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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 far from exhaustive, esp. for 1964-1965. The reader is referred to Google News Archives.

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

5/17/2012, newsreview.com, Grads get mad, Ken Smith

"COGS [Council of Graduate Students] President Shane Morey recited an adaptation of Mario Savio's 1964 'bodies upon the gears' speech. Originally delivered during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, it likens students to products spit out by administration-run factories."

5/16/2012, East Bay Express, Pirate Radio Goes Legit, Phil Busse

"Not surprisingly, micro-broadcasting has its roots in the ideals, movements, and personalities of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. 'It is electronic civil disobedience,' said Stephen Dunifer."

5/11/2012, Los Angeles Review of Books, Myths and Depths: Greil Marcus talks to Simon Reynolds (Part 3), Greil Marcus

"Look, the founding event of the Free Speech movement came when the university police arrived to arrest someone who was at a table and was violating university rules by passing out political literature. They drove a police car into the university plaza and they put this guy, Jack Weinberg, into the backseat. They're going to drive away and immediately a crowd formed around the police car and surrounded it and sat down. And, within minutes, that crowd had grown to hundreds of people. And in an hour or two, it was thousands. I remember walking out of class and saying, let's walk down to the plaza and see if anything's happening, because the Free Speech movement barely had a name, but there was tremendous contentiousness. So you come out of your university building and turn a few steps and there's this enormous crowd in front of a police car. And you join the crowd, if only out of curiosity. For the rest of the day, people started to get up on top of the police car to make speeches about what's going on. And Jack Weinberg and three cops are in the car and they can't move. They can't get out. By the end of the day the roof of the police car is completely collapsed. Dozens of people are climbing on top of the police car to say what they think. Some of them are student government officers, some of them are people who later became identified with the movement, and some are just ordinary students who want to talk and want to be heard. A lot of people who never thought they'd have the nerve, or the reason, to speak in front of other people, they're climbing up too. So that is this great moment of free speech, and punk rediscovered that."

5/6/2012, Los Angeles Times, The Port Huron Statement: A manifesto reconsidered, Tom Hayden

"The achievements that came from participatory democratic activism in the years that followed the statement's publication were considerable: the ending of the Vietnam War and the draft, the enfranchisement of Southern blacks and young people, the rise of the feminist movement, the Roe vs. Wade decision, the growth and strengthening of public employee unions and California farmworkers, Richard Nixon's unsurpassed environmental laws (in response to the first Earth Day), the Americans with Disabilities Act (in response to activists in wheelchairs occupying federal buildings), and much more. Former Los Angeles City Councilwoman Jackie Goldberg remembers carrying her copy of the statement to study groups during the free-speech movement, and Carl Wittman, a Port Huron-era activist who was closeted in 1962, later drew on it for inspiration in writing 'A Gay Manifesto.'"

5/3/2012, National Public Radio , OWS: A Case Study In Social Movements, Neal Conan, host

"ADLER: Well, I don't really know. You know, the movement that I like to compare Occupy to in a certain odd way is the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, which on the one hand had a very - had one simple goal, which was to be able to organize on campus. But then it had a much broader and more difficult goal, which of course was never achieved, which was to sort of change the entire educational system to not be a knowledge factory, to not have sort of like the military-industrial complex the kind of knowledge complex. And that kind of a sort of broad-based, you know, non-easy goal I don't think ever really got very far. And Occupy reminds me a lot of that. Even the rhetoric, you know, Mario Savio was, you know, there was a time when the - you know, when the machine makes you so sick at heart you can't take part, you can't even tacitly part. You have to put your body on the gears and the levers. Very, very similar to Occupy. And the question is: Can large, systemic goals, which really are about changing the entire thing, can those be achieved in a society that's fairly centrist?"

5/3/2012, americablog, Occupy Wall Street should explicitly reject violence, Gaius Publius editorial

"Side note: 'Outside resistance' is sometimes called the 'outside game' - the populist protests, the action in the streets - as opposed to more institutional responses like lobbying, law-making, and awareness writing. I'll be using the term 'outside game' a lot in this context. Tahrir Square, for example, is an outside game. The Berkeley Free Speech movement is an outside game. Every rebellion needs one to complement its inside - institutional - game. It's the way this stuff works."

4/27/2012, Justia, Five Free Speech Myths of Which College Demonstrators and Protestors Should Be Aware to Avoid Unexpected Trouble, Vikram David Amar

"My own university-the University of California-has seen its share of unrest. Protests at UC Berkeley, the birthplace of the so-called 'free speech movement' in the 1960s, got ugly last fall, with police who were ostensibly trying to remove encampments using batons against students. Things got out of hand here at UC Davis last fall too, with a campus police officer employing pepper spray against seated student protestors."

4/24/2012, spinner, Talking Heads' Chris Frantz: I Still Hope for a Reunion With David Byrne, Chris Epting

"Are there one or two pieces on 'Chronology' that stand out in your view or that you have special memories of? Two come to mind right away. One is playing 'Psycho Killer' at CBGB in the very early stages. Then there was the free lunchtime concert we did at the University of California at Berkeley at Sproul Plaza. That was the birthplace of the free-speech movement with Mario Savio, where all of that happened. We knew that then, and when we came off the stage somebody said, 'Oh my god, have you head the news?' We were like, 'No, what?' They said, 'Mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk have just been shot.' And so that was a wild experience."

