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Subsequent Journalism of the FSM

This bibliography covers printed journalism related to the FSM from 1964 on, with many illustrative quotations, and such links to the actual texts as we can provide. Its compilation has been a labor of devotion, discussed in the introduction. This list is updated frequently, but is far from exhaustive, esp. for 1964-1965. The reader is referred to Google News Archives.

(If you can add to this list, please contact its caretaker, Barbara Stack.)

Items in this bibliography stretch back to 1964, the oldest at the bottom of this page

1/27/2012, Los Angeles Times, Sundance 2012: 'A Fierce Green Fire' tells environmentalist tale, Mark Olsen

"Kitchell is a veteran documentarian based in San Francisco, best known for his Oscar-nominated 'Berkeley in the Sixties,' about the Free Speech Movement and counter-culture protest. He initially began work on 'Fierce Green Fire' in 2000 with the working title 'The Environmental History Project,' leaving and coming back to it in the intervening years as other work and production financing allowed. He returned to the project in earnest in 2007-08, conducting extensive interviews and research and acquiring some financing through online crowdsourcing. Kitchell landed on a five-part structure for the film, beginning with the origins of the environmental and conservation movement in the early part of the last century and moving forward to the efforts in the 1960s of the Sierra Club to halt dams in the Grand Canyon. From there, the film looks at the grassroots activism around the Love Canal in the 1970s, the origins of Greenpeace and the rise of an international environmental movement. It concludes with a chapter on the contemporary issue of climate change."

1/17/2012, PopMatters, Be the Best Gravy You Can Be: 'The Wavy Gravy Movie: Saint Misbehavin', Stuart Henderson

"By the late '50s, Hugh Romney was a Greenwich Village poet, actor, and comedian. He ran with the artists emerging from that heady proto-hippie scene, befriending burgeoning stars like Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Odetta, and appears to have been a key figure in the development of that influential little cosmos. But when Romney, an ex-military man and increasingly dreamy mystic, travelled to San Francisco in 1962 to record an album - after his new manager, Lenny Bruce, set it all up - he found himself seduced by the left coast. So he stayed, and the rest is certainly history. By 1966 he was running with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters, setting up the Hog Farm (a commune outside of Los Angeles which also developed those famous light shows for rock bands like the Grateful Dead and the Jimi Hendrix Experience). Radicalised by the Berkeley Free Speech movement and the horror of the ongoing American War in Vietnam, Romney became a front line activist and was severely injured in repeated altercations with riot police."

1/12/2012, California Golden Bears, Bounding Toward the Top Gymnast Donothan Bailey Sets His Sights on International Glory,

"With his successful junior career complete, Bailey had many a schools from which to choose. While it was first the name that drew Bailey to Cal, a trip to the campus that values everything from the Free Speech Movement to national titles made him realize that Berkeley was a perfect 10."

1/10/2012, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, Howard Bern, expert on effects of hormones, has died at 91, Robert Sanders

"Bern's son Alan said his father's greatest commitment was to the development of his students. He was particularly committed to student diversity, supporting not only underrepresented minorities, but students from diverse countries, as well as students arrested for their political activity in the Free Speech Movement."

1/9/2012, Berkeleyside, UC professor Howard Bern, pioneer in endocrinology, dies, Alan Bern

"Bern's greatest commitment was to his students and their development. His laboratories embraced diversity in all respects beginning in the late 1940s, long before our current view of diversity was formed. Diversity was never an area of controversy for Bern, as it was a fundamental premise of the inquiring environment. It extended to his supporting students arrested for their political actions during the Free Speech Movement, which he supported strongly. Students from every U.S. ethnic group and from all parts of the world worked in his labs."

1/8/2012, Bangor Daily News, How campus codes threaten free speech, Greg Lukianoff

"Activists embarked on a campaign in the 1980s to eradicate hurtful, bigoted and politically incorrect speech by enacting speech codes at universities across the country. Although the movement presented itself as a forward-thinking way to make campuses welcoming, the initiative stood in stark contrast to the celebrated 'free speech movement' of the 1960s, whose proponents understood that vague exceptions to free speech were inevitably used by those in power to punish opinions they dislike or disagree with. And unfortunately the effort gained momentum as prestigious institutions passed speech codes."

1/7/2012, Salem-News.com, Pricing Orange County's Higher Educational Out of Reach, Tyrone Borelli

"Clark Kerr, the Berkeley Chancellor, at first refused to allow any political activities on the Berkeley campus. In response Mario and more than 800 students staged a peaceful sit in on the steps of Sproul Hall. Chancellor Kerr responded with police wielding batons and mass student arrests. On the sidelines was a washed up movie actor and McCarthy Era 'witness' named Ronald Reagan. By the mid 1960s Reagan had surrounded himself with some of the wealthiest and most reactionary businessmen in California. Among Reagan's advisors were the notorious department store heir Alfred Bloomingdale, beer baron Joseph Coors, and auto huckster Holmes Tuttle. Reagan and his kitchen cabinet openly criticized Kerr for being too lenient on student protesters. Together they decided to run Reagan for California Governor. In 1966 the California Republican Party nominated Reagan for Governor. Reagan's campaign emphasized two main themes: 'to send the welfare bums back to work,' and, in reference to burgeoning anti-war and anti-establishment student protests at the University of California at Berkeley, 'to clean up the mess at Berkeley.'"

1/3/2012, GoodToGo, A BETTER DAY, Tony Platt

"The FSM was a defining moment for activism in the 1960s and for my own political development. Poised between the civil rights struggles of the previous decade and the promise of the antiwar and feminist movements ahead, it offered our generation of students the opportunity to participate in history, to be activists in our own right rather than vicarious participants in other people's struggles. It was a joy to feel that we might be part of an emergent majority, with the moral authority of justice on our side for once. Savio was not the only leader of the student movement, but his example of self-sacrifice moved many people like myself to deeply consider our political commitments and to put our beliefs into practice. Also, it helped that we were on the winning side: the university revoked its ban on political speech."

1/3/2012, Berkeleyside, Terry Doran, longtime Berkeley educator, dies, Frances Dinkelspiel

"Doran moved to Berkeley in 1960 to attend UC and became involved with the Civil Rights Movement, the Free Speech Movement, and the Vietnam War movement. While a teacher, he was involved with the union and worked towards integrating Berkeley schools 'He was a long time educator and social activist who really had visions for a better world,' said Jason Eshleman, a former student and family friend. 'He fought for that in the capacity of an educator, a friend, and as school board president - essentially all of his life.'"

1/2/2012, New Europe, Analysis: Internet finds voice as citizens cry freedom, Stratis G. Camatsos

"July 1956: Writers, journalists, and students started a series of intellectual forums, called the Petofi Circles, examining the problems facing Hungary. Later, in October 1956, university students in Szeged snubbed the official communist student union, which led to students of the Technical University to compile a list of 16-points containing several national policy demands. Days after, approximately 20,000 protesters convened organised by the writer's union, which grew to 200,000 in front of the Parliament, all chanting the censored patriotic poem, the 'National Song'. December 1964: The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California at Berkeley was started by students who had participated in Mississippi's 'Freedom Summer', and it provided an example of how students could bring about change through organisation. Later, in February 1965, the United States begins bombing North Vietnam. Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) organised marches on the Oakland Army Terminal, the departure point for many troops bound for Southeast Asia. In April 1965, between 15,000 and 25,000 people gathered at the capital, a turnout that surprised even the organisers. December 2010: Mohamed Bouazizi proclaimed that there was police corruption and ill treatment in Tunisia. This sparked revolutions well into 2011 in Tunisia and Egypt, a civil war in Libya resulting in the fall of its government; civil uprisings in Bahrain, Syria, and Yemen, major protests in Algeria, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, and Oman, and less in Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan."

1/1/2012, Washington Post, Clear campus rules needed on 'harassment', Greg Lukianoff

"Activists embarked on a campaign in the 1980s to eradicate hurtful, bigoted and politically incorrect speech by enacting speech codes at universities across the country. Although the movement presented itself as a forward-thinking way to make campuses welcoming, the initiative stood in stark contrast to the celebrated "free speech movement" of the 1960s, whose proponents understood that vague exceptions to free speech were inevitably used by those in power to punish opinions they dislike or disagree with. And unfortunately the effort gained momentum as prestigious institutions passed speech codes."

1/1/2012, reason.org, Controlling Guns, Controlling People, Thaddeus Russell

"In 1967 Don Mulford, the Republican state assemblyman who represented the Panthers' patrol zone and who had once famously denounced the Free Speech Movement and anti-war demonstrations at the University of California at Berkeley, introduced a bill inspired by the Panthers that prohibited the public carrying of loaded firearms, open and concealed. As Winkler puts it, the text of what became the Mulford Act 'all but pointed a finger at the Panthers when it said, 'The State of California has witnessed, in recent years, the increasing incidence of organized groups and individuals publicly arming themselves for purposes inimical to the peace and safety of the people of California.'?' The law made California the first state to ban the open carrying of loaded firearms."

12/26/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, Texas president Bill Powers a Cal man from way back, John Crumpacker

"More than four decades ago, UC Berkeley was his school. Powers, a Los Angeles native, enrolled at Berkeley in 1963 and was an undergraduate when the Free Speech Movement got its start at Sproul Plaza. 'The Free Speech Movement was relatively peaceful,' Powers recalled. 'You thought it was just a rally on campus. I'd hear Mario Savio give a speech. I wasn't involved in politics. I was a politically naive young kid. I remember Joan Baez would be playing her guitar on the lawn.'"

12/25/2011, +972blog, Clampdown on campus politics in Israel feeds social apathy, Issa Edward Boursheh

"The main demand of the Free Speech Movement of '64-'65 in Berkeley was for the university's administration to lift the ban off of on-campus political activities, and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. One wouldn't envision that such concerns from the 1960s would still apply in Israel of 2011. Yet Tel Aviv University's security department recently wrote to professors from in the history, philosophy and literature departments: 'I will be grateful for your handing over the students' details as soon as possible, including full name, ID number and telephone number,' with a YouTube video of students protesting reportedly attached to the email. And in Ben-Gurion University, students, represented by the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, recently appealed (Hebrew) to the Supreme Court demanding it lift a ban on the distribution of pamphlets and posters protesting the current government's policies."

12/19/2011, The New American Magazine, OWS Port Shutdown Strategy May Backfire, William F. Jasper

"Like many of the other professors supporting the OWS, [David] Hollinger, who is a past chair of the American Association of University Professors' (AAUP) Committee on Academic Freedom, has a "history" of his own. He was a student activist in the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s at UC Berkeley, and for the past few decades has been infusing his '60s radicalism into his writing and teaching."

12/19/2011, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Crisis of the Public University, Nancy Scheper-Hughes

"The prospects are grim, but Berkeley faculty and students are struggling to keep their promise-of an open, free, independent, and diverse public institution-to the people of California, even while the public has not kept its promises to them. It took a faculty rebellion in 1919-20 to force the California legislature and UC regents to recognize the Academic Senate and its role in shared governance of the university. Clark Kerr, Berkeley's chancellor from 1952 to 1958, fought against the firing of faculty who refused to sign the anti-communist loyalty oath the regents required employees to sign during the McCarthy era. And Chancellor Chang-Lin Tien fought against the regents' 1995 ban on affirmative action in undergraduate admissions by raising more than a billion dollars, part of which was used to recruit and prepare disadvantaged minorities for admission to the Berkeley campus. Berkeley students started the free-speech movement in 1964, and students and faculty fought against military recruitment on campus during the Vietnam War, held anti-apartheid divestment strikes, and fought for affirmative action. Not all these struggles were successful, but all of them were worthy fights."

12/16/2011, UC Riverside Newsroom, Neil Smelser, a professor emeritus of sociology at UC Berkeley, will give prestigious lecture Feb. 14 about perfect storm of factors threatening higher education, Sean Nealon

"The Clark Kerr Lectures series honors Clark Kerr, who served as president of the University of California from 1958 to 1967. He spearheaded the negotiation of California's Master Plan for Higher Education, a 1960 document that endures to this day and is considered a model plan by many states and other nations. This is fifth installment of The Clark Kerr Lectures, which were started in 2003. It is the first time UC Riverside has hosted one of the lectures. Past lecturers have been: Harold Shapiro, president emeritus of Princeton University and the University of Michigan; Chuck Vest, president emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Donald Kennedy, president emeritus of Stanford University; and Hanna Holborn Gray, former president of the University of Chicago. Smelser's research has focused on what he calls the 'macroscopic social structural level' of social life, including economic sociology, social change, social movements, and the sociology of education. His most recent book, published by the University of California Press in 2010, is 'Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University.'"

12/14/2011, Savannah Now, Occupy idea's time has come, Barbara Kelly

"All positive change in history starts with the power of an idea, just as did the American Revolution. This just might be the start of another revolution, one that benefits the people who are not in power. The Civil Rights Movement began like this, the Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War protests. Thirty years of silence about what has happened to regular people is ending."

12/12/2011, vtdigger.org, The Occupy movement is right, Barbara Vacarr

"Almost 50 years ago students at UC Berkeley played a major role in the Free Speech Movement of that era. Today in 2011, the campus stands as an example of oppression as student protesters were beaten with truncheons. At UC Davis, unthinking police pepper sprayed students who assembled themselves in a prone position. If this continues, we are in grave danger. When educational leaders and administrators are more concerned with public appearance and endowments than they are with students taking action in teachable moments about democracy, we are all in trouble. The Occupy Wall Street protesters are exercising their rights and they are right to do so. That is a fact too often lost in the political and media frenzy over demands and tactics. The issues they raise - student debt, the rising cost of higher education, inequality, concentration of wealth, adysfunctional government - are the issues that we as leaders must confront in the university. Instead, we are calling the police. College presidents must hold sacred issues of freedom of expression and safety to ensure that students think critically about the core of higher education-morality, democracy and civic responsibility."

12/12/2011, The Patriot Post, The 1960s Live Again, Burt Prelutsky

'I have long insisted that the decline of America began roughly 50 years ago. That was the decade that saw the liberals take a hacksaw to the black family, as LBJ and thousands of social workers did everything they could to drive black husbands and fathers out of the household. It also saw the advent of the Free Speech movement that started out in Berkeley and culminated in Kent State. Snapshots of the decade would include the Yippies rioting in the streets of Chicago, the Black Panthers murdering people in Oakland, suburban couples engaged in wife-swapping, and parents all over the country looking to swap places with their children, while extolling the hedonistic life style summed up by the odious phrase 'sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll.'''

12/8/2011, Toronto.com, Paul Goodman Changed My Life: Portrait of a radical thinker, Linda Barnard

"He tells a young studio audience at a taping of CBC's As It Happens in 1969 that the youth who embraced the free-speech movement initially were losing the 'moral integrity and insight' by the early 1960s. When interviewer Burton asks Goodman on another broadcast if he can, at age 58, still communicate with the young, Goodman shrugs and says no."

12/8/2011, Merced Sun-Star, Occupy Wall St. protesters hold a UC teach-in, Yesenia Amaro

"In the wake of incidents of police brutality on nonviolent Occupy protesters at UC Davis and UC Berkeley, UC President Mark Yudof declared that free speech is part of the university's DNA, and that nonviolent protesters have long been central to the university's history, Malloy said. 'That is a beautiful sentence, but it's also a little misleading,' he said. At least, that wasn't the case in the first century of the university's existence, he said. As late as 1964, students at UC Berkeley were prohibited from advocating, fundraising or recruiting for any political causes or social movements on campus property, Malloy said. When a group of students at UC Berkeley tried to challenge the university's restrictions on freedom of speech, the police were called, Malloy said. But thousands of UC students surrounded police cars for more than 24 hours to prevent police from arresting anybody. The students didn't leave until the university administration agreed to drop the charges, he said. 'That event was what started the free speech movement at the UC Berkeley campus,' he said. At that time, the university administration and police's reaction was not the same as today, he said. 'They didn't sponsor a teach-in,' he said. 'Instead, nonviolent protesters were forcibly dragged out of university buildings. They were jailed, they were threaten with expulsion - all because they advocated free speech on their campus.'"

12/6/2011, The Register-Guard, Gerry Gaydos is honored for decades of community involvement, Ilene Aleshire

"'I wanted to be a biologist,' he said. But after his first year at The Ohio State University, he said, "I couldn't resist the attraction of the civil rights movement, the free speech movement, that were going on when I was a kid. I wanted to get involved in public policy and the law." He was concerned, he said, that 'the aspirations set forth in some of our founding documents weren't being fully realized in a lot of people's lives, particularly those with different colored skin. The reaction, or over-reaction, by others to people trying to obtain freedoms, to obtain rights, also was troubling to me.' Gaydos initially switched his educational focus to political science before deciding that practicing law was the most direct route to addressing some of his concerns."

12/3/2011, Contra Costa Times, Forty-seven years later, the spirit of the Free Speech Movement lives on, Jay Feldman

"The students are demonstrating for far more than just the right to set up tents. By aligning themselves with the broader Occupy protests against the imbalance of wealth in this country, the campus movements are establishing a connection between the financial crisis and the issues of budget cuts to education, skyrocketing tuition, student indebtedness, the decreasing accessibility of public higher education, and the increasing privatization of the university. In this, there is an analogy to the Free Speech Movement's connection to the civil rights movement. Other parallels between the FSM and the campus Occupy movements are worth noting. In both instances, student resistance was aimed at an intransigent university policy restricting civil liberties. In both instances, student resistance was dealt with by an unnecessary show of force from campus police and (in the case of Occupy Cal) outside law-enforcement agencies."

12/2/2011, policymic, The Next Steps for Occupy Wall Street, Seth Green

"It is very difficult to come up with an example of a successful protest. The millions of people who demonstrated against the 2003 invasion of Iraq didn't persuade former British Prime Minister Tony Blair or President George W. Bush. If the Janjaweed cared that I once traveled 5 hours to Washington, D.C. to protest the Darfur Genocide, they didn't elect to e-mail me. The Free Speech Movement in Berkeley really did have lasting impact in 1964, but that was not quite analogous to OWS; they were protesting very specific features of an institution that viewed them as stakeholders. Neither condition holds today."

12/1/2011, jweekly, Ginsberg's America and mine connect with a poetic symmetry, Emma Silvers

"I was entranced when I learned about the publication of 'Howl' -- at what a powerful moment it was for the First Amendment, at the notion that literature could be revolutionary. Later, my infatuation with Ginsberg's works paved the way for a fascination with the free speech movement in Berkeley, with the radical history of the area in which I grew up."

11/30/2011, The Daily Californian, A legacy of political art on campus, Kanwalroop Singh

"Here hides the danger of equating the Occupy Cal movement to the Free Speech Movement. The Free Speech Movement has been put through a commodifying machine and spit back out in the form of a packaged product meant to cater to the university's needs. Comparing the Occupy Cal movement to that is akin to cementing its enslavement as well as the enslavement of its artists. Artists who were at first instruments for social change, now, are merely instruments. They are stuffed into a box, tied with a bow and sold to tourists and prospective students along with the rest of higher education."

11/30/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau's dilemma, William J. Drummond

"Many faculty members identify with the students and their grievances. They are real, not imagined. This is not the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, which sought to register voters in Mississippi. Today's UC students are being ground into ever-increasing indebtedness because of tuition hikes. Nothing changed because of the Monday vote. Student unrest and demonstrations are likely to continue. Campus authorities will attempt to handle them with more delicacy, and certainly away from the prying lenses of video cameras."

11/29/2011, truthout, Occupy: From Encampments to a Movement, Meaghan LaSala

"Some of you may feel a little bit like, 'What are we doing here? What exactly is our goal?' I urge you I urge you to be patient with yourselves. Because with regard to every major social movement of the last half century or more, it started with a sense of moral outrage. Things were wrong. And the actual coalescence of that moral outrage into specific demands for specific changes came later. The moral outrage was the beginning. The sense of things going wrong. (Cheers) The days of apathy are over folks! (Cheers) Once this has begun, it cannot be stopped and will not be stopped. Meaghan LaSala: That was the voice of Robert Reich, speaking on the day of UC Berkeley's general strike at an event to memorialize Mario Savio, a free speech movement organizer and UC Berkeley student of the 1960's."

11/29/2011, Savannah Morning News, The 'Occupy' movement: It matters, Mary Gilbert

"No banker has been arrested, much less sprayed in the face with a toxic chemical agent, for acts of corporate fraud that nearly drove our economy off the rails. Police didn't raid Lehman Brothers. Instead, police brutality has been reserved for citizens who are standing up for what they believe in and trying to ensure that the 'American dream' does not become a fantasy. These are fundamental issues that go to the core of what American democracy means. I was proud to join several thousand Berkeley students on Tuesday for a general strike and a protest in Sproul Plaza -- the birthplace of the free speech movement. But while not everyone who shares the sentiments of the protesters will be occupying public parks, there are other ways to register discontent. Our elected representatives, business, and civic leaders need to hear our call to action. Change begins with moral outrage. Eventually Occupiers will have to decide what they want, instead of what they don't want and move on to the onerous work of building consensus for political change. But for now, it is enough that Americans are speaking out. And, despite the pushback and condemnation, people, including the media and politicians, are beginning to listen."

11/28/2011, The Cap Times, Students occupy colleges, Sara Goldrick-Rab

"Higher education is not sure about these students. Sure, the initial shots were fired long ago, during the Free Speech Movement. But that was about far more than how higher education would work; it was about how society would work. And since that time, colleges and universities have become less -- not more -- hospitable to what they like to call 'nontraditional' students: those that some have labeled 'tenants' rather than 'landowners,' decried as 'academically adrift,' and said to care far less about the hard work of studying. Serving these students has evolved as a speciality, rather than the primary function it ought to be when they comprise at least half of the undergraduate population."

11/25/2011, The Nation Blog, Berkeley Faculty: No Confidence in Chancellor over Campus Police Violence, Jon Wiener

"This protest, Hollinger says, is not like the Free Speech Movement of 1964, which challenged university rules that did prevent political advocacy. Focusing the campus Occupy Wall Street movement on the Berkeley chancellor 'implies that the UC Berkeley itself is integral to the economic inequality against which Occupy Wall Street is directed,' which 'grossly underestimates the role of UC Berkeley in advancing egalitarian goals.' Thus, Hollinger concludes, 'It will not do to blame this on Chancellor Robert Birgeneau.'''

11/23/2011, Seven Days, Security Force, Judith Levine

"According to Minneapolis Examiner.com reporter Rick Ellis, the FBI, Department of Homeland Security and other federal police agencies have been advising cities on how to destroy their Occupy movement encampments [1]. Ellis' source at the Justice Department says the feds have recommended massive shows of police force, middle-of-the-night raids to avoid press coverage, and justification of the evictions using local zoning or health laws. DHS denies involvement. President Obama has said only that each municipality should do its own thing. ...UC Berkeley had offered the students the use of Sproul Hall for a week to talk about their issues, which they declined. Was it an ironic coincidence or a veiled threat for the administration to choose Sproul, scene of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement occupation, during which thousands of students spent two days studying, singing and even celebrating Chanukah before the police cordoned off the building at 2 a.m. and moved in to arrest 800?"

11/23/2011, San Jose Mercury News, Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Ira Michael Heyman was a champion of diversity, civil rights, Kristin J. Bender

"During the free speech movement in the fall of 1964, Heyman was a professor and the chairman of the Academic Senate's ad hoc committee on student conduct, which published a report criticizing the university's procedures during the civil rights demonstrations and recommended procedures for student discipline. Last month, UC President Mark Yudof awarded Heyman the UC President's Medal for lifelong contributions -- 52 years connected to UC Berkeley and public service. "

11/22/2011, The Sacramento Bee, UC system struggles to control protests, maintain free speech, David Siders and Kim Minugh

"'They act like they don't know how to deal with student protests,' said Robert Cohen, a New York University professor who co-edited the book 'The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s.' 'To see police beating kids up, I think it's embarrassing for the university.' On Monday, as UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B. Katehi apologized for the pepper-spraying of students on her campus, UC officials ran damage control. 'We cannot let this happen again,' UC President Mark Yudof told the chancellors of the UC system's 10 campuses in a teleconference Monday, his office said. Meanwhile, Sherry Lansing, chairwoman of the university system's governing board, said in a video on Facebook that UC would 'immediately begin to develop system-wide procedures to ensure that students can engage in peaceful protests."'

11/22/2011, The Emory Wheel, Looking Though the Occupied Kaleidoscope, Jason Schulman

"Scanning the faces in the crowd of protesters, one sees hippies, irritated graduate students and even an occasional celebrity musician. But most of all, the gathered horde is made up of people dissatisfied with 'the system' and fearful of the trajectory of America's future. I'm speaking, of course, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964."

11/22/2011, The Berkeley Blog, Occupy Cal and the Free Speech Movement, David Hollinger

"As someone who participated in the Free Speech Movement as a student and who is now a member of the Berkeley faculty, I want to caution against the widespread impression (left, e.g., by the New York Times on November 20) that Occupy Cal is an extension of the substance, as opposed merely to the spirit of the Free Speech Movement. The spirit is most definitely similar, and that is all to the good. The eagerness of students to vigorously oppose civic evil and to debate serious issues in public policy does indeed recall the days of 1964, appropriately remembered with our FSM Café and our Mario Savio Steps. But the substantive differences between then and now invite more emphasis than they have so far received."

11/22/2011, Reader Supported News, Occupy This: Learning From the Dark Side, Steve Weissman

"Helvey took his inspiration from Professor Gene Sharp, who greatly expanded on the pragmatic, post-Gandhi approach that student movements stumbled into at Berkeley, Stanford, and other hotbeds of 1960s activism. We tended to see non-violence primarily as a pragmatic choice of tactics, though at times we thought more strategically. In the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, for example, many of the graduate students and teaching assistants clearly saw in advance how a massive sit-in could lead to a strike that would close down the university, and how that would push a majority of the faculty to come down on our side against the administration. With that in mind, we chose our tactics, timing, and outreach to faculty members."

11/22/2011, New York Times, Occupy at Berkeley, David Hollinger

"As someone who participated in the Free Speech Movement as a student and who is now a member of the Berkeley faculty, I object to the impression left by your article that Occupy Cal is an extension of the substance, as opposed to the spirit, of the Free Speech Movement. The current movement, by applying the language and symbolism of Occupy Wall Street, implies that the University of California at Berkeley is itself integral to the economic inequality against which Occupy Wall Street is directed. This conflates two very different institutional complexes, grossly underestimates the role of U.C. Berkeley in advancing egalitarian goals, and implies that the definancing of higher education by voters and legislators is somehow the fault of the campus authorities and within their power to correct. "

11/22/2011, Los Angeles Times, Ira Michael Heyman dies at 81; led UC Berkeley, Smithsonian, staff

"During the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, he chaired the Academic Senate's Ad Hoc Committee on Student Conduct. That committee produced what became known as the Heyman Report, which was highly critical of the administration's reaction to and handling of campus demonstrations. After rising to vice chancellor in 1974, he directed the drafting of Berkeley's affirmative action plan, which, after much debate and negotiation, became the first such campus plan approved by the federal government. Named chancellor in 1980, he continued to promote opportunities for minority students and considered the ethnic diversification of the campus his major achievement."

11/22/2011, Huffington Post, Open Letter to Chancellors and Presidents of American Universities and Colleges -- From Your Faculty, Matthew Noah Smith + 1,200 university faculty

"We condemn this and any deployment of violence by university officials against members of the university community who are non-violently expressing their political views. We condemn university officials using violence or the threat of violence in order to limit political dissent to the narrow confines of print and university-sanctioned events. We condemn university officials using violence and the threat of violence to prevent members of the university community from peacefully assembling. For more than three generations, American university and college campuses have been crucial locations in which inspiring and important political activity has occurred. From the founding of SNCC at Shaw University and the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the 1960's, to the divestment movements across American college campuses in the 1980s, to the establishment of student labor alliances in the 1990's, American college campuses have pulsed with hopeful and positive forms of dissent and visions of alternatives. This admirable tradition is being threatened by the use of violence by university officials against their own students and faculty who are acting within this tradition. We therefore call on chancellors and presidents of universities and colleges throughout the United States to declare publicly that their campuses are Safe Protest Zones, where non-violent, public political dissent and protest will be protected by university police and will never be attacked by the university police."

11/22/2011, Gazettes.com, NO MYSTERY HERE: Life's Plots Not Always Resolved, Wendy Hornsby

"As a teacher, I figured out a long time ago that I constantly need to update my frames of reference to help students relate to various topics. Demographically, current undergraduates were in elementary school when 9/11 happened. Vietnam? Their grandfathers tell them about being there. I can't drop the Free Speech Movement into a discussion of recent student and faculty protests and expect this generation to know what that was."

11/21/2011, Washington Post, I. Michael Heyman, who led UC Berkeley and Smithsonian Institution, dies at 81, Adam Bernstein

"From the start of his career, Mr. Heyman seemed to insert himself in controversial roles. At Berkeley in the 1960s, he led a university investigation into student conduct during the Free Speech movement that spurred campus sit-ins and demonstrations. Mr. Heyman once broke a gavel to silence a hostile crowd of students but eventually drafted a report sympathetic to the students' goals of the right to political protest at Berkeley."

11/21/2011, EdSource, California's public colleges and universities fertile ground for protest, Louis Freedberg

"These events are playing out against the historical backdrop of the events of 1964 of which Yudof is no doubt well aware. One of Yudof's predecessors, then UC President Clark Kerr, barred on-campus recruiting and solicitation of funds for off-campus groups on the Berkeley campus. These actions triggered the Free Speech Movement, which in turn helped usher in the transformative student protest movement of the 1960s. The events that roiled the Berkeley campus for years eventually led to Kerr's firing in 1967 by the Board of Regents, at the urging of then-governor Ronald Reagan. Yudof's affirmation yesterday of 'free speech' as being in the 'DNA of the university' was a direct reference to the legacy of those turbulent days. What sets this era of protest apart is that those in charge of higher education in California are themselves vehement critics of the budget cuts which students are now protesting. Kerr, the architect of the three tiered public higher education system in California, presided over a period of massive investment and growth in higher education. By contrast, today's university leaders are trying to manage a precipitous disinvestment in public education at all levels in the state."

11/21/2011, Beyond Chron, Occupy's Strategy of Ongoing Direct Actions is Unprecedented - And Sustainable, Randy Shaw

"Finally, Occupy's ability to sustain direct action confrontations over time will be boosted by ongoing incidents of brutal police violence. The recent pepper-spraying of peaceful protesters at UC Davis would have been a front-page story in every newspaper in the United States had the Egyptian or Syrian military so attacked non-violent students; as word of this incident spreads, along with that of the violent police attack on UC Berkeley students and faculty at a plaza dedicated to Free Speech Movement hero Mario Savio, the public recoils in horror."

11/19/2011, The Telegraph, The Occupy movement has failed the essential test of protest, Janet Daley

"It was a clear breach of the constitutional rights of a group of American citizens who happened to live and work within the bounds of the University of California. (It was widely believed at the time that this was done at the behest of local Oakland businesses, which were being picketed by students protesting over racial discrimination in their employment practices.) A student called Jack Weinberg defied the prohibition by setting up a fund-raising table in the usual spot, just outside the Telegraph Avenue entrance to campus, and was promptly arrested. But the police car - with Jack in it - was immediately surrounded by students, preventing it from moving. That spontaneous action grew until soon there was a crowd of roughly 3,000 around the car, who stayed there (in shifts) for three days. A succession of speakers climbed onto the car's roof to address the crowd. And so the Berkeley Free Speech Movement - which set off the international student revolution - was born. Eventually, with the support of the university faculty and the US Constitution, we prevailed. And yes, to be young then was very heaven. But, I repeat, we knew precisely what we were fighting against and what would have to change before we would desist from our actions. "

11/19/2011, New York Times, Poet-Bashing Police, Robert Haas

"The idea of occupying public space was so appealing that people in almost every large city in the country had begun to stake them out, including students at Berkeley, who, on that November night, occupied the public space in front of Sproul Hall, a gray granite Beaux-Arts edifice that houses the registrar's offices and, in the basement, the campus police department. It is also the place where students almost 50 years ago touched off the Free Speech Movement, which transformed the life of American universities by guaranteeing students freedom of speech and self-governance."

11/18/2011, The New York Times, Berkeley Crackdown Raises Fear of Move Backward, Jennifer Gollan

"But protesters and critics of the university administration said the tents were a form of political expression. They compared them to the acts of 1960s protesters like Mario Savio, who helped start the Free Speech Movement by climbing on top of a police car to address demonstrators who had staged a spontaneous sit-in. Savio, who died in 1996, would be 'disappointed that the administration violated the free speech principles' championed by the movement, said Robert Cohen, a social studies and history professor at New York University, who wrote 'Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s.' 'Tents in this sense are protected speech,' Cohen said, 'and he'd have argued that U.C. trampled free speech by banning them.' Alex Barnard, a spokesman for Occupy Cal, said protesters planned to put the tents back up. 'Tents are the means by which we have chosen to express our First Amendment rights,' said Barnard, who is working on a Ph.D. in sociology. 'We are not going away.' A half-century ago, Berkeley's protest movement revolved around racial equality, free speech and, later, opposition to the Vietnam War. Robert Cole, an emeritus professor of law who joined the Berkeley faculty in 1961 and provided legal assistance to the movement, said the tumultuous period primed students to fight the university's restrictions on political advocacy. 'At first,' Cole said, 'the university couldn't really understand why students were asserting themselves in this way. But these issues were so blatantly American issues, so they appealed to a very large cross section of students and faculty.' In 1964, the Berkeley division of the Academic Senate voted to bar the university from restricting political advocacy on campus as long at it did not interfere with classes or disrupt the university's operations. Several universities followed suit. The landmark legislation followed a sit-in at Sproul Hall that led to the arrests of about 800 protesters."

11/18/2011, The New York Times, An Uprising With Plenty of Potential, James B. Stewart

"Sidney Tarrow, a visiting professor at the Cornell Law School, an expert in social movements and author of 'Power in Movement: Social Movements and Contentious Politics,' agreed that the movement could emerge as a more potent national force once the encampments were no longer an issue. This week's evictions 'could be the foundation for a national social movement,' he said. The 1964 Sproul Hall sit-in at Berkeley 'created a communal basis for a future social movement. They hadn't met until they were carried out by police. That's a powerful solidarity-creating experience. We may well see networks of activists growing up because of this. People in the same encampments, and people in different encampments, are now in constant contact and can share experiences. They'll build a community. That's why occupation of space is important.'"

11/18/2011, The Daily Californian, Transcript: Robert Reich's speech at Occupy Cal, Javier Panzar

"And one final point. The summer before Mario Savio was here, on these steps, he was down in Mississippi registering voters - that was Freedom Summer of 1964. If you can permit me a personal note: because I was always short for my age -- I was always very short; in fact, when I was a little boy I was even shorter -- I was always getting beat up. It is OK. There are always bullies, but you know what I did? I learned at an early age that the way to stop getting beat up was to make alliances with bigger guys who were older than I and also bigger than I was and they protected me. They were my own protection racket. And one of the boys, during the summers that I spent up in the mountains with my grandmother, one of the boys who was a protector of me, older than me, his name was Mickey. And I grew very fond of Mickey. And then that same summer of 1964, that same freedom summer, Mickey -- his full name was Michael Schwerner -- Michael and two other civil rights workers were down in Mississippi exactly the same time Mario Savio was there. They were brutally tortured and murdered by racists who felt that they -- my friend, my protector and his two colleagues --were a threat to the status quo in Mississippi. But when I heard that Mickey Schwerner had been brutally murdered, himself had been murdered by even bigger bullies, I sensed that something fundamental had to change. Not only in American society, but also in me. And all of you, right now, understand intuitively that if we allowed America to continue in the direction it was going on, with the wealth and the income and the power and the political potential for corruption and all that represents, that the bullies would be in charge. And you know and you understand how important it is to fight the bullies, to protect the powerless, to make sure that the people without a voice have a voice. And for that reason -- if there were no other reasons, and there are many others -- for that reason, I want to thank each and every one of you for what you are doing. Thank you."

11/18/2011, NBC Los Angeles, Protest Movement Redux, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

"Already, members of the media were hyping this new wave of student activism, crystallized by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement as 'the Free Speech Movement of the 21st Century.'"

11/18/2011, CounterPunch, Are Drum Circles Protected Under the Constitution?, Alexander Cockburn

"Enter Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who often likes to reminisce about his Freedom Rider days. At the fortieth anniversary of the founding of FSM, they had a mock police car and platform and Chancellor Birgeneau spoke from it, reminiscing warmly about the birth of FSM and the importance of free speech. I spoke at the same anniversary, giving measured praise for subversive free speech in an event organized by Lenni Brenner, 'FSM and the Sixties: Lessons for Today.' Chancellor Birgeneau seems to be a man changed from the freedom rider of the mid-1960s or even the man perched on the platform in 2004. Last week he emailed the campus, defending the administration's response by saying that it was necessary to remove the encampment for 'practical' considerations of 'hygiene, safety, space and conflict issues'. He remarked: 'It is unfortunate that some protesters chose to obstruct the police by linking arms and forming a human chain to prevent the police from gaining access to the tents. This is not non-violent civil disobedience.' So Rosa Parks prevented a white person from sitting in the seat reserved for them on the bus in Montgomery, Alabama. Club her to the ground"

11/17/2011, Zee News, Occupy Wall Street protesters set up camp at UC Berkeley,

"The encampment at UC Berkeley went up Tuesday during a daylong strike on campus against big banks and education cuts that culminated in some 4,000 people rallying at a speech by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. He spoke on the steps of the same student plaza where the Berkeley Free Speech Movement was launched in the 1960s, and implored the protesters to take a moral stand against the very rich controlling so much of America's wealth. 'The days of apathy are over folks,' Reich, now a professor of public policy at UC Berkeley, said to a roaring crowd at Sproul Hall. 'There are some people out there who say we cannot afford education any longer, we cannot provide social services for the poor ... but how can that be true if we are now richer than we have ever been before?'"

