raises questions about how the nonprofit sector is being used as a legal shield for activities that appear non-charitable and also potentially unconstitutional, including coordinated attempts to suppress one political viewpoint, intimidate political opponents and interfere with lawful assemblies.
Federal law grants 501(c)(3) charities tax-exempt status to support education, research and legitimate public benefit, not to wage political operations under the banner of intimidating opponents "by any means necessary." Experts warn this case highlights a growing vulnerability in the nonprofit regulatory framework: ideological organizations leveraging the credibility and financial protections of charitable status while engaging in conduct that would disqualify traditional nonprofits and undermine core constitutional rights.
The distinction between lawful protest and unconstitutional coercion is central to federal case law. Courts have repeatedly ruled that public institutions — including K–12 schools and universities that receive federal funding — can’t block specific viewpoints outright or allow administrators and staff to encourage or enable mob pressure that suppresses a single perspective.
If one viewpoint can be suppressed as dangerous, legal scholars note, then all viewpoints are vulnerable to governmental suppression, mob censorship or the "heckler’s veto," as legal experts call it.
During the clash, police arrested a protester, Jihad Dphrepaulezz, 25, for allegedly stealing the chain necklace of an attendee wearing a "Freedom" T-shirt, similar to the shirt worn by Kirk when he was assassinated. Authorities say police made multiple arrests of protesters.
The seven organizations involved in the efforts to intimidate ticketholders at the Turning Point USA event come from the world of nonprofit philanthropy, the global socialist network and the international "anti-fascist" network, operating with militant tactics, even if few adopt the Antifa name formally.
UC BERKELEY’S BLOODY PROTEST OF TPUSA ALLEGEDLY FUNDED BY FAR-LEFT NONPROFIT
The seven groups involved in the coordinated campaign against Turning Point USA are:
Hatem Bazian, a co-founder of Students for Justice in Palestine, an anti-Israel group that has gotten 501(c)(3) tax benefits and tax-deductible donations through a fiscal sponsor, the WESPAC Foundation, took video of the protests, building support among his followers. The organizations didn’t return requests for comment.
Details discussed at the Sunday meeting and a timeline of events reveal a coherent, coordinated strategic campaign behind the bloody Berkeley battle last week, including several elements that federal investigators can investigate as a possible conspiracy: coordinated classroom canvassing on the UC Berkeley campus to get students to the protests; pre-advertised flyers designed to produce confrontation "by any means necessary" and intimidate attendees; and physical intimidation to shape political outcomes.
Felarca said she plans to make Berkeley High School inhospitable to youth members of Turning Point USA. Felarca immigrated to the U.S. from the Philippines at the age of three with her parents, who she said, in a first-person narrative, "left to get away from the authoritarian Marcos regime," of Ferdinand Marcos, who declared martial law in 1972, saying that he faced communist and Islamic insurgencies.
In April 2019, a judge ordered Felarca to pay the organization, Judicial Watch, $20,000 in legal fees for challenging a public records request that Judicial Watch had filed in 2017 with Berkeley Unified School District, seeking all emails related to Felaraca and the words "antifa" and "BAMN," the acronym for "By Any Means Necessary."
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As she took the vote on Sunday, Felarca invited anyone who opposed their escalated campaign against Turning Point USA to speak up.
She was met with silence.
Asra Q. Nomani is the author of "Woke Army: The Left-Green Alliance That Is Undermining America’s Freedom," and the founder of the Pearl Project, a nonprofit journalism initiative. She is co-founder of the Clarity Coalition and Muslim Reform Movement, opposing Islamic extremism and advocating for Muslim reform. She can be reached at asra@asranomani.com and @AsraNomani on X.
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