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ByJocelynGecker The Associated Press BERKELEY Berkeley, known as the home of the free speech movement, was under heavy police watch on Thursday as hundreds of people waving Ameri- can flags and chanting USA gathered in a park to pro- test a canceled appearance by conservative commenta- tor Ann Coulter. University police erected barricades and refused to let any protesters enter the campus. Four people were arrested — one for obstruct- ing an officer and wearing a mask to evade police, and another for possessing a knife. Coulter previously said she was forced to cancel a speaking event at the Uni- versity of California, Berke- ley, although she added that she might still "swing by to say hello" to her sup- porters, prompting police and university officials to brace for possible trouble. She was not spotted at the rallies. Several hundred people gathered for an afternoon rally supporting Coulter at Martin Lu- ther King, Jr. Civic Center Park in down- town Berke- ley. "It's a s h a m e that some- one can't speak in the home of the free speech movement," said Wilson Grafstrom, an 18-year-old high school stu- dent from Menlo Park. He wore a military grade helmet with a "Make Amer- ica Great Again" sticker across the back, goggles, gas mask and knee pads. He blamed Coulter opponents for forcing him to gear up for problems. Many at the park rally about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from the university's main Sproul Plaza also wore mil- itary grade helmets and body armor. Some had "Build That Wall" or Trump stickers across their head- gear. One man had duct tape reading "Berkeley" over his mouth. The tension illustrates how Berkeley has emerged as a flashpoint for extreme left and right forces amid the debate over free speech in a place where the 1960s U.S. free speech movement began before it spread to college campuses across the nation. Berkeley student Joseph Pagadara, 19, said he was worried about violence and says the university is caught in the middle of the coun- try's political divide. "Both sides are so intol- erant of each other. We are a divided country. We need to listen to each other but we're each caught in our own bubbles," he said. As for Coulter, Pagadara said the university should have let her speak. "Now she's making herself look like the victim and Berke- ley like the bad guys," he said. Earlier in the day, doz- ens of police wearing flak jackets and carrying 40 mm launchers that shoot "foam batons" flanked Sproul Plaza while a small group of protesters condemning Coulter staged a small rally outside campus. Officers took selfies with students in an attempt to lighten the mood. Protesters from the In- ternational Socialist Or- ganization held what they called n "Alt Right De- lete" rally with signs read- ing "Refuse Fascism" and "Fascist free campus." The group endorses free speech, and some members oppose the way Coulter and oth- ers have co-opted the free speech movement. "I don't like Ann Coult- er's views, but I don't think in this case the right move was to shut her down," said graduate student Yevgeniy Melguy, 24, who held a sign that read "Immigrants Are Welcome Here." Gavin McInnes, founder of the pro-Trump "Proud Boys," spoke at the park gathering. "We are here because Ann Coulter got canceled," he said. "She is one of the most inspiring writers in America today. She is an American hero." On its Facebook page, the group calls itself a fraternal organization aimed at "re- instating a spirit of Western chauvinism during an age of globalism and multicul- turalism." It said it supports minimal government and is also anti-political correct- ness, anti-racial guilt and pro-gun rights. In emails to The Associ- ated Press on Wednesday, Coulter confirmed that her planned speech on illegal immigration, followed by a question-answer session, was canceled. But she re- mained coy about what she might do instead. "I'm not speaking. But I'm going to be near there, so I might swing by to say hello to my supporters who have flown in from all around the country," Coulter said in an email. "I thought I might stroll around the graveyard of the First Amendment." CONSERVATIVE COMMENTATOR Hu nd re ds r al ly i n Be rk el ey a er C ou lt er t al k can ce le d By Sudhin Thanawala The Associated Press SANFRANCISCO Employers can legally pay women less than men for the same work based on differences in the workers' previous salaries, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday. The decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap- peals overturned a lower- court ruling that said pay differences based exclu- sively on prior salaries were discriminatory under the federal Equal Pay Act. That's because the differ- ences were almost certainly theresultofgenderbias,U.S. Magistrate Judge Michael Seng said in a 2015 decision. A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit cited a 1982 ruling by the court that said employers could use previ- ous salary information as long as they applied it rea- sonably and had a business policy that justified it. "This decision is a step in the wrong direction if we're trying to really en- sure that women have work opportunities of equal pay," said Deborah Rhode, who teaches gender equity law at Stanford Law School. "You can't allow prior discrimi- natory salary setting to jus- tify future ones or you per- petuate the discrimination." Activists held rallies around the country earlier thismonthonEqualPayDay to highlight the wage gap between men and women. Womenmadeabout80cents for every dollar men earned in 2015, according to U.S. government data. The 9th Circuit ruling came in a lawsuit by a Cali- fornia school employee, Ai- leen Rizo, who learned in 2012 while having lunch with her colleagues that her male counterparts were making more than she was. A message left for Rizo's lawyer, Dan Siegel, was not immediately returned. Fresno County pub- lic schools hired Rizo as a math consultant in 2009 for $63,000 a year. The county had a standard policy that added 5 percent to her pre- vious pay as a middle school math teacher in Arizona. But that was not enough to meet the minimum sal- ary for her position, so the county bumped her up. The Equal Pay Act, signed into law by Presi- dent John F. Kennedy in 1963, forbids employers from paying women less than men based on sex for equal work performed un- der similar working condi- tions. But it creates exemp- tions when pay is based on seniority, merit, quantity or quality of work or "any other factor other than sex." 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