11/17/2011, Time.com, Occupy Oakland Protests Regroup at Berkeley, Jason Motlagh

"The resurgence in Berkeley is a shot in the arm for Occupy movements across the country. The break up of Occupy Wall Street on Tuesday was accompanied by similar actions in Seattle and an ancillary camp in San Francisco, on the heels of other raids in Portland, Oregon, Salt Lake City, Denver and Oakland. Authorities cited concerns about sanitation, drugs and crime to justify police actions. But in Berkeley, heavy-handed police conduct (and an abundance of cameras) appear to have backfired, much as it did in Oakland on Oct. 25 when an Iraq War veteran was seriously injured by police. Last week, police used batons to disband a student rally against tuition hikes and budget cuts. Video of the incident went viral on the Internet, galvanizing sympathy for the campaign. (Read 'Occupy Oakland: After Second Police Raid, Protest Ends with a Whimper.') Indeed, the Tuesday rally stretched from the columns of Sproul Hall, a touchstone of the Free Speech Movement, to rooftops surrounding the plaza out front. Students stood shoulder to shoulder with nostalgic veterans of the 60s-era protests, and counterparts from Oakland, many of whom had marched about five miles from the cleared City Hall plaza to show their support. 'You can raid a camp, but not a movement,' says Luke, 22, a displaced Oakland camper, moments before a speech by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich calling on students to take a moral stand against the hyper-wealthy. The rally culminated in a vote on whether to set up tents in defiance of a university order; it passed unanimously. 'This is overpowering for me; it's a movement I helped start,' says Bradford Cleaveland, 80, a long-time activist and former graduate student who offered encouragement to students. He shared a black-and-white picture of him on the steps of Sproul Hall next to Mario Savio, the late student leader famous for his 'put your bodies upon the gears' address, to establish his bona fides. 'It's the same, but better, because it's more difficult to do this kind of thing now -- there's so much fear.'"

11/17/2011, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, Student protests shut down business as usual (VIDEO), Yael Chanoff, Nena Farrell, and Shawn Gaynor

"'I believe words have the power to create change,' Said Jeanie Shoumacer, 47, an undergrad student who'd brought her 5-year-old son along for the civics lesson. 'We must not let this end,' she urged the crowd, speaking from the steps of Sproul Hall. 'We cannot give up.' Berkeley's Free Speech Movement began at Sproul Plaza. Signs of free speech activist Mario Savio had been set up with a sign reading, 'This is Our History.' Speakers were flanked by banners that read, 'Free education for all,' and 'Defend public education.'"

11/17/2011, Reuters, Police evict protesters at University of California, Berkeley, Laird Harrison

"Moving in before dawn on Thursday, police cleared away a protest camp from a plaza at the University of California, Berkeley where 5,000 people gathered Tuesday night in an economic protest."

11/17/2011, Los Angeles Times, Berkeley police break up Occupy Cal; tents removed, 2 arrested,

"Police moved in early Thursday to break up the Occupy Cal protest at UC Berkeley, arresting at least two protesters. Scores of officers conducted the raid, removing the tents and clearing the area. On Tuesday, more than 1,200 singing, sign-waving students and faculty members rallied for much of the day on Sproul Plaza, a site of the 1960s Free Speech Movement."

11/17/2011, KGO-TV, For Occupy Cal, a history lesson, Wayne Freedman

"It's been a long time since UC Berkeley saw a protest like this one: Sproul Hall is surrounded with various purposes, which could be the undoing of the Occupy movement as experienced protesters see it. "We had a mission and a purpose," said 1960s Berkeley protester Fay Lawson. 'You need a direction, and there is no direction here.' It was October 1964 when UC Berkeley students surrounded a police car containing one student under arrest. The student's name was Jack Weinberg, and the students blocked the police car for 36 hours -- the start of a movement that made today's Occupy protests possible. "It took about three days for the free speech movement to go from a few hundred people to an incident where there were several thousand people surround a police car," Weinberg said. At UC Berkeley, fighting for free speech and against the establishment is an attitude as unchanging as the architecture of Sproul Hall. By December 1964, students grew so frustrated that they occupied the Venerable Building in protest to two students being suspended. The students sat in, eating food passed through a second floor window. Professor Richard Muller, Ph.D., took several pictures when he was one of those students. 'If you believed some injustice was being done, you had to stand up for it and you've got to be arrested,' said Muller. 'We expected to be arrested.'"

11/17/2011, Beyond Chron, The Tragedy of Jean Quan, Randy Shaw

"Quan's failure toward Occupy harkens back to liberal U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Clark Kerr, who alienated both right and left in responding to 1964 Free Speech Movement. Like Quan, Kerr had a history of support for social justice struggles and even lost a Cabinet appointment because he had been on an FBI blacklist. Yet despite his background, Kerr dismissed the Free Speech Movement as 'a ritual of hackneyed complaints' and accused its leaders of being influenced by Communists. Like Quan, he alienated the left by initially cracking down on the protests, and then lost conservatives when he changed course and agreed to the students' demands. Kerr was fired by the UC Regents in its first meeting after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as California's Governor in 1967. Mayor Jean Quan now awaits a similar fate from voters."

11/16/2011, YouTube, Highlights from the Mario Savio lecture on Sproul , thedailycal

"Prior to the speech by Robert Reich, Lynne Savio, widow of Mario Savio introduced winners of this year's Mario Savio Young Activist award and spoke of Occupy Cal's connections with the 1964 Free Speech Movement."

11/16/2011, truthdig, A Night of Hope in Berkeley, Cherilyn Parsons

"I walked back from the gathering with a friend who had been in Sproul Plaza on that day in 1964 when Savio gave one of his most famous speeches, including these lines: 'There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels.' I asked my friend how the current vibe differed from then. She said that back then, she and other young people had a tremendous sense of hope. They had no doubt that a better future was ahead, and if they wanted a piece of the American pie, they could have it. They could do anything. Today, she said, kids feel like they have no chance. The system is stacked against them. They're more realistic, true, but there's despair, frustration and a casting about for a way to create change. She added that she feels a sense of loneliness in this movement today, a social loneliness. Back then there were so many different movements, and they connected together. There was so much to become involved in. Last night, at least, the crowd remembered and renewed the wellspring of hope. Before Reich spoke, one of the three young Savio award-winners stirred the crowd with a vivid vision of 'when hope comes back.' Here's hoping."

11/16/2011, The San Francisco Bay Guardian, The scene at Occupy Cal last night (VIDEO), Rebecca Bowe

"A general assembly drew thousands to Sproul Plaza, the historic site where Berkeley's free speech movement began. The 15th annual ceremony honoring recipients of the Mario Savio Young Activist Award was held on the steps outside Sproul Hall following the general assembly, and Robert Reich, Chancellor's Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and former secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton, delivered a speech on 'Class Warfare in America.'"

11/16/2011, The Bay Citizen (blog), Watch Robert Reich Speech at Occupy Cal, Queena Kim

"The spirit of Mario Savio lorded over Sproul Hall on Tuesday night and a sense of history was keen among the students and supporters gathered there. There were the obvious connections. As a student at UC Berkeley, Savio led the 'Free Speech Movement' in the 1960s. To add, organizers of the Mario Savio Youth Activist Awards moved their previously scheduled ceremony to the steps of Sproul Hall in a show of support for Occupy Cal. The evening started with a student reading of Mario Savio and the themes were eerily reminiscent of what we're hearing from students in the Occupy Cal movement today. When Robert Reich, the scheduled keynote speaker for the awards, stepped onto the steps of Sproul Hall, he "connected the dots" between the movement then and now. 'We were graced with the eloquence and the power of Mario Savio's words from these steps,' Reich said. 'In fact, the sentiments and words that mario savio expressed 47-years-ago is as relevant or more relevant today as they were then.'" [includes videos of Daniel Savio and Robert Reich]

11/16/2011, The Atlantic, Occupy Cal Makes Occupy History at Berkeley, Tina Dupuy

"In the largest GA history has ever seen (larger by at least 3,500 than similar meetings in New York) the group consensus was that they would, in fact, bring tents and set up an occupation on the Mario Savio Steps. Berkeley professor Robert Reich, who was already slated to speak at the memorial tribute, offered the massive crowd these words: 'Moral outrage is the beginning. The days of apathy are over, folks. And once it has begun it cannot be stopped and it will not be stopped.' After he left the microphone, half a dozen tents slowly paraded through the crowd and up the Mario Savio steps to rest at the top. The PA system played the first song of a promised dance party. The first tune? Gloria Gaynor's 'I Will Survive.' Of course."

11/16/2011, San Jose Mercury News, Occupy Oakland joins Berkeley movement, Tammerlin Drummond

"Reich, a vocal supporter of the Occupy movement, drew parallels between the Free Speech Movement that started at Berkeley in the 1960s and today's Occupy protests. In the 1960s, Reich said, students were fighting for civil rights and voting rights. They were protesting poverty in cities and rural areas and demonstrating against the war in Vietnam. Today, Reich told the students, the battle is against the concentration of economic wealth that has corrupted our democracy. Since there are no controls over the amount of money spent in politics, he said, the political power also goes to the top. 'You in the Occupy movements all over this country are the ways in which people are responding to the crisis of our democracy,' Reich said. The Berkeley students' protest against higher fees places them squarely in the context of the global Occupy movement. They join students all over the world -- most recently in Britain and Chile -- who have taken to the streets in their anger over student debt. Unlike in Oakland, one gets the sense that there is an exciting movement being birthed."

11/16/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, Huge protest at UC Berkeley - vote to set up camp, Justin Berton, Nanette Asimov, Demian Bulwa, Kevin Fagan

"As many as 10,000 students and Occupy activists overflowed UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza on Tuesday night following a daylong classroom walkout and established a small camp in defiance of the university's edict that no tents be erected, setting up a potentially tense standoff with authorities. There were so many people in the plaza that it was hard to move through it, and dozens of police officers stayed on the periphery as the tents went up around 9:30 p.m. The first time students tried to set up an Occupy Cal tent city on the plaza was last Wednesday, and police used batons to block that attempt, drawing community criticism. UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau issued orders last week and again on Tuesday that no tents be allowed past a symbolic few in the name of political expression. But the result of a vote by protesters -- said to be 88.5 percent in favor of tents -- was in clear opposition to those orders. 'The seeds of resistance have been planted, and we will not be moved,' the woman who announced the hand-counted tally said to thunderous cheers. Reich delivers speech The vote came just before UC Berkeley professor and former U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert Reich delivered the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture in which he blasted economic inequity. Immediately after the hour-long address, the tents sprang up." [great photos]

11/16/2011, Salon, The students are coming!, Gary Kamiya

"From the Free Speech Movement to SDS and the anti-Vietnam War protests, many of the most important American protest movements have historically been spearheaded by students. In recent years, students, buffeted by hard times and growing up in an apathetic, me-first civic culture, have been as passive as the rest of the population. But in the last two years soaring tuition costs, draconian cuts in faculty and classes, and the prospect of a jobless, student-loan-burdened future, have begun galvanizing some collegians into action. And the Occupy Wall Street movement has lit a fire under more of them, and broadened their movement into a structural demand for social justice and equity."

11/16/2011, Reuters, Berkeley protesters pitch tents, defying authorities, Laird Harrison

"Former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich, an outspoken supporter of the anti-Wall Street movement, hailed the protesters in a late-night speech from the steps of Sproul Hall, invoking the leaders of the 1964-65 'Free Speech Movement' at Berkeley. 'The Occupy movement is beginning to respond the crisis in democracy,' he said. 'You are already succeeding. ... The days of apathy are over, folks. Once this has begun, this cannot be stopped and will not be stopped.'"

11/16/2011, PBS NewsHour, Berkeley Students, 'Occupy Oakland' Protesters Join Force, Spencer Michels

"Former Labor Secretary and U.C. economics professor Robert Reich delivered the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, honoring a leader of the 1960s free speech movement. ROBERT REICH, former U.S. labor secretary: Over the last three decades, this economy has doubled in size, but most Americans have not seen much gain. If you adjust for inflation, what you see is the median wage has barely risen. Where did all the money and resources go?"

11/16/2011, North County Times, Occupy protesters set up camp at UC Berkeley, Associated Press

"Campus police repeatedly told the protesters in the morning that they risked arrest if they did not take the tents down and leave. But the protesters remained in the plaza, where they were joined overnight by Daniel Ellsberg, a former defense analyst who leaked the Pentagon Papers....The encampment at UC Berkeley went up during a daylong strike on campus on Tuesday against big banks and education cuts that culminated in some 4,000 people rallying at a speech by former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich. Reich, who spoke on the steps of the same student plaza that first launched the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the 1960s implored the protesters to take a moral stand against the very rich owning so much of America's wealth."

11/16/2011, Huffington Post, Occupy Cal Draws Thousands: Supporters Crowd Sproul Plaza For Robert Reich Speech (PHOTOS), Garance Burke and Terry Collins

"BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) -- Anti-Wall Street activists began rebuilding their tent encampment on the steps of the University of California, Berkeley student plaza Tuesday and cheered wildly when former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich implored them to take a moral stand against the very rich owning so much of America's wealth."

11/16/2011, Daily Kos, Berkeley, CA... This is f**cking beautiful. Photos and Videos, Jill Kay

"A lot of attention on Robert Reich's speech last night, and rightfully so. But I wanted to share some footage deserving equal attention: the words of Josh Healey--poet, community organizer and recipient of the Mario Savio Young Activists Award. He spoke just before Reich and read his poem for the 99%. Congratulations on your award Josh, and yes, we are all fucking beautiful. When Hope Comes Back (A Poem for the 99%) when Hope comes back he will be more than a campaign slogan and a face on a poster faded red, white, and blue he will not come from a presidential palace bought and paid for like a Citibank stock option villa he will put not forget to put on his walking shoes and join the picket lines in New York the bread lines in Baltimore to shake the calloused hands of everyone walking by" more at link

11/16/2011, Daily Californian, Occupy Cal: Art and activism, Jessica Pena & Nastia Voynovskaya

"As the crowds converged at noon on Tuesday, Nov. 15 at the steps of Sproul Plaza, there were no signs of anxiety or inklings of unfettered anger. Instead, there was music, art and a relaxed environment of visionary enterprise. As the University Gospel Chorus, led by director D. Mark Wilson, chanted songs of social justice, the congregation of students, faculty and fellow supporters of the Occupy Cal movement stood spellbound. It was a moment of collective joy and pointed politics which would come to reflect the broader tone of Tuesday's protest as a movement characterized, as activist Amanda Armstrong stated, not by hostile aggravation but by 'creative power.' This was not the first time art, music and activism have merged with politics on Sproul Plaza. In 1964, Joan Baez provided a soundtrack of acoustic anthems to the Free Speech Movement while artists O' Brien Thiele and Osha Neumann immortalized the conflict surrounding People's Park with a memorial mural in 1969. On Tuesday, it became apparent not much had changed. A diverse array of provocative sculptures and paintings populated the scene alongside acoustic guitars, a capella groups and rock bands like Will Crum who came not only to play some tunes but to use music as a means for 'people to reach out and talk about what bothers them.'"

11/16/2011, Daily Californian, Some students choose not to protest on Day of Action, Christopher Yee

"Mullen did not immediately see the irony of being at the Free Speech Movement Cafe while more than 1,000 protesters gathered on Sproul Plaza for the Open University Strike and Day of Action on Tuesday at noon. She would have made more of a commitment to protesting, except she had developed a fear of potential police violence after seeing what happened six days earlier."

11/16/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Will Berkeley's Occupy Cal Save the World?, Becky O'Malley

"Carol Denney, a frequent contributor to these pages, is fond of saying that the reason the Free Speech Movement took place at the University of California at Berkeley was NOT because free speech flourished on this campus. Quite the contrary: it's been the tradition at Cal, going way back in pre-history before I was an undergraduate, for arrogant administrators to try to keep the lid on student speech. It could be described as a form of hubris (a ten-dollar word I learned in Cal's English department): 'we're the top ...students are damn lucky to be here...so they should shut up and drive'" At the University of Michigan, another school I had the opportunity to observe in the 1960s after I graduated from Cal, the bosses took the opposite tack. By and large, they ignored student protests, so there were never any major riots on the part of either students or police. Eventually the more radical students got bored, founded first SDS and then the Weathermen, and went off to tear up Chicago instead, which was much more satisfying-and now like Bill Ayres they're almost all professors somewhere or other."

11/15/2011, thetruthpursuit, Occupy Movement Inspires Veteran Protesters,

"As the anti-Wall Street Occupy movement in the Bay Area meets resistance from law enforcement, older protesters are hoping to pass on the wisdom gained from their experience to a younger generation leading current demonstrations. After nearly 40 years since the Free Speech movement took hold in Berkeley, the Occupy movement is now uniting old and young in the pursuit of economic and social justice."

11/15/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, Huge protest at UC Berkeley - vote to set up camp, Nanette Asimov, Kevin Fagan

"Among the protest banners and signs being displayed were 'Poetry for Justice' and even the double-take-inducing 'Stanford is w/Cal.' The Mario Savio Steps -- commemorating the late father of the Free Speech Movement -- in front of Sproul Hall were turned into an outdoor living room of sorts, with a piano, bookcases and Persian rugs spread out across the pavement."[great photos]

11/15/2011, Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow Show, Rachel Maddow

"We're human beings!" [ed. note: Reviews FSM, Occupy Cal, Savio Lecture, Dan Siegel, and Robert Reich--wonderful!]

11/15/2011, Oakland Tribune, Occupy Cal protesters vote to pitch tents, Gary Peterson, Doug Oakley and Hannah Dreier

"Later Tuesday night at UC Berkeley, Reich rallied the crowd to the central message of the Occupy movement. 'The fundamental problem (is) we are losing equal opportunity,' he said to a warm reception from as many as 3,500 who remained in Sproul Plaza, where the Free Speech Movement was born. 'We are losing the moral foundation stone upon which this country was built.' The 'days of apathy,' he said, 'are over.'"

11/15/2011, Los Angeles Times, Occupy: Day of protest begins slowly at UC Berkeley, Maria LaGanga in Berkeley and Carla Rivera in Los Angele

"Demonstrations are also planned Tuesday at Cal State campuses in Fullerton, where students were to conduct a flash mob in the main quad, and Los Angeles, with rallies and theatrical presentations on the impact of education cuts."

11/15/2011, Daily Californian, Lost and found: Mario Savio's reflections, Robert Cohen

"The lost letter was penned by Savio on Dec. 4, 1964, from Santa Rita Prison, where he and hundreds of students had been sent after being arrested for nonviolently sitting-in at Sproul Hall. The letter, which Savio had sent (or intended to send) to his parents, brother and grandmother, was discovered by Barbara Stack as part of a project -- funded by FSM veteran Thom Irwin of the Free Speech Movement Archive -- to gather and inventory the papers of FSM activists."

11/15/2011, Daily Californian, Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement 47 years later, staff

"This page will aggregate commentary on the iconic leader of the Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio, in light of the 15th annual Mario Savio Memorial lecture on Nov. 15. The lecture will be delivered by public policy professor Robert Reich and will be held on the steps of Sproul Hall at 8 p.m. Readers may continue to submit their thoughts to opinion@dailycal.org."

11/15/2011, Daily Californian, A few hundred protesters gather on Sproul for noon rally, Curan Mehra

"Protesters began Tuesday's strike and Day of Action setting up a home for themselves on the steps of Sproul Plaza. The psuedo-living room included couches, ornamental rugs and even a book shelf filled with titles like The Power Elite by C. Wright Mills and The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom. 'The idea is to make this place more like a home,' said UC Berkeley freshman Sara Kei and member of the art committee that was responsible for furnishing the Mario Savio steps. 'This is our space - make it livable.'"

11/15/2011, Counterpunch, Birgenou's Rampage U.C. Berkeley Chancellor Sends in Riot Police to Batter Students, Michael Levien

"What Wednesday's events conclusively demonstrate is that Birgeneau and the UC Berkeley administration, not student protesters, are the greatest threat to campus safety. While many police offers displayed sadistic violence and should be fired and sued for police brutality, the responsibility lies at the top. In deciding to authorize U.C. and Alameda County police to inflict grievous bodily injury on its own students to enforce a minor clause of the campus code, UC administrators--including Chancellor Birgeneau, Executive Vice Chancellor George Breslauer, and Vice Chancellor for Student affairs Harry Le Grande--showed an astounding lack of judgment, intellect, courage, and human decency. They should be forced to resign immediately before they are able to hurt more students."

11/15/2011, Berkeleyside, Rally begins after teach-ins at Occupy Cal Day of Action, Frances Dinkelspiel

"Demonstrations will take place throughout the day. Occupy Oakland participants, many of whom were evicted from their tent city in downtown Oakland early Monday, are expected to march to the Cal campus starting at 2:30pm. And a general assembly, planned for 5:00pm, will include a vote on whether to build an encampment. UC Berkeley professor of public policy and former U.S. secretary of labor Robert Reich will deliver his annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture on Sproul Plaza at 8 p.m."

11/15/2011, Bay City News, Rally, Teach-Outs, Marches Planned For #OccupyCal Strike, Patricia Decker

"This evening, an annual lecture that honors the memory of Mario Savio, a key member of the 1964 Free Speech Movement that began on campus, was moved to Sproul Plaza from its original location in Pauley Ballroom, which is in the student union across from Sproul Hall."

11/15/2011, Associated Press, Former US Labor head Reich addresses Occupy crowd, Lisa Leff

"'Every social movement in the last half century or more -- it started with moral outrage,' Reich said, likening Wall Street to the bullies who battered him when he was an especially short kid. 'You understand how important it is to fight the bullies, to protect the powerless.'" [great photos]

11/14/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, Protest is not protest is not protest, Leah Garchik

"P.S.: Meanwhile, artist-bail bondsman Jerry Barrish, mentioned herein last week, went down to check out the Occupy San Francisco site. Barrish's long history of bailing out protesters started with assistance to demonstrators angry about hiring practices around town in the early '60s. Subsequently, he bailed out protesters for a variety of civil rights-connected causes, including the Free Speech Movement, Alcatraz-occupying American Indians, Port Chicago, People's Park and San Francisco State. The folks providing legal services to the Occupiers told him they needed office space with computer and telephone access, and other amenities. Barrish offered them space in his office, near the Hall of Justice. 'It seemed like the best way to support them.'"

11/14/2011, Oakland Tribune, Occupy Oakland Live Blog: Protesters rally outside library, with some saying they want to march back to plaza, Kristin J. Bender, Josh Richman, Thomas Peele

"Jack Radey, 64, took part in the Free Speech Movement and anti-Vietnam War protests in the 1960s. He now lives in Eugene, Ore., but was in Oakland for a visit and decided to check out what was going on at the plaza. 'We're just getting started,' Radey said. 'I've seen a mass movement around Vietnam and civil rights -- and it's come again.'"

11/14/2011, Daily Democrat, Woodland's weekly planner Nov. 14 - Nov. 20,

"Tuesday, Nov. 15, 5:30 p.m. The Cross Cultural Series and Sociology Program at Woodland Community College welcome Ziza Delgado, from the Department of Ethnic Studies at UC Berkeley, to deliver a presentation called 'Put Your Bodies Upon the Gears: The Free Speech Movement and Third World Liberation Front.' Delgado is involved with a coalition of teachers from Oakland Unified School District, organizing and implementing a pilot program to teach Ethnic Studies in OUSD. The presentation will take place until 6:45 p.m., in the Community Room, Building 800, 2300 E. Gibson Road, Woodland."

11/14/2011, Daily Californian, Robert Reich's lecture to become part of UC Berkeley strike, Christopher Yee

"'Under the circumstances, the organizers of the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture thought it would be more appropriate for me to give the lecture outside, and on the steps of Sproul Hall, rather than inside the Pauley Ballroom, where access would be limited, and the students who are involved in the current protest invited me to do so as well,' Reich said in an email."

11/14/2011, Daily Californian, Dec. 4, 1964 letter by Mario Savio while detained in Santa Rita Jail, Mario Savio

"Dear Mom and Dad, Noni and Tom, I won't be in here long, but I thought you might like to receive a letter from the 'Birmingham Jail.' They arrested about 800 of us students after we seized and held the administration building, Sproul Hall, for about 14 hours. We entered the building between noon and 1 a.m. on Wednesday. Here it's Friday morning already and they have not yet even now completed 'booking' us. In a speech on Tuesday noon I gave the administration an ultimatum -- 24 hours to accede to our demands. When they failed to do so we seized the administration building. Our action has electrified the entire state -- as well as many thousands in other states. It was Governor Brown himself -- the fink - who ordered our arrest. But the action we took has also lighted a fire under the faculty, who have raised thousands of dollars in bail money, who have demanded we be pardoned, who have demanded that our demands for free speech be met, and who may insist that the Chancellor resign. Furthermore, there is a strike going on right now on campus. The whole campus is shut down -- when I urged students to sit in on Wednesday I'd promised that either we would get our rights or we would completely halt the operation of the University! Its operation has been completely halted. So serious is our effort being taken that the Teamsters Union has refused to cross our picket lines. Accordingly, no materials which are brought into the University by truck are coming in. That means that no food is coming to the cafeterias -- none at all. Whereas before the administration held the students in seige (sic) in one building; now we hold the administration in seige (sic) on the entire campus! Even if the Regents do not now meet all our demands, at least we have brought the faculty over to our side. We have already won substantial victories. I am well and boyantly (sic) happy -- if a little grubby. Don't worry, please."

11/14/2011, Berkeleyside, UC Berkeley After Oakland eviction, Occupy focus shifts to UC Berkeley, Tracey Taylor

"'This is in protest against the use of excessive police force against non-violent demonstrators who were peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech in a symbolic encampment,' wrote Lynne Hollander Savio in an email release co-signed by the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and the directors of the Young Activist Award Board. The lecture is scheduled to take place at 8 p.m. on Tuesday"

11/14/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture on Tuesday in Berkeley Will Be Moved to Sproul Plaza,

"The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award Board of Directors and Robert Reich, the scheduled lecture speaker, have been asked by the Occupy Cal General Assembly to transfer the event to the Mario Savio Steps in Sproul Plaza at 8 p.m. Tuesday evening, instead of holding it inside Pauley Ballroom. This is in protest against the use of excessive police force against non-violent demonstrators who were peacefully exercising their First Amendment rights to free speech in a symbolic encampment. Although we recognize that this change of venue may pose a physical hardship for some of the attendees, it was unanimously agreed that we would be violating our mission statement (see below) to reject the request. Depending on the exact circumstances at the time, a somewhat shortened presentation of the Young Activist Award will be held, and the award winners will speak"

11/13/2011, Daily Californian, Free Speech Movement veterans, historians respond to the Occupy Cal events, Aptheker, Cohen, Druding, Felsenstein, Garson, Goldberg, Hollander, Lye, Medal, Smith, Stack

"An appeal to the UC administration to restore Berkeley's free speech tradition We the undersigned Free Speech Movement (FSM) veterans and historians remind the UC administration that the university's emergence as a center of free political expression on campus began in 1964 when the Free Speech Movement's free speech principles were adopted by the UC Berkeley division of the Academic Senate in its historic Dec. 8 resolutions. Those resolutions affirmed the 'content of free speech or advocacy should not be restricted by the university.' The resolutions established that there would be no restrictions on campus political expression but only on 'time, place and manner,' meaning protests cannot interfere with classes or interfere 'with the normal functions of the university.' The administration's unilateral ban on tents and on a peaceful encampment on the lawn alongside Sproul Hall (that neither interfered with classes nor prevented the 'normal functions of the university') clearly encroached on the free speech rights established by the Dec. 8 resolutions. In other words, the UC administration's confrontational actions violated the university's own free speech principles and policies, encroaching upon Berkeley's historic free speech traditions. This act of political repression threatens to return UC Berkeley to the pre-FSM era in which speech was freer off campus than on campus. Indeed, today there is greater free speech in New York's Zucotti Park -- where the dissident Occupy Wall Street encampment has been allowed to continue for months -- than on the Berkeley campus. The fact that there is greater personal freedom in a park in Manhattan than on a public university campus in Berkeley should be a mark of shame for this administration. The fact that the UC administration chose to enforce its ban on a non-violent student encampment by inviting on to campus armed police and county sheriffs who violently attacked unarmed students is an affront to the very mission of the university. We urge the University of California administration to cease and desist its violations of the Dec. 8 resolutions, to forswear and abandon all future use of police violence against law-abiding students and faculty, and to restore the campus to its historic free speech traditions. --Bettina Aptheker, Robert Cohen, Susan Druding, Lee Felsenstein, Barbara Garson, Jackie Goldberg, Lynne Hollander, Colleen Lye, Anita Medal, Gar Smith, Barbara Stack"

11/13/2011, Daily Californian, UCPD draws criticism for stopping Occupy Cal protesters carrying signs, Afsana Afzal

"Members of the Free Speech Movement Archives also sent an email condemning the actions of the police who they said suppressed the students' first amendment rights that were recognized 47 years ago during the Free Speech Movement in 1964."

11/11/2011, Wired, How Occupy Became This Century's Free Speech Movement, Quinn Norton

"It's been 47 years since the start of the Free Speech Movement, which inspired the anti-Vietnam War movement, the hippies, and perhaps even the internet as we know it. Free-speech veteran Lee Felsenstein sees parallels in Occupy to the movement he helped start. 'It's an old story to us,' said Felsenstein, speaking for the board of the the Free Speech Movement Archives. 'The fundamental thing that was going on with the Free Speech Movement was reclaiming public space, and I have seen this expressed recently with the Occupy movement,' Felsenstein said. During 1964, engineering students like him all over the country were not only watching Cal, but working on ways to connect the campuses together using the first nascent and slow computer network. 'One of the effects of the Free Speech Movement, and that outbreak of freedom really, was manifested in the development of the internet,' Felsenstein said. 'We see the structure of the internet being an open structure, and open structure is what we were fighting for.'"

11/11/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Statement on UC Police Violence from Veterans of the 1964 Free Speech Movement, Members of the Free Speech Movement Archives (www.FSM-A.com)

"As veterans and historians of the 1964 Free Speech Movement that established the rights of students to freely express their concerns over critical social issues within the boundaries of the University of California's campus, we were shocked by the actions of campus police who seized banners from students peacefully demonstrating in Sproul Plaza and on the Sproul Steps. We join Berkeley Councilmember Kriss Worthington in demanding that the banners be returned and that University Administrators condemn this unconscionable police assault on Free Speech. The University is a commons dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. It appears that the campus police are in need of remedial education concerning fundamental protections offered by the US Constitution -- including First Amendment rights to Free Speech and Free Assembly that were clearly recognized and enshrined on the UCB campus 47 years ago on these very steps. We further condemn the actions of the armed police who beat and arrested students and faculty. We deplore the decision of University officials who, once again, opened the campus to armed and club-wielding Alameda County sheriffs. And we applaud the inspiring example of the students who bravely and nonviolently held their ground against police batons. Members of the Free Speech Movement Archives [Board] (www.FSM-A.com): Bettina Aptheker, Robby Cohen, Susan Druding, Lee Felsenstein, Barbara Garson, Lynne Hollander, Anita Medal, Jack Radey, Gar Smith, Jackie Goldberg and Barbara Stack "

11/10/2011, The Atlantic, Close UC Berkeley Riot Police Use Batons to Clear Students from Sproul Plaza, Conor Friedersdorf

"In iconic Sproul Plaza, many hundreds or perhaps thousands of UC Berkeley students and Occupy Oakland activists clashed with university police late into the night Wednesday, after officers carried out instructions from administrators to clear Occupy Cal protesters from their makeshift encampment. 'We formed a human barricade around our tents, and they just beat their way through it with batons,' said one student. 'It really, really hurt - I got the wind knocked out of me,' another protester, doctoral student Shane Boyle, told the San Francisco Chronicle, showing the reporter a red welt on his chest. 'I was lucky I only got hit twice,' he added."

11/10/2011, San Jose Mercury News, Protesters regroup after night of protests at UC Berkeley, Matt Krupnick and Rick Hurd

"Those arrested in the afternoon were English professor Celeste Langan and UC Berkeley students Sonja Diaz, Zahide Atli, Ramon Quintero, Ricardo Gomez, Timothy Fisken and Zakary Habash. The demonstrations, just 4½ miles up Telegraph Avenue from the Occupy Oakland encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, were on the site Mario Savio and other Free Speech Movement leaders used for their protests in the mid-1960s. The current rallies have reflected widespread economic worries that culminated in Occupy Wall Street, a nationwide movement of encampments and demonstrations against banks and large corporations. As at other Occupy protests, picket signs at UC Berkeley referenced a variety of topics, including Palestine, student loans and affirmative action. California should lead the nation in reforming public higher education, Leigh Raiford, an associate professor of African-American studies, said during a rally. She decried high foreclosure rates and exorbitant spending on prisons at the expense of public education. 'Reckless greed by the 1 percent caused this,' she said. 'Much of this student loan debt is held by the big four banks.'"

11/10/2011, Daily Californian, Drawing on Occupy movement, protesters turn out en masse, Anna Vignet/Senior Staff

"'I chose to come here because of the history in civil rights and the Free Speech Movement,' [Aseem] Kever said. 'If I'm here, I want to participate, and I leave a legacy.'"

11/10/2011, Daily Californian, What would Mario Savio say about the Occupy movement?, Nadav Savio

"What sort of movement would Mario help build? Well, that's the hard part. What I'm struck by in looking at a few of his speeches is that he wasn't at all extreme in his advocacy. Here's what he told an audience on the Berkeley campus in 1984: 'America, to accommodate the just demands of the new majority, has to become at least a little bit less capitalist.' He went on to advocate a fairly modest shift away from pure maximization of profit and towards basic social benefits like universal health care. (A similar sentiment was nicely expressed in a Wall Street protester's sign: 'Replace capitalism with something nicer.') Mario then added, and I think this is incredibly relevant: 'becoming less capitalistic means we don't have to become less democratic; we can become more democratic!' Indeed, for all the talk of tactics and strategy, perhaps the most salient aspect of this movement has been the conspicuous display of in-this-togetherness across a relatively wide swath of the country's demographics. My dad had a faith (though it could be shaken) that a more just world is possible and that such a change can only come about through people working together and caring for one another. He was never a Marxist but he loved the iconic statement: 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his needs.' What I have found most moving and most hopeful in the Occupy movement is the embodiment of this sentiment in images and stories of simple communal living and spontaneous care-taking. I believe my father would have been deeply moved simply to see a broad spectrum of people coming together, laying their bodies on the gears, and helping each other face an unjust, inhumane machine."

11/9/2011, gannett.com, Author Frank Bardacke to read at Two Rivers, staff

"Two Rivers Bookstore in Binghamton will host a reading by author Frank Bardacke at 7 p.m. Monday. He will read from his new book, 'Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farmworkers.' Bardacke is a teacher and labor organizer who worked the fields in Salinas Valley, Calif., for more than seven years. He is the author of 'Good Liberals and Great Blue Herons: Land, Labor and Politics in the Pajaro Valley,' and translated 'Shadows of Tender Fury: The Letters and Communiques of Subcommandante Marcos and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.' He was a student leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, an organizer of People's Park in Berkeley, and was featured in the award-winning documentary 'Berkeley in the '60s.'"

11/9/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, "Some things never change": Student Protests at UC Berkeley, Jane Stillwater

"PS: U.C. students in Berkeley are very well-represented by their district's councilperson, Kriss Worthington, who was also on Sproul Plaza, backing his young constituents up. Here's what he told the Berkeley Daily Planet tonight: 'At the home of the Free Speech Movement, the UCPD appears to have suppressed Free Speech again! Please join us in questioning this behavior and challenge the UCPD to respect the Free Speech Rights of Occupy Cal.' Worthington then went on to admonish Chancellor Birgeneau and U.C. police chief Calaya for their violent actions against non-violent protestors. 'I wanted to bring to your attention that banners with Free Speech content appear to have been seized by UCPD in front of Sproul Plaza. ...It is hard to imagine that such an act could occur at the exact location in Berkeley where the Free Speech Movement began.' Worthington nailed it exactly. "You can imagine that the sense of irony will not be lost on the public, that the UCPD violated the Free Speech rights of protesters at this particular location. ...These students have made a firm commitment to no violence and no vandalism. The University should be commending the thousands of students that are participating. For many, this could be their very first political protest of their life. They are protesting specifically for additional financing for the University of California. The University should support this enthusiasm and help encourage this to be an effective protest that helps the University and our country.'"

11/8/2011, UC Berkeley Newscenter, Public policy professor, former Labor Secretary Robert Reich to deliver Savio Memorial Lecture on class warfare, Kathleen Maclay

"The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture honors the memory of the late Mario Savio, a spokesperson for the Free Speech Movement in 1964. The program will include a presentation of the Mario Savio Young Activist Award in recognition of a young person working to build a more humane, just society. Sponsors include the UC Berkeley Library, Goldman School of Public Policy, the Free Speech Movement Cafe and the Graduate Assembly."

11/8/2011, San Francisco Business Times, Robert Reich: Occupy movement not part of 'class war', Steven E.F. Brown

"Reich will be giving the 15th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture on Nov. 15 in Pauley Ballroom in the university's student union. Tickets -- the event is free -- will be available that day at 6:30 p.m., 90 minutes before the speech."

11/6/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Steve Jobs,' by Walter Isaacson: review, Dan Zigmond

"'There was the technology revolution that began with the growth of military contractors and soon included electronics firms, microchip makers, video game designers, and computer companies. There was a hacker subculture - filled with wireheads, phreakers, cyberpunks, hobbyists, and just plain geeks - that included engineers who didn't conform to the HP mold and their kids who weren't attuned to the wavelengths of the subdivisions.... There was the hippie movement, born out of the Bay Area's beat generation, and the rebellious political activists, born out of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. Overlaid on it all were the various self-fulfillment movements pursuing paths to personal enlightenment: Zen and Hinduism, meditation and yoga, primal scream and sensory deprivation, Esalen and est.'"