4/17/2012, Fox&Hounds Daily, From Master Plan to No Plan: California's Education Failure, Sherry Bebitch Jeffe

"In 1959, the Legislature mandated the preparation of 'a Master Plan for the development, expansion, and integration of the facilities, curriculum, and standards of higher education, in junior colleges [now Community Colleges], state colleges [now CSU], UC and other institutions of higher education in the state, to meet [its] needs during the next ten years and thereafter...' In 1960, lawmakers passed, and Gov. Pat Brown signed, the Donahoe Act, which codified portions of that Master Plan. By the mid-1960s, the Golden State's system of higher education was the crowning glory of a pulsing economy. Higher ed, particularly the UC system, ruled Sacramento. A phalanx of powerful UC lobbyists routinely wined and dined legislators. And they usually got most of what they wanted in the way of appropriations and policy. How the mighty have fallen. The decline in higher education's policy and political clout began in the unfriendly milieu of Gov. Ronald Reagan's administration, as the tumultuous Free Speech Movement and Reagan's 'cut, squeeze, and trim' philosophy of government shook California's campuses."

4/16/2012, The Nation, Participatory Democracy: From the Port Huron Statement to Occupy Wall Street, Tom Hayden

"Though they were not at Port Huron, there were other philosophical searchers at the time who practiced participatory democracy. Bob Moses, perhaps the single greatest influence on the early SDS and SNCC (the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), could be described as a Socratic existentialist. The Free Speech Movement's Mario Savio described himself as a non-Marxist radical shaped by secular liberation theology who was 'an avid supporter of participatory democracy.' We were all influenced by Ella Baker, an elder adviser to SNCC with a long experience of NAACP organizing in the South."

4/6/2012, The Daily Californian, Ron Paul's upcoming appearance at UC Berkeley draws varied reactions, Charlie Smith

"'It's great Ron Paul is speaking here,' Reich said in the email. 'Our community learns by hearing all views … We're where the Free Speech Movement began.'"

3/25/2012, San Francisco Chronicle, Political poster collection at 'The 1968 Exhibit', Sam Whiting

"Michael Rossman of Berkeley started collecting social justice posters at about the time that social justice posters first appeared in these parts, which was the Free Speech Movement of 1964. By the time he stopped collecting, just before he died in 2008, the collection ran to 23,500 works on paper, the entire lot of which is being acquired over time by the Oakland Museum of California. With the opening of "The 1968 Exhibit" on Saturday, the first 68 political posters will be unveiled in the ancillary exhibition 'All of Us or None: Social Justice Posters of the San Francisco Bay Area.'"

3/23/2012, Inter Press Service, U.S. Occupy Activists Hit With Stay-Away Orders, Judith Scherr

"Recalling that the university had been home to the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, attorney Ronald Cruz, also speaking outside the courtroom, accused the government of trying to make an example of the protesters. 'The political forces behind the witch hunt are trying to use the home of the free speech movement to set the precedent nationally that students and others that defend public education will be brutalised and prosecuted,' he said. 'This is a nationally prominent case. The students on the campus are going to be key to make sure free speech stays alive in Berkeley.'"

3/20/2012, The Daily Californian, Encouraging shared governance for students, Elliot Goldstein

"No longer are we the 'raw materials' being modeled by the 'employees' at the whim of 'managers.' Today, we are the major stakeholders in the UC enterprise. Today we are those whom the university administration should be chiefly beholden to. The moment is ripe for students to demand a renewed relationship as partners in the operation of the university and call for its priorities to be re-examined in accordance with greater student voice."

3/10/2012, San Francisco Chronicle, Louis Farrakhan speaks at UC Berkeley, John Cote

"UC Berkeley on Saturday was once again the crucible of the free speech debate. The birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s hosted another iconoclast from the era, Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan, whose speeches and writings have been denounced by critics for decades as bigoted, homophobic and anti-Semitic. .... Even UC President Mark Yudof weighed in on the Farrakhan appearance, writing in an open letter that 'we cannot as a society allow what we regard as vile speech to lead us to abandon the cherished value of free speech.'"

3/10/2012, American Thinker, Berkeley's idea of 'free speech', Lee DeCovnick

"A local police chief sends an armed sergeant to a reporter's home at 12:45 a.m., insisting on changes to story that had been filed earlier that evening. Can you guess where this salty show of government intimidation took place, maybe Russia or Iran? The answer is the People's Republic of Berkeley, (California) home of the 1960's free speech movement. Conservative's have long known that liberals relish the use of police authority for their own personal agendas."

3/9/2012, The Daily Californian, Don't harbor hatred CAMPUS AFFAIRS: While Louis Farrakhan has made hateful statements in the past, he should not be prevented from speaking on campus., Senior Editorial Board

"UC Berkeley's place in the American story represents the best in scientific, social and cultural innovation. Its scholars have found treatments for heinous afflictions and advanced justice with their research and words. When we fight, we fight for freethinking justice, as exemplified by the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. The uproar of criticism concerning Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan's upcoming visit to campus, then, is a far cry from what our campus symbolizes."

3/8/2012, The Daily Californian, Freedom of speech?, Salih Muhammad, Black Student Union

"Although we attend a campus that espouses the right to freedom of speech stemming from the Free Speech Movement in the 1960's, it is sad to see that this freedom is offered to some and denied to others. Freedom of speech does not imply that anyone completely agrees with what the speaker says; however, it does dictate the right for one to speak. The history of the Free Speech Movement seems to have been lost. Do we as students want to revert back to when 'controversial' speakers weren't allowed to speak on our campus? Should we allow our differences to cause us to forget about the legacies that have paved the way for us, like that of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement, or Malcolm X, who at one time was forbidden to speak at UC Berkeley because of his political viewpoints?"

3/8/2012, San Francisco Chronicle, Ray Colvig - announced UC Berkeley news to nation, David Perlman

"As manager of public information, Mr. Colvig's job was representing the Berkeley campus and the seven chancellors whom he served over 27 years that took in the birth of the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, the campus protests over the Vietnam War, the riots over People's Park and the Patty Hearst kidnapping. He did his job with such integrity that reporters - both in the Bay Area and nationally - relied on him to provide facts impartially, regardless of the controversies."

