What You Need to Know About This Weekend’s Far-Right Rallies

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Clashes broke out between far-right protesters and counter-demonstrators at the so-called Battle of Berkeley on April 15. Photo by Bert Johnson/KQED

By Ryan Levi, KQED News Fix
Two far-right rallies are planned in San Francisco and Berkeley this weekend. They come just two weeks after a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., that left one anti-racism protester and two police officers dead.

On Wednesday, the National Park Service approved a permit for a rally led by the far-right group Patriot Prayer at Crissy Field in San Francisco on Saturday, Aug. 26.

Read the complete story at KQED News Fix.
 

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