11/6/2011, Reader Supported News, Why the 1% Love "Anarchist Violence", Steve Weissman

"For young white activists, this Realpolitik strengthened our tendency to see nonviolence as a pragmatic choice of tactics, not a philosophic commitment that most of us never embraced. Our stance faced an interesting test at Berkeley just before the Free Speech Movement's big sit-in on December 2, 1964. Joan Baez, the popular singer and committed pacifist, had agreed to take part, but suddenly suffered second thoughts. The evening before the sit-in, it somehow fell to me to field a call from her mentor Ira Sandperl, a Gandhi scholar who had marched for civil rights with Dr. King. "Would we commit ourselves to remain strictly nonviolent?" he asked. 'No,' I replied. 'We can't.' My bluntness surprised us both, but FSM was a democratic movement and we would make our own decisions. As diplomatically as I could, I told Ira that we were a broad coalition of groups, from Goldwater Republicans to revolutionary socialists, and I could hardly speak for them all. But, as of our last meeting, we were planning to use non-violent tactics for our occupation of Berkeley's administration building, Sproul Hall. A great soul with a superb sense of whimsy, Ira heard what he needed to hear. Joan came to the sit-in, sang her songs, and had her say. 'Muster up as much love as you possibly can, and as little hatred and as little violence, and as little 'angries' as you can - although I know it's been exasperating,' she told us. 'The more love you can feel, the more chance there is for it to be a success.' By contrast, our own Mario Savio had already launched us onto a less loving path. 'There is a time,' he declared, 'when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop.'"

11/4/2011, Echo Park Patch, Echo Park Will March to Occupy LA Friday, Anthea Raymond

"The group is inspired by Art Goldberg, an Echo Park attorney, who's led a group of war demonstrators at that corner for most Fridays over the past eight years. Goldberg, 70, also runs the Working People's Law Center of Echo Park, where he offers sliding scale rates to working class clients who can't afford more. FREE SPEECH MOVEMENT Golberg was also part of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the 1960s, and did part of his legal education at Howard University, an historically-black college."

11/3/2011, Berkeley Voice, New Cal themed restaurant comes to Berkeley, Martin Snapp

"But Pappy's is going to be about more than the Waldorf era, or even Cal football. The giant, 200-inch-diagonal TV screen will feature videos of The Play that broke Stanford's heart in 1982 (but not, thankfully, Roy Riegels' wrong-way run that lost the Rose Bowl in 1929). But it will also show the Cal Marching Band doing its signature spell-out at the Big Game, Cecilia Bartoli in a Cal Performances concert at Zellerbach Hall, some of Cal's 22 Nobel Prize winners giving lectures, even Mario Savio speaking on Sproul steps. 'We want to honor the whole spectrum of Cal/Berkeley/Telegraph Avenue history,' says owner Alex Popov."

11/1/2011, The Brooklyn Rail, ZELIG ON THE LEFT: BILL ZIMMERMAN, Lawrence Weschler

"Rail: So this was on the eve of 1968, basically. I wonder whether the people at Brooklyn College know any of this history today. [Bill] Zimmerman: I doubt it, as it's been covered up pretty well over the years. Students sat down in front of the Navy recruiters. The dean of students immediately called the police who came onto campus and arrested the students sitting in front of the recruiters. Other students wanted to set up a table facing the recruiters to distribute anti-war literature, and they were denied permission. A large crowd of students gathered, curious about what the cops were doing on campus, and we encouraged them-they had brought a paddy wagon on campus to pick up the arrested students-so Bart and I encouraged them to sit down around the paddy wagon and surround it and not allow it to leave, much as Berkeley students had done in the free speech movement in 1964. So we had the cops, the cops had the students, we had the cops surrounded, nobody could move. It lasted about an hour and then the tactical squad of the New York police force showed up, and a phalanx of cops drove through this crowd of students, swinging billy clubs, bloodying heads, dragging female students around by the hair, extraordinarily brutal-I've seen a lot of demonstrations, but this was one of the most brutal. They arrested 60 students and we then gathered the remaining students and called for a student strike, and the next morning the strike was 90 percent effective. The campus had been shut down. That happened to be the Friday before the march on the Pentagon. So Friday the campus was shut, Saturday we went to Washington for the Pentagon march, Monday we came back, and the strike was continuing."

11/1/2011, Counterpunch, The 1946 Oakland General Strike An Eyewitness Account by Stan Weir, Cal Winslow

"'The man who was always billed as leader of the 1934 San Francisco General Strike, ILWU President Harry Bridges, who was then also State CIO President, refused to become involved, just as he did 18 years later during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement struggles. The rank-and-file longshoremen and warehouse- men who had been drawn to the street strike were out there on their own.'"

11/1/2011, allAfrica.com, Africa: Lies, Deception, Betrayal in Video Game War On Libya, Cynthia McKinney

"We're human beings! There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious that you're so sick at heart that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all! (Mario Savio, December 1964) In December 1964, the United States was a cauldron on fire. Fervent anti-Vietnam War protests occurred alongside demonstrations and sit-ins as part of the broader Civil Rights Movement that included calls for recognition of indigenous rights, Black rights, Puerto Rican self-determination, Chicano rights, and women's rights. At this important moment of synchronicity, Blacks wore signs proclaiming, 'I am a man' and young white pro-civil rights and anti-war demonstrators at University of California, Berkeley declared: 'We're human beings!' It is to our humanity that I now appeal. During this (past) long month of October, I can say without a doubt that all of our institutions, even those that exist solely for the pursuit of peace, have failed us: from international organisations founded so that there would be no more war, to international institutions whose sole mission is to render justice, the mighty prerequisite for there to be any peace at all."

10/30/2011, New York, Bangin', Amos Barshad

"PERCUSSIVE PROTEST Drum circles started popping up in America around that time; history and social-studies professor Robert Cohen of NYU points to one early example in a 1964 memo recapping a meeting of the University of California at Berkeley dean of students' office regarding on-campus Free Speech Movement protests: 'The problem of bongo drums and other noise making in the area of Ludwig's Fountain was discussed.'" [ed note: Per Robert Cohen, personal communication, The issue with the drums came up the summer before the FSM not during FSM protests.]

10/29/2011, New America Media, Occupy Berkeley, Why So Quiet?, Zaineb Mohammed

"Jeffrey Lustig, a professor emeritus at Sacramento State and a UC Berkeley student during the 1960's, who was significantly involved in the free speech movement, commented on the degree to which obligations facing students have changed: 'I thought nothing about quitting school for a year and painting houses in SF and hitchhiking around the country. But the pressure on students these days is much more intense.'"

10/29/2011, LA Observed, Occupy LA as a leadership school, Bill Boyarsky

"That's one of the important points about the Occupy movements. Leaders will emerge from them, just as Art Goldberg's sister, Jackie Goldberg, emerged from the Free Speech Movement to become a teacher, a school board member, a legislator and a Los Angeles City Council member. What looks like a disorganized mess is, in many respects, a training ground for those who will join the next generation of leaders. They are receiving practical lessons in subjects ranging from getting agreement on a food-serving schedule to dealing with difficult people to organizing protests against what originally brought them together-income inequality and rapacious financial institutions."

10/28/2011, Tallahassee.com, Hang on to our real leaders, Gerald Ensley

"There is nothing wrong with a movement like Occupy Wall Street being leaderless. Grass-roots politics by its definition is a welter of ideas bubbling up from many sources. But when it comes time to cull the good ideas from the not-so-good ideas and push for change, you need a Mario Savio, an Abbie Hoffman or a Martin Luther King Jr. You need elected officials. You need individuals to marshal the ideas, balance the competing interests and make the tough decisions. You need leaders."

10/26/2011, Burnaby Now, Candidate wants more global role for city, Janaya Fuller-evans

"On Tom Tao's first day at the University of California Berkeley, he caught a speech by Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement, he says. The Burnaby mayoral candidate also says he was at People's Park in May 1972 when protesters tore down the fence in response to President Richard Nixon's announcement that he was going to put mines in North Vietnam's main port. 'I saw how politics corrupt people,' he says of that time, adding he is running as mayor to ensure politicians, including himself, are held accountable for their actions."

10/25/2011, Maclean's, Occupy Column-Inches!, Colby Cosh

"To join the Left and participate in street politics is to join a tradition, to link oneself up with a heritage of activism; there is no simple analogue on the Right, which prizes tradition as a principle but does not favour theatrical open-air protest (with exceptions for partisans of particular issues, notably abortion). It is safe to say that every Occupy Someplace attendee who has any awareness of history thinks himself engaged in creating a distant echo, however hollow and distorted, of Selma and Greenham Common and the Free Speech Movement."

10/21/2011, Fox & Hounds Daily, Schwarzenegger Makes Movie Outside of CA, And other Friday Notes, Joel Fox

"This item was a surprise: According to data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics, the largest total donation from one source for President Obama in the 2008 election came not from a corporation or a political action group but from UC Berkeley employees. They contributed $1.6 million combined to Obama, more than from any other organization. Do you suppose the birthplace of the free speech movement now agrees with the U.S. Supreme Court that political money equals speech?"

10/20/2011, The Star Leger, Don't say Occupy Wall Street protesters don't get capitalism, Jordan Fullam

"While Bastian accuses the protesters of lacking a grasp of capitalism, it is clearly he who neglects the nuances of our current economic problems. Many opinion articles published during the free speech movement, the anti-Vietnam War movement and the civil rights movement used similar strategies to defame the integrity of those activists: They were all dismissed as 'anti-capitalist' by critics whose ideological blinders prevented them from seeing the complexities of the issues."

10/20/2011, Sacramento News & Review, A generation awakens, Jay Feldman

"When I speak in public, the person introducing me sometimes mentions that I was arrested in the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, and upon hearing this, many people-younger people in particular-are visibly awed. The movement was the genesis of the student unrest of the 1960s and '70s, and an integral component of the larger rebellion that once again brought about profound change in this country. I also took part in civil-rights demonstrations and anti-war protests. Early on, these efforts were scorned, red-baited and otherwise marginalized. With years of persistence, however, the rallies, marches, sit-ins and teach-ins grew to critical mass, leading to the end of both segregation and the Vietnam War."

10/20/2011, Indybay, Sacred Steps for a Nuclear Free, Peaceful, Just World with Louise Dunlap & Linda Seeley, Carol Brouillet

"Louise Dunlap is the author of Undoing the Silence: Tools for Social Change Writing who assists people to make their voices heard in the challenging debates of our times. A longtime advocate for peace and justice, she began her work for social change with the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, and taught at the University of Massachusetts in the 1970s. Later she taught graduate students in policy and development at M.I.T. and eight other graduate schools including three in South Africa."

10/19/2011, The Highlander, KUCR Celebrates 45 Years On Air, Abraham Lopez

"But there was a time when KUCR was not so well known amongst our community. In fact, KUCR had its humble beginnings as a student run pirate radio station during the mid 60's, broadcasting its signal from a dorm room bathtub in A&I. According to Hans Wynholds, former student and a founding manager of KUCR during the 60's, his then roommate, Kerry Kelts suggested the idea of a student run radio station. When word reached the chancellor, Ivan Hinderaker, he decided to help the group of students by funding $10,000 from the UC Regents towards the radio station. However, the 1965 Free Speech Movement in Berkeley caused some understandable hesitation in the UC Regents. Vandenberg interviewed Wynholds on air this past Tuesday. Wynholds explained that the regents feared that a student radio station could be used as a vehicle to further the free speech movement that had begun in Berkeley and had eventually spread to the US Capitol."

10/19/2011, Tablet Magazine, The documentary Paul Goodman Changed My Life profiles the forgotten, prolific, and bisexual New York Intellectual who inspired the 1960s New Left, Jacob Silverman

"Goodman eventually earned a reputation as a father of the New Left, although, in reference to his own refusal to be of any clique or party, he called himself 'a Dutch uncle to the young.' Still, the SDS and the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley sought him out for counsel. He was, like others of his ilk, a target of FBI surveillance."

10/19/2011, Gazettes.com, EYE ON ART: Orange County Highlights Conceptual Art Circa-1970, Julian Bermudez

"During the 1960s and 1970s, California experienced an era of significant social change. A youth-oriented counterculture demanded educational reform igniting the Free Speech Movement of 1964. Inequality and racism led to the Watts Riots in South Central Los Angeles in 1965. And, that same year, Cesar Chavez organized the grape strike in the San Joaquin Valley."

10/18/2011, Park Forest, Love in Action Crunch Time For Occupy Wall Street, Michael Nagler

"Six years ago I stood with a large group of young people on the roof of the student union building on the Berkeley campus, ticking off the ways they were better off in their understanding than we had been in the heady, but not very sophisticated days of the Free Speech Movement. It was exhilarating to see that improvement. It's even more exhilarating to see it on the move."

10/18/2011, Oakland Tribune, Corkheads: 'Booze Island', Jessica Yadegaran

"To promote the location and celebrate San Francisco, Kane produces 11 wines under the Winery SF label, including a 2006 white blend called 'Love Child' to honor 1967's summer of love and a 2008 mourvedre blend titled 'Speak,' representing the free speech movement of 1964."

10/17/2011, BroadwayWorld.com, Hodges and Hodges Set the Stage for HAIR!, Linda Hodges and Nick Hodges

"If you go to Berkeley, head over the Cal Berkeley's Sproul Plaza where the Free Speech Movement began. Stand on the spot that reads 'This soil and the airspace extending above it shall not be a part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity's jurisdiction.' Make a speech and pass out more flowers."

10/17/2011, Berkeleyside, Government Peace & Justice Commission to Obama: Apologize, Frances Dinkelspiel

"But many of Berkeley's stances that seem ridiculous end up being adopted by the broader American population, according to Charles Wollenberg, a historian and the author of Berkeley: A City in History. The Free Speech Movement began in Berkeley in the early 1960s and spread throughout the nation, he pointed out. In 1964, Berkeley students held some of the first protests against the Vietnam War. Berkeley was one of the first cities to call for divestment from the apartheid regime in South Africa. It also was the first to ban the use of Styrofoam cups."

10/14/2011, Northwest Cable News, Inside the 'Occupy Portland' camp, Erica Heartquist and Michael Rollins

"What's different between 1960s and 2011, said Randy Foster, attacked by police at Berkeley standoffs during the Free Speech movement, is the technology. The web and social media, said the Colton resident, have created transparency. 'There was no computer, no email, the coverage that did exist was biased, there was no truth,' he said. 'Now, the media's covering it truthfully.'"

10/14/2011, Daily Californian, Students: Inspiration to change the world, Mary Ann Uribe

"Students are leading the way as they did in the Free Speech Movement, the Anti-Vietnam War movement, the Women's Liberation movement, the protests in Tiananmen Square in China and the Paris riots. This is a legacy today's students at UC Berkeley should not find hard to follow, as you walk in the shoes of those who have led the way before you. We will be there to support you, to stand toe to toe with you and offer advice. We must be ever vigilant to continue the fight to eliminate poverty and equalize the wealth held by 1 percent of the wealthiest Americans and others throughout the world in the face of the other 99 percent of us who are exploited, left homeless and in poverty, without employment, and seemingly without hope. The torch of the world's fate has been offcially passed to you."

10/13/2011, Penn Current, Q&A with Richard Beeman, Greg Johnson

"Q. You attended Cal Berkeley in the early 1960s. Were you involved at all in the student activism and protest movements? A. I was an undergraduate at the University of California at Berkeley from 1960 to June of 1964. Berkeley at that time was politically a very active place that had a reputation even then as a left-wing university, but there was a kind of cheerful spirit about it. Even though liberals and conservatives would engage in debates, it was good-natured. Three months after I graduated, Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement launched the student revolution not only in America, but really in some senses around the world. So I missed the student revolution by three months. Then, in December of 1964, I got married as a 22 year old. By my calculations, I missed the sexual revolution by 15 minutes. I'm of an age and generation that I narrowly missed two important cultural revolutions. I watched them from afar, somewhat curiously, but I didn't actually take part in them."

10/11/2011, Daily Californian, UC Berkeley students demonstrate in support of Irvine 11, Curan Mehra

"Bazian drew a parallel between the issue of the Irvine 11 and Mario Savio of Berkeley's Free Speech movement. 'The speaker has the right to free speech, and the protester has the right to free speech as well,' Bazian said."

10/10/2011, The Daily Orange, Pop Culture | I'm talking about my generation, Jessica Wiggs

"Student organizations do still exist; they just aren't being used in the same way. The Saturday Night Magazine article described how, instead of protests, riots and boycotts, students today set up booths and invite speakers to lecture. Compared to University of California-Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in 1964-65, this current strategy is weak. To me, expressing opinions in such an active manner is much more compelling and progressive than simply promoting awareness."

10/10/2011, Huffington Post, Occupy Wall Street In American History: An Interview With NYU Professor Robert Cohen, Christopher Mathias

"It's been a while since a movement on the left has gained this much traction, so I talked to Robert Cohen, professor of social studies at NYU's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development, author of 'The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s' and co-editor of 'When the Old Left Was Young: Student Radicals and America's First Mass Student Movement, 1929-1941' about how the Occupy movement compares to American protest movements in the past, and to gain a sense of how movements like this effect change. A major emphasis of protesters thus far is that they remain leaderless. Do you think leaders will eventually emerge? And do protests of this size need a strong set of leaders, or can the protests thrive without them? The question is not whether this protest movement has leaders, but whether our elected political leaders begin to address the problems this movement is dramatizing. No you don't need great leaders to lead effective mass protest movements if they tap into enough spontaneous dissent. The sit-ins in 1960 had no great leader. They began in Greensboro in February 1960 and generated similar protests all across the South, as well as sympathy demos in the North, and they won the desegregation of lunch counters, re-energizing the entire civil rights movement."

10/8/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Dodges End of the World, Joins National Anti-Wall Street Revolution Saturday at Bank of America Plaza Downtown , Ted Friedman

"But thanks to heads up community organizing by a People's Park founder, Michael Delacour, 73, Berkeley is back in the game--with an initial crowd of more than one-hundred enthusiastic protesters, which is sure to grow. ... 'The students at the planning meeting told me, they can draw four-hundred students,' Delacour said Thursday. Students may have fallen short of 400 (I counted fifteen), but the ones who turned out were choice. The new Mario Savios are John Holzinger, 20, from Pasadena, and Bo-Peter Laanen, 20, a Scandinavian. Both are Cal Political Science majors. Remember those names."

10/7/2011, The New Republic, Why No One Is Right in California's Affirmative Action Debate, John McWhorter

"The College Republicans are exercising their right to free speech. One is to sense that as ironic, in that they are the conservatives, of the kind that Mario Savio and company were battling back in the days of Berkeley's Free Speech movement. However, to the extent that racial preference fans at Berkeley condemn opposition to their ideas as offensive-i.e. blasphemous-and leave temperate-minded people afraid to speak their minds, they have become, themselves, The Power-a kind of power that good people are responsible for Speaking Truth To." Ed note: The Free Speech Movement was a coalition which included conservatives

10/7/2011, The Daily Beast, The Occupy Wall Street Blow-by-Blow, Matthew DeLuca

"For a little while, between two and three o'clock, activity slowed. There were many speeches, but nothing that might be said to have conjured forth the soul of Mario Savio, the '60s-era student orator whose 'put your bodies upon the gears' speech stoked a fire in the belly of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. There were representatives from the loose collective of activists called Anonymous, as well as Code Pink, ReportWrongdoing.com, and groups protesting the then-pending execution of Troy Davis. There was a man with a pink toy rifle. As dark clouds overhead loosed a few stray drops and one young man chanted "This is just a practice" through a bullhorn, home seemed to be beckoning."

10/6/2011, Oakland Tribune, Oakland Tribune My Word: Little tolerance at UC Berkeley for views that are not liberal, Andrew David King

"The notion that the author of a statement is somehow responsible for how others react to it seems to me -- and should, to any sensible person -- beyond absurd. One chooses to be offended, just as one might choose to ignore the source of the offensive, remain calm or stage a counterprotest. But to say that people are not responsible for their feelings undermines the same idea of free will that allows the administration to condemn the Berkeley College Republicans in the first place. It is disheartening to note that, at one of the most financially chaotic times for the university in recent memory, all campus leadership has to offer in the way of comment is condescending didacticism directly contrary to the ethos of the Free Speech Movement."

10/5/2011, The Berkeley Daily Planet, "Occupy Wall Street" Comes to Berkeley, Becky O'Malley

"We've been down these paths before. Commenters on Occupyer websites and Facebook pages are already citing Mario Savio's famous Free Speech movement exhortation. And these new populists could easily take as their manifesto Franklin Roosevelt's 1936 speech announcing the Second New Deal, in which he denounced all of the same evils being catalogued this week on Wall Street. What's often forgotten is that America's most powerful homegrown Fascist, Father James Coughlin, started out as a strong supporter of the New Deal and denouncer of bankers. He cleverly manipulated radio, the modern media of his day, to build a strong national following for diatribes that sounded not unlike some of the speeches which are now being made in New York and elsewhere, if you leave out his anti-Semitism. The populism of the 1930s eventually diverged and re-coalesced into a variety of mass movements, some good and some bad. Even Hitler started out as a populist."

10/5/2011, Indiana Daily Student, Forgetting Neverland, Nico Perrino

"I'm talking about the generation that spawned the free speech movement. Yes, them. They are your professors, your elected officials and your parents. They are the reason the Indiana Daily Student doesn't have to worry about censorship from IU administrators and the reason, in part, that we didn't spend another decade in Vietnam. For all the good they did, they really screwed things up as they got older. They are now the generation responsible for campus speech codes, which are unconstitutional rules regulating what students can and can't say on campus."

10/3/2011, Daily Californian, A tale of two protests, Casey Given

"In 1971, professor John Searle of the philosophy department published a book called 'The Campus War' reflecting on the widespread student movements of the 1960s. At the end of his chapter on academic freedom, Searle warned of a rising 'radical intolerance' following the Free Speech Movement, where 'the right to dissent' is reserved only for 'a set of approved left-wing views,' while any others 'that departed from the orthodox' are chilled by the tyranny of the majority. Unfortunately, it looks as if Searle's prediction has manifested itself at Cal, with speech deviating from the political norm, like the bake sale, receiving threats of violence, administrative condemnation and possible defunding. While these channels of disapproval may not constitute a legal breach of free speech per se, they nevertheless take a form of backdoor censorship that is hypocritical to any institution dedicated to the free flow of ideas, let alone the home of the Free Speech Movement."

10/1/2011, Washington Post et al, Today in History, The Associated Press

"In 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

10/1/2011, NBC Bay Area News, Berkeley's Free Speech Movement Turns 47, Sajid Farooq

"Forty-seven years later the same spirit that sparked the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley is still alive with students and activists alike who continue to take a stand for their beliefs. The movement was organized by an informal group of students who demanded that UC Berkeley and colleges across the country lift rules banning political action on campuses. The protests made household names out of the likes of Mario Savio, Jackie Goldberg, Art Goldberg, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker and Steve Weissman. It also brought ushered in the political tables, fliers and speakers that UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza is now so famous for."

9/30/2011, Los Angeles Times, Review: 'California Design 1930-1965: Living in a Modern Way' at LACMA, Christopher Hawthorne

"One of the most intriguing aspects of the curators' approach is the subtle way they foreshadow the changes that would remake architecture and design in the 1970s and 80s. The most important way that those professions pivoted - as the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley and the riots in Los Angeles gave way to Vietnam protests and counterculture nonconformism - was to trade optimism for a darker sensibility, and indeed to trade the idea that design's chief focus is to solve problems for an interest in using creative work to reflect societal fissures and political tensions. The key difference between a Craig Ellwood house from the 1950s and Frank Gehry house from the 1980s, in other words, is that the former uses architecture to resolve contradiction and the latter uses it to dramatize, or even redouble, contradiction."

9/30/2011, Eat the State, Reclaim Our History: Oct. 1-15, David M Laws

"Oct. 1, 1964: UC Berkeley math grad student Jack Weinberg is arrested for setting up CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) information table in Sproul Plaza, inadvertently starting the Free Speech Movement as students surround a police car for 32 hours."

9/27/2011, Jewish Journal, Acting rabbi brings rebirth to 1920s shul, Ryan E. Smith

"This month, Susan Goldberg became the acting rabbi of what is believed to be the city's second-oldest shul still operating out of its original location. For Temple Beth Israel (TBI), the addition signals the latest step in a rebirth that has seen membership triple in the past few years. For Goldberg, 37, it is the latest chapter in a unique story. 'I'm an unlikely rabbi,' she said. This is not to say that her family doesn't have strong Jewish roots. Her great-grandfather may have been the first kosher butcher in Los Angeles, she said. But for the Goldberg clan, Jewish identity was always political, not theological. Her father, longtime community lawyer Art Goldberg, was a leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the '60s. Her mother, Ruth Beaglehole, established the Center for Nonviolent Education and Parenting, now known as Echo Parenting and Education. And her aunt, Jackie Goldberg, served as LAUSD school board president, an L.A. city councilwoman and state assemblywoman."

9/27/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Free Speech Day Is October 1! Two Unique Ways to Celebrate, Gar Smith

"As the raging debates over a student Republican 'bake sale' in Sproul Plaza demonstrate, the exercise of free speech is alive and well on the UC Berkeley campus. But there was a time when staging any kind of student demonstration intended to influence a governor's vote on a pending bill would have been illegal. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement changed all that. After an activist was arrested for soliciting funds to protect civil rights in the South, a police car was driven on campus to haul him off to jail. Instead, students spontaneously sat down around the car, bringing "the law" to a dead halt and kick-starting what became a national campaign for student liberty. After months of struggle (culminating in the occupation of Sproul Hall and the mass-arrest and imprisonment of hundreds of students), "the arc of history" finally bent towards justice and students established as fact that their First Amendment rights did not stop at the boundaries of the University. On September 17, 1985, the State of California officially honored this keynote victory at the dawn of the Revolutionary Sixties by declaring October 1 'Free Speech Day' in perpetuity."

9/26/2011, The Quad News, Free Speech On Campus, Danielle Susi

"The Student Free Speech Movement became a serious social movement on college campuses in the fall of 1964 at The University of California at Berkeley. Beginning in the 1930s, due to fear of the spread of Communism the university administration imposed a number of new rules on the campus in order to keep political involvement and protest off of the campuses. In 1958, by the time Clark Kerr had become president of UC Berkeley, no student groups were allowed to operate on campus if they engaged in off-campus politics in any way, shape or form. This included"electoral, protest or even oratorical" participation. Because of this rule, students began to protest in a variety of ways, including picketing, leafleting and speaking out."

9/22/2011, The Daily Campus, Overwhelming apathy has destroyed campus activism, Tim Brogan

"Like the suit that hung loose off his shoulders, Mario Savio's words seemed too big for his body. 'There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears...upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop,' proclaimed the UC Berkeley student."

9/19/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, An Explanation of My Withdrawal from Cal, Ruby Pipes

"When Mario Savio stood on the steps of Sproul on December 2, 1964 he said, 'There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.' The students and faculty of Cal all know this, but they do not live it. It's the big-picture equivalent of standing on a street corner in Nikes, trying to get a petition to close sweatshops signed. Coming in, I knew that universities were corporations cleverly disguised as pinnacles for higher education where great minds would meet and build the future. I naively believed that Berkeley had to be different. Unfortunately, the school has had its reputation so well cemented that it no longer has to provide that difference. In a world where a Bachelor's Degree is just another box that you are expected to check if you want to 'succeed', the premiere university to earn it at can let thousands of students pass through unnoticed without anyone raising an eyebrow. They can treat their employees badly. They can raise their tuition and fees in tandem with their administrator's salary. They can put 500 students in a classroom and charge hundreds of dollars for a term's worth of books. They can turn out a graduating class of privileged white kids that don't understand a thing about the real world or why they are now part of the problem. I understand that this problem is not unique. I understand that the university system is inherently corrupt. I understand that the country is fundamentally broken. These are all things that I know--that Cal would never teach me, mind you. What I also understand is that being angry is not enough. That no matter how many students turn out to rallies about tuition hikes or talk about how Berkeley ought to take better care of its employees or how wrong it is that minority groups--even when they are in majority--are not presented with the same options and few will go to university we are still supporting it. We still take on the debt or hand over the cash to help this machine perpetuate this type of blatant corruption."

9/14/2011, Winston-Salem Journal, Celebrating a legendary restaurant, JournalNow Staff

"Waters became a revolutionary in the food world. And Chez Panisse was born out of the revolutionary ideas and protests of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s, where Waters was a student. The movement's warnings of a 'sterilized, automated contentment' in this country led Waters to seek "a contentment that was unsterilized and fertile and handmade." She found it working in the kitchen."

9/13/2011, The Nation, Gratitude and Forbearance: On Christopher Lasch, Norman Birnbaum

"The New Radicalism in America appeared in 1965, after the civil rights movement, the Berkeley free speech movement and the protests against the Vietnam War had given some intellectuals connections to living history."

09/08/2011, Pasadena Weekly, Free speech-themed art installation comes to Colorado Boulevard, Sara Cardine

"Sometime during the week of Sept. 12, pedestrians along Colorado Boulevard will discover that five utility boxes have been transformed into distinctive works of art designed to remind viewers of the importance of freedom of speech. The installation 'Utility,' commissioned by the Pasadena Playhouse District, is the brainchild of contemporary LA artist Susan Silton, who created the text-based art pieces with this particular site in mind. It pairs an image from the 1964 Free Speech Movement with quotes from five influential Americans, including Eleanor Roosevelt, Frederick Douglass and George Washington. The message and image change as viewers drive or walk past each cube."

8/31/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, FSM Vet Jack Weinberg Salutes Alice Waters at the UC Art Museum, Gar Smith

"'The FSM always had two parts to it. One part had to do with the reforming of the student role on campus - the education experience, the opening up of the university and rebelling against the university as a factory. The other part was equally important - and, for many of us more important - and that was the right of students to engage, as students, in the issues of the broader society - discrimination, later on, the anti-war movement, and many other movements... that changed society as a whole. 'The very first protest against the Vietnam War in Berkeley drew 25,000 people. So what we did in the Free Speech Movement laid the basis for that,' Weinberg explained. In every previous era, if you spoke out against World War I, WWII or the Korean War, 'you went to jail.' Because of the perfect historical timing - during the days of the Civil Rights Movement - the FSM's insistence on free speech was soon being asserted on campuses across the nation. 'When the Vietnam War came, many more people were willing to stand up because they had learned that they have a right to stand up and speak out.' While anti-war protesters certainly faced repression and violence, 'it was nothing like what had come before,' Weinberg noted, because 'part of the legacy of the FSM was to assert and establish the right of students and others to express themselves and to advocate for social causes.' Reflecting on the current state of affairs, with the economy in free-fall and corporate power dominating the political process, Weinberg concluded: 'We live in a time when the country is falling back into much of the conservatism we had back then. So my hope - and the reason I agreed to come here today - is that anything that I can do to help a new generation of young people to rise up and develop their own movements and fight for their own causes, I welcome that and I'll do anything I can to help you.' Weinberg made good on his promise by joining a line-up of current student activists to discuss strategy. Most of the students were justifiably angry about tuition increases and the increasing 'corporatization of the campus.' While supporting their struggles, Weinberg offered a word of caution: Don't simply focus on issues of self-interest, as compelling and worthy as they may be. "The FSM was successful because it went beyond self-interest. We were concerned with broader issues of right and wrong." Because the issue of civil rights transcended the politics of the local struggle, the FSM won support far beyond the UC campus - with labor, with minorities, with civil libertarians."

08/29/2011, Inside Scoop SF, Chez Panisse: A Chef's After Party Perspective, Gayle Pirie

''And I love that you ended your crazy weekend at UC Berekley overlooking Sproul Plaza, home of the free speech movement, where "it" all began. Life is a circle, isn't it? We look forward to showing The Baker's Wife tonight to honor Nicolas Pagnol. Cheers."

8/29/2011, Berkeleyside, Photo essay: Edible learning at the Berkeley Art Museum, Tracey Taylor

"The 'free speech' police car: a nod to the 1964 moment when Mario Savio stood on top of a police car in Sproul Plaza"

8/26/2011, The Daily Californian, The art of the long view: seeing UC futures, Catherine Cole

"This week marks the fortieth anniversary of Chez Panisse, the legendary Berkeley restaurant that pioneered the Slow Food movement that has now prompted Americans to desire seasonal, local, organic, whole foods. The "mother" of Chez Panisse, Alice Waters, credits her student experiences at UC Berkeley as inspiration. She was among a group of countercultural activists who found their vision for sustainable agriculture on Sproul Plaza in the heady days of the Free Speech Movement."

8/26/2011, BerkeleyPatch, The 40th Birthday of Chez Panisse Rolls Through Berkeley, Barbara Grady

"The UC Berkeley Art Museum in collaboration with OPENrestaurant and Chez Panisse, will host an exhibit on Saturday called "OPENeducation" about food - farming, production, consumption of it. From 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. the public is invited, free of charge (although reserving a space is recommended) to participate in an experience about creation, production and consumption of food as collective performance. According to OPENrestaurant, the exhibit is 'Part demystification of the lore of the kitchen and part tracing the genealogy of Chez Panisse and its influences - from the free speech movement to Edible Schoolyards - OPENeducation invites participants to collaborate with students, educators, farmers, cooks, and artists in constructing the elements of a lunch menu in a series of independent classrooms.'"

8/24/2011, SF Weekly Blogs, The Winery SF Releases Its First Made-in-SF Wines, W. Blake Gray

"The Winery SF Speak North Coast Red Wine 2008 ($30) is a Mourvedre-based blend with pleasant crushed red plum and earthy notes. I wish the back label would tell me what the grapes are and where they're from instead of a trite paragraph on the free-speech movement, but I would drink this."

8/23/2011, San Jose Mercury News, Museums, food and art intersect at OPEN, Jennifer Modenessi

"Portable kitchens and outdoor classrooms will host interactive cooking activities, using produce from the edible gardens Waag and his cohorts planted on the grounds of the Berkeley Art Museum. There will be talks from a parked police car -- symbolizing Chez Panisse's roots in the Free Speech movement -- as well as gnocchi-making and beekeeping. In short, the event promises to be as much party as communal educational experience."

08/23/2011, San Francisco Examiner, In Republican politics, Texas is the new California, Tod Lindberg

"The state was an acknowledged trendsetter not only in culture, through the vast reach of Hollywood, but also in social trends and, especially, in politics. You could make a pretty good case that the 1960s began with the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964-65. Howard Jarvis' Proposition 13, a successful 1978 California ballot initiative to limit property tax increases, was the beginning of the modern "tax revolt," which Ronald Reagan would ride to the presidency in 1980."

8/22/2011, UC Berkeley Newscenter, Elaine Tennant named new Bancroft Library director, Kathleen Maclay

"The Bancroft is home to the world's finest collection of primary sources on the history of California and the American West, as well as to the Mark Twain Papers and Project, The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, wide-ranging contemporary literary collections, the Free Speech Movement Archive, rare books and manuscripts and more. Most recently, The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life also became a part of the collections. In 2009, The Bancroft reopened on campus following a three-year, $64 million seismic retrofit and reconstruction financed jointly by the state and more than 700 private donors."

8/22/2011, KPLU, NPR, Alice Waters: 40 Years Of Sustainable Food, Terry Gross

"GROSS: Now, you went to the University of California at Berkeley during the free speech movement in the mid-'60s. You describe yourself as being on the periphery of the movement, but the movement had a profound effect on you. How did the free speech movement relate to your interest in food? Ms. WATERS: That's a very good question. I was listening to Mario Savio speak, and I was really impressed by this big vision he had for the world and that somehow we could live together in a harmonious whole and that communities could come together."

8/17/2011, Idaho Mountain Express, Pat Brown documentary is a family affair, Sabina Dana Plasse

"Brown has been called 'the architect of the Golden State,' but Rice takes a more critical look at her grandfather's life. When the Vietnam War shifted the nation's consciousness, Pat Brown was caught in the middle of the cataclysmic 1960s, with the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, fiery race riots in Los Angeles and the United Farm Workers movement in the Central Valley. His epic battle against capital punishment unleashed an international uproar. The Pat Brown story is an American dream story of humble beginnings with an incredible life's journey."

8/12/2011, San Francisco Chronicle (blog), Chez Panisse is turning 40! Here's a timeline., Sophie Brickman

"1964: Alice transfers from UC Santa Barbara, where she was in the Alpha Phi sorority, to UC Berkeley; Mario Savio delivers his famous speech at Sproul Hall during the Free Speech Movement:"

8/10/2011, Marketwire, San Gabriel Valley's First Vinyl Utility Box Art to Hit Pasadena, Josefina Mora

"The image is of Mario Savio, a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, leading thousands of students in protest of the university's ban of on-campus political activities. His memorable speech made on that occasion asserts 'that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!'"

8/8/2011, East Bay Express, Celebrating Chez Panisse's 40th? Here's What You Can Afford, John Birdsall

"Oh, and one more thing. If you'd just rather enter through the gift shop, Clarkson Potter is releasing an anniversary tribute volume, Forty Years of Chez Panisse: The Power of Gathering ($55, goes on sale August 23), which begins in 1964 with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and pretty much ends with ends with Slow Food Nation, which looks a hell of a lot less complex on the page than it was to experience, and almost as impressive."

8/5/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 thriving restaurants with Chez Panisse roots, Michael Bauer

"This month Chez Panisse celebrates its 40th anniversary. While there are older restaurants in the Bay Area, none has had the overriding impact of what Alice Waters has done at her little Berkeley restaurant that grew out of the Free Speech Movement. Waters wanted to lovingly feed her friends healthy food, and she fueled a farm-to-table movement that is still growing today."

7/27/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Where is Nuclear Energy Going? A Debate, Gar Smith

"Hertsgaard began with an explanation that the event nearly had been cancelled as a "security threat." A powerful but unnamed member of the environmental community had objected to offering a platform to Brand because of his pro-nuclear stance. There were threats of boycotting Earth Island Institute were it to sponsor the event. Fortunately, Hertsgaard concluded, Earth Island stood firm. Appropriately enough for the home of the Free Speech Movement, the Berkeley-based organization decided to go ahead with the event. The audience's applause indicated that Earth Island's directors had made the right decision."

7/26/2011, The Republic, Video: 'Phil Ochs: There But For Fortune' eyes singer's rise, fall, Bruce Dancis

"His first two albums, 'All the News That's Fit To Sing,' from April 1964, and 'I Ain't Marching Anymore,' released in February 1965, showcased Ochs' sweet, if a little thin, tenor voice, his melodic gift and his wide-ranging interests. Ochs sang about racism and the murders of civil-rights workers ('Too Many Martyrs,' 'Talking Birmingham Jam,' 'Here's to the State of Mississippi'), urban riots ('The Heat of the Summer'), the deaths of John F. Kennedy ('That Was the President') and Woody Guthrie ('Bound for Glory'), the plight of migrant farmworkers ('Bracero'), the crisis in the labor movement ('Links On the Chain'), the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley ('I'm Going to Say It Now') and the Vietnam War and American foreign policy ('I Ain't Marching Anymore,' 'Cops of the World,' 'Is There Anybody Here?')."