3/7/2012, The Daily Californian, Ray Colvig, former spokesperson and Public Information Office manager, dies at age 8o, Jeremy Gordon

"Ray Colvig, manager of UC Berkeley's Public Information Office for 27 years and a man remembered for his honesty, died Sunday. He was 80. Colvig was the school's spokesperson from 1964 to 1991, representing the campus through contentious issues ranging from the Free Speech Movement to the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, the 1990 Hotel Durant hostage crisis and the 1969 People's Park protests."

3/7/2012, Oakland Tribune, East Bay Women's Conference provides challenge, strength, Lou Fancher

"Her [Alice Waters'] political energy was stirred up by Free Speech activist Mario Savio and, recently, by Dr. Daphne Miller's work with indigenous populations. Elizabeth David, Richard Olney and Michael Pollen have been her mentors for cooking and growing food."

3/5/2012, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, Former campus spokesman and Cal booster Ray Colvig has died, Robert Sanders

"Ray Colvig, who for 27 years was the spokesman for UC Berkeley and a beloved leader of the campus's Public Information Office until his retirement in 1991, died Sunday, March 4, of sudden heart problems at Alta Bates Medical Center in Berkeley. He was 80, and passed away among his family and friends. From 1964 until 1991, Colvig served as manager of the campus's former Public Information Office. His tenure spanned the upheavals of the Free Speech Movement, anti-Vietnam protests, People's Park riots and the Patty Hearst kidnapping, not to mention UC Berkeley's rise to academic and research excellence rivaling that of Harvard and MIT. He served seven chancellors, from Nobel Laureate Glenn Seaborg to Chang-Lin Tien."

2/23/2012, San Francisco Chronicle, Groundbreaking journalist Belva Davis to retire, Nanette Asimov

"During the 1960s and '70s, Davis covered violent protests, the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, the birth of the Black Panthers, the Peoples Temple cult that led to mass suicides in Guyana, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the AIDS epidemic, and the terrorist attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania that brought Osama bin Laden to the attention of the FBI."

2/22/2012, Contra Costa Times, Belva Davis, a trail-blazing journalist and Bay Area television fixture, has announced that she will retire from the anchor chair later this year., Chuck Barney

"Over her career, Davis has reported on some of the most prominent stories of her time, including the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the birth of the Black Panthers, the Peoples Temple cult that ended in the mass suicides at Jonestown, the assassinations of San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk, the onset of the AIDS epidemic, and the terrorist attacks on the U.S. embassy in Tanzania that first put Osama bin Laden on the FBI's Most Wanted List."

2/17/2012, The Guardian, Greil Marcus: a life in writing', Simon Reynolds

"The third life-changer was the frenzy of protest and debate that convulsed Berkeley in the autumn of 1964. Sparked initially by agitation against racist hiring practices in Bay Area businesses, it escalated into the Free Speech Movement in response to the university authorities' attempt to crack down on the pamphleteering and recruitment taking place on campus. 'People stepping out of the anonymity of their own lives', is how Marcus characterises this spontaneous upsurge of 'public speech'. During those "three solid months of arguing in dorm rooms and on picket lines, asking 'What's this place for?' 'What's this country about?', Marcus 'walked around the campus thinking how lucky I am to be here at this moment'."

2/14/2012, The Indypendent, The Fetishization of Expression, Paul Street

"'In my book I describe ....a tension in the praxis of the New Left from strategicism, which is grounded in a reasoned approach to thinking about social change, and expressivism, in which the need or even compulsion to express one's rebellion against established values... trump[s] longer-term planning and the careful articulation of tactics to strategy....with the New Left we see a key transition from a more strategic politics to a more expressivist one, i.e., a politics in which concrete thinking about how to achieve a desired objective was not considered as important as that primordial moment of giving expression to speech - 'letting speech run wild in the streets.' While there were intimations of this shift in the early 1960s, for example, in the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the expressivist impulse only came to full flower in 1968. In a famous interview with the French philosopher Jean Paul Sartre, Daneil Cohn-Bendit - or Danny the Red, one of the leaders of May '68 - said, to paraphrase, 'people say now that the speech is running wild in the streets, and you, know, people say crazy things, but that's necessary.' What I argue in my book is that while this was a very important moment in our political practice, there's no reason to fetishize expression today. And in fact, perhaps it's gotten in the way of efficacious politics.'"

2/10/2012, Politico, Tribute to Madeline Mark, Joshua Levine Grater

"Berkeley in the '60s - now that was the place to be for a young, progressive, smart and gregarious young woman! It was there that Madeline first met Brian, her love of 43 years, at a mutual friend's wedding, where they bonded over good wine and their stories of being arrested in the free-speech movement."

2/7/2012, The Daily Californian, Renowned UC Berkeley professor speaks on challenges to higher education, Sam Buckland

"[Neil] Smelser, who received his bachelor's degree and PhD from Harvard University, published a book in 2010 entitled 'Reflections on the University of California: From the Free Speech Movement to the Global University' and is one of the 'accomplished leaders of American Higher Education,' according to the Center for Studies in Higher Education."

2/4/2012, New York Times, A Chance to See Disabilities as Assets, Peggy Klaus

"MANY people know of Berkeley, Calif., as the birthplace, in the 1960's, of the Free Speech Movement. Fewer people know that Berkeley also played a major role in the disability rights movement. It was here, also in the '60s, that Ed Roberts - a student with quadriplegia - became an outspoken advocate of the cause."

2/4/2012, New York Times, Berkeley's Telegraph Avenue, Hit by Hard Times, Needs a Makeover, Frances Dinkelspiel

"Telegraph Avenue has long been considered the spiritual center of Berkeley. Mario Savio stood on top of a police car on one end of the street in 1964 and called for free speech, creating a movement that swept the nation. Antiwar activists clashed with the police, adding to the momentum that ended the war in Vietnam. But the street has fallen on hard times."

