A Berkeley public school teacher who’s become a star on the far-left protest circuit led a weekend “tribunal” plotting fresh action to shut down Turning Point USA chapters on campuses and even inside public schools, including her own.
Yvette Felarca, long tied to the militant group By Any Means Necessary, ran the 90-minute Sunday meeting with about 40 members of the socialist outfit. Fox News Digital learned she closed the session by calling for a vote on the next phase of the group’s campaign. The plan: “stop” Turning Point USA at colleges and in K–12 schools, beginning with Berkeley High School, where she teaches. The vote was unanimous.
The group cheered the effort as a push to “stop fascist recruiting in schools,” a phrase BAMN has used as it collects tax-deductible donations through the Detroit-based Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration and Immigrant Rights and Fight for Equality.
“Solidarity!” Felarca said at the end.
Democratic activists and far-left groups have leaned hard into branding opponents “fascists,” using the label as an all-purpose justification to shut down speech, block events and target political rivals. The term was reportedly scribbled on the bullet casing left by the man accused of murdering Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk, a sign of how rhetoric can be twisted to excuse violence.
Felarca has been through this before.
In 2019, Sacramento prosecutors dropped felony assault and rioting charges against her and two co-defendants once they agreed to complete 90 hours of community service. Video from that protest showed her hitting and screaming at a man she called a “Nazi” and “White nationalist” before allies knocked him down and beat him.
Yvette Felarca (Screenshot)
At Sunday’s gathering, she told members she balked when she learned students were forming a Turning Point chapter at Berkeley High School. “What, no, no way,” she said.
She doubled down on using the “fascist” label to justify targeting the teens. “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,” she said.
The group also discussed a similar protest in Michigan aimed at blocking a new Turning Point USA chapter at Royal Oak High School. Berkeley High School and the district did not respond to requests for comment.
Felarca urged members to follow the same model they used at UC Berkeley last week, which devolved into violence. “I know it’s possible to stop it,” she said. “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. They’ve already approved the group. Then it’s super, super important that we do that.”
Members also voted to “stop and block” federal immigration officers. One plan included distributing “ICE whistles,” a tactic spreading in cities like Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York to warn residents of immigration enforcement activity. Felarca said the whistles would carry the By Any Means Necessary branding.
The push comes as the Trump administration intensifies scrutiny of BAMN. Federal officials have opened a civil rights investigation into whether the group and its allies coordinated to block the free speech rights of Turning Point USA supporters during last week’s Berkeley protest.
Fox News Digital reporting revealed that the confrontation was organized at least 6 days in advance by a network of 7 groups, most of which enjoy tax-exempt status.
U.S. Assistant Attorney for Civil Rights Harmeet Dhillon, who flew to Berkeley to lead the investigation, is no stranger to Felarca’s tactics. Her former law firm sued Felarca in 2018 for filing a frivolous restraining order against then-Berkeley College Republican president Troy Worden. A court commissioner ordered Felarca to pay Worden $11,100 in legal fees.
BAMN has a long track record of shutting down conservative speakers. In 2017, leaders boasted about helping derail Milo Yiannopoulos’ planned event at UC Berkeley.
Andrew Kolvet, executive producer of “The Charlie Kirk Show” and spokesman for Turning Point USA, called Felarca’s latest escalation “fundamentally un-American” and a “conspiracy to silence the free speech of others.”
“Turning Point USA has grown over the years not because we tried to silence others or that we engaged in some operation to shut the voices of others,” Kolvet said. “We grew because Charlie believed that our ideas were better, and that if more young people heard them they would be convinced and persuaded to believe them too.”
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