7/25/2011, Current Intelligence, Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America, Jeanette McVicker

"And yet, there are inexplicable gaps here as well, beyond those referenced above. There is very little discussion, for example, of the impact of the free speech movement at Berkeley on the development of the underground press, a link one would suppose to be crucial for the blossoming of radical youth newspapers."

7/18/2011, Consortiumnews.com, The Rise of Pro-Democracy Journalism, Nozomi Hayase

"What is happening to WikiLeaks in terms of attempts to discredit them has already been done to ordinary people. Under the umbrella of professionalism, those in power tend to devalue or exclude the voices of citizens from participating in democratic action. "Freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is," said Mario Savio, a spokesperson of Free Speech Movement. What was this freedom of speech that Savio so fiercely defended? The commonly held view is that freedom of speech is simply the right for people to speak without interference."

7/17/2011, San Francisco Chronicle, S.F. chefs who paved way for today's restaurants, Michael Bauer

"When it comes to food and dining, the Bay Area has been a trendsetter for 40 years, ever since Alice Waters wrestled live blue trout on the Chez Panisse floor. It was a restaurant built out of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, and it seemed to set local chefs free, despite what some may contend today."

7/16/2011, SFGate.com, Brave New Voices Poetry Slam Grand Slam Finals Set for July 23 at San Francisco Opera House,

"This year opening ceremonies will be held at Sproul Plaza on the campus of UC Berkeley. 'As the symbolic birthplace of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s it is a fitting choice to open the festivities,' said Youth Speaks National Program Director Hodari Davis."

7/14/2011, Los Angeles Times, Theodore Roszak dies at 77; scholar coined the term 'counterculture', Elaine Woo

"In 1963, he joined the history department at Cal State Hayward (it became Cal State East Bay in 2005). He took a leave of absence a year later to edit a small pacifist newspaper in London. He was there in 1964 when the free-speech movement erupted at UC Berkeley. By the summer of 1967, Roszak was working on a series of articles for the Nation about the campus protests that had spread across the country. He was still in London when he began hearing of strange happenings in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, an epicenter of hippiedom in the so-called Summer of Love."

7/12/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, First Person: Blood on the Tracks Calls Up Anti-War Memories, Gar Smith

"The proposal was approaching consensus and seemed certain to pass. But having recently benefited from the experience of participating the Free Speech Movement (and serving some jail time for my beliefs), I felt I couldn't remain silent, even though I was clearly in the minority. I spoke up to oppose that tactic. Remembering Mario Savio's passionate speeches (which demonstrated the transcendental power of a well-reasoned argument), I mustered all of my rhetorical skills. I argued that resorting to violence would put us in the same camp as the Pentagon and such an act would surely be used by the government to tarnish the entire peace movement. "

7/12/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Museum Debuts the Michael Rossman Collection of Political Posters, Gar Smith

"Karen McLellan and archiving consultant Lincoln Cushing have announced the posting of the first 1,322 of the 24,500 posters in Michael Rossman's unparalleled collection of political posters. The initial selection is part of the Oakland Museum of California's exhibition of Rossman's 'All Of Us Or None Archive.' The All Of Us Or None (AOUON) archive project was started by Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman in 1977 to gather and document the poster-work of modern progressive movements in the United States. Though earlier work is included, its focus is on the domestic political poster renaissance, which began in 1965 and continues to this day. ... http://collections.museumca.org/?q=category/2011-schema/history/political-posters"

6/27/2011, Chicago Tribune, Berkeley campus a subject that rewards study for travelers, Michelle Locke

"Coffee's a big part of campus life and the Free Speech Movement Cafe at Moffitt Library serves up a little counterculture with your caffeine with exhibits focused on a famous 1964 protest that helped usher in an era of college uprisings."

6/17/2011, Haaretz, Keeping it academic, Natasha Mozgovaya

BERKELEY, CA - About six years ago, Martin H. Blank, the chief operating office of the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, approached the University of California, Berkeley, where three generations of his family had studied, with an offer to establish a center for Israel studies. He was politely informed that, politically, it wasn't the 'right time' for it. ... Marty Blank is certain that the institute could still be a target for hecklers, but is not overly concerned. 'Campuses are used to protests. I was at Berkeley in the '60s and '70s, during the free speech movement - protests against segregation and the Vietnam War. Berkeley was a hotbed of protest - people were arrested, there were police and troops on campus. It was violent, and it was incredibly exciting to be at Berkeley then. Campuses in this country are nowhere near as disruptive as they used to be.'"

6/14/2011, laist, '!Women Art Revolution' Documentary Premieres In L.A., Lauren Lloyd

"!Women Art Revolution traverses the Feminist Art Movement timeline from the 1960s to present day through archival footage, photographs and interviews with Leeson's artist colleagues, historians, curators and critics. A provocatively written narration performed by Leeson steers the documentary through these visual elements, interweaving motion graphics and comic book art by SPAIN Rodriguez. The gripping 'subterranean agitations,' as Leeson narrates, of the times are examined through footage of the Black Panthers, Vietnam War, Civil Rights Movement, Free Speech Movement, politician speeches, picketing, protesting and demonstrations. 'This film is peppered with images that for years you were prevented from seeing because there was no access to them,' Leeson narrates. 'This film is the remains of an insistent history that refuses to wait any longer to be told.'"

6/11/2011, groundviews, 'BE YOUNG AND SHUT UP!': A COURSE IN CIVIC DISENGAGEMENT, Lemek

"I am reminded of two significant student protests that utilised the latter principles for a wider movement of opposition and reform: the Free Speech Movement - a series of protests at the University of California, Berkeley that occurred between 1964 and 1965 against the proscription of political activities on campus and for the freedom of speech - led to the withdrawal of restrictions by the administration."

6/7/2011, California Watch, Want freedom? Leave California for South Dakota, report says, Lance Williams

"On the board of the Mercatus Center is a prominent Californian - Edwin A. Meese III, former U.S. attorney general and adviser to President Reagan. In 1964, when he was an Alameda County prosecutor, Meese orchestrated the mass arrests of UC Berkeley demonstrators during the Free Speech Movement protests, as the writer Greil Marcus has recalled."

6/6/2011, KALWNews.org, 99% invisible: Berkeley's invisible monument to free speech, Roman Mars

"In 1989, a group called the Berkeley Art Project decided to hold a national public art competition to create a monument that would commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which began on the University of California, Berkeley campus in 1964. The winning design, created by Mark Brest van Kempen (who was then a graduate student at the San Francisco Art Institute), is an invisible sculpture that creates a small space completely free from laws or jurisdiction. The six-inch circle of soil, and the 'free' column of airspace above it, is framed by a six-foot granite circle. The inscription on the granite reads, 'This soil and the air space extending above it shall not be a part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity's jurisdiction.'"

6/3/2011, Broadway World, Joan Baez to Perform at the Palace Theatre in Stamford 11/15, BWW News Desk

"Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable - from marching on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King to inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic to singing on the first Amnesty International tour and standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war."

5/25/2011, WEBWIRE, The Changing of the Guard at Cornucopia, Mark Kastel

"Michael James was born in New York City in 1942. He was raised in Connecticut on an old onion farm, and while growing up he helped old man Burtche around the farm down the road, feeding livestock and helping with harvesting. He was a member of the 4-H club and raised rabbits, muscovy ducks, King pigeons, African Tumbler pigeons, and Bantam chickens. James was active in sports, playing football at Lake Forest College where he took an interest in politics and social justice issues. James graduated in 1964 and received a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship, going to the University of California, Berkeley where he studied sociology. There James was involved in the Free Speech Movement, and joined Students for a Democratic Society, of which he became a national officer. James left school in 1966, heading to Chicago's Uptown to organize poor Southern whites in an attempt to build an interracial movement of the poor with an organization known as JOIN Community Union (Jobs or Income Now)."

5/23/2011, nazret.com Merkato Blog, Ethiopia - Africa: Cause Looking for Rebels, Alemayehu G. Mariam

"In contrast, in the 1960s, young Americans led the "counter-culture revolution" and were the tips of the spear of the Civil Rights Movement. The Free Speech Movement which began at the University of California, Berkeley was transformed from student protests for expressive and academic freedom on campus to a powerful nationwide anti-war movement on American college campuses and in the streets."

5/18/2011, Marinscope Newspapers, Aging activist shares excerpts from Freedom Ride journal, Mike Smith

"The May 9 Washington Post article "Can Freedom Ride Again?" and promotions for the May 15 PBS special "Freedom Riders" brought back vivid memories of my experiences in 1965 as a Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee volunteer in Selma, Ala., and Jackson and Natchez, Miss. In 1964, I went from being a guard at San Quentin to a Free Speech Movement arrestee and FSM executive board member. In 1965, civil rights songs sung by the likes of Bob Dylan, Joan Baez and Pete Seeger drew me to the South. Rather than rewrite history, I have chosen to share excerpts from my Mississippi journal, a true reflection of my experiences, in a two-part series."

5/18/2011, Jewish Daily Forward, UC Debates Free Speech Vs. Federal Protection, Rex Weiner

"The UCSC campus debate takes place within a special historical context for California; it was a UC campus (Berkeley) that in the 1960s gave birth to the Free Speech Movement. It was this student-led campaign, in which Jews figured prominently, that forced UC - and eventually campuses nationwide - to lift bans that had long been in place against outside political speakers on campus and against fundraising for political parties, except via the school's officially endorsed Democratic and Republican school clubs. The movement also led to the lifting of mandatory 'loyalty oaths' that had been required of faculty. A prominent student leader of that movement, Bettina Aptheker, is today a professor of feminist studies at UCSC. She is cited in Rossman-Benjamin's complaint as part of the institutional bias against Jews for sponsoring a program in 2004 featuring Holocaust survivor and Israel critic Hedy Epstein, 'who had demonized the Jewish state and compared the Jews of Israel to Nazis in many previous talks on other university campuses.'?"

5/18/2011, Huffington Post, Throw Yourself Upon the Gears of Big Publishing, Mark Coker

"Today's indie author revolution can trace its roots back to the Free Speech Movement that began at U.C. Berkeley forty-seven years ago. I gave a presentation in Berkeley this past Sunday before the Northern California chapter of ASJA where I argued that book publishing is a matter of free speech. My visit to Berkeley represented a homecoming of sorts for me. My parents were U.C. Berkeley students in the '60s, I was born there in '65, and my mom, who was active in the Free Speech Movement, brought me me along to many of the demonstrations (first in utero and later in a stroller). I returned in '83-'88 for my business degree."

5/13/2011, Puget Sound Business Journal, Gordon Bowker reflects on Starbucks, Redhook, Bethany Overland

"You left the University of San Francisco eight credits short of a degree: Right. I was ahead of the curve in dropping out of college, as entrepreneurs are famous for nowadays. It was the mid '60s and a very exciting time to be young. I was the editor of the paper, and it was the year of the free speech movement and there was a lot going on that was much more interesting than getting a degree."

5/11/2011, The Anniston Star, The passengers, Compiled by Eddie Burkhalter

"Of the 14 passengers on the Greyhound bus, seven were Freedom Riders. Two are still living. 1. Genevieve Hughes, 28, white female, Washington, D.C., CORE field secretary. After the Rides, she studied sociology at the University of California and participated in the free speech movement at Berkeley. Later moved to Carbondale, Ill., and worked as the director of a women's shelter before retiring."

5/11/2011, The Advocate, Play excites, revisits turbulent Richmond, George Morin

"Written by drama department Chairman Clay David and directed by professor Kathryn McCarty, 'Rockin' in Richmond High 1966' was a grand musical experience. The musical followed the lives of 14 seniors attending Richmond High School in 1966. The issues of marriage, the Vietnam War draft and the student graduation were the main themes of the plot. The play was narrated by 71-year-old Odetta Jones, the first Bay Area disc jockey and a former Richmond High School counselor who worked at the school in 1966. She narrates the students' journey through this critical time in history. Jones, herself, spent time protesting during the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964 and found it important for her students to be engaged in the politics of their time."

5/10/2011, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, For the love of wisdom, philosophy majors grow in number at UC Berkeley, Yasmin Anwar

"Among the department's more popular courses are 'Political Philosophy,' taught this spring by Hans Sluga, a scholar of Nietzsche and Foucault; 'Philosophy of Language,' taught by John Searle, a 52-year veteran of the department and faculty pioneer in the campus's Free Speech Movement; and 'Heidegger,' taught by Hubert Dreyfus, whose lectures on the 20th century German existential philosopher have attracted a worldwide following via podcasts and webcasts on iTunes and YouTube."

5/9/2011, The Ottawa Citizen, Youth belong in politics, Kathleen Rodgers and Willow Scobie

"However, if we broaden our thinking about politics for a moment we know that youth are consistently engaged in transformative political behaviour. We need only to look to youth participation in social movements of the past and present for evidence of this: the free speech movement, the women's movement, the environmental movement, and the global justice movement to name a few. Through their participation in these kinds of movements youth have influenced public debate and helped turn them into mainstream political issues."

5/7/2011, The Moderate Voice, New York Times Discovers Free Speech Problem on Campus, Logan Penza

"The unfortunate truth is that progressive liberalism has often lost touch with its own core principles regarding free speech. The right of dissent that it championed in the 'free speech movement' at Berkeley in the 1960s and as recently as two years ago when many progressives sported "dissent is patriotic" bumper stickers has, with the installation of a Democratic President and Democratic control of (at least one house of) Congress, been relegated to a tertiary concern at best."

5/4/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Revolution and Resurrection Stalk Berkeley's First Congo after Osama Killing, Becky O'Malley

"Since [Chris] Hedges was born in 1956, he missed almost everything about the 60s counterculture except the FSM attitude, also available on recordings for those who missed it."

4/29/2011, The Daily Californian, Professor emeritus of public health dies at 97, Amruta Trivedi

"Between 1952 and 1957, Elberg chaired the department of bacteriology. In 1961, he was appointed dean of the Graduate Division, serving amid student unrest of the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam War. During an interview for the Bancroft Library Oral History Project in 1989, Elberg said the challenges of addressing affirmative action in graduate student admissions brought into question the authority of the dean at the time."

4/29/2011, LA Weekly, Werner Herzog, Crazy-Man Film Director, Thinks L.A. Is The Only City in America With Substance, Dennis Romero

"As he argued a couple of years back during an event at the New York Public Library: 'The last half century, almost every single important cultural trend and technological trend originated from California--like computers, like the free-speech movement, like accepting gay and lesbian people as an integral part of society...on and on and on.' Los Angeles, he likes to tell people, is the only city in America with any real substance."

4/20/2011, The Hill, Brad Watson, 2011, Mario Savio, 1964, Bernie Quigley

"Instead of the glittery and institutionalized awards given to journalists nowadays, which since the concept of embedded journalism have brought about reinforcement of already calcified establishment norms, there might be a new Mario Savio award. Savio was a member of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement who jumped on the roof of a car and gave a speech that shook the world, and it didn't stop shaking for 15 years."

4/20/2011, The Claremont Institute, The Tao of Jerry, William Voegeli

"Before the '60s happened in the rest of America they happened-harder-in California. Pat Brown invested high hopes and huge governmental outlays in a 'master plan' for a system of public higher education. It would be both accessible and excellent, training and edifying young people in ways that prepared them to join and strengthen the middle class. In a 1961 commencement address he encouraged students to energize American democracy by being more engaged with politics than the 'silent generation' on campuses in the 1950s. 'Thank God for the spectacle of students picketing,' he said. 'At last we're getting somewhere. The colleges have become boot camps of citizenship-and citizen-leaders are marching out of them.... Let us stand up for our students and be proud of them.' Brown got more than he bargained for three years later, when students plunged the University of California's Berkeley campus into turmoil after demonstrations by the Free Speech Movement. Its leader was Mario Savio, a 21-year-old philosophy major who had returned to school after volunteering for Freedom Summer in Mississippi."

4/15/2011, The Daily Californian Online, Community honors local social justice advocate, Anjuli Sastry

" [Narsai] David, who called Walker a 'self- taught urban planner,' talked about her involvement in the Free Speech Movement, including her interactions with government officials like former President Ronald Reagan. "After a meeting with ... Reagan she walked up to him and said 'Let the blood of the people of Berkeley be on your hands,'" David said." [Eds. Note: As Pat Brown was Gov. during the FSM, perhaps it is People's Park that was being remembered]

4/11/2011, The Guardian, The likely atheists, Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi

"Irreligiosity is tied to greater political liberalism, and to being less prejudiced. Radical students who were members of the students' Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964 (which started the 1960s upheavals on American campuses), were more likely to come from families that were identified as Jewish, agnostic, or atheist." [Ed. note: source?]

3/28/2011, BBC News Magazine, Protest numbers: How are they counted?,

"The TUC's technique echoes what has come to be known as the Jacobs Method, named after Herbert Jacobs, a professor of journalism at the University of California in the 1960s. He estimated the numbers taking part in one of the Free Speech Movement protests in Berkeley, by measuring the concrete sections in the plaza, estimating the crowd density and counting how many sections were filled."

3/26/2011, The McGill Daily, Prof joins in student movement, Rana Encol

"Timothy Walsh: I was wandering around the campus when I heard the noises, I saw the student protests, I saw the sign. I'm old enough to remember the free speech movement, and I supported it then. I was glad to see that the spirit was still alive, and I support what they stand for. They were planning to raise the fees by some $3,000 at a go and the students were naturally quite upset about it."

3/24/2011, San Jose Mercury News, Berkeley history: UC Berkeley student union opened 50 years ago, Steven Finacom

"Since the university prohibited most political activity on campus, the nearest off-campus site for student political organizations to promote their causes shifted from right in front of Sather Gate, to a block south, on a narrow brick paved apron between Bancroft Way and Sproul Plaza at the southeast corner of the new student union. This area quickly became an active site for student tabling since then, as now, thousands of students came and went to campus each day past that point. It was believed that the university had given the 'Bancroft Strip' to the city of Berkeley, thus making the brick area 'off campus.' However, in 1964 it was discovered that the property transfer had never been made, and the university banned political tabling there. Within weeks this new prohibition touched off what became known as the Free Speech Movement. And when the FSM ignited it also had a fine new plaza--today's Sproul Plaza--and broad steps at which to rally and demonstrate, right in front of the Administration Building."

3/16/2011, NikkeiWest, NJAHS Annual Awards Dinner to Celebrate 30th Anniversary,

"Betty Kano's activist days go back to the Vietnam war and Free Speech Movement. Though semi-retired, she continues to work as an artist, curator, educator, arts administrator, organizer and activist."

3/15/2011, The Daily Californian Online, Event Honors Outstanding Women of Berkeley, Victoria Pardini

"Nancy Schimmel grew up in what she called a political household and witnessed the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley as a graduate student in library science. Since 1976, she has worked as a librarian for the Berkeley Public Library and later as a songwriter and storyteller. In 1978, she published a book on the art of storytelling and last November, she co-wrote a song with fellow Berkeley songwriter Bonnie Lockhart for the 'No on Proposition 23' campaign. She currently coaches aspiring storytellers at the library and in her home."

3/7/2011, The Daily Californian Online, ASUC External Affairs Vice President Rallies for Change, J.D. Morris

"'I attuned to a different kind of organizing that wasn't just 'let's go talk to legislators,' it was 'lets do something about what's going on here,'' he said. It was a time when thousands of students across the state were mobilized in protest. The efforts at UC Berkeley resonated with Gomez as issues he had cared about were thrust to the forefront, prompting him to channel the spirit of the Free Speech Movement - a time when he said student government leaders were more directly engaged with social issues."

3/7/2011, e-flux, Culture Class: Art, Creativity, Urbanism, Part II, Martha Rosler

"Clark Kerr, a former labor lawyer, became president of the University of California, in the mid-1960s. This state university system, which had a masterplan for aggressive growth stretching to the turn of the twenty-first century and beyond, was the flagship of US public universities and established the benchmarks for public educational institutions in the US and elsewhere; it was intended as the incubator of the rank-and file middle class and the elites of a modern superpower among nations in a politically divided world. Kerr's transformative educational vision was based on the production of knowledge workers. Kerr-the man against whom was directed much of the energy of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, derisively invoked by David Brooks-coined the term the "multiversity" in a series of lectures he gave at Harvard in 1963.11 It was Kerr's belief that the university was a "prime instrument of national purpose." In his influential book The Uses of the University,Kerr wrote, What the railroads did for the second half of the last century and the automobile for the first half of this century may be done for the second half of this century by the knowledge industry.12 "

3/5/2011, The Bullet, This Is What Complicity Looks Like: Palestine and the Silencing Campaign on Campus, Mary-Jo Nadeau and Alan Sears

"Nowhere was this struggle sharper than at the Berkeley campus of University of California. There, the Free Speech Movement fought for political rights on campus, challenging the administration of Clark Kerr who was perhaps the most prominent advocate of the technocratic university serving the needs of corporations and the state. Clark Kerr was, in many ways, the forerunner of the current neoliberal strategy of reorganizing universities to focus more clearly on the service of business and the lean state. In the 1960s, Kerr was actually defeated by a mass, militant student movement. But the technocratic vision that the radical student movement of the 1960s successfully defended against has returned in new and aggressive forms under neoliberalism. And part of this agenda is to politically cleanse campuses, stripping away the political rights students won through militancy in the 1960s. The attack on Palestine solidarity is a leading thrust in the current campaign to roll back campus political expression and to define academic freedom in narrow professional terms. The Iacobucci report at York, discussed below, is an important example of this logic."

3/4/2011, Napa Patch, Students Protest Cuts at Napa Valley College, Louisa Hufstader

"Alex Shantz, president of the student senate, invoked the shade of Free Speech Movement orator Mario Savio with a fiery address. "We have the power to refuse unjust decisions," Shantz told the assembled students and staff. "Community college is not a corporation, and we as students are not raw materials and do not need to be made into a product," Shantz continued. "We are human beings, we are lovers of learning and we seek to reate a bettre society not to conform to the systems that have ruined our society on the first place," he said, to cheers and applause."

2/27/2011, The Guardian, Can a group of scientists in California end the war on climate change?, Ian Sample

"In 1964, Richard Muller, a 20-year-old graduate student with neat-cropped hair, walked into Sproul Hall at the University of California, Berkeley, and joined a mass protest of unprecedented scale. The activists, a few thousand strong, demanded that the university lift a ban on free speech and ease restrictions on academic freedom, while outside on the steps a young folk-singer called Joan Baez led supporters in a chorus of We Shall Overcome. The sit-in ended two days later when police stormed the building in the early hours and arrested hundreds of students. Muller was thrown into Oakland jail. The heavy-handedness sparked further unrest and, a month later, the university administration backed down. The protest was a pivotal moment for the civil liberties movement and marked Berkeley as a haven of free thinking and fierce independence. Today, Muller is still on the Berkeley campus, probably the only member of the free speech movement arrested that night to end up with a faculty position there - as a professor of physics. His list of publications is testament to the free rein of tenure: he worked on the first light from the big bang, proposed a new theory of ice ages, and found evidence for an upturn in impact craters on the moon. His expertise is highly sought after. For more than 30 years, he was a member of the independent Jason group that advises the US government on defence; his college lecture series, Physics for Future Presidents was voted best class on campus, went stratospheric on YouTube and, in 2009, was turned into a bestseller."

2/15/2011, Truthdig, When Protest Becomes a Crime, Bill Boyarsky

"Protests are part of student life, although they were much more common in the 1960s and '70s than today. In those days, plenty of people were arrested on campuses, 773 of them one night during a Free Speech Movement protest at UC Berkeley. But in that case they were charged with a specific criminal offense, trespassing, for refusing to leave the administration building. The Irvine students committed no such offense. Speech was their only offense. If Ambassador Oren had been swifter on his feet, he might have turned the evening against the hecklers. I'm sure he's seen ruder crowds in Israel."

2/11/2011, Huliq, Egyptian freedom fighters evoke American Sixties protests, Dave Masko

"For the 1960's youth culture, Berkeley was where the Free Speech Movement 'really came to life. It's the place that gave birth to the Free Speech Movement that later turned into the Civil Rights, Women's Rights and anti-Vietnam War protest movements,' explained Berkeley historian Mark Rossiter. "If you'd visit Berkeley back in the late fifties, the students would be in clothing of respectability: jackets and ties and gals in clean-cut dresses. The male students had short haircuts with no sideburns. The female students looked more like Nancy Reagan and someone's mom than university gals. Then, in 1961, the clothing turned to jeans, denim jackets, blue work shirts and bib overalls for both males and females. It was a first protest of sorts, and it included how we wore our hair and how we dressed. This was the start of the Free Speech Movement,' explained Rossiter who knew the famous Berkeley student protester Mario Savio." [Eds. note: Rosssiter may be pegging the fashion change a bit too early in the decade. See: http://www.btstack.com/FSM%20Photo%20Collections.html]

2/9/2011, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley's Telegraph Ave. Saturday Demonstration: It was Small, But It Re-writes Berkeley Street Politics, Ted Friedman

"According to his fans and acquaintances, Moe hosted free speech movement planning meetings on the balcony of his store, often contributing to the deliberations. At one point, when FSM protestors were gassed in the streets, he invited them to seek shelter in his store, according to Julia Vinograd, 62, who said she was there. Always irascible, Moe denounced them for not sheltering themselves sooner."

2/7/2011, Indybay, Hidden in Plain Sight: Media Workers for Social Change, Chapter 9, Peter M King

"Geoffrey King is the subject of this ninth chapter of 'Media Workers for Social Change,' the series by Peter M. King is a public interest lawyer serving the community of media workers, and a professional documentarian of social protest. In the photo below, he stands on the Mario Savio Steps in front of Sproul Hall, where the Free Speech Movement was born. The FSM influenced King, and he wanted to be photographed in this spot. A long lens compressed the steps, which appear almost as a solid wall behind him."

2/3/2011, The Examiner, USC hosts Brokaw, Wilson and historians at Reagan Library Retrospecitve, Max Emanuel Donner

"Several instances of Reagan's inclination to improvise with verbal attacks came up. For example, when questioned about the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley during the 1966 California's Governor's race, Reagan remarked 'I'd like to harness their youthful energy with a strap.'"

2/3/2011, New Zealand Herald, From chaos to creation, Rebecca Barry

"Gimblett first arrived in the United States in the 1960s and has experienced the assassination of JFK, the explosion of cultural change in Haight Ashbury, San Francisco, and the free-speech movement in Berkeley. He was here for the emergence of the Zen poets, the beat poets and the birth of Zen in America via one of his heroes, Dr D.T. Suzuki. He married Barbara Kirshenblatt, a university professor and expert on the history of Polish Jews. But New Zealand, he insists, will always be home."

2/1/2011, New University, The Tuition Tide Has Arrived, Traci Garling Lee

"When UCI first opened its doors in 1965, there were 1,589 students enrolled and it cost approximately $220 per year in fees to attend. The following year, Reagan was elected as governor and made it no secret that he was unhappy with Kerr's decisions regarding the UCs, citing Kerr's refusal to expel protesters at UC Berkeley during the 1964 Free Speech Movement."

1/28/2011, Chicago Sun-Times, Linkin Park is spoiled in sell-by date, attitude, Mark Guarino

"Songs from 2010's 'A Thousand Sun' were an attempt to transition the band to a more mature sound and thematic credibility. At first you knew matters were getting serious when the video screens were filled with that old stand-by: the mushroom cloud. Archival video clips of J. Robert Oppenheimer and Free Speech Movement activist Mario Savio also were borrowed to set the mood."

1/26/2011, Ask the Agent, How I Came to Own Cody's Part 1, Andy Ross

"Fred was an early supporter of the Free Speech Movement that galvanized radical dissent at UC in 1964. Later Fred was an outspoken peace activist. And Cody's became an intellectual center for left wing politics, a tradition that continued after I took over the store. FSM leader, Mario Savio, briefly worked at Cody's."

1/20/2011, The Daily Californian Online, Photography Seminar Zooms In on Current Events, Victoria Pardini

"Alluding to the pictures from the Free Speech Movement in 1964 that his students studied in the course, Barsky speculated that photos taken in the class could one day serve other individuals as historical documents. 'Perhaps after the next 46 years have passed, students will be interested in looking at photographs taken way back in 2010,' he said."

1/19/2011, El Cerrito Patch, Who's Who: Avery Miller, Kyrsten Bean

"Did you go to school for engineering? I went to El Cerrito High School and then I went to UC Berkeley. I was there in the '60s during the free speech movement. How was going to school during those years? I stayed pretty much away from it, but it was pretty intense. The engineering part of the school is way away from where the activities were going on, and I wasn't very political in those days so it didn't have much of an effect. It had much more of an effect in later life, in retrospect."

1/14/2011, HULIQ, Hey Boomers: Free Speech Movement celebrates 50 years of political force, Dave Masko

"This café-cluttered college town of Berkeley is where it all happened 50 years ago; in January 1961, when our nation's youth wanted to overcome their own alienation and shape their own lives while helping others achieve true freedom in what became the start of the 'Free Speech Movement.' Some 50 years later, it's still 'very cool, man' to visit Berkeley, and view Sixties photo exhibits at the University of California. 'This is the place that inspired the sit-ins and the anti-everything demonstrations,' states a billboard on campus with a big peace sign over it." [eds note: the Free Speech Movement took place October through December, 1964]

12/22/2010, El Cerrito Patch, El Cerrito Environmentalist Catherine "Kay" Kerr, Co-founder of Save the Bay, 1911-2010, Charles Burress

"She was the wife of the influential UC President Clark Kerr, who created the state's Master Plan for Higher Education and presided over the university during the turbulent time of the Free Speech Movement. He died in 2003."

12/21/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Call to Boycott Caffe Med Over Free Speech Leaves Medheads Speechless, Ted Friedman

"A recent incident at the notorious Caffe Mediterraneum on Telegraph has led to calls for a boycott of the home of the Sixties Free Speech Movement."

12/16/2010, Time Magazine, Jackson Browne: Singer, Songwriter, School Board Member, Andrew J. Rotherham

"I have a high school education. I didn't think I had the time to go to college and didn't think I'd be able to learn what I wanted to learn. I was in school during the free speech movement when Berkeley blew up and, of course, the civil rights movement was going on. It was revolutionary, and I really felt school was on the side of the status quo. I got into a debate with one of my civics teachers. I objected to his characterization of the free speech movement as crazy. I said, 'What do you mean 'crazy?' And it got worse from there. He was going to discuss how they looked and their demeanor - not the ideas. I got bounced out, not because of anything I did. I did what you were supposed to. I asked questions."

12/14/2010, Berkeleyside, Berkeley bashing: A favorite sport, Frances Dinkelspiel

"But many of Berkeley's stances that seem ridiculous end up being adopted by the broader American population, according to Charles Wollenberg, a historian and the author of Berkeley: A City in History. The Free Speech Movement began in Berkeley in the early 1960s and spread throughout the nation, he pointed out. In 1964, Berkeley students held some of the first protests against the Vietnam War. Berkeley was one of the first cities to call for divestment from the apartheid regime in South Africa. It also was the first to ban the use of Styrofoam cups. Of course there are issues, like the Marine recruitment protests, that don't gain broad national support, he said. "There are things that begin in Berkeley that become national jokes but there are things that begin in Berkeley that become national trends," said Wollenberg."

12/11/2010, The Australian, Fired with Enthusiasm: Universities remain places where freedom and creativity are celebrated, Glyn Davis

"Such tensions around the role of management on campus offer a familiar international story. One of the great educational visionaries was Clark Kerr. As leader of the University of California, Berkeley, Kerr designed the Californian university system. It was Kerr's proud boast that no qualified student was ever turned away from a Californian state university under his watch. Kerr believed a university should protect academic freedom. For this, he paid a high price. As the free speech movement grew up around Berkeley in 1964, Kerr found himself caught between students demanding a greater voice in the university and a conservative governing board, which felt the university was already too accommodating."

12/1/2010, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Rites of nude math professors and Berkeley, Caitlin Donohue

"Frenkel, who grew up in a small town near Moscow is surprised at the response to his film in his adopted community, home of such a storied free speech movement."

12/1/2010, Eat The State, Reclaim Our History: December 1-15, David M Laws

"Dec. 7, 1928: Birth of linguist and radical political analyst Noam Chomsky. 1964: Mario Savio, leader of Berkeley Free Speech Movement, arrested. Univ. of California-Berkeley administration makes presentation at the Greek Theatre to 18,000 students; followed by strike by 9,000 of 27,000 students, and faculty resolution (824 to 115) supporting rapidly growing Free Speech Movement." [Editor's correction: The actual date was December 5, 1964.]

12/1/2010, CBS San Francisco, Eye on the Bay On the Spot, Brian Hackney

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December 2010, Bookslut, Bob Dylan by Greil Marcus: Writings 1968-2010, Robert Loss

"In an improvised lecture given at the thirtieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, Marcus practically prophesizes the first decade of this century: 'I think we're going to see a lot of people dressing up in other people's clothes, so to speak, denouncing, criticizing, claiming to offer alternatives, but doing so in a way that really only takes away an individual sense of self, of confidence, of power, of imagination.'"

11/30/2010, UC Berkeley News, The true language of love? It's math, says Berkeley professor Edward Frenkel, whose steamy new film touches a nerve, Carol Ness

"The Berkeley showing is special, says Frenkel. 'It's my town, it's where I have my friends, my students, my colleagues.' And as the home of the Free Speech Movement, he adds, 'It's a place I feel comfortable showing the film. It's unconventional - and controversial even here.'"

11/29/2010, NaturalNews.com, Urgent call for action, last chance to defeat S 510 Food Safety Modernization Act, Mike Adams

"'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious -- makes you so sick at heart -- that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!' - Mario Savio, December 2, 1964 Although Mario Savio's speech was about political activism and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_...), it could have very well been about Senate Bill 510, the so-called Food Safety Modernization Act."

11/12/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, No suspension recommended for UC protester, Nanette Asimov

"The occupation was one of the year's largest demonstrations across the University of California system. Students protested budget cuts and a 32 percent tuition increase approved by the UC regents, who are poised to approve another 8 percent hike Thursday. Yet as the first of those protesters to face a disciplinary panel - and because she opted for a public hearing - Zelko has come to represent the right to protest at Berkeley, a distant echo of her outspoken, '60s-era counterpart, Mario Savio. ... One witness, a professor of rhetoric and comparative literature named Judith Butler, told the panel that the university should protect, not prosecute, student demonstrators - even those who disrupt the university in their protests. 'Sometimes, you know, seizure or strike is a way of stopping ordinary life so that we might reflect for a moment on what the conditions are that make education possible,' Butler said. 'We call a halt to business as usual because the conditions under which education is possible are being threatened by policies that we object to.'"

11/11/2010, The Student Life, Alice Waters Tells Her Story of Restaurant Chez Panisse, Marnie Hogue

"The decisive experiences of her life-from Berkeley's free speech movement, to her travels to France, to her early work as a teaching assistant at a Montessori elementary school-may seem unrelated, but all shaped her basic philosophy: in order to be engaged with life, one must be able to touch, smell, feel, and taste, just like a curious child."

11/9/2010, Gibson.com, This Day in Music Spotlight: Rolling Stone Rolls Off the Presses, Bryan Wawzenek

"The magazine was the brainchild of Jann Wenner, a native New Yorker who had traveled to the University of California at Berkeley in the mid-'60s. During his student years, Wenner was an activist in the Free Speech Movement and wrote a column in the University's student-run newspaper, The Daily Californian. After dropping out in 1966, Wenner landed a job at the muckraking publication Ramparts, mostly due to the help of his mentor (and San Francisco Chronicle jazz critic) Ralph J. Gleason."

11/4/2010, PopMatters, What Sustains so Many Dreamers Turned Fighters Against the Odds? 'The Verso Book of Dissent', John L. Murphy

"Verso also sells a spoken word and song anthology. It ranges from Langston Hughes to Mario Savio, Salvador Allende to Harold Pinter. It spans William Blake's 'Jerusalem', Nina Simone's 'Mississippi Goddam', Marvin Gaye's 'What's Going On', Fela Kuti's 'Zombie', and a Nicaraguan Misa Campesina."

11/4/2010, OpEd News, Take A Stand For Peace: A Call To Action By Veterans for Peace & Anti-War Activists, Elaine Brower

"During the Vietnam War, Martin Luther King called our government 'the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today.' That was true then--and is even more so today. A few years before that, in 1964 Mario Savio made his great speech at Berkeley; at the end he says, 'There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!'"

11/3/2010, The Berkeley Daily Planet, The Envelope Please!, Editor

"The results of the Daily Planet's Measure R cartoon contest have been tabulated. Gar Smith is the winner by a nose, followed closely by Justin DeFreitas, with J.Epstein a very respectable third and Matt Breault and Joseph Young not far behind. The announced prize was $500. But Gar, an active Free Speech Movement veteran and frequent Planet contributor, made what he called a "collectivist suggestion" instead: give a $100 prize to each of the five contestants."

11/2/2010, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Elizabeth Warren Addresses the Savio Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley, Gar Smith

"The 14th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture (http://www.savio.org/) drew a huge crowd to UC Berkeley's Pauley Ballroom on Thursday, October 28. The event honors the memory and legacy of a remarkable student leader whose presence and passion became synonymous with the favor of the Free Speech Movement, which rocked the Berkeley campus in 1964. The unprecedented student sit-in and occupation of Sproul Hall - and the mass-arrest that followed - reverberated across the country challenging the established order of the Eisenhower years and triggering the social ferment that became known as 'The Sixties.' (For details, see the FSM Archives http://www.fsm-a.org./.) Each year, The Savio Lecture honors outstanding individuals with a Young Activist Award. This years awards went to Reyna Wences and Rigo Padilla, two students who risked their academic careers - and their freedom - by publicly announcing that they are undocumented. The two students are leaders of the Youth Justice League (http://www.fsm-a.org./), an organization created to advocate for the rights of undocumented students in the US. "

10/29/2010, UC Berkeley News, Elizabeth Warren envisions launch of tough '21st-century' watchdog agency, Cathy Cockrell

"A 'serious, tough' new consumer agency 'won't fix everything,' the Harvard law professor told a large crowd gathered in Pauley Ballroom for the 14th annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture. But as an organization' devoted solely to the economic strength of American families,' she said, it 'gives us an opportunity to plug a very big hole in the bottom of the economic boat.'"