1/28/2012, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Remembrance to be held March 16 for UC Santa Cruz professor John Schaar, Tanya Lewis

"Schaar was born July 7, 1928, in Montoursville, Pa., where he grew up on a farm in a Lutheran family. He attended UCLA for his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees. In 1958, he came to teach political theory at UC Berkeley, alongside colleagues Norman Jacobson, Sheldon Wolin and Scharr's wife Hanna Pitkin. During what [Frank] Bardacke called a 'tumultuous and interesting time in the world and at Berkeley,' Schaar was an avid supporter of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. '[Schaar] had a way of arguing a case, and at same time, he invited and reveled in opposition,' Bardacke said. 'He loved honest debate and knew how to promote it.'"

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

"Back in 1989, when the publication of Salman Rushdie's novel 'The Satanic Verses' sparked a new phenomenon of protests from Muslims - particularly by those in the West - I was a student body senator at the University of California at Berkeley, where the Free Speech Movement was born in the 1960s. Two bookstores were firebombed - apparently in retaliation for the book, though without any claims of responsibility. Along with several other Muslim students, I appeared on local television to denounce the bombings and state our belief that while Muslims could understandably be offended, no one had the right to impose censorship or intimidate others with threats to their safety or property"

8/22/2008, Chicago Tribune, SCREEN SCENE: Facets turns the clock back 40 years, Robert K. Elder

"'I think it's appropriate for a couple of reasons,' says [Judy] Hoffman. 'It looks back at the civil rights movement, the American Indian movement. ... We have to look back, really, at late '50s and early '60s with the free speech movement and civil rights movement. That kind of revolutionary thought continues throughout the Vietnam War.'"

8/9/2008, San Jose Mercury News, Poster child for hippie era, Kristin Bender

"Michael Rossman wasn't just an activist in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the counterculture movement of the 1960s and '70s. He was its curator."

8/7/2008, Oakland Tribune, Posters chronicle Free Speech Movement, Kristin Bender

"Rossman was one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. He was at Sproul Plaza on campus on the afternoon of Oct. 2, 1964, when 3,000 students sat around a police patrol car and kept it from taking student protester Jack Weinberg to jail. Many of those involved in 'the movement' did not continue their involvement with it, but it consumed Rossman and a good portion of his life. He wrote essays, news stories and books about it. He was the president and chief executive officer of the Free Speech Movement Archives. He was also a science teacher, a father, a husband, a collector and a lifelong Berkeley resident. In June 2007, he learned in had leukemia. He died May 12 at age 68."

8/5/2008, The New York Times, 'Hair' Revival: A Time Warp for Tears and Fun, Patricia Cohen

"But that wasn't how Ms. Friedman, an exuberant woman with bright red lipstick and a head of black, white and gray-streaked hair, felt. 'It seems shockingly relevant,' she said. 'I know every word of this, and as I was singing, I was back in time with it. It seems totally familiar and fresh at the same time.' Her husband, Darrell Friedman, 65, was a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, during the Free Speech Movement when he saw 'Hair' in San Francisco. 'They were the moral conscience of our society, whether we liked it or not,' he said of the antiwar protesters and hippies depicted onstage. 'I sit here today and look back at my life, and it seems like we're back where we were 40 years ago,' mired in a war waged by a deceitful administration, he said."

8/1/2008, Counterpunch, The Boot McCain Puts in His Mouth, Nikolas Kozloff

"Continuing on in his usual haughty tone, Boot wrote 'Ever since Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement electrified the nation in 1964, this city has been famous for its protests against anything and everything. Berkeleyites have marched against apartheid, the contras, sweatshops, plans to build on People's Park, and CIA plots to water down their lattés. Okay, I made that one up.'"

7/30/2008, Borderfire Report, Senator Obama, Citizen of the World, Thomas E. Brewton

"In 1970, [Jean-François] Revel had high hopes for the late 1960s cultural anarchy in the United States: the Cal-Berkeley Free Speech Movement, SDS, Weatherman, the Reverend Martin Luther King's civil right campaign, feminism, homosexual outing, the black power groups, and the push for abortion, no-fault divorce, and sexual promiscuity. All of these, he anticipated, would lead to full-fledged socialism in the United States and would become the model for the remainder of the world."

07/25/2008, Oakland Tribune, Wacko tree-sitters need to find a real cause, Tammerlin Drummond

"There was a time when the name Berkeley was synonomous with social and political activism. Cal students and others turned out in huge numbers in the '60s and early '70s to protest the war in Vietnam. In what became known as the Free Speech Movement, Berkeley students fought for their right to distribute literature on campus in support of the civil rights movement. Those struggles made international headlines."

7/24/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Editorial: Obama Leads the Way for Young Candidates, Becky O'Malley

"The first discussion of the Obama phenomenon in this space featured an enthusiastic letter from the son of a Free Speech Movement stalwart. Since then I've checked in on the offspring of several '60s radicals and seen a similar response."

7/23/2008, Newsbusters, Gastronomic Baloney: Food Choices Can Make You 'Conservative', P.J. Gladnick

"There has been a trend in recent years for liberals to try to rebrand themselves as conservatives. The purpose is to con people into thinking that they somehow uphold traditional values. One of the more laughable of these rebranding attempts has been put forward by one John Schwenkler, a doctoral candidate in philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. The very title of Schwenkler's Boston Globe article, 'Eat Republican,' along with the subtitle, 'How an organic movement born in Berkeley exemplifies conservative values,' sets the tone for the attempted con. Schwenkler leads off by attempting to convince us that someone who cooked a fundraising dinner for a Democrat is really a conservative:"

7/20/2008, The Boston Globe, Eat Republican: How an organic movement born in Berkeley exemplifies conservative values, John Schwenkler

"ALICE WATERS SEEMS at first like an unlikely conservative. A veteran of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement who once cooked a $25,000-a-seat fund-raising dinner for Bill Clinton, she eagerly compares her campaign for 'edible schoolyards' - where children grow, prepare, and eat fresh produce - with John F. Kennedy's attempt to improve physical fitness through mandatory exercise. Her dream of organic, locally and sustainably produced food in every school cafeteria, class credit for lunch hour, and required gardening time and cooking classes is as utopian as they come. The name she has given her gastronomic movement, the 'Delicious Revolution,' strikes the ear as one part fuzzy-headed Marxism, the other David Brooksian bobo-speak."