10/28/2010, Market News International, US's Warren Determined To Make Cons Agency A Force For Public, Brai Odion-Esene

"It must succeed, she said, 'because we are running out of options.' In remarks prepared for the Mario Savio Lecture at the University of California-Berkeley, Warren made it clear she envisions an agency that will be proactive in rooting out predatory financial products and services, saying after being 'pushed and squeezed and hammered for a generation ... we have a moment -- right here, right now -- to turn a corner.'"

10/28/2010, Art Daily, Oakland Museum of California Acquires Historic "All of Us or None" Poster Collection,

"Aptly titled after the poem by Bertolt Brecht, the All Of Us Or None collection comes to OMCA from the estate of Berkeley writer, social historian, and Free Speech Movement veteran Michael Rossman, who dedicated his life to gathering and documenting the collection. It was his intention for the poster collection to remain whole and for it to reside in Northern California---two key reasons for the collection coming to the Oakland Museum of California."

10/15/2010, The Guardian UK, Brutal deportations must stop, Anna Morvern

"The free-speech activist Mario Savio said: 'There comes a time when the operation of the machine is so odious that you cannot even passively participate. You've got to place your body on the gears, the levers, all the apparatus.' The task that Savio describes is not the task of the individual migrants who are handcuffed and forced into the vans and onto the planes, although many do pit their voices and bodies desperately against the deportation machinery. It is the task of all of us who do not believe that the ends of border control justify the increasingly inhuman means. We live in a democracy and we can demand change."

10/13/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, What If They Called a Riot and No One Came?, Ted Friedman

"When Berkeley officials who oversee the park were lobbied by the Telly businessmen to promote 'multi-use,' and 'free speech,' they at first thought it a reasonable enough notion. Why not hold that Sproul Hall pepper right smack dab in the center of People's Park. Why, indeed, not? Miracle would be too strong and a funny thing happened, too weak. Yet, the university suddenly became too late wise. Using the brains their educations gave them, U.C. officials saw through the specious argument for free speech, advanced by the businessmen. Students have been freely speechifying at Sproul Hall since the Free Speech Movement of the Sixties; in fact, pep rallies are held in the Sproul Plaza routinely."

10/10/2010, Oakland Tribune, Oakland Museum of California obtains historic poster collection, Kristin Bender

"They were collected beginning in 1977 by Rossman, one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in the '60s. Rossman died of leukemia in May 2008 at age 68, but left his wishes for the collection with McLellan and his good friend, Cushing. Cushing reviewed the entire collection three times, photographed each poster -- 23,542 high-resolution images -- shared them with students, community scholars, reporters and friends."

10/8/2010, The Daily Californian, Power to the People? I Don't Think So, Nadine Levyfield

"I refuse to support Berkeley's 21st century notion of activism--it is unorganized, lacks a tangible goal to unite its participant, and tarnishes the memory of the vastly better executed Free Speech Movement of the 1960s."

10/7/2010, The Daily Californian, History Makers, Gianna Albaum

"Seaborg was succeeded by Edward Strong, who was chancellor from 1961 to 1964 - a tumultuous time. His failure to address or manage this agitation, manifested at Berkeley in the Free Speech Movement, eventually culminated in Strong's resignation."

10/4/2010, Berkeleyside, Pat Cody, co-founder of Cody's Books, dies, Frances Dinkelspiel

"In 1964, as the Free Speech Movement attracted thousands of young people from across the country, Pat helped start the Berkeley Free Clinic to attend to their health needs. Pat became the clinic's treasurer and was intimately involved in making it a viable institution."

10/4/2010, American Thinker, Marching Toward Oblivion: Obama's Core Supporters and the Corruption of Idealism, Frank Burke

"The Kennedy presidency appealed to the idealism of many young people. The assassination in 1963 was a cataclysmic event and marked a watershed. Kevin Starr, writing in Golden Dreams - California in an Age of Abundance, 1950-1963 (2009, Oxford University Press U.S.), states, '... the Free Speech Movement erupting on the UC Berkeley campus in the fall of 1964 inaugurated a new era ...'"

10/1/2010, news24, On this day - October 1, AP South Africa

"Today is Friday, October 1, the 274th day of 2010. There are 91 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: ... 1964 - The US Free Speech Movement is launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

9/24/2010, Taiwan News, Today in History, Associated Press

"Highlights in history on this date: ...1964 - The U.S. Free Speech Movement is launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

9/22/2010, Spot.US, The Regents Club: Conflicts of interest are nothing new at UC, but they may be getting worse, Peter Byrne

"In the past half-century, the financial pedigrees of many regents have created particular challenges for avoiding conflicts of interest. In 1965, Free Speech Movement activist Marvin Garson responded to a call by the California Federation of Teachers to "investigate the composition and operation of the Board of Regents." He produced a well-documented study noting that, 'taken as a group, the Regents are representatives of only one thing-corporate wealth.' The study observed that the prospect of conflicted interests was very real for the regents, whose 'business is carried on in executive session in informal meetings of which no written record may exist. ... It is entirely possible for a Regent to telephone his broker with a buy or sell order right after the Committee on Investments decides to buy or sell a big block of shares.'"

9/22/2010, Guardian, Mad Men: season four, episode three, Will Dean

"When Don finds out that Stephanie is at Berkeley he asks 'are you sitting in?' in reference to the Free Speech Movement protests demanding freedom of political expression."

9/16/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Cal free-speech talk illuminates Constitution, Debra Levi Holtz

"'The time to be concerned about students is not when they are exercising freedom of expression - picketing, demonstrating, disturbing the peace - but when they are quiet, when they despair of changing society, even of understanding it,' Litwack, 80, a professor emeritus of American history and a Pulitzer Prize winner, said in a speech Tuesday night about the Free Speech Movement that began on the Berkeley campus nearly 50 years ago. The forum was UC Berkeley's way of fulfilling a federal law requiring all federally funded schools to provide educational programs related to the U.S. Constitution every year to mark the anniversary of the signing of the nation's founding document on Sept. 17. Congress enacted the law six years ago out of concern that Americans did not have adequate knowledge of the rights guaranteed by the Constitution."

9/16/2010, Fox News, It's the Law: Government Agencies, Schools and Universities Mark Constitution Day, Joshua Rhett Miller and Alexandria Hein

"Several events are planned at the University of California-Berkeley, where students have been invited to attend a free seminar on 'The Free Speech Movement and the Constitution.'"

9/14/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Bill Coblentz: powerbroker and a gentleman, editors

"Coblentz also stood up for principle. He used his perch as a University of California regent to fend off conservative attacks during the Free Speech Movement and was a fierce advocate for civil rights."

9/14/2010, Saint Mary's College of CA), Linkin Park misses the mark with A Thousand Suns, Michael Bruer

"The other single on the album, "Wretches and Kings," begins like many songs, with a voiceover, this time from Mario Savio, an American political activist and a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. His famous "bodies upon the gears" speech is played at the start. As he finishes, the drum beat begins with synthesizer, leading up to Shinoda's rapping excellence. This song represents Shinoda's best chance to showcase his talents, with multiple lengthy verses. The song ends on the same quote."

9/9/2010, Boulder Weekly, If you can count a crowd and keep your virtue, Paul Danish

"On Aug. 31, campus cops arrested a student member of the Congress for Racial Equality who wouldn't abandon his table, and hundreds of sit-in protesters immobilized the police car he had been taken to, the roof of which becoming an impromptu speakers' platform. (The student, Jack Weinberg, emerged from the car two days later and went on to coin one of the defining one-liners of the '60s: "Don't trust anyone over 30.") After that, there were protest rallies almost daily. The size of the crowds at the rallies was routinely estimated at 3,000 or 3,500. In December, there was an occupation of the administration building, followed by mass arrests, and crowds at the rallies visibly swelled. Somebody - the press or the campus police - estimated attendance at one of the largest ones at 7,000 to 10,000. Protesters howled that the count was being low-balled. That prompted Herbert A. Jacobs, a Cal journalism professor, to obtain an aerial photograph of the rally, divide it into 1-inch squares, and, with the aid of a magnifying glass, count the crowd. His final number was 2,804."

8/27/2010, Crawdaddy Magazine, What Makes a Legend: Country Joe McDonald, Denise Sullivan

"'Country Joe' McDonald's early '40s baby diapers couldn't have been redder: Legend has it his activist parents named him after Joe Stalin. Honorably discharged from the US Navy in 1965, Joe made the move from El Monte, California, where he'd schooled himself in R&B and old time music, to Berkeley at the height of the Free Speech Movement."

8/24/2010, Indymedia, Open Letter from a Listener to Robbie Osman about the KPFA Board Elections, Jack Radley

"We are of the same generation, and 'fought in the same wars.' My particular vantage point, and after getting my preparatory education in high school (civil rights and antiwar agitation in some rural settings), a trip through the south in 1963, and then, my ultimate stroke of fortune, arriving at Cal as a 17 year old freshman in 1964, getting elected to the Executive Committee of the Free Speech Movement and getting arrested, I 'graduated' to working full time in the peace movement, from 1965-1972."

8/24/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Birgenau Greets Incoming Students at Convocation, Steven Finacom

"He [Vice Chancellor for Equity and Inclusion Gibor Basri] read campus principles of community and said, 'This is, after all, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement. On the other hand, we want to respect our differences.' He called for 'free speech of the productive sort.'"

8/10/2010, Huffington Post, Mad Men Review: "The Good News" Is Sad Yet Very Good, William Bradley

"The niece, incidentally, who I suspect we'll see more of, is yet another harbinger of the coming 'real '60s' as many have it, as well as a reminder of how much of what we think of as the 1960s stems from California and the West instead of the more hide-bound New York. She's a poli-sci major at Berkeley, an admirer of the somewhat inchoate Free Speech Movement there, but she's not an activist. At least, not yet. She already shows signs of refusing to be 'folded, spindled, or mutilated,' to borrow an FSM phrase, rejecting Don's field of advertising as bullshit and saying that its incessant selling of products people don't actually need leads to 'pollution.'"

8/3/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland's Cop-out: Equal Opportunity Abasement, Gar Smith

"California's 'illegal assembly' statue - '2686: Refusal to Disperse: Riot, Rout, or Unlawful Assembly' - is even more rigorous. It defines an unlawful assembly as any occasion where 'two or more persons assemble together to do an unlawful act, or do a lawful act in a violent, boisterous, or tumultuous manner.' Two Californians don't even have to create a 'tumultuous' disturbance (in which case they could be arrested for causing a 'riot'), they also can be cuffed and jailed if the police deem that they are 'about to start a disturbance' - i.e., a 'rout.' (The Free Speech Movement students who occupied Sproul Hall in 1969, were officially charged with being 'at the scene of a rout.')"

7/26/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Blogbeat: What?! Those are the Leftists?!?, Thomas Lord

"There are many sources of Berkeley history to be found on the net. I would be remiss to not mention the Berkeley Historical Society's curated collection of links, [http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/histsoc/default.htm] found on the City's own website. There you can find links to histories of famous things like People's Park, the Free Speech Movement, and Peet's Coffee. You'll also find the fascinating link I most wanted to tell you about."

7/4/2010, The Washington Post, Rich Lowry's review of books on neocons and the conservative movement, Rich Lowry

"It's impossible to write a history of neoconservatism without recapitulating twice-told tales. It all started in the 1930s at the City College of New York, where the smart, politically engaged Jewish kids excluded from Columbia by a quota system did intellectual battle with one another -- the Stalinists gathering in Alcove 1 in the dining hall, the anti-Stalinists in Alcove 2. And before you know it, we're invading Iraq in 2003. Vaisse dates the beginning of neoconservatism to the reaction of certain liberal intellectuals against the Berkeley Free Speech Movement beginning in 1964 and its threat, in the words of Seymour Martin Lipset, to "the foundations of democratic order." Vaisse writes, 'The subsequent history of the movement was an extended variation on the themes sounded at Berkeley.'" [Eds. Note: The view that neoconservatism arose in response to the FSM is not supported by oral histories of the time. Alex Sheriffs, who instigated the activity ban through dishonest tactics, could be said to be the original neoconservative activist, pursuing a veiled racist agenda against the civil rights movement.]

7/4/2010, The Beachside Resident, Cesar Chavez, UFW, and the Grape Boycott, Mickey Z

"This peaceful yet strong dedication garnered the attention of another non-violent struggle being waged at the time as Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) workers took some time from the civil rights movement to head west and help out. They were joined by members of the Free Speech Movement from Berkeley to form a powerful multi-ethnic coalition."

July-August 2010, AARP Bulletin, Power of 50: Social Change-In, Betsy Towner

"3. Free Speech Sit-Ins. University of California, Berkeley Sept. 30, 1964-Jan. 3, 1965 Protesting: First Amendment restrictions on campus Participant peak: 7,000 Trivia: When police put a protester In a squad car, activist Mario Savio climbed on top and addressed a crowd that would block the car for 32 hours. 4. Berkeley Teach-In University of California, Berkeley May 21-22.1965 Participant peak: 35,000+ Protesting: Vietnam War Trivia: Smithsonian Folkways still sells an album of speeches and songs from antiwar teach-Ins."

6/27/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Freedom Summer,' by Bruce Watson, David Levering Lewis

"No matter the cool, unvarnished depiction of firsthand dangers by Moses, Hamer and white Alabamian Bob Zeller or careful explication of what little legal protection William Kunstler and assistant attorney general for civil rights John Doar vouchsafed them, when students from Yale, Stanford, Berkeley, Michigan and elsewhere like Tom Hayden of SDS, Mario Savio of future Free Speech Movement fame, and Casey Hayden and Anne Moody of future feminist eminence, boarded buses for Mississippi on June 20, almost none of them could have measured the full meaning of a sign this reviewer recalls hanging in SNCC's Atlanta headquarters: 'There's a town in Mississippi called Liberty. There's a Department in Washington called Justice.'"

6/26/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, SELZNICK, Philip,

"He chaired the Department of Sociology from 1963-67 amid heated debates and political tensions generated by the Free Speech Movement. In 1965 his strong defense of student free speech and protest appeared in Commentary magazine as a pointed exchange with follow professor Nathan Glazer who viewed the protestors as extremists. Selznick founded the Center for the Study of Law and Society and served as director from 1968-72."

6/24/2010, TruthDig, David Kipen on 'Freedom's Orator', David Kipen

"If Columbia students were marching on Albany this year and a biography of Mark Rudd had just come out, you could bet the book wouldn't go unreviewed in the so-called national media. Berkeley has erupted again, and a fascinating biography of Mario Savio-a figure far more influential than Rudd, and not just because he helped lead a sit-in at Berkeley four years before the Columbia protests-has just come out. But its author, Robert Cohen, would have to stage a sit-in at 42nd Street and 8th Avenue for much of anybody to notice. Could it be that, for all the supposed decentralization of media in the age of Twitter, what's left of the commentariat is more Manhattanized than ever? That would be a shame, because 'Freedom's Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s' rescues from creeping amnesia a student firebrand perhaps second only to Tom Hayden in his rhetorical gifts. What Hayden did in his epochal Port Huron Statement over a stretch of weeks-give eloquent voice to a generation-Savio did from the top of a squad car on no sleep. 'Freedom's Orator' succeeds in taking us back to a time when Berkeley students would actually fight not just to speak freely on campus, but also to 'emphasize intensive study of the classics in intimate seminars.' The more things change, apparently, the more they get completely different."

6/21/2010, The Los Angeles Times, UC Irvine protest case raises questions about discipline practices, Larry Gordon and Raja Abdulrahim

"The University of California has a long and difficult history of grappling with student protests, dating back to the tumultuous 1960s Free Speech Movement. Still, even as student rallies over higher fees have rocked UC campuses this year, it remains rare for a campus to sanction an entire student group in a civil disobedience case, experts say."

6/17/2010, Berkeleyside, Is demonstrating part of "The Berkeley Experience?", Frances Dinkelspiel

"'The Berkeley Experience,' according to the report, is every student's desire to do something that is very Berkeley: participate in a demonstration. Students come to Berkeley not only to study, according to the report. Since the university has a tradition of massive protests dating back to the days of the Free Speech Movement, students often come to Cal with the expectation that they, too, will hold placards, shout slogans, denounce a policy, and perhaps even occupy a building. ... 'We were told by some students that they came down to the rally in the mid-afternoon or late afternoon because they didn't want to go through four years of Berkeley without going to a demonstration,' said Brazil. 'Most people were demonstrating out of a deep conviction and concern that the university was being privatized, ... and some were protesting to have it on their resume.'"

6/16/2010, UC Berkeley News, Philip Selznick, leading scholar in sociology and law, dies at 91, Andrew Cohen

"After teaching for one year at the University of Minnesota and for five years at UCLA, Selznick joined UC Berkeley's faculty in 1952 as an assistant sociology professor. He chaired the Department of Sociology from 1963-'67 amid heated debates and political tensions generated by the Free Speech Movement. Though Selznick rejected later student militancy on campus, in 1965 his strong defense of student free speech and protest appeared in Commentary magazine as a pointed exchange with fellow sociology professor Nathan Glazer, who viewed the protestors as extremists."

06/16/2010, San Jose Mercury News, Panel: UC Berkeley responded badly to November protest, Matt Krupnick

"BERKELEY - UC Berkeley police and administrators bungled their response to a November protest that ended in dozens of arrests and police beatings, an investigative panel has concluded. In a 128-page report released Wednesday, the university's Police Review Board criticized leaders at UC Berkeley - birthplace of the Free Speech Movement - for being unprepared for civil disobedience. The lack of preparation gave the impression that administrators did not care about students' concerns about tuition increases and budget cuts, which "fanned flames of anger" Nov. 20 among protesters, the panel wrote."

6/16/2010, Business Insight Malaya, Hay Moritos en las costas', Alberto Romualdez

"Masao Miyoshi is a Japan-born and raised scholar who specialized in Victorian literature. As Professor of English Literature in the University of California Berkeley, Miyoshi became deeply involved in the defining political issues of the 60s and 70s such as the free speech movement and the Vietnam War protests. Following these experiences, the English Professor became a very strong advocate of a strong political role for the academe and the transformation of universities as focal points of political activism."

6/1/2010, The Brooklyn Rail, High Plains Curators-IN CONVERSATION: Brendt Berger with Jim Long, Jim Long

"Brendt: As a student in California there were San Francisco HUAC hearings and subsequent student demonstrations. In Hawaii I witnessed a hydrogen bomb test from 900 miles away. I saw Martin Luther King and met James Farmer civil rights activists, and returning to California in 1964 I was involved in civil rights demonstrations in Oakland, and the Free Speech movement and Vietnam War teach-ins at Berkeley."

5/21/2010, NewsBlaze, Former UC Berkeley Business School Dean John Cowee Dies at 91,

"[John] Cowee came to UC Berkeley as a professor in 1953 and taught business and insurance law at the law school before becoming dean at the business school. Cowee left UC Berkeley in 1966 under what his son name, John Cowee Jr. described as "political circumstances." At the time, Cowee favored the students' Free Speech Movement that was opposed by Gov. Ronald Reagan, who ordered state funding cuts and National Guard troops to campus. "I knew I could not work for a board of regents that treated Clark Kerr the way it did," Cowee said in an interview earlier this year. (Kerr was UC Berkeley's first chancellor and later a UC president. The UC Regents fired Kerr for his sympathetic attitude toward student demonstrations while Reagan was governor.)"

5/17/2010, UC Berkeley News, Tiffany Shlain's keynote address at Commencement Convocation, Tiffany Shlain

"You could say UC Berkeley is in my DNA. In 1961, my mother came to Cal from Detroit to be where the action is, the Free Speech Movement was just starting."

5/17/2010, Berkeleyside, Malcolm X Day - more than a day off?, Lance Knobel / Thomas Lord

"In 1961, Malcolm X was banned from speaking on campus on the grounds that he was a religious leader. That same year, Billy Graham spoke on campus. Malcolm gave his talk at the Y. By 1963 the ban had been lifted. The student political party SLATE (instrumental to the campus Free Speech Movement) invited two speakers: Malcolm X and a representative of the Ku Klux Klan."

5/10/2010, Berkeleyside, A mother's day, the Berkeley way, Jane Stillwater

"Next we drove past the law office where I used to work. 'Remember when I used to work for Bob Treuhaft? He was a lawyer for the Free Speech Movement.' And his wife Jessica Mitford had gone to Spain to fight against Franco in the 1930s."

5/4/2010, Daily Orange, Permanent record: Protests leave lasting change in relationship between SU, students, Erinn Connor

"The conservative atmosphere of the Syracuse campus did not match that of other university cultural revolutions across the country. There was the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley and protests at Southern Illinois University, among others, which sought to stop the control the university had over students."

5/4/2010, Columbia Missourian, Columbia educator Aline Kultgen remembers the Holocaust, Dean Asher

"She attended the University of California-Berkeley as the Civil Rights movement was unfolding and earned a bachelor's degree in sociology. 'It was the beginning of the free speech movement, an exciting time,' Kultgen said in her living room. 'Everyone was majoring in sociology. We were going to change the world.' She reflected for a moment on the history after the Holocaust and the fight for civil rights in America, then softly conceded that 'we never did.' 'We've come a long way in civil rights but we still have a long way to go,' she said later, over the phone. 'We talk about the Holocaust and genocide, but there are still genocides going on now. Sudan, Congo, Rwanda, Darfur, Yugoslavia, Bosnia. There are still a lot of people killing other people and a lot of intolerance. Our work is not done, not by a long shot.'"

5/3/2010, Berkeleyside, Test your knowledge of Berkeley's many murals, Tracey Taylor

"According to Brett Weinstein, there are more than 80 murals in our city. Some are well-known, such the one commemorating the history of the Free Speech Movement on the side of Amoeba Records, or the 3-D work at La Peña Cultural Center on Shattuck. Others are less visible, tucked down alleys or on roll-up garage doors."

5/2/2010, Oakland Tribune, Protest passion, Angela Hill and Kristin Bender

"Others argue that extremism merely creates a backlash. 'The occupation of the freeway, for instance, was unacceptable, and indeed monstrous,' said John Searle, a UC Berkeley philosophy professor who was a faculty member active in the Free Speech Movement at Cal in the 1960s. He said he witnessed the effectiveness of those demonstrations 50 years ago, but says many protests today, especially student protests, are misguided and therefore ineffective. 'It is ridiculous self-indulgence to think that the protest is more important (than the message),' he said. The freeway occupation 'was an event of self-indulgent imbecility,' he said. 'However, this should not distract from the many, maybe thousands of people who were seriously trying to communicate something to Sacramento.'"

5/1/2010, Wired Magazine, Geek Power: Steven Levy Revisits Tech Titans, Hackers, Idealists, Steven Levy

"Lee Felsenstein is keeping the flame alive as well. Felsenstein was the subversive moderator of the Homebrew Computer Club, the PC industry launchpad whose members - including Woz - were the target of Gates' letter. A veteran of the Berkeley free speech protests, Felsenstein thought that putting cheap computers in the hands of "the people" would allow everyone to take information, manipulate it to better reflect the truth, and distribute it widely. He was right about the rise of the PC, but he says he's still waiting for its democratizing effect."

April 30 - May 2, 201, Counterpunch, 50 Years Later, the Civil Rights Struggle Continues, Saul Landau

"On April 17, 2010, some of those sit-in organizers heard Attorney General Eric Holder. 'There is a direct line from that lunch counter to the Oval Office,' he told the 1,500 people assembled to celebrate the 50th anniversary of SNCC (Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee) at Shaw University in Raleigh North Carolina. 'If not for SNCC,' Holder said, 'I would not be Attorney General. If not for SNCC, Barak Obama would not be President.' SNCC became a school for organizers. Mario Savio learned from Bob Moses at the Mississippi SNCC project and returned to Berkeley to become the spokesman for the Free Speech Movement. David Harris went from SNCC to non-violent anti-war protests."

4/26/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Exhibition: "Women Hold Up Half The Sky: Bay Area Women's Posters of the 1970s and 1980s",

"How do we remember a social protest movement? Often by words that have been left behind: founding documents, manifestos, flyers, and the like. But visual artifacts can be powerful too: sometimes a movement's images reveal its deepest character and commitments. That's the case for an exhibition of posters that is being shown at a café/coffee house called 'Local 123' (www.local123gallery.com), named after a Painters' Local union hall that previously occupied the space. The posters, all of which were created here in the Bay Area, will be on display through June 1. The posters gathered for this exhibition come from various local collections, including Michael Rossman's 'All Of Us Or None' archive. Rossman, who was a leader of the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a social activist, teacher, and historian, assembled this archive, which now consists of 24,000 posters. The entire collection is being donated to the Oakland Museum."

4/25/2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Times, They Changed, Jerry Lembcke

"It's the best and brightest who get the tickets [junior-year-abroad], of course, and by spring break of sophomore year, the class leaders, the ones who might have gone to Port Huron in 1962, set their sights ahead and begin withdrawing their commitments to the campus community. On an annual basis, the friendship networks and organizational connections that might have grown into a Free Speech Movement in 1964 are fractured and left for the next year's first-term sophomores to rebuild. Seniors returning from overseas have majors to complete, LSAT's and GRE's to master, and the next round of application forms to fill out-little time to make a better campus, let alone end a war."

4/23/2010, The Daily Californian Online, Bill Would Pave the Way to Peace, Rick Sterling

"6. Is this issue 'too controversial' and 'divisive?' Challenging the status quo is always controversial. In the 1980's calling for divestment from Bank of America because of their loans to apartheid South Africa was controversial. Even during the Free Speech Movement there were many students who did not agree with Mario Savio. In the short term it was divisive but in the long run it was progress."

4/15/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, The Day Our Sixties Started, Becky O'Malley

"Somehow I seem to have become an honorary member of the Free Speech Movement, on their mailing list and invited to their reunions. In all honesty, I must admit that when the FSM was making waves in 1964 I was in Ann Arbor making babies. But before that, four years before that, I was present at the creation, so to speak. I was one of the five thousand Bay Area citizens who rose in protest against the House Un-American Activities Committee (commonly known as HUAC), the trailing edge of ugly '50s McCarthyism which finally got its deserved comeuppance during the merry month of May in the newly minted 1960s."

4/12/2010, Washington Examiner, Greenlining founders emerged from civil rights movement, Tori Richards and Mark Tapscott

"Gamboa grew up in a Mexican barrio in San Bernardino and dropped out of high school to work in a steel mill. But he went to community college and then the University of California at Berkeley, which then was in the throes of the Free Speech Movement. Now 68, Gamboa graduated with a social sciences degree and worked for Pacific Bell Telephone. His leftist activism from within Pacific Bell's marketing department twice nearly got him fired, and he later organized the Latino Issues Forum, met Gnaizda, and the two organized a number of community groups from around California into a loose patchwork of activism known as the Greenlining Coalition (a purposeful play on the banking term, "redlining')."

4/8/2010, The Daily Californian Online, Change I Can Believe In, Roman Zhuk

"Looking for real change to come from student 'leaders' is a fool's errand. To challenge that claim, one might note in reply the Free Speech Movement and student pressure for UC divestment from apartheid South Africa. Sadly, the comparison rings hollow. (True, the former did have the wonderful benefit of jumpstarting Ronald Reagan's political career-Mario Savio's most meaningful achievement.)"

4/5/2010, UC Berkeley News, For prospective undergrads, student-authored Golden Bears Blog could just be the X factor in choosing Cal, Wendy Edelstein

"Student activism is alive and well at Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement. ... Two days later, Pavlova, a legal-studies major, attended the March 4 strike for public education in Sacramento and wrote: 'The people that spoke up at Sacramento kept bringing up Mario Savio and the movements of the '60s. ... Whenever there's an injustice or an infringement of rights, Berkeley takes a stand. Every time. I feel that Berkeley is the social justice capital of the U.S.'"

4/4/2010, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Charles Muscatine, a Champion of Free Speech at Berkeley, Dies, Jill Laster

"Mr. Muscatine was a strong advocate for students' academic freedom during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, from 1964 to 1966 (sic). Friends and colleagues described him as someone with an unending commitment to his students' personal and academic growth. He was the lead author, in 1966, of what became known as the Muscatine Report, which called for small, student-led courses and emphasized the need to strengthen undergraduate education at a research university."

4/4/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Designers look to the future of gardening, Joe Eaton, Ron Sullivan

"Four Winds has a new edible citrus, the Australian finger lime; Skagit Gardens, a fragrant wallflower. As Berkeleyans, we had to love Monterey Bay Nursery's trio of Salvia hybrids: 'Telegraph Avenue,' 'Free Speech' and 'Flower Child.'"

3/31/2010, FrontPage Magazine, Surviving the Sixties (Not), David Solway

"These strictures and insights resonate with me. I was at UC Berkeley at around the same time as Horowitz, participated in the student takeover of Sproul Hall, and fellow-traveled with the leaders of the Free Speech Movement. We reveled in our self-proclaimed status as rebels with a cause, who would remake America and the West in our own bearded image. ... Greil Marcus in Lipstick Traces: A Secret history of the Twentieth Century remembers those days fondly. "In the fall of 1964, in Berkeley," he writes, 'I was, day after day, for months, part of the crowd that made up the Free Speech Movement...It was a period of doubt, chaos, anger, hesitation, confusion, and finally joy-that's the word...This event formed a standard against which I've judged the present and the past ever since.'"

3/30/2010, The Daily News Online, Pioneering filmmaker remembered with retrospective,

"Strand, nicknamed Chick by her father, studied anthropology at Berkeley in the 1960s, joined the free speech movement, and experimented with photographic collage. She joined the filmmaker Bruce Baillie and editor Ernest Callenbach to found Canyon Cinema, a screening collective that evolved into the San Francisco Cinematheque and the independent distributor Canyon Cinema."

3/24/2010, Scoop, Protest Picket For Student Democracy, Matt McCarten

"'IN the 1960s, American students spent their summer holidays helping Black people to register to vote in racist states such as Alabama and Mississippi. When they returned to campus, they tried to set up Civil Rights Clubs in their universities. Draconian College authorities cracked down hard, forbidding students to hold any political opinions or exercise their democratic rights. But the repression saw an explosion of resistance, and the Free Speech Movement was born. Within five years, American universities became centres of resistance to racism, capitalism and the Vietnam War. Mario Savio's famous speech still echoes throughout the decades...'"

3/20/2010, Oakland Tribune, Renowned UC Berkeley English professor dies, Martin Snapp

"Charles Muscatine, a renowned scholar of Chaucer and medieval literature who became even more famous as a champion of free speech during two of the gravest crises in the history of the University of California, died March 12 of an infection at the Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Oakland. He was 89."

3/20/2010, New York Times, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer Scholar, Dies at 89, William Grimes

"Student unrest at Berkeley in the 1960s created a new role for Mr. Muscatine, who had begun teaching at the campus in 1948. During the Free Speech Movement, as students staged sit-ins and demonstrations to protest restrictions on political speech on university property, he played a leading role in mediating between students and the university administration. His sympathy for student demands over free-speech issues came from hard experience. In 1949 he and 30 other professors, invoking the principal of academic freedom, refused to sign an anti-Communist loyalty oath then newly required by the State of California. Mr. Muscatine was fired and regained his job only after the California Supreme Court ruled that the oath was unconstitutional. After the immediate crisis on campus had subsided, Mr. Muscatine was asked to lead a faculty committee charged with proposing educational reforms at the university. 'Education at Berkeley,' published in 1966, quickly became known as the Muscatine Report and attracted widespread attention for the boldness of its plans to encourage nontraditional courses and break down interdisciplinary barriers."

3/18/2010, The Los Angeles Times, Charles Muscatine dies at 89; UC Berkeley Chaucer expert fought Red Scare loyalty oath, Dennis McLellan

"'Chuck Muscatine was a vital figure in the political leadership of the Berkeley faculty all the way from the loyalty oath controversy through the Free Speech Movement,' said David A. Hollinger, a professor of history at UC Berkeley. 'He also was a leader in the reform and enrichment of undergraduate education at Berkeley,' Hollinger said. 'He was the chief author of the [1966] 'Muscatine Report,' which set the frame for thinking about undergraduate education at Berkeley for the last several decades.'"

3/17/2010, UC Berkeley News, Charles Muscatine, Chaucer scholar and educational reformer, dies at 89, Kathleen Maclay

"He was in the public eye before, during and after the 1960s' Free Speech Movement, gaining widespread attention as chair of the Select Committee on Education, which in 1966 produced 'Education at Berkeley,' or the 'Muscatine Report.' The controversial document anticipated many student demands and included recommendations for instituting small, student-based and student-led interdisciplinary courses. The same year, Muscatine criticized undergraduate education as a 'mechanized training ground for the upper reaches of the labor market' and said 'political turmoil feeds on educational failure.'"

3/16/2010, Washington Post, Chaucer expert, activist Charles Muscatine dies at 89, Emma Brown

"At Berkeley, Dr. Muscatine was so widely known for his resistance and so admired for his courage that he became a pivotal figure in restoring peace to the campus after the rebellion known as the Free Speech Movement, in which students disrupted classes and staged sit-ins and large-scale protests to demand that university officials allow on-campus political activity."

3/16/2010, Sonoma State Star, Free speech policy would be disasterous for SSU, Jonah Raskin

"When hundreds of students at UC Berkeley were arrested during the Free Speech Movement in 1964, it wounded the University deeply and it took more than a decade to heal those wounds. And when hundreds of students were arrested at Columbia University in 1968, it took 40 years before student protesters returned to campus and were acknowledged by the administration, including the University Professor Lee Bollinger, that they were honorable human beings."

3/16/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, Charles Muscatine dies; fought UC loyalty oath, Nanette Asimov

"In the summer of 1950, the University of California vigorously enforced a state law requiring public employees to sign such an oath, and more than 11,000 UC employees did so rather than risk losing their jobs. Charles Muscatine, a recently hired assistant professor of English, said no. He was among 31 UC Berkeley professors who refused to sign. Won in court Their refusal - and subsequent legal victory - is seen as helping to lay the groundwork for the Free Speech Movement that took hold on campus a decade later."

3/15/2010, The Los Angeles Times, 'Theology After Google' conference takes look at religion in Web era, Mitchell Landsberg

"Clayton, the organizer, said that what was happening at the conference and in emerging Christian movements reminded him of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. 'It's raw, it's unrehearsed, but it's unapologetic, it knows its purpose and it's powerful,' he said."

3/15/2010, Sonoma State Star, New free speech policy not to include Mario Savio Corner, Sara Pohlman

"According to Raskin, the legacy of Mario Savio goes back to the early '60s at University of California, Berkeley, where Savio was a student and a leader of the free speech movement. At that time, students were not permitted to discuss politics in public or to pass out literature or table to promote political ideas. Savio led protests in 1964 against the school's policies and often clashed with campus and city police. In one memorable demonstration, Savio and many others took over the steps of Sproul Hall and over 700 people were eventually arrested. It was here on Dec. 2, 1964 that he gave his famous speech on the 'operation of the machine.'"

3/12/2010, The Oil Drum, From Counterculture To Cyberculture: The Life And Times Of Stewart Brand, Big Gav

"Yet, to the students of the Berkeley Free Speech movement in which these writers began and which provided the origin of the counterculture, cybernetics represented a militarized and menacing force antithetical to the longed-for new society. The students of the Berkely Free Speech movement of the 1960's and their colleagues across the country sometimes demonstrated and protested using computerized punch cards as the emblem of a repressive society."

3/11/2010, The Nation, Book review: A Body on the Gears: On Mario Savio, Scott Saul

"Robert Cohen dedicates much of Freedom's Orator, his absorbing and even-keeled biography of Savio, to this very question, peeling back the layers of myth that have enveloped Savio and the Free Speech Movement while substantiating their achievement. By necessity Freedom's Orator is a dual biography of a man and his movement, and almost half the book follows less than four months of Savio's life, the pivotal fall semester of 1964. The FSM ran what we might call a textbook student-activist campaign in that interval--if we overlook the fact that the textbook didn't exist yet. President Nixon's 1970 Commission on Campus Unrest termed militant student protest 'the Berkeley invention,' and rightly so, since the FSM pioneered the use of civil rights strategies of direct action in a university setting, demonstrating how such disruptive tactics could mobilize a majority of students and even win the sympathies of a formerly passive faculty. ... At the time, Savio's language tapped into a deep reservoir of aspiration and emotion, calling together all those 'people who have not learned to compromise, who for example have come to the university to learn to question, to grow, to learn.' In some quarters, such people would be known simply as 'nerds'--and in fact, one sociological study of Berkeley undergraduates in 1964 concluded that a key variable separating FSM supporters from their opponents was GPA. (More than half of those with a GPA of B+ or better were self-designated radicals, while only one-tenth were conservatives.) Savio's rhetoric allowed these young people to recognize themselves as a community with higher motives than liberals like Clark Kerr, who was not only the UC president but also the nation's foremost labor-management negotiator, and therefore an expert in the art of compromise. Savio's nerds, by contrast, were proudly impractical: they were those who would 'die rather than be standardized, replaceable, and irrelevant.'"

3/11/2010, The Daily Californian, Professor Brought Attention to Canadian Studies, Kim Bielak and Kelly Strickland

"In addition to being a professor and co-founder of the Canadian Studies Program, [Thomas] Barnes was also the assistant dean of students during the Free Speech Movement in 1964."

3/10/2010, The Daily Californian, Dude, This is Just Like the '60s, Katie BentiVoglio

"And while they may think they are unique and invidiual, they are simply joining the wave of activists, egomaniacs and general misfits that have, since the Free Speech Movement, tried to become the next Mario Savio. Or just engage in general acts of sticking it to the man. To which you may say, shouldn't we take this as a compliment? Be proud of Berkeley's seemingly magnetic quality in attracting social movements? After all, this outsider presence is simply a testament to the Berkeley student's desire to change the world. Right?"

3/4/2010, UC Berkeley News, To Sacramento and back,

"As the march crossed Ashby, participant Mario Zelayan, a retired elementary school teacher from Berkeley and Oakland, gestured with a double peace sign. Involved decades ago in the Free Speech Movement as a UC Berkeley student, Zelayan said Thursday's march is "great to see. I like justice." When asked if today's protest activities are as effective as those during the Free Speech Movement, he said, 'You gotta do what you can do. Just sitting down and being quiet doesn't bring about change.'"

3/4/2010, The Daily Californian, Ode to Covered Faces: Taking the Struggle for Public Education Seriously, Matthew Senate

"I think it is time to cast away masks and black clothing and lighters. I think it is time we learn from the Free Speech Movement and decisively step away from violence and destruction. I say this as a young person, as a Californian, as a student who believes in public education."

3/4/2010, The Daily Californian, Campus Readies for Statewide Demonstrations with Workshops, Teach-In, Nick Meyers

"Student organizers held four 'peer to peer' workshops in Wheeler Hall, which were followed by a larger teach-in entitled "Educate the State" organized by SAVE the University and the UC Berkeley Faculty Association in support of today's protests. The workshops included a lecture by professor emeritus Michael Nagler on his experience with the Free Speech Movement and organizing protest tactics."

3/4/2010, Huffington Post, Is College Censorship Destroying Our Society's "Sophistication Machine"?, Greg Lukianoff

"Meanwhile, today I will be speaking at my alma mater, Stanford, a school that in the 1990s had to be told by a court order to drop its highly restrictive speech code, and soon thereafter at UC Berkeley, once known primarily as the birthplace of the free speech movement, but these days a little bit more famous for mass budget protests. Wish me luck"

3/2/2010, Tufts Daily, Budget cuts, fee increases draw anger of University of California students, Noa Naftali

"These changes have been met by protests at the various campuses. UC Berkeley, known for its history of activism - most notably the Free Speech Movement in 1964 and 1965, a response to the university restricting on?campus political activities - has been bustling with student outrage. 'There have been lots of intense protests,' Emma Levine, a freshman at UC Berkeley, said. 'It's Berkeley, dude.'"

2/27/2010, San Jose Mercury News, Movie at Cinequest tells of birth of Silicon Valley, Mike Cassidy

"'People think of revolution in the Bay Area in the '60s and they don't think of down here' in Silicon Valley, said producer Sackett, who worked on the film with director Paul Crowder and writer Mark Monroe. The war protests and the free speech movement, Sackett said, not the digital revolution, come to mind. 'But what these guys did is as long lasting and more important, or as important.'"

2/27/2010, Chicago Tribune, Jay Arnold Levine, 1932 - 2010: Retired UIC professor, dean, Trevor Jensen

"Dr. Levine came to UIC in 1969 from the University of California at Berkeley, where he had been a member of the Academic Information Committee during the Free Speech Movement that roiled the campus."

2/19/2010, The Sacramento Bee, Viewpoints: Reform can't come from CEOs, Jeff Lustig

"It was a surprising end for a protest movement, and the die-hard group expired fairly easily, after all. I'm a veteran of a few political movements - the free speech movement, the civil rights and anti-war movements. And I've read about the state's populist, Progressive and labor movements. But I never heard of a movement that suspended operations because of cash-flow problems or the need to pay signature-gatherers. Penury came with the territory. Volunteer labor was the norm."

2/18/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Hosts African-American History Month Celebrations, Raymond Barglow

"In the 1950s and '60s, the Civil Rights Movement helped to widen and deepen interest in black history and culture. In Berkeley, UC students returning from a summer of activism in the South in 1964 formed the Free Speech Movement to support civil rights locally, and third-world studies programs were organized on campus. Today, all of Berkeley's public schools have programs that teach about racism, and all celebrate African History Month."

2/14/2010, Rapid City Journal, Veterans writing group preserves memories for future generations, Jan Hill

"'Our meetings represent the act of coming together and speaking as a way of recollecting, sometimes jogging memories,' said Brad Morgan, co-founder of the group. Morgan, a U.S. Army veteran of the Vietnam war era, joked that he got most of his combat experience "at the University of California/Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement," before his military career."

1/28/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, FSM ON STUDENT ACTIVISM, Hank Chapot

"Somebody should tell them that student activism at UC is in very good hands in 2010. Those who sat-in at Wheeler and their supporters were politically astute and overwhelmingly non-violent. A solid coalition of students, workers, teachers and community supporters stuck to the message for that entire flammable week in December 2009, even after the police beat people with clubs. Our demands remain current: No fee increases, no layoffs, no privatization."

1/28/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, UC Must Respect Due Process Rights, Carmen Comsti, Sean Graham and Nathan Shaffer

"Currently UC Berkeley is more closely aligned with the McCarthy-ite policies that swept college campuses in the 1950s than the values represented by the Free Speech Movement of 1964. The attack on Ms. Miller's rights is only a thinly veiled assault on student expression and activism."

1/26/2010, Asbarez Daily Newspaper, Commonality In Struggle, Vaché Thomassian

"Here in the United States, the free speech movement in the 1960's was a pivotal time in developing and shaping our country's activist spirit. It was a time when students stood up to authority to demand their right to express themselves. This spirit was captured by the immortal words of Mario Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall in Berkeley when he said: 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part! And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus - and you've got to make it stop! And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it - that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all! This was the movement that secured free speech and academic freedom here in America."

1/21/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Free Speech at UC Berkeley Today, FSM-A Board

"The Board views the events of Nov. 20 and Dec. 11 on the Berkeley campus with the greatest concern. We are appalled by the violence perpetrated by police forces on bystanders outside Wheeler Hall on Nov. 20. Police violence has escalated far beyond that which we experienced forty-five years ago, with fingers broken by clubs and firearms inappropriately aimed and fired at unarmed people behind barricades. Where was the University administration, which today claims the FSM as its own, while this was happening? We are also both shocked and appalled by the assault carried out against the occupied residence of the Chancellor on Dec. 11. Regardless of provocations, violence as an act of protest serves no worthwhile purpose; it divides the community and benefits our opponents by diverting attention away from the real issue-the defunding of public education. It is a sure route to scaring people away from action and can accomplish nothing positive in this situation."

1/18/2010, Counterpunch, Teach for America Needs to Review History, Frederick B. Hudson

"By educating the educators prepared themselves for dramatic new roles in their future lives. The New Left had learned the pragmatic organizational lessons in the South and carried them to new arenas. One of the first parallel agendas occurred on September 14, 1964 when student organizational tables used by civil rights groups were banned in a certain area of the University of California at Berkeley campus. The ensuing turmoil became one of this country most disruptive student uprisings and protest-the Free Speech Movement. (FMS) Its most dynamic speaker was a former teacher in a Mississippi freedom school, Mario Savio. He wrote to a friend, I'm tired of reading history, I want to make it." The FSM demonstrations ultimately resulted in over eight hundred arrests and set the stage for many more student demonstrations around the country."

1/17/2010, Truthdig, Making the Case for Gay Marriage, Bill Boyarsky

"I talked about this with Jackie Goldberg, one of the nation's most influential gay and lesbian activists. As a member of the California state Assembly, she was the author of the state's domestic partner law. While a University of California student, she was a leader of Berkeley's free speech movement. She fought for desegregation of Los Angeles schools as a school board member and served on the Los Angeles City Council. She and her longtime partner, Sharon Stricker, were married during the short time such unions were legal in California. Even though Goldberg and Stricker have a legal marriage in their own state, they are denied a wide range of federal benefits. If Goldberg dies, 'none of my benefits will go to my spouse,' she said. These include survivor benefits for Social Security and related programs. Also, same-sex couples do not get as much aid for the needy aged, blind and disabled as straight men and women who are married."

1/17/2010, Indybay, Why we reject the plan to fix the schools by cutting prison funding, occupy ca

"The counter-revolution was not purely repressive, but actively constructed with millions of tons of concrete in the new, more modern schools and prisons. The kinds of crowds that gathered by the thousands in Sproul Plaza during the Free Speech Movement were preventively dispersed by the new campuses designed to have no central gathering point."

1/8/2010, Forbes, Hell No, We Won't Pay!, Peter Robinson

"The New Yorker has chosen to welcome the new decade by publishing an obituary: 45 years after the founding of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the magazine lets us know in its Jan. 4 issue, the campus protest movement is dead. Not that Tad Friend, author of the article in question, "Protest Studies: Berkeley Rebels Again," has noticed he is writing about a corpse. Recounting the present controversy at Berkeley, Friend proves unrelievedly earnest."

1/7/2010, Berkeley Daily Planet, Reader Commentaries: Free Speech vs. Hate Speech, Leon Mayeri

"As the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, Berkeley residents have long honored the responsibility of speaking truth to power in the name of advocating social justice and racial equality. After all, the Free Speech Movement (FSM) was born directly from the efforts of civil rights activists to set up an information table on Sproul Plaza promoting CORE (The Congress on Racial Equality). While as a matter of legal technicality, the principles of free speech encompass even the most odious racist hate mongering, the true moral authority of the FSM was born out of the desire to speak out and organize against racial and ethnic bigotry."

1/6/2010, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley: A tour through history and art, Gail Todd

"Begin at Sproul Plaza, bordered on the north by Sather Gate and on the south by Telegraph Avenue. Here is where the Free Speech Movement of 1964-65 began. The plaza and the steps of Sproul Hall were also the sites of Vietnam War and People's Park protests. Today, student groups of all persuasions set up tables in the plaza to expound their points of view. The steps leading up Sproul Hall have been renamed the Mario Savio Steps to honor this Free Speech Movement leader."

1/4/2010, The New Yorker, Letter from California Protest Studies, Tad Friend

"In December of 1964, a twenty-one-year-old philosophy student named Mario Savio stood on the steps of Berkeley's Sproul Hall and gave the Free Speech Movement's most incendiary oration, lighting the fuse for the Vietnam protests to come. He looked, with his altar boy's forehead, like Art Garfunkel, but he lashed the crowd with the cadences of Bob Dylan: 'You've got to put your bodies upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.' The Free Speech Movement's fight for the right to proselytize on campus for off-campus political organizations, particularly those which supported civil rights, was clean and quick. After some eight hundred students were arrested for occupying Sproul Hall, an overwhelming faculty vote in support of the students forced the administration to cave by early January. Ironically, Savio's unruly language also helped elect Ronald reagan governor of California, in 1966. Reagan campaigned on the promise to 'clean up the mess in Berkeley,' a place that in his mind was 'a hotbed of Communism and homosexuality.'"

1/3/2010, Arizona Daily Star, 'Illiterate' mag nearly scuttled writing career, Bob Kovitz

"The three of us were suspended from high school for "distributing unapproved material on campus." The three included the president of the National Honor Society chapter and two members of the Student Council. Please note: This was 1964 - well before the "Free Speech" movement at the University of California-Berkeley. Mario Savio would have blessed our endeavor if he had only known us then."

January/February 2010, Tikkun Magazine, FREEDOM'S ORATOR: MARIO SAVIO AND THE RADICAL LEGACY OF THE 1960s by Robert Cohen, Bettina Aptheker

"The Free Speech Movement sent shock waves through campuses across the country and the world, resulting in changes in university regulations and educational access, teach-ins against the war in Vietnam, and (within three years) the historic, pro-democracy student uprisings in Paris and Prague, Mexico City and Santiago. Among the UC Berkeley students who led and participated in the Free Speech Movement were Jack Weinberg, who is now an international leader of Greenpeace; Jackie Goldberg, who until her recent retirement was a member of the California State Legislature; Rabbi Michael Lerner, now editor of Tikkun; and Susan Griffin, feminist author of a dozen best-selling books."

12/20/2009, The Wrap, Stuff a Stocking With 'Pictures at a Revolution', Peter McAlevey

"For instance, he's clearly most drawn to 'Bonnie and Clyde,' certainly a seminal movie whose violence was well understood by a young generation used, since the Berkeley Free Speech movement of 1964, to rioting in the streets."

12/18/2009, In These Times, One Year After Republic: Workers' Hidden Sit-Down Strike Tradition, Roger Bybee

"Overt sit-down tactics were re-kindled by the civil rights movement and the Free Speech movement at UC-Berkeley in the 1960s, and soon spread widely across urban centers and campuses, as detailed by historian Nelson Lichtenstein of UC-Santa Barbara, author of Walter Reuther: The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit."

12/17/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Missing the Point, H. Scott Prosterman

"People who choose to move to Berkeley are aware of the importance of our local history as it has impacted global trends. As a Michigan grad, I'm especially proud of the connection between Ann Arbor and Berkeley for their parallel traditions of academic excellence and positive activism. The Free Speech Movement began as an organic movement in Berkeley in reaction to the last days of the HUAC ugliness-possibly the ugliest chapter in domestic American history. But some historians ask if the FSM would have been as dynamic or effective as it has been without the support it drew from Students for a Democratic Society, which began two years earlier in Ann Arbor under Tom Hayden. I was proud to follow in Hayden's footsteps in Ann Arbor as a campus leader and point-man activist for important causes."

12/15/2009, CBS News, Jim Taylor CBS News Correspondent, Radio,

"(CBS) Jim Taylor was born in San Francisco and raised in the Bay area. He got his first taste of news and the impact of event-coverage while delivering the Berkeley Gazette newspaper in the hills above the UC Berkeley campus during the free speech movement of the sixties."

12/14/2009, Contra Costa Times, UC vandalism complicates protests, Matt Krupnick

"During the 1964 Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, 'one of the early arrests was somebody who was a recent graduate of Berkeley,' Johnston said. 'He was picked out for arrest because he was a nonstudent. The term in the 1960s was 'outside agitators.'"

12/11/2009, Los Angeles Times, 60 protesters arrested at UC Berkeley for occupying classroom building, authorities say, Gerrick D. Kennedy

"'[We want] a university that is accessible to all people, that is free to all people and that educates people,' Owen said in a telephone interview. 'Right now, the lessons we're learning is that you'll get beaten or arrested for standing up in what you believe in. 'It's very ridiculous the school is so proud of their diversity and having a role in the free speech movement," she said. "But they got those things because people did what we're doing now. They can't have it both ways.'"

12/10/2009, Eyeweekly.com, Know Your Plaid, E.D. Cauchi

"Plaid has been a symbol of anti-establishmenteers since the Scots wore tartans during rebellions against the English. Through the Free Speech Movement and '90s grunge (and in its life as a common rural accessory offering that necessary patina of legitimacy) plaid is, well, a little bit country, a little bit rock ' n' roll."

12/10/2009, Christian Science Monitor, Fee hikes bring student protests back to California universities, Michael B. Farrell

"Indeed, the similarities between the 1960s' protests and today's are 'easily exaggerated,' said David Hollinger, professor of history at Berkeley, in an e-mail. 'By and large, 1960s campus protests were not chiefly directed at issues in higher education as such. Now, the big issue is taxpayer support for higher education.' What's more, the students and administrators largely find themselves on the same side of the issue, he said. 'If someone occupies a building and the cops are called, everyone gets excited about that and too easily looses track of the fact that the administrators who call the cops and the people who occupy the building are both committed to the same large goals,' said Professor Hollinger. Still, there are some parallels between today's protests and those of the 1960s, says Lisa Rubens, a research specialist at the Regional Oral History Office at Berkeley. 'These student have certainly invoked the free speech movement in trying to save the university,' she says, referring to the protest movement at Berkeley in the mid-1960s that aimed to overturn school limits on political speech. She sees a similar commitment today to upholding the broader goals and 'the commitment to maintaining the public university.'"

12/04/2009, The Nation, UCLA Protests are a Sign of the Times - Now and Then, Jeff Kisseloff

"When students at UCLA recently demonstrated against tuition hikes and as a result were treated like children and warned about the 'limits of protest,' my mind immediately raced back to October 1964 when officials at Berkeley expressed similar finger-wagging contempt for students who believed that the First Amendment didn't end at the gates to the campus. Out of that sprung the Free Speech Movement, the first mass protest on a college campus since the 1930s. The FSM not only helped light the fire of student activism in Berkeley and across the country, it also spawned one of the most memorable quotes to come out of the '60s as well as maybe the decade's best student speech."

12/4/2009, The Daily Californian, It's 1964 No More, Senior Editorial Board

"Forty-five years ago this week, Mario Savio made an impassioned cry for awareness and freedom of expression that awoke a powerful movement on this campus. Today, references and comparisons to the Free Speech Movement are inescapable. But in the midst of another struggle on this campus to challenge the status quo, are Savio's words still relevant?"

12/3/2009, The Daily Californian, Protesters Interrupt Free Speech Celebration, Mollie Bloudoff-Indelicato

"Gar Smith, who was a campus activist in the 1960s, said that despite a small turnout, the rally was 'good work.' 'Sometimes it takes a small number of people to start a large movement,' he said. 'I am honored to join your generation in this fight for free speech.' One of the main criticisms of the protest was the alleged 'museum-ification' of the free speech movement. 'Free speech is not a fossil-it is a constant struggle, and that struggle continues right now on UC campuses through this movement,' said Praba Pilar, a graduate student of performance studies at UC Davis."

12/3/2009, The Daily Californian, Anniversary for Free Speech Movement on Sproul, YouTube Video

"The ASUC organized an anniversary event for the Free Speech Movement on Wednesday. Student protesters also spoke on Sproul that afternoon."

12/3/2009, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Free Speech Movement Commemoration Held at UC, Raymond Barglow

"The meeting was originally planned by the Associated Students (ASUC) and other campus organizations. They sent an e-mail message to FSM arrestees, said Susan Druding, 'inviting us to speak at the event, [but] we were asked not to say anything about the budget crisis or current events, only to speak about what happened 45 years ago.' Students who are protesting the budget cuts and fee increases met with some of the FSM veterans and agreed that the current protests deserved a hearing at the commemoration. Hasty negotiations just before the event resulted in a compromise: the protestors would be heard, followed by the scheduled speakers."

12/3/2009, The Berkeley Daily Planet, First Person: Remembering the Free Speech Movement On its 45th Anniversary, Raymond Barglow

"The social forces that we face today tell us that money for higher education simply is not there. We're up against not only a self-serving Board of Regents and Governor, and overpaid administrators reluctant to bite the hand that feeds them, but also against a federal government that starves public schools at the same time that it provides a banquet to the weapons manufacturers. And now the President aims to escalate the war in Afghanistan, costing many more hundreds of billions of dollars and many lives. Forty-five years ago was, it seems to me, a more hopeful time in our nation's history. Can today's protest movement on college campuses up and down the state keep hope alive? I don't know. But I'm encouraged when I perceive the Kantian community-mindedness that links the generations. My guess is that Mario would have appreciated that too."

12/2/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, UC protesters invoke Free Speech Movement, Nanette Asimov

"On Wednesday, three gray-haired campus activists from the '60s - Gretchen Lipow, Anita Medal, and Gar Smith - addressed the students, recalling their own experiences. 'I still remember how an officer held me so another could slap my face,' Smith said to loud boos. 'They were white men. I discovered from YouTube that today's students are being beaten by a fully integrated police force. That's progress!'"

12/3/2009, FluxRostrum, UC Berkeley Mario Savio Free Speech Movement 45th Ann., YouTube Video

"An intervention during the depoliticized, sanitized commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of Mario Savios famous speech. 'We will not permit the museumification of Berkeleys radical past, especially now, as we enter into a new cycle of struggle. The Free Speech Movement is not a way to sell coffee, nor is it a rhetorical sop the administration can use to pacify the existing movement.'"

12/2/2009, Contra Costa Times, Protesters shut down Free Speech Movement tribute, Matt Krupnick

"Some Free Speech Movement veterans who watched Wednesday's event said the current issues have yet to take on a life of their own, as they did in the 1960s. But many on the Berkeley campus at first ignored rallies 45 years ago, said Bob Roundy, an analyst in the academic personnel office who was a UC Berkeley student in the 1960s. 'The broader understanding (of the issues) grew with the Free Speech Movement,' he said. 'It wasn't instantaneous.' One former leader of the movement told current students to keep up the fight. 'What you're seeing here today is really a continuation of the fights we went through,' Gretchen Lipow told the group as many protesters chatted among themselves. 'Do your research and stay out there.'"

12/3/2009, The New York Times, The Bay Area Sampler, Michelle Quinn

"Clashing Protests | People protesting recent university fee hikes and other issues interrupted an event celebrating the 45th birthday of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley."

11/27/2009, The New Mexico Independent, Yes, N.M.'s budget woes are bad. But pain is relative, Trip Jennings

"Signs of California's ongoing budget catastrophe came last week as a 32 percent hike to student fees was approved for the University of California system, which encompasses several campuses across the state. The move incited student protests on UC's Berkeley campus reminiscent of the Free Speech movement and anti-war protests."

11/27/2009, Orange County Register, Campus protests: a look back, Andrew Galvin

"But the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam War protests tested Californian's pride in UC. In 1966, Ronald Reagan was elected governor 'on an outspokenly anti-student protest platform,' and in 1967, a Reagan-dominated UC Board of Regents fired Kerr, Starr wrote. In 1966-67, student fees were just 5.7 percent of the amount that the state contributed to UC. In 2008-09, student fees reached 53.4 percent of the state's contribution, according to the California Postsecondary Education Commission. The latest fee hike and the protests they inspired are a consequence of the economic recession and its decimation of the state's tax revenues. But if you ever wonder what happened to the statewide consensus that propelled UC to a place among the world's elite universities, look back to the big campus protests of the 1960s."

11/27/2009, New York Times, In a Home to Free Speech, a Paper Is Accused of Anti-Semitism, Jesse McKinley

"Still, she says she has no intention of stopping the publication of submitted letters, citing a commitment to free speech that is a legacy of the city where the Free Speech Movement was born in the 1960s. 'I have the old-fashioned basic liberal thing of believing that the remedy for speech you don't like is more speech,' said Ms. O'Malley, 69, a veteran local journalist who bought the paper in 2002 as a retirement project with her husband, Michael, now 72. 'If somebody says something you don't like, say what you think. And I felt it a privilege here in my middle age to be in a position to make that happen.'"

11/25/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Partisan Position: The UC Protest: Can It Succeed?, Raymond Barglow

"Although the path forward for today's campus advocates of public education is a challenging one, they will have many of us whose school years are in the past to keep them company. Raymond Barglow participated in UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in 1964 and is the founder of Berkeley Tutors Network."

11/24/2009, Oakland Examiner, UC fee increase will only exacerbate student loan crisis, Heather Ehmke

"The protests at UC Berkeley this past week have rendered national media coverage, echoing the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s when Berkeley became known as a radical university. It's refreshing to know that Berkeley still has those seeds of malcontent within her. Many of us are happy to see that the students are embracing their heritage of bucking the system."

11/23/2009, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Berkeley Protest: Fresh Anger in the Footsteps, Murray Sperber

"But then as now, the protests were about education. Often forgotten in the history of that era is the fact that the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964-the Ur-protest of American students that decade-was about education. We wanted freedom of speech on campuses and in classrooms; we protested the assembly-line education we were receiving. The most famous speech by Mario Savio, the FSM's leader, was about education. He urged students to put their bodies into the gears of the machine to disrupt it, and to fight back against the university administrators who were responding in their heavy-handed, factory-owner manner. He said nothing about peace, Vietnam, or drugs. He spoke only about education."

11/23/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, UC to look into police actions at protest, Nanette Asimov, Justin Berton

"On Monday, up to 100 demonstrators gathered on the steps of Wheeler Hall to protest what they considered overly aggressive action by police. They also called for a 1,000-person occupation of Wheeler Hall sometime in early December to coincide with the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, when 800 students were arrested inside Sproul Hall."

11/23/2009, Associated Content, Campus Protests Demand Change, Evoke History of Student Activism, Jacob Heselschwerdt

"The protests at the Berkeley and Santa Cruz campuses are just the latest in a long history of student activism in the California State University system. The Free Speech movement was pioneered at Berkeley in 1964. Further United States involvement in the Vietnam War and the arrest of Black Panther co-founder Huey Newton caused student protests to continue throughout the late 1960's at the Berkeley campus."

11/22/2009, Monthly Review Zine, Orange Alert on Education, Ra Ravishankar

"Beside the costs of a university education, there is also the issue of control. Control of public universities is currently vested in bodies such as the Board of Regents, Board of Trustees, etc. The Regents/Trustees are almost always men (and much less likely, women) of great wealth from the corporate world and are appointed by the Governor of the state for favors rendered in the past. In the words of the Free Speech Movement: Taken as a group, the Regents are representatives of only one thing -- corporate wealth. As major employers and as Regents of the University, they control more than money; they make money through the control of other men. They direct the productive energies of hundreds of thousands of human beings and set the limits to their opportunities for creative and satisfying achievements through work and study." [Eds. Note: source is Marvin Garson, "The Regents," 1965, available in full at http://content.cdlib.org/view?docId=kt9p30076p&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text]

11/22/2009, Martin Snapp blog, Remembering Mario, Martin Snapp

"Even today, opinions of the Free Speech Movement - aka FSM - are split. A few months ago, I wrote a story about the new Center on Civility in Public Discourse at Cal, funded by donations from the Class of '68, who were freshmen during FSM. Half the donors told me FSM was the greatest thing that ever happened, and they were contributing because they considered the new center to be the logical extension of all the good things about FSM. The other half said FSM was the worst thing that ever happened, and they were contributing to make up for all the bad things about FSM."

11/17/2009, Democracy Now, Why Are We Destroying Public Education? University of California Students and Staff Prepare for System-Wide Strike to Protest Cuts, Amy Goodman, et al

"AMY GOODMAN: I'm going to end with Blanca Misse. Yesterday we were at the Free Speech Cafe at the University of California, Berkeley, which honors the free speech movement back to 1964. And for people who aren't familiar with Mario Savio, who gave this famous speech, where he said, 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop.' What specifically are the actions that are happening here on the campus at UC Berkeley and also at UCLA?"

11/16/2009, Oakland Tribune, Award-winning TV news cameraman and Tribune photographer dies, Angela Woodal

"Award-winning TV cameraman and Oakland Tribune photographer Harold A. "Buck" Joseph had a front-row seat to the most tumultuous events in recent Bay Area history. Through the lens of his camera, the ex-Marine and avid ballroom dancer watched the '60s, '70s and '80s unfold - the Black Panthers, the Free Speech Movement, the San Francisco State University sit-ins and two presidential assassination attempts."

11/9/2009, The Independent Collegian, Visiting documentarian workshops with students, Katie Martin

"Quotes used throughout the film helped to further illustrate the concepts that the film displayed. Mario Savio's quote from the free speech movement of the 1960s lent a powerful ending note for the film."

11/5/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Remembering Alexander Hoffman, Elijah Wald and Lincoln Bergman

"In the 1960s, Hoffmann joined Charles Garry's legal team, working closely with the United Farm Workers and the Black Panther Party. His legal career reads like a chronology of the 1960s in the Bay Area, from opposition to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) to his involvement with the Farm Workers in Delano, the mass arrests at Sheraton-Palace Hotel, and the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement (FSM), during which he developed a lasting friendship with Mario Savio."

11/5/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Editorials: Dealing Sensibly with H1N1, Becky O'Malley

"Dr. Brunner's not just a physician, he's a political person, a veteran of the Free Speech Movement. I asked him what he thought of a story prominently featured on the front page of the New York Times on October 28 under the headline 'Shortage of Vaccine Poses Political Test for Obama.' This was the lead: 'The moment a novel strain of swine flu emerged in Mexico last spring, President Obama instructed his top advisers that his administration would not be caught flat-footed in the event of a deadly pandemic. Now, despite months of planning and preparation, a vaccine shortage is threatening to undermine public confidence in government, creating a very public test of Mr. Obama's competence.' Wendel took the words out of my mouth on this one. 'All he has to do is walk on water,' he quipped."

11/2/2009, The Irish Times, A woman with protest on her mind, Fiona McCann

"'In 1964, when I [Marsha Hunt] was a student at Berkeley and we resisted the police and held the free speech movement sit-in, we were risking our futures. We were not hippies. We were students, committed to something that we thought was important." Hence the show. 'My intention is to bear witness to something that I think is really, really important about the 1960s epoch that has been forgotten,' she says. 'We talk a lot about it being about love, and perhaps the most extraordinary thing is that it was about violence. About war, about protest, about resistance.' Forty years on from 1969, she's asking where all the protesters have gone. 'How is it that we feel that there are so many problems that we cannot make change? Why are people not marching in the United States to say we must have health care?'"

11/2/2009, The Daily Californian, New Biography Preserves the Life and Legend Of Mario Savio, Maggie Owens

"In our turbulent times as Berkeley students, with ever-rising tuition, budget cuts and consequent walkouts, it's nearly impossible to miss Savio's legacy in our political climate as a university. No matter which side of the debate or spectrum we may find ourselves, we can always recognize that it was Savio that paved the way for the activism that we see every day before us. 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part,' Savio once said. This quote adorns the wall of the Free Speech Movement Cafe. Cohen balances fact with sensation well. He never gets too mundane and yet never actually canonizes Savio. He approaches the entire subject, start to finish, with careful passion. But it would have been quite remarkable had he not managed to describe such a charismatic icon with passion. Ultimately, the appeal of the work comes not from Cohen's approach, which is an effective one, but from the desire to catch a glimpse of the famous Mario Savio beyond his legacy-the man behind the movement. There can be no better or more appropriate time to further understand a man who forever redefined what it means to be a UC Berkeley student,"

11/2/2009, In These Times, Free Speech Radical: Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, Don Lazere

"Savio's orthodox Catholic upbringing gradually morphed into sympathy with liberation theology and Dorothy Day's Catholic Worker movement. At Queens College in 1963, he spent the summer on a project organized by the campus Newman House, assisting the poor in Taxco, Mexico. That fall, his parents moved to California and he transferred to Berkeley. Baptized by San Francisco protests for civil rights and against the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1963-64, he became active in the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, whose campaign he joined for the 1964 Freedom Summer in Mississippi."

10/29/2009, Philadelphia Inquirer, Review: Kevin Starr concludes his 9-volume history of 20th-century California with a magisterial look at the late '40s through the '60s, John Timpane

"What a cast of characters: Nixon, Warren, Walt Disney, Ronald Reagan, Dave Brubeck, Herb Caen, Walter O'Malley, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Ray Bradbury, Dorothy Chandler, Jack Webb, Ray Kroc, Mario Savio, even the very young Joan Didion and Dianne Goldman (who would become Dianne Feinstein) - so many who shaped, or soon would shape, a nation as well as a state."

10/29/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Arts Calendar,

"MONDAY, NOV. 2 READINGS AND LECTURES David Lance Goines on 'The Free Speech Movement: Coming of Age in the 60s' at 7:30 p.m. at The Hillside Club, 2286 Cedar St. 848-3227. www.hillsideclub.org "

10/28/2009, Macalester College News, Macalester Student wins Mario Savio Young Activist Award, Barbara Laskin

"Although condemned by university administrators and public opinion at the time, the Free Speech Movement has been recognized for some years as having made a positive contribution to university life."

10/26/2009, UC Berkeley News, UC Berkeley amplifies national voice via The Berkeley Blog, Kathleen Maclay

"The forum is not an institutional blog with an 'official' voice, but rather an open exchange of ideas and opinions involving the campus as well as the local community and the country - a tradition at UC Berkeley since the founding of the Free Speech Movement on campus in the 1960s, said Claire Holmes, UC Berkeley associate vice chancellor of public affairs."

10/26/2009, Indybay, URGENT ALERT! Defend Women, Defend Choice! Rightwingers Assault Both in Berkeley!, Wex

"All day Monday this anti-abortion/anti-women group covered Sproul Plaza with (according to one outraged eyewitness) '...an elaborate huge huge display of bloody fetus pictures, targeting Obama, comparing abortion to Nazi genocide and lynching in the old south, and sporting a picture of Mario Savio as its 'free speech' centerpiece.' This horrendous display looks like it cost huge bucks, and they had a crew of dozens of anti-abortion 'disciples' including their own 'documentary' film crew and both speaker types but also plenty of them walking through the crowd dressed in pink or purple, mostly older but some younger, trying to engage students in conversations about the 'horrors' of abortion."

10/25/2009, Pacific Free Press, Talking Back with Retort, Iain Boal

"The burst of antinomian energy that flared here in the Bay Area in the 1960s, captured in the voices of Huey Newton and Mario Savio who articulated the demands of the Black Panthers and the Free Speech Movement, was soon snuffed out or suppressed."

10/22/2009, Pasadena College Courier, A look back with . . . Professor A.C. Panella, Hannah Leyva

"Most Interesting: When she was only 20, Panella had the chance to learn from one of the most famous student activists. 'I was lucky enough to work with Mario Savio, who was a leader of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the 60s,' she said. 'He was a phenomenal man.'"

10/22/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Recalling the Days When Savio Spoke for the Movement, Conn Hallinan

"A new generation of activists has appeared on the campuses, fighting to keep the university open to all Californians. They too have marched and struck, and are finding that they are most effective when they tap into their allies outside the ivy tower. There are many of those. The arrogance and elitism of the university has not changed a whit from the days when UC Chancellor Edward Strong and UC President Clark Kerr plotted and schemed against the FSM. The students who are digging in to take on the university and the regents would do well to read this book. Because in the end its message is simple: get your politics right, recruit allies in the wider world, and mobilize enough students to pull down the walls."

10/20/2009, New York Times, Think Again, Stanley Fish

"It was not always thus. In the early sixties, when I taught at UCBerkeley, faculty members received special and respectful attention from merchants and shopkeepers. Weeks after the Free Speech Movement of 1964, we had already learned that it was best to keep our university affiliation under wraps. A corner was turned and it doesn't seem that there is a way back. David Berman tells us that "the solution is to stop whining and behave well." I have been preaching that lesson myself, but even if it were heeded (an unlikely outcome) it probably wouldn't be enough."

10/9/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Law Students to Launch Torture Accountability Initiative, Riya Bhattacharjee

"Berkeley Law spokesperson Susan Gluss told the Daily Planet that students were allowed to form whatever group they wanted at Boalt. 'It could be to discuss all sorts of controversial issues-political, international, medical--UC Berkeley is the home of the free speech movement and we are a critical part of it,' she said. 'I don't think any group has ever been denied permission by the university.'"

10/8/2009, Prison Planet, The New Left Was Right, Dylan Hales

"The Berkeley 'Free Speech Movement' exploded in the fall of1964 after the University of California fiercely enforced a rule barring political activities that weren't directly subordinate to the two major political parties. Led by Mario Savio, an amalgamation of libertarians, liberals, conservatives, and all points in-between participated in several protests and sit-ins that resulted in ma-jor concessions by the university. In a series of speeches - one of which was made on the roof of a police car holding another member of the FSM - Savio summed up the nature of the beast in a style rarely seen before or since: 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part! You can't even passively take part!And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus-and you've got to make it stop!'"

10/8/2009, globalgrind.com, We Are the Obama Effect (Part II), Sara Haile-Mariam

"Students for a Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Students for a Democratic Society, The Berkeley Free Speech Movement, are our examples. They organized sit-ins and freedom rides to Mississippi to register voters. They took on racism, sexism and a senseless war. They weren't perfect. Some went on to become radicals and advocated for the violence that they entered politics to stop. Yet, they serve as an example for us, of what we should avoid, and of our own capabilities. What if we used music to educate? What if artists rhymed about policy and politics?"

10/8/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, UC Students Gear Up for Oct. 24 Conference, Riya Bhattacharjee

"UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost George W. Breslauer sent an e-mail to faculty, staff, students and members of the campus community thanking them for the 'orderly, peaceful and effective way in which the Sept. 24 budget protest actions were held on and around campus.' The letter acknowledged that, although a large number of people took part in the day's actions, there was minimal disruption to university operations and classes. 'Berkeley is proud of being the home of the Free Speech Movement and yesterday's protests exemplified the best of our tradition of effective civil action,' the letter said. "

10/6/2009, The Daily Californian, 45 Years Later, Walkout Echoes Free Speech Fight, Robert Cohen

"Whether or not the current struggle to preserve California's low-cost public higher education succeeds this year, it is an effort that is totally consistent with Savio's democratic educational vision. In this sense, those who marched against budget cuts were keeping alive the spirit of the Free Speech Movement, whose 45th anniversary we mark this fall semester."

10/4/2009, The Guardian UK, The promise of affordable higher education is dying. The University of California's students and faculty demand answers, Judith Butler

"It may seem that the thousands of people who converged on the University of California Berkeley's famous Sproul Plaza, home of the free speech movement, on 24 September were simply upset about money. Where has all the money gone? Who has taken it away? And perhaps there is no one to blame."

10/1/2009, The Writer's Almanac, On this day..., Garrison Keillor

"On this day 45 years ago the Free Speech Movement was launched on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The day before, on September 30th, 1964, UC Berkeley students associated with the civil rights groups SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee) and CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) had set up tables on the Berkeley campus to fundraise. The university had a policy that prohibited off-campus political action, so the students had been denied permits and were tabling in brazen violation of university regulations. Campus officials approached five people sitting at the fundraising table, jotted down their names, and told them to appear at a disciplinary hearing before the dean at 3:00 that afternoon."

10/1/2009, The Daily Californian, At UC Berkeley, Activism Comes With the Territory, Javier Panzar

"Lynne Hollander Savio, who was married to Mario Savio-one of the Free Speech Movement's most well-known leaders-said she saw the walkout as a 'resurgence' in activism. 'It's certainly important for Berkeley students to not focus so narrowly on their academic education that they forget their roles as citizens in the larger community,' she said. However, she credits the Free Speech Movement's success in part to the cheap housing and tuition fees of the time. Students then had to work only part time and enjoyed the freedom to be more politically active. In contrast, today's scarce job market makes students more career-oriented and focused on their futures."

10/1/2009, The Associated Press, Today in History, Oct. 1, The Associated Press

"1964 - The U.S. Free Speech Movement is launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

10/1/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, The Corporate University Grinds On, Becky O'Malley

"Will rallies and walkouts make any difference in this discouraging picture? As long as so many researchers are content to take home generous paychecks from BP and its ilk, protests by the teaching faculty and by students are not likely to prevent the machine from working, as Mario Savio and his Free Speech Movement colleagues earnestly hoped they would. In his famous 'throw your bodies upon the gears' speech, Savio derided a 'well-meaning liberal' who compared the president of the university to 'the manager of a firm' and the regents to 'his board of directors.' That was 1964, but not much has changed."