7/16/2008, San Leandro Times, Book Publishing Goes Online, Julie Barsamian

"As a student at UC Berkeley during the famed free-speech movement, JoAnn Ainsworth rode a motorcycle to class past the national guard and under the watch of military helicopters."

7/16/2008, Country Standard Time, Joan Baez to receive Spirit of Americana award,

"Baez has long been an activist. She marched for the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, inspired Vaclav Havel in his fight for a Czech Republic, sang on the first Amnesty International tour and earlier this 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 and organized resistance to the war in Southeast Asia."

7/15/2008, Huffington Post, You Aren't Just Losing Teachers, Jonah Lalas

".One of my professors, Paul Von Blum, an over 65 year old militant white guy with crazy hair and a beard, taught a class called the Art of Social Conscience, where we studied art critical of society or as he stated "art that makes you uncomfortable." He was active in the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the 1960s, went to the South to help register African Americans and fought against the Vietnam War. He painted for us a picture of those tumultuous times through his stories, pieces written by activists at the time, and art."

7/10/2008, The Socialist Worker, Red State Rebels,

"But the union organizers kept at it, largely in the person of the International Workers of the World's (IWW) Frank Little, a mesmerizing speaker who was running the IWW's Free-Speech campaign in Butte--the model for the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley."

7/10/2008, Canadian Free Press, A Dying Ideal: Opposing the Fairness Doctrine with a Real Fairness Doctrine, Bruce Walker

"The irony of this is that the very ideologues who protested and demanded the right to offend in the Berkley Free Speech Movement forty-five years ago, now that they are the administrators, want to protect themselves and their allies from being offended by draconian censorship that no one running American colleges in 1963 would have dreamed of imposing upon students or faculty."

7/3/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Tree Sitters Disgraced the Progressive Movement, H. Scott Prosterman

"Promoting bicycle safety has been part of the script for every Berkeley politician since the Free Speech Movement."

6/29/2008, Deccan Herald, my generation: Rebellious 70s, Vijay Nambisan

"Worldwide, the hopes raised in the 60s had been quashed, usually by the Establishment, but as often as not those carrying the banners tripped over their own feet. You can say the Establishment killed both Kennedys (and Martin Luther King, Boris Pasternak and John Lennon), crushed the Prague Spring, put paid to the 'merry month of May' 68 in Paris, ended the moon landings programme. But who finished the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, or turned the Hell's Angels on the anti-war protestors, or destroyed the souls of rock'n'roll and hippiedom with big bucks? The 70s were the ugliest decade since the Fascist triumph in the 30s, perhaps for the very reason that hope was all but dead. In the glacial depths of the Cold War, both sides competed brutally for the moral low ground. Allende succumbed to a CIA-sponsored coup in Chile; Neruda died 12 days later."

6/26/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Old Recordings by The New Age Get New Release on CD, Ken Bullock

"[Susan Graubard] Archuletta went to Cal, where she played at vespers on the Campanile carillon, played viola in the university symphony, and participated in the Free Speech Movement."

6/26/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Confrontation at Stadium Triggers New Arrests, Richard Brenneman

"Also on hand to speak at the press conference held during Sunday's rally were former Mayor Shirley Dean, Free Speech Movement veteran Neal Blumenfeld, two Native American activists, two medical experts and Oakland attorney Carol Strickman, who is representing the tree-sitters. Asked to describe the difference between the Free Speech Movement (FSM) activism of the early 1960s and the new millennium's protest at the grove, Blumenfeld said 'the major difference is in the movement,' which had a broad base of support in four decades ago. 'The university's behavior,' he said, 'is exactly the same' In addition to their larger numbers, said Blumenfeld, a psychiatrist, FSM members carried out extensive research on university funding and the revenues of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which he called 'the huge industrial park on the hill.'"

6/26/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, MICHAEL ROSSMAN, Arnie Passman

"Some recent breaths ago, our dearly departed homo luden Michael Rossman asked me to get him a few minutes on this year's Bolshevik Cafe stage. No problem. On May 3, Michael, masked--initially, to some, a robber in our midst--arrived at Red Finn Hall on 10th Street and read his now core-of-our-lyrical lore "thank you to my body" poem, nine days before he passed (on George Carlin's final birthday)."

6/24/2008, The New York Times, More Closing Doors, Patricia Cohen

"During the 1960s the bookstore was an outpost of the Free Speech Movement."

6/23/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Cody's, landmark Berkeley bookstore, closes, Michael Taylor

"More than just dollars and cents, however, Cody's was something of a symbol in Berkeley, a witness to and supporter of the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, a well-stocked cornerstone of literacy for the thousands of students and faculty patrons from nearby UC Berkeley and a practitioner, in its own right, of free-speech principles. In February 1989, Cody's was firebombed, and an unexploded pipe bomb was later found inside the store. This all happened shortly after the store had prominently displayed Salman Rushdie's 'The Satanic Verses' at a time when many in the Muslim world were outraged by Rushdie's novel, and the author had to go into hiding because of threats on his life."

6/22/2008, Earth Times, Wolf Pack Charges Finish Line in Inaugural Concrete Canoe Victory, American Society of Civil Engineers

"The University of California, Berkeley paddled into second place with the gray, black and red, 229-pound, 19.92-foot-long VoCal -- a tribute to the 'Free Speech Movement' and the Ecole de technologie superieure finished a close third with the gray, green and black, 170-pound, 20-foot-long Toutatis -- a Celtic tribute."