10/1/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Student Protesters Gear Up for Oct. 24 Conference at UC Berkeley, Riya Bhattacharjee

"UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Executive Vice-Chancellor and Provost George W. Breslauer sent an e-mail to faculty, staff, students and members of the campus community thanking them for the "orderly, peaceful and effective way in which the Sept. 24 budget protest actions were held on and around campus." The letter acknowledged that although a large number of people took part in the day's actions, there was minimal disruption to university operations and classes. 'Berkeley is proud of being the home of the Free Speech Movement and yesterday's protests exemplified the best of our tradition of effective civil action," the letter said. "Your actions have sent a clear and important message to our legislators and to the California public that the State's disinvestment in public higher education must stop. We hope that we can build on these actions together to continue to inform the public and the State legislature that cuts to the University of California undermine our state's future and that it is in the interests of all of the people of our great State of California to reinvest in public higher education.'"

9/29/2009, fxstreet, Into the Fourth Turning, John Mauldin

"[Neil] HOWE: There is only one Prophet archetype generation alive today: the Boomer Generation. We define them as being born between 1943 and 1960. Those born in 1943 would have been part of the free-speech movement at Berkeley in 1964, the first fiery class whose peers include Bill Bradley, Newt Gingrich, and Oliver North. The last cohorts of this generation came of age with President Carter in the Iran Hostage Crisis."

9/28/2009, The Nation, The Student Sex Column Movement, Alex DiBranco

"Reimold conceptualizes the resistance to student sex columns as an authoritarian and protective parental mindset that reacts against "the student generation taking back control of the sexual messages targeted at them." This rings partially true; after all, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the '60s was also about student activism versus the control of the administration and older generation. But--again, as in the '60s--antagonism stems from fellow students as well."

9/28/2009, The Bulletin, The Week In History, The Associated Press

"Thursday, October 1 In 1800, Spain ceded Louisiana to France in a secret treaty. In 1908, Henry Ford introduced his Model T automobile to the market. In 1918, Damascus fell to Arab forces as Turkish Ottoman officials surrendered the city. In 1936, Gen. Francisco Franco was proclaimed the head of an insurgent Spanish state. In 1949, Mao Zedong proclaimed the People's Republic of China during a ceremony in Beijing. In 1958, the American Express charge card made its official debut. In 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

9/27/2009, The Los Angeles Times, College radicalism redux, Cathleen Decker

"The campus protests of the 1960s happened long enough ago that the images filter through in black-and-white, the tint of television newsreels and newspaper photographs back in the day: Mario Savio, ushering in the Free Speech Movement from atop a police car and exhorting fellow Berkeley students to block the arrest of their friend in the car below. The months-long student strike at San Francisco State, marked by the college president yanking out speaker wires to disrupt a rally. And as the 1970s dawned, the post-Kent State march at UCLA that disintegrated into scores of arrests and 10 injured cops."

09/26/2009, Pasadena Star-News, Perspectives: UC students rally, protest proposed 32 percent tuition hikes,

"This editorial appeared in The Daily Californian, the independent student newspaper at UC Berkeley, last week: On Thursday, Sproul Plaza - the locale closely linked to the Free Speech Movement - played host to a new campus movement to challenge the governing and funding of this university. Though the Free Speech Movement is one of this campus's most well-known legacies, for many years the spirit of student activism at UC Berkeley has seemed to virtually disappear. And it is undoubtedly a good thing that students are finally getting informed and doing something about the long-term problems facing the UC system."

9/25/2009, The Socialist Worker, Thousands join UC walkout, Todd Chretien

"At UC Berkeley, the oldest campus in the system, Sproul Plaza--the historic site of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s--was the site of the largest rally of the day, with 4,000 students, faculty, staff, alumni and community supporters chanting 'Whose university? Our university!'"

9/25/2009, The Daily Californian, Thousands Rally on Sproul Plaza Against Cuts, Emma Anderson, Melody Ng and Tomer Ovadia

"Some speakers at the rally drew parallels between today's events and the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. 'They're telling us, 'screw you,' said African American studies professor Percy Hintzen. 'They're telling us that they're going to take it out on our backs. And we have to be courageous like the '60s ... Berkeley has changed the world. We have been called to change the world over and over again, and we are going to win this war.'"

9/25/2009, The Daily Californian, Crowds Flood UC Berkeley in Protest, Emma Anderson, Melody Ng and Tomer Ovadia

"Some speakers at the rally drew parallels between today's events and the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. 'They're telling us, 'screw you,'"'said African American studies professor Percy Hintzen. 'They're telling us that they're going to take it out on our backs. And we have to be courageous like the '60s ... Berkeley has changed the world. We have been called to change the world over and over again, and we are going to win this war.'"

9/25/2009, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Solidarity shown during UC walkout, Sarah Morrison

"While the protests began at 7.15 am yesterday with strikes initiated by the University Professional and Technical Employees union (UPTE) and the Coalition of University Employees (CUE) throwing up a picket line at the campus, by midday the plaza was crammed full with an estimated 5000 protestors in a scene reminiscent of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s."

9/25/2009, Monthly Review Zine, UC Workers Strike as Faculty, Students Boycott Classes, Seth Sandronsky

"Lisa Kermish is a UPTE vice president and administrative analyst at UC Berkeley, who spoke from Sproul Plaza at the campus. 'Today is a remarkable show of our union members and supporters coming out in solidarity and coalition with faculty, students, and other unions," she said. "I haven't seen crowds like this since the 1980s South Africa apartheid divestment movement and 1960s Free Speech Movement.'"

9/24/2009, Wilton Villager, Local printmaker to display work at CCP, A.J. O'CONNELL

"The third piece is titled 'Mario Savio,' and depicts Savio, an activist with the free speech movement in Berkeley, Calif., delivering his "put your bodies upon the gears" address at the University of California. 'My work is not decorative,' said Frasconi."

9/24/2009, whoisylvia, Save Our University From What?, Sylvia Paull

"An incongruity of constituencies -- students, a few professors, unions representing gardeners, janitors, and administrative assistants, old-time revolutionaries left over from the Free Speech Movement, and demonstration-nostalgic alumni -- joined forces, a few thousand strong, at UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza at noon today for a demonstration to "save the University," presumedly from budget cuts enacted by the UC Regents this summer. The argument, inferred from all the signage -- UC is not BP, Chop from the Top, and Keep the University Public -- is that cuts should be made in the administration not in staff and faculty wages and definitely not by raising student tuition"

9/24/2009, The Guardian, University of California campuses erupt into protestStudents and faculty members demonstrate against plans to raise tuition fees and cut workers, Mary O'Hara

"For many this latest wave of protest in California is reminiscent of the 1960s when UC Berkeley in particular earned a reputation as the epicentre of student activism when it spawned the Free Speech Movement. It was also the last time a former Hollywood actor, Ronald Reagan, was governor. Author and scholar at UC Berkeley's geography department Gray Brechin, who was an undergraduate at Berkeley during the 60s unrest said the current dispute had been "simmering" under the surface for months."

09/24/2009, The Emory Wheel, Fighting the Good Fight, 1969, Rodney Derrick

"The Free Speech Movement started in Berkeley in 1964. Yet this energy, plus opposition to Vietnam and the kaleidoscope of a Woodstock generation took five years to come to Emoryland and the Southeast."

9/24/2009, The Daily Californian, On the Eve of Demonstration, Professors Call for Activism, Javier Panzar

"Junior Ricardo Gomez, founder of Berkeley Students Against the Cuts, is looking forward to today as a big day for the student body. 'Cal has a really rich history of student activism-it has worked in the past,' Gomez said, citing the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s and recent movements to save the ethnic studies department. 'We need to remember that right now more than ever.'"

9/24/2009, The Daily Californian, HUNDREDS TO RALLY AGAINST BUDGET CUTS TODAY, Angelica Dongallo and Zach E.J. Williams

"If turnout at the walkout is as large as organizers expect, it could turn out to be the Free Speech Movement of this generation. Many members of the UC Berkeley community said they do not remember an occasion when staff, students and faculty all banded together around a central cause, at least in the recent past."

9/24/2009, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Thousands Protest Budget Cuts on U. of California Campuses, Josh Keller

"The largest crowd appeared to be at Berkeley, where police officials estimated that 5,000 people gathered for a noontime rally on Sproul Plaza, the historic site of protests during the Free Speech Movement. Several speakers lamented the university's dire budget situation, and protesters held signs and chanted, 'Whose university? Our university!'"

9/24/2009, Indybay, Thousands at labor/student picketlines at California universities,

"This fall is of course the 45th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley that was also a milestone in history as it won the right of the students to be treated as adults and engage in political activity on campus and it was part of the anti-racist movements of the 1960s which resulted in affirmative action programs at all universities to admit more students of color and more women. Previously, most university students were white men. It is only since around 2000 that women were the majority of university students and at around 50% of the students at law schools and medical schools. The FSM website is linked to the strike: http://www.fsm-a.org/ "

9/24/2009, Indybay, KPFA's poor coverage of UC strike,

"KPFA is in such a moribund state that its coverage of the 9/24/09 UC statewide labor/student strike was miniscule and NONE OF IT WAS LIVE. This writer can easily remember that LIVE COVERAGE of the 1964 Free Speech Movement's sit-in at Sproul Hall by KPFA, including the screaming students as they were thrown down the stairs by the National Guard and County Sheriffs, called to action by Democratic Governor Pat Brown, father of current Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown, and the LIVE COVERAGE of the protests against the US war against Vietnam and against the draft, which took place almost daily in Berkeley as students could be drafted before 1973, and the war escalated between 1964 and 1971. It was this LIVE COVERAGE that built the solid financial support for KPFA. "

9/24/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Walkout, Rally Hailed as Rebirth of UC Activism, Richard Brenneman

"The action, endorsed by the American Association of University Professors, the University of California Student Association, UC Berkeley Graduate Assembly, the Associated Students of the University of California, CalSERVE and campus unions, is being heralded as the return of broad-based activism to the campus that gave birth to the Free Speech Movement."

9/24/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Thousands Rally to Save Education- A New Movement Rising in Berkeley?, Richard Brenneman

"During the noon rally, Michael Delacour, one of the co-founders of People's Park, told a reporter he hadn't seen such a large protest in Sproul Plaza for decades. And at least one veteran of the Free Speech Movement was on hand with a sign saluting her modern day counterparts."

9/24/2009, ABC 7 News, UC students, staff protest budget cuts, Cecilia Vega

"'40 years ago, with Mario Savio on these same steps, was here it was a free speech movement,' said a student to the crowd."

9/23/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Freedom's Orator,' by Robert Cohen, Jonah Raskin

"From October 1964 to April 1965, Savio was the most famous - and notorious - student activist in the United States. He was also the progenitor of a radical style that would be borrowed and adapted by Abbie Hoffman of the Yippies and Mark Rudd of the Students for a Democratic Society. Like them, Savio repeatedly defied college administrators, including Clark Kerr, the liberal president of the University of California, who recognized Savio's 'genius at understanding crowds.'"

9/22/2009, The Daily Californian, Walk the Talk, Senior Editorial Board

"On Thursday, Sproul Plaza-the locale closely linked to the Free Speech Movement-will play host to a new campus movement to challenge the governing and funding of this university. Though the Free Speech Movement is one of this campus's most well-known legacies, for many years the spirit of student activism at UC Berkeley has seemed to virtually disappear. And it is undoubtedly a good thing that students are finally getting informed and doing something about the long-term problems facing the UC system."

9/21/2009, NorthumberlandView, NDPers Join Free Speech Movement?, Wally Keeler

"Once upon a time (early 60's) at UCLA, a large portion of the student body affiliated with left-eaning politics went on a march to advocate FREE SPEECH. Many documents and photographs can be found at the Free Speech Movement Archives." (sic)

9/17/2009, UC Berkeley News, Fernando Botero exhibit exploring Abu Ghraib abuses opens at Berkeley Art Museum, Kathleen Maclay

"'Fernando Botero's artful commentary has resonated with people around the world,' said UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. 'UC Berkeley - with its excellent and innovative art museum, leading centers for Latin American studies and human rights, top-ranked departments of art practice and history, and as birthplace of the Free Speech Movement - is the perfect home for Botero's Abu Ghraib collection.'"

9/11/2009, The Los Angeles Times, William Trombley dies at 80; journalist reshaped The Times' coverage of higher education, Elaine Woo

"His stories documented the upheaval of the period, including the birth of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley and the firing of UC President Clark Kerr."

9/10/2009, Santa Barbara Independent, UCSB Arts & Lectures Turns 50, Charles Donelan

"Kerr's dream was not long in colliding with the realities of the Vietnam War, the Free Speech Movement, and the eventual waning of the military-industrial complex that underwrote so much of the development of his beloved UC campuses."

9/9/2009, Mail Tribune, Reeve Hennion remembered as civic leader, Damian Mann

"Born on Dec. 7, 1941 - Pearl Harbor Day - in Ventura, Calif., Hennion went on to work for United Press International for 22 years before coming to Jackson County. In an obituary that he prepared before his death, Hennion wrote that he covered many of the top stories of the '60s, including the Berkeley free speech movement and the Cesar Chavez farm worker movement. He was a bureau chief in Hawaii, then an editor in San Francisco in the '70s, supervising the coverage of the Patty Hearst kidnapping. He later became western division manager for UPI in San Francisco."

9/8/2009, Portland Monthly, Review: Robert Boyd's Conspiracy Theory, Lisa Radon

"The big reveal comes in footage of Mario Savio, the 1960's Berkeley activist, here sounding like a 1930's labor organizer: 'There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who own it that unless you are free the machine will be prevented from working at all.' The piece pivots on this (inspired) speech. Boyd is half criticizing the conspiracy kooks ('And that was the first time I was abducted by an alien.') and half saying the kooks may be kooky but they've got one thing right: "forces" are controlling the 'machine' and at least the kooks are doing something about it. Are you?"

9/4/2009, The Daily Californian, Cuts Harm UC's Quality and Character, Ricardo Gomez, Viola Tang, Tanya Smith and Shannon Steen

"The work of student, staff and faculty in the Free Speech Movement, the struggles for disability rights, ethnic studies, South-African divestment and the women's movement are deeply entrenched in the history of our campus. It is crucial for us to stand together in this struggle to hold the doors to this university open for future students and to preserve the values on which it was founded."

9/4/2009, Los Angeles Chronicle, HUGE LINEUP FOR FALL SAN FRANCISCO WOODSTOCK CONCERT,

"Scoop Nisker - KFOG; David Harris - speaker; Matthew Rosenthal - Prevent Hate; Bettina Aptheker - Free Speech Movement; Ben Fong -Torres (Rolling Stone); David Hilliard - Black Panther Party; Benjamin Hernandez - Harts and Hands elders; Blue Thunder - spiritual healer, Teton; Dennis Banks - AIM Wounded Knee; Dennis Peron and Richard Eastman (Marijuana Initiative); David Rovic; Rabbi Joseph Langer ; Ed Rosenthal; Terrance Hallinan (Former SF DA); Paul "Lobster" Wells (DJ), Aron "Pieman" Kay (from the Yippies); Alex Reymundo - comedian;"

9/3/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Just one glance, then off to Walgreens, Leah Garchik

"Working on a story about the effect of state budget cuts on UC students and faculty, The Chronicle's Nanette Asimov, who's written about education for 20 years, visited the UC Berkeley campus. She chose random people to interview, and, in keeping with the rules of reporting, asked each for his or her name. But this time, no one - whether student or faculty or teaching assistant - wanted to identify himself. Asimov, who'd had no trouble doing similar interviews at San Francisco State the day before, says she'd never before encountered this reluctance, this fear of reprisal. It's especially eerie, she notes, in the home of the Free Speech Movement."

8/21/2009, Truthdig, A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, Peter Richardson

"Although the Firing Line episode produced more heat than light, it showed that Scheer was becoming the magazine's face to the world. He was also recruiting more staff from his Berkeley circle. One such recruit was Peter Collier, a graduate student in English who dropped his dissertation on Jane Austen and joined the Free Speech Movement." ... "1961, [Sol] Stern began a doctoral program in political science at Berkeley, where he also worked with Scheer and David Horowitz on a radical journal called Root and Branch. Later, he became involved in the Free Speech Movement, dropped out of his graduate program, and joined Ramparts, where he wrote or contributed to many of the magazine's most memorable pieces, including the CIA stories." ... "His [David Horowitz] book on Berkeley activism, Student, was edited by Saul Landau and published by Ballantine in 1962. Student sold briskly in paperback and reportedly inspired Mario Savio, a key leader in the Free Speech Movement, to move to Berkeley." ... "Likewise, McWilliams commissioned Hunter Thompson's articles on two Bay Area phenomena, the Hell's Angels and Free Speech Movement."

8/21/2009, ScienceBlogs, Walt at Random: The Library Voice of the Radical Middle, Walt Crawford

"Another digression: I can get irritable about free speech issues partly because I was at UC Berkeley throughout The Troubles. The Free Speech Movement was precisely about prior restrictions on speech--at the time, there were whole categories of speakers who could not appear anywhere on the Berkeley campus, thanks to restrictions from the Regents. Understand: I wasn't directly involved with FSM (although I should have been), but I listened. They were dead on--and they expected consequences. When they were arrested for sitting in, they dealt with it, they didn't try to duck it. Oh, and they won: the restrictions were lifted."

8/11/2009, Wednesday Journal, Pragmatic pacifists, Tom Holmes

"Who are those people standing on the corner of Lake and Harlem most Saturday afternoons waving placards that declare 'War Is Not the Answer,' urging motorists to honk in support and flashing the peace sign? One of them is named Roger Beltrami, an Oak Park resident who worked as a college English professor and then an IT manager before retiring. Beltrami said he became a radical in the 1960s after witnessing three events. First, he was wandering across the Berkeley campus in 1964 when he saw a football player push a 98-pound graduate student named Carol Spindler down the steps of Wheeler Hall. The young women, who had been protesting the Vietnam War, broke her leg and hip. A few months later, while he was walking by the W.E.B. DuBois House on campus, somebody set off a bomb inside, and Beltrami got hit with flying glass. The third experience involved a visit he made to a rally in support of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. 'Ronald Reagan [then governor of California] sent the National Guard over in helicopters,' he recalled, 'and tear-gassed us. I was standing next to a woman holding her baby who was choking. Those three things turned me permanently radical, and I've been doing it ever since.'"

8/9/2009, Trans World News, West Fest seeking original Woodstock '69 veterans in bay area., Boots Hughston

"40th Anniversary; Scoop Nisker - KFOG; David Harris - speaker; Matthew Rosenthal - Prevent Hate; Bettina Aptheker - Free Speech Movement; Ben Fong -Torres (Rolling Stone); David Hilliard - Black Panther Party; Benjamin Hernandez - Harts and Hands elders; Blue Thunder Dennis Banks - AIM Wounded Knee; Dennis Peron and Richard Eastman (Marijuana Initiative); David Rovic; Rabbi Joseph Langer ; Terrance Hallinan (Former SF DA); Paul "Lobster" Wells (DJ), Aron "Pieman" Kay (from the Yippies)"

8/2/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Holiday magazine: A majestic trip to 1961 S.F., Richard Rapaport

"Taken together, according to Tynan, they illustrate that 'In this bright, free-wheeling, precipitous city ... a new America is being made, far away from the imperatives of the Pentagon and Madison Avenue.' Within very few years, Tynan's prescience would be proved with the enshrinement of the Beat generation and the rise of the Free Speech Movement and the hippies."

07/26/2009, Pasadena Star News, No end to free speech at UC Berkeley, Leslie Toy

"Walking across Sproul Plaza, a landmark for the 1964-65 Free Speech Movement, card tables line the way daily. Amid the vast variety of campus clubs their members set up there to attract potential converts, you can always find organizations of protesting students. Yet it's not as if there is a weekly uproar that unifies everyone. Or very many people at all."

7/25/2009, Los Angeles Times, The famed lawyer's latest cause is overturning Proposition 8 and legalizing same-sex marriage, Patt Morrison

"You went to Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement. How did you fit in? I was president of the Boalt Hall Republican group. I think there were five of us during the Goldwater-Johnson election of 1964. I don't think they considered us much of a threat. I think the people in Berkeley thought of us as a sort of quirky novelty."

7/19/2009, Los Angeles Times, Kenneth M. Stampp dies at 96; UC Berkeley historian repudiated paternalistic interpretations of slavery, Elaine Woo

"Stampp was the author of "The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South," a 1956 book that marked a turning point in historians' treatment of slavery. Rejecting the moonlight-and-magnolias mythology that inspired such stereotypes as the benevolent plantation owner and the smiling black mammy, he concluded that slavery was in fact a "most profound and vexatious social problem," a radical view in an America that had just begun to experience the tremors of the modern civil rights movement." [ed. nite: Stampp was a faculty supporter of the FSM and bailed Bettina Aptheker out of Santa Rita]

7/17/2009, UC Berkeley News, Cell biologist Richard Strohman has died at 82, Robert Sanders

"Strohman's passion for innovation in cellular and genetic research paralleled his outspoken participation in movements for change on the UC Berkeley campus, Zaretsky said. He supported the Free Speech Movement in 1964, when students demonstrated for their constitutional right to express political views to end racial discrimination. He was a member of the Faculty Peace Committee which opposed the Vietnam war, and a member of the group Faculty for Social Responsibility, which, in the 1980s, promoted nuclear disarmament and opposed a U.S. military build-up and interventionist policies in Central America."

7/16/2009, The Daily Times, Peace signs and trying times: The legendary Joan Baez perseveres through it all, Steve Wildsmith

"Introduced at the Newport Folk Festival in 1959, Baez was immediately heralded as one of the torch-bearers for the then-burgeoning folk movement. Four years later, she stood beside Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at the Lincoln Memorial while he gave his "I Have a Dream" speech, and for the rest of that turbulent decade that was the 1960s, she took part in almost every conceivable protest against injustice, oppression and war. In 1964, she withheld 60 percent of her income tax from the Internal Revenue Service to protest spending on the Vietnam War ... she participated in the Free Speech Movement at the University of California-Berkeley and co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence ... she protested alongside Cesar Chavez and migrant farm workers on behalf of fair wages in 1966 ... she traveled to Hanoi in the early 1970s, meeting with starving North Vietnamese."

7/14/2009, opednews, My Non-Interview with a CIA Recruiter in 1966, GL Rowsey

"The next year or sometime during the next ten, as I drifted undrafted around California and the American Southwest and dropped farther ever farther out, it dawned on me that: (1) Getting military and CIA recruiters off campus at UC-Berkeley was a big part of what got the Free Speech Movement rolling in 1964;" [ed note: significant awarenesss of CIA on campus may have begun post-FSM.]

7/13/2009, Hamptons Online, Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center Hosts Joan Baez,

"Baez remains a musical force of nature whose influence is incalculable - she's marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, sung on the first Amnesty International tour and just last year, stood alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London's Hyde Park. She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then 40 years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war."

7/10/2009, The Telegraph, Joan Baez, one folkie flower not gone, Vicki Bennington

According to her official biography, "Her influence is incalculable. Having marched on the front line of the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King Jr., inspiring Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, singing on the first Amnesty International tour and standing alongside Nelson Mandela when the world celebrated his 90th birthday in London's Hyde Park, she brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then 40 years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war."

7/10/2009, Hartford Courant, McNamara's Ghosts in Afghanistan, Tom Hayden

"The Vietnam War was the greatest American folly of the 20th century. Applied to large universities, the same scientific management approaches provoked the Free Speech Movement. And of course, Ford is in ruins."

6/1/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Ronald Takaki, Cal ethnic studies pioneer, dies, Matthai Kuruvila

"'I was born intellectually and politically in Berkeley in the 1960s,' Professor Takaki said. He was moved by the moral vision of Martin Luther King Jr. to join the Free Speech Movement. The slaying of student activists registering voters in Mississippi inspired Professor Takaki to do a study of slavery for his doctoral dissertation. The Watts Riots in 1965 helped push UCLA to develop the first course in black history a year later, Professor Takaki told The Chronicle. He was asked to teach it."

5/31/2009, New York Times, Ronald Takaki, a Scholar on Ethnicity, Dies at 70, William Grimes

"He continued his education at Berkeley, where he earned a master's degree in 1962 and a doctorate in history in 1967. He was deeply influenced by the Free Speech movement at the university and by the civil rights struggles in the South. "I was born intellectually and politically in Berkeley in the '60s," he told The San Francisco Chronicle in 2003."

5/28/2009, UC Berkeley News, Ronald Takaki, pioneer and legend in ethnic studies, dies at age 70, Yasmin Anwar

"Takaki went on to earn a master's degree in 1962 and a Ph.D. in history in 1967 from UC Berkeley, where he became drawn to campus activism, including the Free Speech Movement. "I was born intellectually and politically in Berkeley in the '60s," he told a San Francisco Chronicle reporter in 2003 after winning the Bay Area Book Reviewers Association's Fred Cody Award for lifetime achievement."

5/27/2009, UC Berkeley News, Ronald Takaki, pioneering scholar of race relations, dies at 70, Yasmin Anwar

"Ronald TakakiDuring his more than four decades at UC Berkeley, Takaki joined the Free Speech Movement, established the nation's first ethnic studies Ph.D. program as well as Berkeley's American Cultures requirement for graduation, and advised President Clinton in 1997 on his major speech on race."

5/21/2009, The Press Democrat, Graton resident is UC Berkeley's top graduate, Meg McConahey

"Crane didn't have to travel to the birthplace of the free-speech movement to become engaged in social causes. Her parents were social activists."

5/14/2009, The Union, Amy Goodman: Baucus' raucous caucus, Amy Goodman

"Mario Savio led the Free Speech Movement on the UC Berkeley campus. In 1964, he said: 'There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.' 'Unless you're free,' the Baucus 13 might add, "'o speak.' The current official debate has locked single-payer options out of the discussion, but also escalated the movement -- from Healthcare-NOW! to Single Payer Action -- to shut down the orderly functioning of the debate, until single-payer gets a seat at the table."

5/13/2009, Capitol Hill Blue, Round Table, Phil Hoskins

"Events on this date ... * 1960 - Hundreds of UC Berkeley students congregate for the first day of protest against a visit by the House Un-American Activities Committee. Thirty-one students are arrested, and the Free Speech Movement is born."

5/6/2009, Oakland Tribune, 'Up Against the Wall': Berkeley posters from the 1960s and '70s on display, Kristin Bender

"When Michael Rossman, an activist in the Free Speech Movement, died last May, he left behind about 25,000 vibrant posters that promoted concerts and rallies, advertised political campaigns, and gave ink to social causes, such as the women's movement, gay liberation and marijuana legalization. Rossman collected the posters starting in about 1977, carefully untacking them from light posts once an event was over, scanning eBay for them and scouring flea markets and thrift stores for a find."

5/1/2009, Washington Monthly, Death in Stuttgart: Revisiting Germany's 1970s war on terror, Paul Hockenos

"Aust also neglects to flesh out the 1960s student movement-die Studentenbewegung-which grew out of the disarmament campaigns of the '50s and early '60s. German students began to organize to liberalize the educational system, purge academia of old Nazis, and explore the roots of Third World poverty. Their inspiration was the U.S. civil rights campaign, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, and the earliest Marches on Washington. It was the brutality that the police inflicted on the student protesters that radicalized the movement, which originally was not violent, revolutionary, or ultraleftist."

5/1/2009, Denver Post, Free speech for some, Mike Rosen

"How ironic that left-wing college activism was launched at the University of California- Berkeley in the 1960s as the 'Free Speech Movement.' For today's college lefties, free speech is a one-way street. They justify this double standard with an arrogant, self-absorbed, self- righteous belief that the ends justify the means, that they alone have a monopoly on truth, and that heretics cannot be tolerated. The broken glass that halted Tancredo's speech is a symbolic flashback to the forebears of these UNC student thugs: the SS and Hitler Youth gangs that terrorized Jews. The violence is only different in degree. Student lefties have pushed pies in the faces of conservative speakers on campus. On principle, that is no less an affront to the First Amendment than clubs or guns."

4/30/2009, Counterpunch, The McCarthyism That Horowitz Built, Dana L. Cloud

"From the 1964 free speech movement to today's anti-occupation organizations, campuses have always been places where struggles for justice break out. This potential might explain why, losing ground in politics and the economy, the Right seeks to maintain its grip on outspoken faculty and students. David Horowitz, Laura Ingraham, the Association of College Trustees and Alumni, and the like have played their assigned roles in fostering a new McCarthyism that has given rise to a series of witch-hunts against both prominent and emerging critical scholars and activists."

4/30/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, People's Park Plus, Judy Gumbo Albert

"The Free Speech Movement's Jack Weinberg coined the phrase: 'Don't Trust Anyone Over Thirty' which morphed into Yippie leader Jerry Rubin's 'Kill Your Parents'-a slogan which, Jerry later admitted, didn't work because people thought he meant it literally. But symbolically Jack and Jerry were right-to change the system and completely re-invent ourselves, we had to break from the repressive, war-mongering, right wing, dysfunctional values of our parent's generation."

4/26/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Dalai Lama promotes peace through dialogue, Peter Fimrite, Matthai Kuruvila

"The exiled spiritual leader of Buddhist Tibet chose the university where the Free Speech Movement began more than 40 years ago to endorse President Obama's philosophy of establishing dialogue, even with reviled world leaders."

4/26/2009, Centre Daily Times, Lead the return to civil discourse, Charles Dumas

"In '64, I was part of a civil rights group in Oakland, Calif., which was recruiting students at UC-Berkeley to protest racist hiring policies of the local daily paper. The paper's publisher, also a university trustee, demanded that the school shut us down. They did. It resulted in a series of violent confrontations that ultimately led to the Free Speech Movement."

4/23/2009, UC Berkeley News, Plugging away at the riddle of consciousness John Searle, world-renowned philosopher and disaffected FSM backer, marks a half-century at Cal, Barry Bergman

"Searle has, in fact, found time to be the most public of public intellectuals, from his solidarity with the Free Speech Movement in 1964 - he was the first tenured faculty member to take up the cause, and among the first to break with it - to his longstanding dispute with the late deconstructionist philosopher Jacques Derrida and his acolytes over what Searle, writing in the New York Review of Books, once called their attack on 'the concern with truth, rationality, logic, and 'the word' that marks the Western philosophical tradition.' A man of the world as much as of the mind, Searle was a regular on the PBS program World Press from 1960 to 1977. In the FSM's wake he served as an adviser on student unrest for two presidential commissions and a special committee of the American Council of Education, and authored the 1971 book The Campus War: A Sympathetic Look at the University in Agony."

4/23/2009, The Nation, The Free Speech Movement,

This article appeared in the December 21, 1964 edition of The Nation "Assistant Professor John Leggett, of the department of sociology at Berkeley, believes that in Kerr's writings lie the keys to the FSM and The Day of the Cops. All of us who witnessed that day were puzzled to understand how such a situation could have come to pass. That it involved 'administrative ineptitude,' in one professor's phrase was undeniable; whatever their motives, Brown, Kerr and Strong were all convicted of ineptitude by the fact that the police were not only present on the campus but in command of it. That it involved student intransigence was equally undeniable; at the very least, there was little honest effort in the FSM to see the other side objectively. But why the ineptitude and why the intransigence? The key to the first question, Leggett suggests, is in the relationship between Kerr's multiversity and the civil rights movement. As a number of observers have pointed out, the civil rights movement is genuinely revolutionary; it threatens a number of established standards. As one example, a completely new look at the economy is necessary if we are genuinely to open the job market to Negroes at a time when automation dominates the future. This, in turn, is an open threat to the military-industrial complex. In the process of Kerr's 'nvited' collaboration, the civil rights movement on campus is disruptive, and being disruptive, it must be stopped.

4/21/2009, The Carolinian, Morals Week speech causes interruption, Craig Veltri, Lili Johnson

"To further drive home his point, he recalled a visit he made to the University of California at Berkeley, or as Flynn called it 'the Rome of the Left,' before the release of Why the Left Hates America. According to Flynn he was not very well received. 'At the end of the event, there was a Nazi-style burning of my writings,' he said 'at Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s.'"

4/16/2009, Business Wire, 40th Anniversary of Woodstock,

"Hundreds of San Francisco stars and musical luminaries will perform at this event to commemorate the original principles of Peace, Love and Spirituality. The Woodstock 40th will begin with a blessing by the American Indigenous People and several Beat Generation poets. There will be many speakers from the Peace Movement, the Free Speech Movement and the Anti-War Movement along with many of the acts who originally performed at Woodstock (to be announced)."

4/16/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Historical Society Exhibits 1960s Berkeley Poster Art, Steven Finacom

"Fortunately for our understanding of local history over the past generation, Free Speech Movement activist Michael Rossman began collecting local posters in the 1960s. By the time he died in 2008 he had amassed more than 25,000 items, a varied and irreplaceable record of the local past."

4/16/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, The Untold History of People's Park, Reverend Paul Sawyer

"Many of us are familiar with the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus in 1964 that followed the Loyalty Oath Struggle of the 1950s, which cost the University of California 68 of its finest professors and teachers, who refused to sign it."

4/14/2009, The Daily Californian, Local Radio Station KPFA to Celebrate 60 Years, Tess Townsend

"KPFA was also the first station to broadcast Allen Ginsberg's controversial poem "Howl" and served as a forum for Free Speech Movement activists."

4/13/2009, SFGate.com, A Tale of Two Oppenheimers, Ken Goldberg

"Robert Oppenheimer was a UC Berkeley professor when he was recruited for the Manhattan Project. After the war, he was highly critical of US policy on the bomb and Joe McCarthy spent years trying to discredit him. McCarthy despised Berkeley, and the subsequent 1960 HUAC meeting in San Francisco helped spark Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, which in turn led to the Anti-War and Free Love Movements."

4/7/2009, The Nation, The Rise of the New Student Left, Jack Newfield

This article appeared in the March 10, 1965 edition of The Nation "Their revolt is not only against capitalism but against the values of middle-class America: hypocrisy called Brotherhood Week, assembly lines called colleges; conformity called status, bad taste called Camp, and quiet desperation called success. At the climax of the Washington march, arms linked and singing "We Shall Overcome," were the veterans of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, freshmen from small Catholic colleges, clean-shaven intellectuals from Ann Arbor and Cambridge, the fatigued shock troops of SNCC, Iowa farmers, impoverished urban Negroes organized by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), beautiful high school girls without make-up, and adults, many of them faculty members, who journeyed to Washington for a demonstration conceived and organized by students."

4/6/2009, The Daily Aztec, Mexico ad raises controversy, Whitney Lawrence

"'The AUHTM Coalition would like to thank Editor Carbajal ... for (her) service as (a) reincarnation of the anti-free speech Republicans who tried to close down the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in the 1960s,' Schwilk said."

4/6/2009, Pioneer Press, PAL's anti-war activists champion various causes, Patrick Butler

"And PAL will also be joining with other groups in opposing the Blackwater private army's upcoming convention in Stockton, Ill., said Beltrami. "We're just sort of opposed to the idea of private soldiers," said the onetime Renaissance English teacher and now-retired IT project manager whose own activist credentials date to the 1964 Berkeley, Calif. Free Speech Movement. "

4/3/2009, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Forty years later: Country Joe's role at Woodstock,

"Joe moved to Berkeley in the early 1960s ostensibly to go to school, but ended up playing music in numerous bands and working at Lundberg's Guitar Shop. In the fall of 1965 members of the FSM Free Speech Movement were organizing a series of demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the Oakland Induction Center. The anti-war organizers wanted to provide entertainment before or after the march to hold the people's attention, so Joe and some others played. This was during the era that a big part of the folk revival was starting to turn into the rock scene in San Francisco and bands were starting to appear almost everywhere."

4/2/2009, Oakland Tribune, Celebration of life for Free Speech Movement veteran to be held in Berkeley next month, Kristin Bender

"Hamilton initially considered becoming a Christian minister but got caught up in political actions in Berkeley, joining the Free Speech Movement, the Progressive Labor Party and the Revolutionary Union. In 1966, he was dismissed from UC Berkeley for protesting the university's attempt to take away protections gained from the Free Speech Movement, according to information about his memorial service."

3/30/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Anti-war activist Steve Hamilton dies, Seth Rosenfeld

"In the fall of 1964, Mr. Hamilton was arrested during the Free Speech Movement, the first big student protest of the '60s. In 1965, he joined the anti-war Vietnam Day Committee and the Maoist Progressive Labor Party. He was dismissed from Cal in 1966 for manning an unauthorized literature table on campus."

3/29/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Campus security bills for speakers challenged, Bob Egelko

"That sounds logical, but it's also unconstitutional, says the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a conservative-leaning group that defends free speech on campus. Citing a 1992 U.S. Supreme Court ruling, the foundation has been challenging security fees at colleges around the country. 'It doesn't matter how unpopular or controversial the speech is,' said foundation spokesman Adam Kissel. 'The amount of security has to be the same as for all other events.' UC Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, got the message. Saying its police may have misunderstood the nature of the event, the university lowered its fee to $460 for two officers for the March 3 speech at Dwinelle Hall by Elan Journo of the Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine."

3/27/2009, Contra Costa Times, Editorial: UC Berkeley's punishing of John Yoo violates academic freedom, Editors

"The mark of a strong society is one that guards the freedoms not only of those in the mainstream but also of those on the fringe. Of all the universities in the nation, Berkeley, the home of the Free Speech Movement, should be especially sensitive to that notion. For years, the principle has been used to protect voices from the left. That protection should be just as strong for someone on the political right - however wrong he may be."

3/24/2009, McGill Tribune, TRAVEL: Peace, love, and granola, Carolyn Gregoire

"Though the city is a haven for tree-huggers, granola-lovers, and radical leftists, Berkeley's charm, character, and natural beauty offer something for everyone. No trip to Northern California is complete without at least a day in the home of the Free Speech Movement, the place that Jack Kerouac wrote of seeking spiritual transcendence in The Dharma Bums, and a city which still stands as an epicenter of bohemian culture."