06/20/2008, Oakland Tribune, Memorial service for Michael Rossman on Monday, staff

"Rossman was at Sproul Plaza on the UC Berkeley campus the afternoon of Oct. 2, 1964, when 3,000 students sat around a police patrol car and kept it from taking student protester Jack Weinberg to jail. That was the beginning of what became known as the Free Speech Movement. Rossman spent much of his life writing and talking about and promoting the movement. He was the president and chief executive officer of the Free Speech Movement Archives and headed the 20th, 30th and 40th anniversary commemorations of the movement."

06/20/2008, East Bay Express, Cody's Books Closes Permanently,

"Founded by Fred and Pat Cody in 1956, Cody's has been a Berkeley institution and a pioneer in the book business, helping to establish such innovations as quality paperbacks and in-store author readings. Throughout the 1960s and 70s, Cody's was a landmark of the Free Speech movement and was a home away from home for innumerable authors, poets and readers."

6/19/2008, San Jose Mercury News, UC-Berkeley blocks food and water, removes one protester, as tree sit goes on, Lisa Krieger

"Here at the birthplace of campus protest, where Mario Savio launched the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a dozen activists sit in trees, mostly coast live oaks, marked for the chain saw. They took to the trees in December 2006 to prevent the proposed $125 million facility, which would be built next to Memorial Stadium."

6/19/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, New UC Vice Chancellor Worked for Carlyle Group, Richard Brenneman

"The press release from Marie Felde, the university's executive director of media relations, mentioned past employers Citigroup, Lehman Brothers and Salomon Smith Barney-names certain to worry Free Speech Movement veterans and those with similar outlooks. But she didn't cite the one employer absolutely certain to set their blood boiling, an outfit that included some of the nation's leading retired spooks and neocons-the Carlyle Group."

6/16/2008, AXcess News, A Generation of Wimps, W R Marshall

"There was once a willingness to commit to something bigger than yourself, something important, something dangerous, something that needed to be done. People were willing to sacrifice themselves for what they believed in."

6/6/2008, Daily Camera, Review: Renny Russell self-publishes sequel to his outdoor classic, 'On the Loose', Clay Evans

"The book slips smoothly between that journey, the horn-rimmed boys' upbringing in an appealingly unusual family, their early adventures in the wild, and even Terry's time with the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. Renny also does not shy away from the anger he feels (nurtured in the 1960s, in part through the brothers' friendship with Sierra Club founding father David Brower) about the damming of rivers in the American West."

6/5/2008, Los Angeles Times, Idealism lost in '68 is reborn in L.A. classroom, Joe Mozingo

"In his final year as an undergraduate, he was accepted to Boalt Hall School of Law. Steiner was fascinated as the Free Speech Movement roared up at Berkeley. But he didn't have an impulse for rebellion. Only one time did he step into the fray: He joined the massive sit-in at Sproul Hall. When police told students they would be arrested if they didn't leave, he left. He felt like a coward as he walked away. But he was just a mainstream kid."

6/4/2008, City Beat, Then And Now: How today's political climate mirrors 1968 ... and how it doesn't, Lew Moores

"David Altman, a local attorney who deals with environmental issues, was a senior at UC during the 1967-68 academic year and editor-in-chief of The News Record. He and his team of editors and reporters had begun to change the culture of college journalism that year, where a prior editor was a 'dewy-eyed sorority person.' Altman saw his team as transitioning from a sports-dominated, fraternity-and-sorority-minded, social-calendar culture to a more edgy, skeptical and questioning brand of journalism. Just a few years after the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, politics had begun to arrive on other college campuses."

6/2/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, June services set for free speech activist, Michael Taylor

"A memorial service will be held in Kensington June 23 for Michael Rossman, a key figure in the historic 1960s Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Mr. Rossman, who was 68, died at his Berkeley home May 12. The Free Speech Movement was, in effect, the progenitor of student movements and war protests on U.S. campuses during the 1960s and 1970s; Mr. Rossman was on the steering and executive committees of the movement."

5/30/2008, The Times and Democrat, The demand for democracy is local, Corry Stevenson

"'Go back to the base, the civil rights movement, the black power movement, farm workers movement, the Chicano movement, the free speech movement and the anti-war movements; youth organizing develop many of today's leaders, teachers, analysts and activists."

5/30/2008, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Women power Why a student protest still matters 30 years later, Judy Van Handle

"So when he and his wife, Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, arrived in town 35 years ago, she exclaimed, 'The '60s aren't dead, they just moved to Amherst.' The Whiteheads were about to re-experience an era whose seeds had been planted a decade earlier, 3,000 miles away. From the time that Mario Savio and his supporters in the Free Speech Movement staged what is considered to be the first college sit-in, at the University of California, Berkeley "

5/29/2008, The Daily Californian Online, Campus Rights Organizer Remembered for his 'Zest', Jacqueline Johnston

"Rossman, who was born in Colorado in 1939, was a member of the Free Speech Movement Steering Committee. Rossman is credited with designing and organizing efforts to publish a research report analyzing the progressiveness of the UC Berkeley administration. Rossman and other members of the Free Speech Movement wanted to show that the university was not as liberal as was commonly believed, Hollander said."

5/27/2008, Wall Street Journal, On the Sadness of Higher Education, Alan Charles Kors

"Thus, under the heirs of the academic '60s, we moved on campus after campus from their Free Speech Movement to their politically correct speech codes; from their abolition of mandatory chapel to their imposition of Orwellian mandatory sensitivity and multicultural training; from their freedom to smoke pot unmolested to their war today against the kegs and spirits-literal and metaphorical-of today's students; from their acquisition of young adult status to their infantilization of "kids" who lack their insight; from their self-proclaimed dreams of racial and sexual integration to their ever more balkanized campuses organized on principles of group characteristics and group responsibility; from their right to define themselves as individuals-a foundational right-to their official, imposed and politically orthodox notions of identity. American college students became the victims of a generational swindle of truly epic proportions. If that part of the faculty not complicit in this did not know that it was happening, it was by choice or willful blindness."

5/27/2008, cinematical, RIP: Reel Important People, Christopher Campbell

"Michael Rossman (1939-2008) - Activist, Author - Helped organize the Free Speech Movement in the '60s. He appears as himself in the Oscar-nominated documentary Berkeley in the Sixties. He died May 12 in Berkeley, California. (NY Times)"

5/22/2008, The Vancouver Province, Keep campuses free, editors

"If you're old-school and hear the phrase "campus free-speech movement," you might harken back to the 1960s when students fought for their right to be politically active on school grounds. Hear the phrase now and it could well mean the opposite: Student unions trying to take away other students' right to express themselves"

5/22/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, 'Seeing Music': Freight & Salvage at 40, Mary Eisenhart

"For Goines, who grew up in a large family that entertained itself by singing and playing cowboy songs, Scots-Irish ballads and the entire American songbook, the scene that spawned the Freight was a place he felt right at home. 'During the Free Speech Movement everybody sang all the time,' he recalls. 'When we'd come back on the bus from some outing, we'd sing. We'd sing all kinds of songs - spirituals, songs from 'The Sound of Music' - singing was part of my life.'"

5/19/2008, New York Times, Michael Rossman, Who Fought for Campus Rights, Dies at 68, Margalit Fox

"A close friend of Mario Savio, the movement's best-known leader, Mr. Rossman left graduate school in 1966 to devote himself to activism, lecturing on campuses around the country. The Free Speech Movement, which quickly spread to other universities, made political discourse a basic right on college campuses throughout the nation."

5/19/2008, College of Letters & Science, Berkeley Students Get Behind the Camera, Kate Rix

"Skoller teaches a graduate production seminar that attracts anthropology students who want to make films of their fieldwork. One of those students is planning a trip to Brazil to study the favelas, or shantytowns. Another of Skoller's documentary students made a film as part of her research into women and girls who play computer games. Another is researching changing ideas about free speech, and has made a film about Berkeley's Free Speech Movement."

5/18/2008, Oakland Tribune, Free Speech Movement leader dies at 68, Kristin Bender

"During a time when student protests were unprecedented, Rossman and students Mario Savio, Hal Draper, Brian Turner, Steve Weissman, Art Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker, Jackie Goldberg and others insisted that the UC administration lift a ban on campus political activities, academic freedom and free speech. It was a student protest that lasted about three months during the 1964-65 school years. But for Rossman it was something that consumed most of his life. He wrote essays, news stories and books about it. He was the president and chief executive officer of the Free Speech Movement Archives and took very seriously the way information was presented on the group's Web site, said Lee Felsenstein, secretary-treasurer of the archive. "Michael, I would have to call him a renaissance man because he embodied both art and science and activism. He was a poet and had that sort of sensibility, which could be hard to bear when you were reading one of his long writings. Nevertheless, he had a way with metaphors that was a very important part of him," Felsenstein said."

5/17/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, '60s activist Michael Rossman dies in Berkeley, Michael Taylor

"In the nascent days of the Free Speech Movement, Hollander said, it was Mr. Rossman who said, 'early on, that one thing that was needed was a counter thought to the idea that UC had always been this tremendously liberal, free speech-oriented institution. He felt this was a myth and needed to be shown it was a myth.' On an October day in 1964, students gathering in Sproul Plaza created a demonstration whose highlight 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,' 'Hollander said, 'Michael 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 it's that report that got him known,' Hollander said. Mr. Rossman was chosen to be on the executive and steering committees of the movement, along with such protest luminaries as Savio, Weinberg, Suzanne Goldberg, Bettina Aptheker and others."

5/15/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Editorial: The Art and Science of Living Well, Becky O'Malley

"The big political news on campus was the primeval student political party-- indeed I think it was the only one at that time--Slate. It was perennially being thrown off campus for assorted sins of free speech. Student rabble-rousers, including Michael, spoke when they could, standing on the planters in Dwinelle Plaza. Sproul Plaza was still under construction. Michael himself documented in exhaustive detail much of the frenetic activity in those days, and a lot of it can be found on the Internet with a Google search. The facts are actively disputed by participants with failing memories, but the passion behind them is unmistakable. A peak was the demonstrations in San Francisco in May of 1960 against the House Un-American Activities Committee. It was the first big mass demonstration of a generation scared by McCarthyism, and it was the precursor of the Free Speech Movement of 1964. By the time of the FSM I'd graduated, moved away and lost touch. I saw Michael interviewed on television on 60 Minutes in the early '60s, part of a program whose theme was 'The Death of the Student Movement.' He argued to the contrary, and soon thereafter the FSM happened, with his enthusiastic participation."

5/15/2008, Bay Area Reporter, Aptheker wows women at forum, Heather Tirado Gilligan

"Aging women are frequently diminished in social exchanges, Aptheker said, noting that her students often describe her as 'cute,' and tell her 'you remind me of my grandmother.' 'I am not cute. That's just insulting,' said Aptheker, a leader of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the 1960s and a civil rights, feminist, and lesbian activist of 40 years."

5/14/2008, Democracy Now, 1968, 40 Years Later: Student, Worker Protests Sweep France, Leaving Indelible Mark on the Country and the World, Amy Goodman and George Katsiaficas

"The vans-much like the free speech movement in Berkeley, the vans taking away the arrested students were surrounded. One of the vans never made it out. The prisoners were released. And the then police attacked. Students counterattacked. The residents of the Latin Quarter supported the students. The special riot police that had been created after the workers' strikes of 1958 were then mobilized, and workers instinctively sided with the students."

5/12/2008, The Guardian, Don't Tread on Us Tritons, Hadley Mendoza

"STUDENT LIFE - Somehow, history always seems to repeat itself. Will people ever learn? The national government didn't learn anything from Vietnam, pulling the country into another needless war, only this time it's the terrorists, not communists, we're chasing. The federal government didn't learn anything from the civil rights movement or those hot '60s summers, still pushing around political minorities, but now discriminating against Latinos with border-long walls instead of prosecuting blacks with Jim Crow policies. And the University of California administration didn't learn anything from the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement, deciding to still introduce a new speech policy that would limit the rights of nonaffiliates on the public university's 10 campuses."