3/23/2009, Palm Beach Post, Commissioner showed courage in protest, arrest, Becky Mulvaney & Marc Ward

"We elected Cara Jennings because Lake Worth needs representatives who understand that, as Mario Savio said during the free speech movement of the 1960s: "With great freedom comes great responsibility." Dissent is a democratic responsibility, and Commissioner Jennings exercised her responsibilities peacefully and thoughtfully. She was in Miami as a private citizen advocating peace and protesting the maiming of a friend engaged in human rights work. What could be more quintessentially American?"

03/20/2009, Oakland Tribune, Third World Strike at 40, Kelly Rayburn and Kristin Bender

"The Berkeley Third World Strike is often overshadowed by the campus's Free Speech Movement earlier in the decade or the later fight over People's Park. And the strike, which began in January 1969, came months after the more famous - or infamous - strike at San Francisco State University."

3/19/2009, Renew America, The politics of meaning vs. Israel, Moshe Phillips

"Rabbi Lerner does have excellent credentials for his real vocation -- that of radical activist, nee community organizer. Lerner has a doctorate in philosophy from University of California at Berkeley. While at Berkley he was a leader in the Free Speech Movement, the SDS and, in a broad sense, the militant, revolutionary left in the Bay Area. Other products of that time and place are the Weatherman / Weather Underground, the Black Panther Party and the Symbionese Liberation Army."

3/7/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkeley students decry proposed Panda Express, Patricia Yollin

"Other students say Panda Express food has too much fat and sodium, is an affront to the historic legacy of Sproul Plaza - birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement - and is culturally inappropriate."

3/4/2009, UC Berkeley News, Stiles Hall: a 'living room' with a committed fan club, Carol Ness

"Dave Stark, executive director for the last 12 years, likes to tell the story of the African American man in his 60s who wandered into Stiles a few years back, found his way to the upstairs community room and said aloud, in wonder, to no one in particular: 'This is it! This is it!' Stark overheard him and asked, 'It's what?' 'This is where Malcolm X spoke. I was here,' the man responded. The civil-rights leader had spoken there in the early 1960s, before the Free Speech Movement opened up the campus to speakers of all political bents."

3/4/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Take Back Public Education for Society, Not for Economy, Sebastian Groot

"The type of activism found on campus today is not completely different or less powerful than it was in the past. The Free Speech Movement (FSM) and the Third World Strike in the '60s and '70s eventually shut down the university. The FSM was based on ideals of openly speaking one's emotions and concerns without fear of being punished and suppressed. This freedom related to a broad range of UC students as well as people outside the university."

3/4/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Daily Planet Forum Features Author David Bacon, Ken Bullock

"Bacon's activism began while he was attending Berkeley High School; he was, at 16, one of the youngest protestors for the Free Speech Movement to be arrested. Working later as an organizer for the United Farm Workers, United Electrical Workers, Molders Union and Ladies Garment Workers Union, he said he has been fired for organizing-and arrested more times than he can remember."

3/3/2009, Mustang Daily, The '60s are back: students march for environmental change, Nancy Cole

"Radicalism, student power and nonviolent direct action spark images of the 1960s protests against the war, the free speech movement and the civil rights movement. Student activists lobbied the U.S. Congress, marched the White House, staged boycotts, strikes and sit-ins and participated in civil disobedience. This was a time marked by such overt societal decay that people, especially young people, became sick of the powers that led the country. Young people raised their voices and refused to be an accomplice to what they believed to be wrong."

3/2/2009, Charlotte Observer, Joan Baez,

"She brought the Free Speech Movement into the spotlight, took to the fields with Cesar Chavez, organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia, then forty years later saluted the Dixie Chicks for their courage to protest war."

2/24/2009, Daily Californian, Philosophy Professor Honored After 50 Years at UC Berkeley, Christina Berke

"Searle was a key figure during the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in the 1960s, Wallace said. He was the first tenured professor to become involved, influencing his student Mario Savio-one of the movement's major activists."

2/21/2009, The Australian, End of conservative crusades, Sam Tanenhaus

"The same policymakers who conceived and executed New Frontier and Great Society programs, from the Peace Corps and Volunteers in Service to America to the War on Poverty, were helpless to manage a politics of countercultural protest from the Berkeley Free Speech Movement to the March on the Pentagon to riots in Los Angeles's Watts district and Detroit. The most conspicuous energies flowed outside the bounds of organised government and normative society and, in many instances, against them both."

02/21/2009, Contra Costa Times, Campus to celebrate 50 years of John Searle, Matt Krupnick

"One reason Searle is such a draw could be his role in the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. He was the first tenured professor to join the movement, and he became a driving force alongside Mario Savio, who was one of his students. Aside from a brief period of satisfaction brought on by the movement, Searle does not have fond memories of the 1960s and 1970s. Even the Free Speech Movement changed for the worse and became violent, he said. 'People like to sentimentalize that period, but it was just awful,' he said. He eventually worked against the movement once it became clear it was trying to politicize the university, he said. The change of heart didn't win him friends among former supporters, but he has no regrets."

2/20/2009, The Daily Californian, It's Time for a Protest, Josh Green

"I know campus apathy has been around since the end of the '60s. The Free Speech Movement itself was probably driven less by genuine student outrage and more by zeitgeist."

2/19/2009, Press Democrat, How do you protest a stalemate?, Derek J. Moore

"Adam Williams, a 24-year-old environmental studies major who signed one of the protest letters, said his instructors lived through the Free Speech Movement and other major campus uprisings, but his generation has not caught a similar fervor. He fears they may regret that. 'We're the future work force,' he said. 'If we don't raise our voice now, we don't have a right to say anything five years from now when we can't get a job.'"

2/17/2009, OneNewsNow, Camille Paglia Says Democrats Betrayed the Soul of Their Party,

"Camille Paglia appeared on WABC-AM's 'The Mark Simone Show' yesterday to talk about the Fairness Doctrine, and you may be surprised at what she said. Paglia blasted the Democrats for even mentioning a reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine, saying 'I don't get it . . . the essence of the 1960's, my generation, was about free speech . . . that's what Lenny Bruce was about - it was about the free speech movement, for heaven's sake, at Berkeley! What are my fellow Democrats doing? Not for one second should the government be wandering into survelliance of, monitoring of, the ideological content of talk radio. The Democrats, they've totally betrayed the soul of the party to even mention this.'"

2/17/2009, Broadway World, CAPA Presents An Evening With Joan Baez 3/9, BWW News Desk

"Baez sang about freedom and Civil Rights from the backs of flatbed trucks in Mississippi to the steps of the Lincoln Memorial at Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King's March on Washington in 1963. In 1964, she withheld 60% of her income tax from the IRS to protest military spending and participated in the birth of the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley."

2/16/2009, Time Magazine, California's Big Race to Succeed Schwarzenegger, Michael A. Lindenberger

"The state that once drew people from all over the world to create Silicon Valley, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and Hollywood, now sees too many of its best people leave."

2/11/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Mario's La Fiesta Restaurant Leaves Telegraph After 50 Years, Riya Bhattacharjee

"'The Free Speech Movement in 1964 was not that bad,' Tejada said, 'but 1969 was the worst of it. As soon as we opened the restaurant there would be tear gas all around, and we would have to close it immediately. I had to send my workers home, sometimes the rioters broke all my windows. It was a war zone-people didn't want to come to eat, people didn't want to come to Telegraph.'"

2/9/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Cal's Bancroft Library starts new chapter, Patricia Yollin

"UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library is a place where papyrus from ancient Egypt, pamphlets from the 1964 Free Speech Movement and photographs of the Gold Rush can all be found under one roof."

2/3/2009, the Missoulian, Folk singer Joan Baez to perform at UM, Jamie Kelly

"Baez is equally known for her political and social activism, marching for civil rights in the 1960s, lending her support to Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, singing at the 1969 Woodstock festival and later spearheading efforts against the death penalty and for gay rights."

1/30/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Dellums fills 5 key city positions, Christopher Heredia

"(01-29) 19:31 PST -- Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums named a longtime aide and former World Bank executive as the city's top nonelected official on Thursday, a nomination that is expected to be confirmed next week by the City Council. Dan Lindheim, 62, of Berkeley, a former World Bank senior economist and aide to Dellums during his years in Congress, has been serving as interim city administrator since July, when the mayor fired Deborah Edgerly. "

1/29/2009, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Crouch: Obama traveled road paved with civil rights heroes, not race, Stanley Crouch

"Barack Obama has the presence and creates the effects expected of adults. He is not a frat boy or an ethnic bad boy. It is well past the time when Americans should show their pride in this country by moving as swiftly as they can away from the adolescence that our nation has been progressively overcome by since the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the slogan of which was, 'Don't Trust Anyone Over 30.'"

1/29/2009, Oakland Tribune, Mario's La Fiesta Mexican restaurant celebrates 50 years on Telegraph next month, Kristin Bender

"During the Free Speech movement in the 1960s, the restaurant was a sanctuary for police officers and demonstrators alike. 'You'd have police in one corner and protesters in one corner, and everybody would be having lunch,' Mario said."

1/26/2009, The Daily Californian, Historic Cafe Grounds For Coffee and Conversation, Jessica Kwong

"Yet the Med's fame is rooted in more than its coffee grounds. The cafe served as the meeting grounds for radicals from Beat Generation artists to Free Speech Movement activists. 'I would go into the Med and I would see somebody with a blue serge suit on and a big wig-it was Ginsberg, and I would say 'Hello, how you doing?'' said Brad Cleaveland, 76, a Berkeley resident who was a principal activist during the Free Speech Movement. 'He was standing around a group of people sitting there, all talking intensely. I saw him lots over a period of two to three years.'"

1/25/2009, The Bloomington Alternative, BLUES & MORE: Hail, hail, rock 'n' roll!, George Fish

"Rock 'n' roll was, for me, the bridge over which I eagerly walked to support the Civil Rights Movement, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the early anti-Vietnam War protests. And it didn't hurt at all that this music I loved so much was consistently derided by my parents, teachers and other pillars of 'respectable society'!"

1/22/2009, UC Berkeley News, Glued to the ObamaTron Thousands crowded Sproul Plaza on Jan. 20 to watch the historic inauguration of President Barack Obama on TV, Carol Ness

"In Berkeley, the campus police department's estimate of 10,000 by far eclipses the previous high of some 6,000 for Sproul Plaza, set both in 1967 when Martin Luther King Jr. spoke, and in December 1964, during a Free Speech Movement rally. The event was made possible by the gift of an anonymous donor, which paid for the rental of the 15-by-20-foot screen, plus vats of free coffee for everyone."

1/21/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area celebrates nation's new president, Kevin Fagan, Heather Knight, Patricia Yollin,Carolyn Jones

"At UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza across town, a JumboTron drew a shoulder-to-shoulder mass of thousands of students. A sense of past and future was felt everywhere, because after all this wasn't just any venue - it was the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, which in 1964 when Obama was only 3 helped shape the brand of activism that made his election possible."

1/21/2009, Inside Higher Ed, Here Comes the Flood, Scott McLemee

"As it happens, all of this was predicted almost 50 years ago by Hal Draper, a figure best known (at least among people who know this kind of thing) for numerous definitive works in the field of Marxology. Draper also translated literary works by Goethe and Heinrich Heine, and wrote a widely circulated book about the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. I've heard that when the Sixties catchphrase 'Don't trust anyone over the age of thirty' first caught on in Berkeley, people sometimes added "except for Hal Draper.'"

1/20/2009, UC Berkeley News, Throngs at Berkeley witness dawn of the Obama era, Cathy Cockrell

"Those emotions were palpable on the storied 'ground zero' of the Free Speech Movement. 'Somebody can hand me a flag and I'd be happy to wave it,' said Jessica Broitman - there with her son Jacob, 17, and her husband, Gibor Basri, the campus's vice chancellor for equity and inclusion. As a biracial couple, she said, there were times when 'people would not let us in their door." For her and her family, she said, "this one of the most momentous days in our lives.'"

1/20/2009, ABC Channel 7, UC Berkeley linked to new administration, Laura Anthony

"Not since the free speech movement have so many people gathered in UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza. The crowd was 10,000 strong for an event many imagined would never happen in their lifetime."

1/18/2009, Philadelphia Inquirer, A display of vases, quiet, with poetry from vets, artists,

"The play of dichotomy continues to be a strong force in Irish's work, this time carried out in lushly decorated whiteware vases in the style of 18th- and 19th-century French Sevres porcelain, onto which Irish has also painted poetry written by Vietnam veterans and the visual arts writers Tom Devaney, Vincent Katz and Carter Ratcliff. One vase features excerpts from a speech by Mario Savio, the political activist and Berkeley Free Speech movement leader."

1/12/2009, BusinessWeek, Autopsy of an Indie Bookseller, Stacy Perman

"During the '60s, Cody's stood at the center of the Free Speech movement and became known for its unwavering stand against censorship. When in 1989, the store was firebombed for selling Salman Rushdie's novel The Satanic Verses, Cody's employees voted to continue selling the controversial novel that earned its author a fatwa (death sentence) from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini."

1/8/2009, Wall Street Journa, The Pro-Life Movement as the Politics of the 1960s, Richard John Neuhaus

"Supervisor Tom Ammiano complained about the audacity of pro-life activists who 'think that they can come to our fair city and demonstrate.' The head of the Golden Gate chapter of Planned Parenthood was outraged that activists 'have been so emboldened that they believe that their message will be tolerated here.' The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the mid-1960s has come to this."

1/7/2009, Berkeley Daily Planet, Saving Strawberry Canyon, Neal Blumenfeld

"A watershed is an apt metaphor-for a new awareness, after which nothing appears like it had been. For the Free Speech Movement-out of which the Savios and this lecture series sprung-seeing what corporate UC was up to was old home week. It took Lynn Savio no time flat to get it. UC, the local 800-pound gorilla, wants to turn the Strawberry watershed into an industrial park. That includes a half-billion dollar deal with British Petroelum for a biofuel "factory"; a big expansion of Lawrence Berkeley Lab; and a new building for an expanded computer facility."

1/6/2009, International Herald Tribune, Left adjusts to a new patriotism under Obama, Sasha Issenberg

"At Berkeley, the university has, quite deliberately, chosen to host its first-ever large-scale observance of a presidential inauguration in a spot most closely identified with its radicalism, said Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. At Sproul Plaza, site of the Free Speech Movement protests beginning in 1964 - now commemorated with a monument declaring 'this soil and the air space above it should not be part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity's jurisdiction' - students will gather round giant television screens to take in the ritual. 'It will be a patriotic celebration,' Birgeneau said in an interview. 'That small circle will now be surrounded by a lot of students who are happy to be members of a nation that just elected its first African-American president.' Not since Franklin D. Roosevelt turned the federal government into an aggressive agent of liberalism - pushing the New Deal at home and confronting fascism abroad - has the left felt such a deep attachment and invested such hopes in a head of state. 'People in the '30s felt that for once the government was on their side,' the Berkeley historian Leon Litwack said in an interview. 'They had never had that kind of relationship to a president before.'"

1/4/2009, Boston Globe, Something new brews in Berkeley: patriotic pride, Sasha Issenberg

"'There's a left-wing tradition of being systematically opposed to the US government, knee-jerk reactionary - most of our presidents have made it fairly easy to do,' said Jo Freeman, author of 'At Berkeley in the Sixties,' a memoir of her student activism. 'Those who view everything the US does as automatically suspect already have a problem doing that with Obama.' At Berkeley, the university has, quite deliberately, chosen to host its first-ever large-scale observance of a presidential inauguration in a spot most closely identified with its radicalism, said Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau. At Sproul Plaza, site of the self-described Free Speech Movement protests beginning in 1964 - now commemorated with a monument declaring 'this soil and the air space above it should not be part of any nation and shall not be subject to any entity's jurisdiction' - students will gather around giant television screens to take in the nation's most solemn ritual."

1/1/2009, San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area people of note who died in 2008, Chronicle Staff

"Michael Rossman was a pivotal figure in UC Berkeley's historic Free Speech Movement in 1964. His interests ranged from science to collecting political posters to playing the flute. He got his first taste of being on his own at an early age - his parents allowed him to roam Mount Tamalpais by himself when he was young, and it contributed to his ideas of personal freedom. On an October day in 1964, students in Sproul Plaza created a demonstration, the highlight of which came when authorities put student Jack Weinberg into a UC Berkeley police car. Students surrounded the car and some sat on top of it. After that, Mr. Rossman came up with the idea that there should be a report done on how the university had dealt with political activity over the years. The report was produced, and Mr. Rossman was chosen to be on the executive and steering committees of the movement. He died from leukemia May 12. He was 68."

12/12/2008, National Post, Going to San Francisco?, Alec Scott

"A food pilgrimage to the Bay Area should start where the so-called delicious revolution began: Alice Waters's restaurant in Berkeley, Chez Panisse. A Berkeley student on the fringes of the campus's radical Free Speech movement, Waters fell for food during her junior year abroad in France and named the restaurant for a big-hearted character in Marcel Pagnol's picaresque Provence-set cycle of comedic plays and films. It wasn't the haute cuisine in the Michelin-rated Parisian restaurants that enamoured Waters. As Thomas McNamee wrote in his bestselling biography Alice Waters and Chez Panisse, "Alice loved la cuisine du marché. A French housewife would stroll through a village market, sniffing, appraising, thinking."

12/11/2008, UC Berkeley News, RFK Jr. vs. 'corporate plunder',

"The longtime environmental crusader, asserting "a direct correlation between the level of environmental injury and the level of tyranny" in nations around the world, was the keynote speaker at the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, staged since 1997 to honor the fiery Free Speech Movement icon and promote the work of a new generation of activists. Savio, he said, understood the "subversion of American democracy" inherent in the efforts of corporate lobbyists - aided and abetted today, he said, by a compliant White House - to rewrite or undermine laws and regulations intended to safeguard public health and the environment."

12/10/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Everyone's in that holiday mood, Leah Garchik

"Robert F. Kennedy gave the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture on Thursday at the Berkeley Community Auditorium. It was the first time, reports Gar Smith, that the event was not on campus. RFK refused to speak on campus to protest what he thought was the university's unfair treatment of union workers. RFK's assessment of the political divide in America: 'I've finally come to the conclusion that 80 percent of Republicans are actually Democrats who just don't know what's going on.'"

12/9/2008, The Edinburgh Journal Limited, Student activism: What's our problem?, editorial

"There is an antidote, readily available on the internet: Mario Savio's address from the steps of Sproul Hall, on 2 December 1964. The power of his words is their undoing, because they need no context to captivate the listener. 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears, and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop, and you've got to indiciate to the people who run it-the people who own it-that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from running at all.'"

12/8/2008, Truthdig, The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff, Chris Hedges

"'Political silence, total silence,' said Chris Hebdon, a Berkeley undergraduate. He went on to describe how various student groups gather at Sproul Plaza, the center of student activity at the University of California, Berkeley. These groups set up tables to recruit and inform other students, a practice know as 'tabling.' ... 'Our Sproul Plaza shows that so well-the same place Mario Savio once stood on top a police car is filled with tens of tables for the pre-corporate, the ethnic, the useless cynics, the recreational groups, etc.'"

12/8/2008, The Nation, Stewartsville: George R. Stewart's Names on the Land By Christine Smallwood,

"Though The Year of the Oath is a defense of academic freedom and is often held up as a precursor to the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, ... "

12/8/2008, The Daily Californian, 'The Berkeley Pit' Embodies Spirit of 1960s, Danica Li

"Through the eyes of narrator Ruth Carson, a professor at the college where Harry enrolls, we see things unbolt. The Free Speech Movement, having occurred just years earlier, marks the turmoil to come. The Black Panther Party is beginning to stage incendiary attacks on the establishment. A combustible student population is poised to riot. Dread-locked youth squat on Telegraph Avenue, smoking pot and doing tabs of LSD."

12/7/2008, Mercury News, Herhold: Cop killing echoes down the years, Scott Herhold

"Defense attorney Crittenden, who became the judge who presided over the cases emanating from Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, died in 1966. And the building housing the Mercantile Acceptance offices was razed during San Jose's push to redevelop its downtown (It's now a parking lot across from the Gordon Biersch restaurant)."

12/5/2008, The Daily Californian, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Speaks on Energy, Zach Williams

"Addressing a sea of audience members enthused about a new direction for America, keynote speaker Robert F. Kennedy Jr. led a rousing discussion of the future of American energy policy at Thursday night's Mario Savio Memorial Lecture."

12/05/2008, Oakland Tribune, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. boycotts UC Berkeley over labor dispute, Kristin Bender

"BERKELEY - Robert F. Kennedy Jr. spoke at an annual event honoring a late leader of the Free Speech Movement on Thursday night, but the event was held off campus because the environmental activist boycotted UC Berkeley in support of campus service workers' two-year labor battle with the university. The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and Young Activist Award honor Savio, a leader of the 1964 Free Speech Movement, a civil rights worker, a UC Berkeley student and later a teacher at Sonoma State University. He died in 1996 at age 53."

12/4/2008, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Robert Kennedy Jr. Moves Speech Off UC Berkeley Campus in Support of UC Service Workers Fight to End Poverty Wages at UC,

"'We are saddened and frustrated that, for the first time in its twelve year history, the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture cannot be held on the Berkeley campus because of the university administration's failure to reach a fair and just agreement with its lowest paid workers. Our speaker, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has refused to speak on campus until UC resolves this contract dispute over poverty-level wages for its service workers. While we are grateful that the Berkeley School District has made the Community Theater available for the lecture on Dec. 4th, it is bitterly ironic that an event honoring a Berkeley campus hero cannot be held on that campus due to the intransigence of the administration' - Lynne Hollander Savio"

12/3/2008, Capitol Hill Blue, Events on this date,

"* 1964 - Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Police arrest over 800 students at the University of California, Berkeley, following their takeover and sit-in at the administration building in protest at the UC Regents' decision to forbid protests on UC property."

12/1/2008, University of Minnesota Morris, Jim Keady: Behind the Swoosh, Judy Riley

"The Mario Savio Foundation's 2001 Young Activist of the Year, Keady played soccer with the NJ Imperials and coached the St. John's University Red Storm. Along with directing EFJ, he plays soccer for a semi-pro team in New York City and coaches a high school boy's team in New Jersey."

December 2008, The Monthly, The Kilduff File: Sculpting the Past, Paul Kilduff

"Scott Donahue: The Free Speech Movement really was the beginning of [Berkeley's] international prominence and so I started with that..."

11/28/2008, The Calgary Herald, Students are becoming frightening speech stiflers, Naomi Lakritz

"What a bunch of wimps a large number of university students are these days. They're about as far removed from the heady era of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in the '60s and '70s as Jerry Rubin was from his firebrand days as a socialist Yippie, after he knotted his necktie, grabbed a briefcase and headed for Wall Street. The Free Speech Movement was launched when students --many of whom had gone south to sign up black voters during the Freedom Summer of 1964--set up booths on the Berkeley campus to raise money for various civil rights projects. The university objected because its rules forbade political fundraising unless it was done by the Republican and Democratic student clubs."

11/26/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Community Calendar,

"THURSDAY, DEC. 4 Mario Savio Memorial Lecture 'Our Environmental Destiny' with Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. at 7 p.m. at Berkeley Community Theater, 1930 Allston Way. Free. 707-823-7293."

11/24/2008, The Daily Californian, Late Peter Camejo Honored on Campus, Kat Murti

"Camejo's reputation for rule-breaking, however, led to him being expelled from UC Berkeley for improperly using a bull-horn during the Free Speech Movement. He was only a few credits short of a degree, friends said."

11/16/2008, New York Times, First Chapter 'Alphabet Juice', Roy Blount Jr.

"I say 'oddly enough' because McLuhan, according to Marchand, 'was never interested in the 'music of words.'' In Understanding Media, McLuhan maintained that the phonetic alphabet-'in which semantically meaningless letters are used to correspond to semantically meaningless sounds'-had alienated people from the body. The ink had hardly dried on that notion when the Free Speech Movement broke out at Berkeley, and pretty soon people were running naked and letting their hair grow wild."

11/14/2008, Forbes, The Rise Of The West, Michael Auslin

"It was a great irony that in the very year McNeill won the award, the Berkeley "free speech movement" and campus riots exploded. These were the first salvos in a sustained attack on the rational underpinnings of the university and a new front in the war against liberal capitalism. Yet the gathering storm had swirled about McNeill during the decade it took him to write the book. When he penciled the first lines of The Rise of the West, Elvis Presley was an anonymous teen in Memphis and barely one in 10 Americans had a TV set. By the time of the book's publication, McNeill's students were demanding instant utopia and denying that America had seen any progress from its founding to their own day. And then, they became the teachers, imprinting their own ideological views on succeeding generations of impressionable students."

11/11/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik, Leah Garchik

"The Free Speech Movement's annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture - at the Berkeley Community Theater on Dec. 4 - will be delivered by Robert Kennedy Jr., who was mentioned by Politico.com last week as a possible head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Gar Smith suggests that Ralph Nader, who made his name fighting the auto industry, be appointed secretary of transportation."

11/6/2008, The Telegraph, All for Obama, Amartya counts the gains, Amit Roy

"Amartya Sen... Since I have been involved in the civil rights movement in America for a long time --I visited this country many times and I was very much present at Berkeley in 1964-65 when the free speech movement occurred and at Harvard during 1968-69 when there were also participatory movements on the campuses -- it is a moment of particular joy to see what is ultimately a success of the fruits of the civil rights movement."

11/4/2008, San Francisco Bay Area Independent Media Center, A Thousand UC Berkeley Students Celebrate in the Streets, dharmatica

"A impromptu victory parade eventually attracting more than a thousand Berkeley students took shape around 9 pm at the south edge of the UC Berkeley campus tonight. The party began on Bancroft Avenue, a stone's throw from the birth of the Free Speech movement at Sproul Plaza, and wended its way down Telegraph, up to College Avenue, and back down to Telegraph, where a jam-packed crowd stood around cheering and marveling at the spectacle and this moment in history."

11/3/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Artists Charge Censorship at Berkeley's Addison Street Windows Gallery, Riya Bhattacharjee

"'The poster is more than a gun being pointed at them,' Sances, who has served on Berkeley's Civic Arts Commission for six years, said. 'It shows how things are being taken from them by an imperialistic oppressive state. I was very surprised by the city's decision. My poster went up in 50 different places all over the country, including the Mission Cultural Center in San Francisco, which used it in their mailers and never had any problems. It's peculiar that they would be censoring the poster in Berkeley, home of the free speech movement.'"

10/29/2008, Daily Californian, Close to Election, Professors Take Different Approaches to Political Commentary, Emily Grospe

"But while UC Berkeley faculty belong to a campus with a long history of noisy activism hailing back to the Free Speech Movement, many said they have no problem keeping their opinions about controversial issues out of the classroom."

10/26/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, S.F. State to mark 40th anniversary of strike, Tanya Schevitz

"UC Berkeley Professor Emeritus Carlos Munoz Jr., who teaches a course on the civil rights movements of the 1960s, said the San Francisco State strike was for students of color the equivalent of the Free Speech Movement in the mid-1960s in Berkeley."

10/25/2008, Sacramento Bee, Alameda County politics' hue looks decidedly blue, Marjie Lundstrom

"In Berkeley, birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and 1960s anti-war protests, the 2008 presidential race between Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain is pretty much a no-brainer."

10/23/2008, San Jose Mercury News, Berkeley rewrites trespassing law to prevent UC police from using it to arrest protesters, Doug Oakley

"Kortney Blythe of Riverside, a 25-year-old member of Survivors of the Holocaust Revolution who was cited by University of California-Berkeley police in 2007 and who sued the city, found it ironic that she was arrested at the home of the free-speech movement. 'I was just appalled that a place like Berkeley, which is a mecca for free speech, would do that to us,' Blythe said."

10/21/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Comment: 'Berkeley Big People' invites mockery, Kenneth Baker

"A series of small vignettes around the sculpture's elevated base symbolize protests, ranging from the Free Speech Movement to the tree-sitters who recently lost their bid to save a stand of old oaks on the designated site of a new university sports complex."

10/20/2008, University of Texas at Dallas Mercury, Naysayers must make peace with youth voters, Nazir Salas

"In the 1960's, Free Speech Movement organizer Jack Weinberg said, 'We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30.' Contemporary youth are not politically active in all the ways their parents' generation chose, but must continue to build interest in campaigns and voting. The older generation must allow them room and listen to what the young generation has to say."

10/19/2008, Daily Californian, Civic Art Celebrates Berkeley's Spirit, Liz Chang

"At the base of the pedestals are a number of smaller bas reliefs, or structures that protrude from flat surfaces on a piece of art. Some of the reliefs include Mario Savio standing atop a police car during the Free Speech Movement and an image of a lone protester perched on a tree to represent the tree-sit protest in the oak grove near Memorial Stadium, among other images."

10/17/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Sculpture depicts Berkeley's biggest protests, Carolyn Jones

"Close up, people can view a dozen or so scenes from Berkeley's past, such as: a People's Park protest complete with National Guard helicopters; bicyclists surrounding a car; Mario Savio leading the Free Speech Movement; a disabled person abandoning a wheelchair to crawl up the steps of City Hall; and a lone figure perched in a grove of trees."

10/16/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, 'It Came From Berkeley': Wackiness in context, Justin Berton

"But for anyone who has wondered how and why Berkeley became an adjective meaning zany-liberal-smarty-pants, Weinstein tracks down the historical and cultural dominoes that led to milestones such as the Free Speech Movement, bans on plastic foam cups, traffic "calming" roundabouts and, of course, tree-sitting."

10/9/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, District 2 City Council Candidate Statement: Jon Crowder, Jon Crowder

"As I got older, I realized I would have to leave Mississippi to create opportunities to realize my potential. While traveling throughout the country as a younger man, I began to dream of California. I felt a particular pull to Berkeley because of its liberal reputation and the lasting impact of the Free Speech Movement."

10/9/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Historic Sather Gate To Get Million Dollar Facelift, Riya Bhattacharjee

"It has weathered the Great Depression, World War II, the McCarthy Era and the Free Speech Movement."

10/6/2008, UC Berkeley News, Iconic Sather Gate to be restored to its former majesty, Yasmin Anwar

"In 1958, UC Berkeley extended its southern boundary, purchasing the last block of Telegraph Avenue. Efforts to keep the area a traditional island of open expression spawned the campus's Free Speech Movement, which is immortalized in a 1964 photograph of student protesters and their supporters marching through Sather Gate carrying a Free Speech banner."

10/2/2008, Sacramento News & Review, WWPCD: What would Peter Camejo Do?, Cosmo Garvin

"He was an MIT man, got a perfect score in math on his SAT. He was a Socialist Workers Party candidate for president in 1976, then a successful investment-fund manager-specializing in socially responsible investments. He was a champion of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, and was repeatedly denied a chance to debate alongside the big boys from the Democrat and Republican parties. (Not that he didn't have some admirers in each of the "major" parties. Check out this week's Essay on page 48 for a tribute from Republican apparatchik Sal Russo.)"

10/2/2008, Sacramento News & Review, Peter Miguel Camejo, Sal Russo

"We first met on the picket lines at UC Berkeley during the Free Speech Movement in the mid-1960s. In those early days, he had comfortably positioned himself at the extreme, ultimately getting expelled from school for illegally using a microphone during a campus demonstration."

10/1/2008, East Bay Literary Examiner, Moe's Books: The Best Of Berkeley, Tony R. Rodriguez

"Soon the Free Speech Movement erupted on the streets of Berkeley. There were innumerable anti-war protests and large gatherings held in People's Park. Moe soon reinvented the functions of his already prosperous bookstore. He decided to become intensely proactive. When tear gas canisters scuttled along the asphalt streets, and protesters and voyeurs scattered in chaotic panic, Moe often refused to close and lock his doors. He felt compelled to provide the protesters and on-lookers with a safe, temporary haven. Moreover, Moe would often use his bookstore for public debate. Moe and intellects openly discussed matters of politics and history. And at times, Moe's Books was a place to conduct a form of street-level "court". Moe had a knack for understanding the people and providing them with a place to allow their thoughts to be conversed and acknowledged."

10/1/2008, East Bay Express, Dining at the Hotel, Anneli Rufus

"Adagia occupies Westminster House, built in 1926 by Bernard Maybeck's pal Walter Ratcliff, who was known for his eclectic European touches. Latticed windows, arched entryways, quaint sconces, and red-brick chimneys jutting from a steep shingled roof lend the look and feel of a grand old auberge. During the '60s, Free Speech Movement activists gathered here. Today, the restaurant space is leased from the Presbyterian Campus Ministry, which uses the rest of the building for ministry programs and student housing. Savored on the romantic enclosed outdoor courtyard - with a view of the sky, the student apartments, and the restaurant's warmly woodsy Wind in the Willows-y dining room - our blue-cheese-and-walnut ravioli comprised ten chewy and bright-tasting, if a bit under-stuffed, pillows."

10/1/2008, Associated Press, Today in History - Oct. 1, Associated Press

"In 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

9/25/2008, Village Soup, Workshop focuses on writing for social change,

"[Louise] Dunlap travels the country helping citizen groups and social justice-minded scholars make their voices heard in the challenging debates of the times. She is a longtime advocate for peace and justice who got her start in the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. She has taught at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, the University of California in Berkeley and Los Angeles, Tufts and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and done training for labor and women's activists in South Africa. She also teaches yoga and meditation."

9/25/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Books: How Berkeley Changed the World, Steven Finacom

"The 1960s exerted such a powerful influence on the image of Berkeley-and lured so many people here-that they are a demarcating line in history that often blinds contemporary locals to the lessons and experiences of Berkeley's past before the Free Speech Movement. Weinstein works expertly on both sides of that divide, as does historian Charles Wollenberg in his Berkeley: A City in History, also published this year."

9/16/2008, Bleacher Report, The Oaks - 0, Cal Football - 1, Tess Minsky

"What to make, then, of the tearing down of an oak grove for the building of a new varsity training center? Berkeley, widely known for its Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, for its efforts in sustainability, and its grassroots traditions, has gotten slightly more conservative than its infamous prior-self of the '60s, not to say that its tradition is any less appreciated, celebrated, or forgotten in any way."

9/14/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Peter Camejo dies - helped found Green Party, Rachel Gordon

"Active in the Free Speech Movement and in protests against the Vietnam War as a student at UC Berkeley in the late 1960s, Mr. Camejo landed on then-Gov. Ronald Reagan's list of the 10 most dangerous people in California. School officials eventually expelled him, two quarters shy of a degree."

9/14/2008, Oakland Tribune, Green Party activist Peter Camejo dies at 68, Judy Lin

"His fiery activism also got him expelled from the University of California, Berkeley in 1967 for using a school microphone during a demonstration. A year later, then-governor Ronald Reagan put him on his list of the 10 most dangerous people in California because he was 'present at all anti-war demonstrations.'"

9/11/2008, LA City Beat, Art Goldberg, Ron Garmon

"Art is an attorney, a longtime activist (an original Free Speech Movementer), and the cheerful, stork-like fellow seen waving a "STOP THE WAR" sign every Friday afternoon at the corner of Sunset and Echo Park boulevards. Which was where I found him, grinning happily in the heat and smog, collecting horn-hoots and 'Fuck yeahs!' from commuters only too eager to yell at quitting time. We spoke while 6-foot-4 Art ran from car to car, with 5-10 me waving my tape recorder in pursuit. Some onlookers regarded the scene as comic."

9/10/2008, Los Angeles Times, UC Berkeley tree-sitters end their protest, Richard C. Paddock

"They brought shame to the name of Berkeley, which is famous for the Free Speech Movement and protests against the Vietnam War," the computer science student said. "It's an outrage. The university should have been harsher and brought them down faster."

9/9/2008, Counterpunch, From Berkeley to Mexico City: Retorno a 1968, Chellis Glendinning

"Every noon I'd wend my way to Sproul Plaza, greet Michael Lerner at the political table he had fought for during the Free Speech Movement, grab a yogurt with Marty Schiffenbauer in his shorts and combat boots -- and get my political education as expounded from a microphone on the steps. Eldridge Cleaver, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Michael Rossman, Angela Davis, Frank Bardacke, Pete Camejo, Dolores Huerta --they were our teachers. With predictable frequency we'd tear-ass down Telegraph Avenue brandishing our anti-war placards or take on the Oakland Induction Center with shields made of garbage-can lids, and invariably we'd be met by the Berkeley Police, the Oakland Police, the National Guard, and/or the Alameda County Sheriff's Department, nicknamed The Blue Meanies for their blue-clad counterparts in Yellow Submarine."

9/8/2008, Media With Conscience, Arrogance, ignorance, and cowardice: Lessons from 9/11, Robert Jensen

"And, in retrospect, the only thing that might have been effective in impeding the mad rush to war was for those dissenting from that madness to take real risks, to put our bodies in the path of the war machine. Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, articulated this so passionately on the University of California campus in December 1964: There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all. "

9/8/2008, Counterpunch, Lessons From Denver and St. Paul: How Far From a Police State?, Howard Lisnoff

"Both Nixon and Agnew were understudies to Ronald Reagan in using the government's police power against protesters. Reagan had honed his anti-activist credentials as a snitch while president of the Screen Actors Guild. When assuming the office of governor in California, he immediately went to work against the Free Speech Movement at the University of California's Berkley campus, vowing to 'clean up the mess in Berkley.'"

9/5/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Campus Rally Protests Long Haul Police Raid, Richard Brenneman

"'In 1964, I spoke on top of a police car here,' said attorney Anne Fagan Ginger, referring to that memorable day Free Speech Movement activists surrounded a car that contained one of their own who had been arrested moments."

8/29/2008, The Daily Californian, Effect of Voting on the Campus, Kevin Dayaratna

"After the federal government banned on-campus political activity, student protests sprouted throughout the country. In 1964, under the leadership of Mario Savio, among others, Cal students demanded the university lift these bans and recognize their First Amendment rights of free speech. After the massive sit-in in Sproul Hall resulting in the arrest of over 800 students, acting chancellor Martin Meyerson established provisional rules for political expression on campus, which would eventually enabled students to fully express themselves. This Free Speech Movement has become a defining aspect of our great school's identity."

8/26/2008, The Daily Star, Muslims or not, no one has an absolute right to be offended, Shahed Amanullah