5/11/2008, The Columbus Dispatch, Author separates facts, myths of '60s, Joe Blundo

"DeGroot patiently separates them. He delineates the difference between the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (spawned by an effort to restrict campus protest that enraged both liberal and conservative students) and the incoherent Rubin, an egotist whose main interest was in showing off."

5/11/2008, New York Times, The Boss Voices in Concert, Peter Grosslight as told to Amy Zipkin

"I arrived at the University of California, Berkeley, in the fall of 1963. Sproul Plaza, a major center of student activity, was full of card tables with different student organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. When I returned to campus the following year, all the tables were gone. The Regents of the University of California had ordered them off campus after students had organized to picket Barry Goldwater, who was being nominated for president at the Republican convention in San Francisco. That was the beginning of the free-speech movement, with students insisting that the school administration lift a ban on on-campus political activities. It felt empowering, being part of a group of young people that felt we could change the world. I remember watching Joan Baez singing peace songs while she was standing on top of a police car."

5/8/2008, New Statesman, All along the watchtower, Greil Marcus

"From the sightlines in Berkeley, California, where I lived then and live now, I recall 1968 as a year of horror and bad faith. The great storm of student protest that would convulse the US and nations well beyond it had begun there in 1964 with the Free Speech Movement. It was three months of daily speeches, marches, building occupations, and finally played out in a Greek open-air theatre as high drama. That drama - a university in convocation with itself, everyone present, the leaders of the institution speaking quieting words, then a single student, standing to speak, immediately seized by police, an act of violence actually revealing the face of power behind the face of reasonableness - brought that moment to a close and opened a field that in the years to come would be crossed by thousands."

5/2/2008, openDemocracy, The 1968 debate in Germany, Paul Hockenos

"The student partisans' relationship to the United States was equally complex. On the one hand, the war in Vietnam specifically and "US imperialism" in general were central to the movement. Amerikahaus cultural centres were routinely stoned and one of the protest chants was "USA-SA-SS", comparing the US to Nazi Germany. But the same protesters were philo-American in so many ways. They were conscious they were using protest forms pioneered in America - the sit-ins, teach-ins, and other forms of civil disobedience picked up from the US civil-rights movement. Their politics would have been inconceivable without Bob Dylan's lyrics, the works of Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, and the examples of Haight-Ashbury and the Berkeley free-speech movement. This post-war generation was incomparably more American - in so many ways - than its parents ever could have been."

5/1/2008, Prospect Magazine, California dreaming, Anthony Giddens

"It was also a time of multiple social movements. 1968 had its origins in the civil rights movement in the south, which began some years before, and the free speech movement in Berkeley. These converged with the movement against the Vietnam war, a catalysing agent for many radicals. They overlapped too with the hippies, although most hippies were against all political power and authority."

4/29/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Berserkeley has been that way a long time, Carolyn Jones

"Besides the innovations from City Hall, Berkeley has been the birthplace of less tangible ideas, such as the Free Speech Movement, the disability rights movement and California cuisine."

4/18/2008, American Enterprise Institute, Remembering 1968, Michael Novak

"The academic profession reinforced this appearance of disengagement with its supine response to the misnamed Free Speech Movement, which began across the bay from Palo Alto at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. Many kinds of political activity, such as students promoting non-university events or organizing on behalf of campaigns, were prohibited on campus, but much of the controversy and student anger involved a nearby piece of land, at the intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue, that was owned by the university. When police attempted to enforce the ban there in October 1964, students responded with sit-ins and other protests that eventually disrupted the university in December. The very idea of a university rests on the principle that professors have superior wisdom to convey to their far less knowledgeable students, yet the Berkeley faculty, intimidated by menacing students, caved in to the demonstrators' extortion. Any moral or intellectual standing that professors might have had in the eyes of students was dashed to the ground. Similar craven surrenders occurred at some 300 other campuses over the next few years."

4/17/2008, BC Heights, Time to make history happen at BC, Amanda Leahy

"Yesterday, I spent the afternoon reading about leftist movements of the 1950s, '60s, and '70s for a history class. Among the readings was Mario Savio's 'An End to History,' the famous 1964 speech that helped to ignite the free speech movement at not only UC Berkley, where Savio was a graduate student, but at colleges and universities all over the United States. Reading Savio's impassioned words, I could not help but imagine what life must have been like for a college student during this era of turbulent and volatile change in our nation's history."

4/13/2008, Pajamas Media, Viewing the 1960s From My 60s, Burt Prelutsky

"Perhaps the biggest lie fomented back then was something called the Free Speech Movement. It was like something taken straight out of George Orwell's "1984." The title, alone, would have made Big Brother smirk. The movement, which stretched across America's college campuses from UC Berkeley to Columbia, consisted of student radicals commandeering offices and classrooms, doing their level best to silence professors and administrators who didn't buy into their fascistic dogma. Funny how little some things have changed over the years."

4/13/2008, Indybay, Jackie Goldberg "The Changing Climate of Our Schools: Put Students on the Endangered List, m

"Jackie Goldberg delivered a rousing, but also gut-wrenching address yesterday at the California Studies Conference on the state of California's education system, under the onslaught of the Schwarzenegger, Bush and earlier administrations, and a backward educational ideology promulgated by various interests, entitled 'The Changing Climate of Our Schools: Put Students on the Endangered List'."

3/20/2008, Israel e News, Radical Clergy And The Democratic Party, Moshe Phillips

"Lerner does have 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 the militant, revolutionary left in the Bay Area."

3/15/2008, Augusta Chronicle, Foundation crusades to stamp out absurd assaults on free speech, unsigned

"In the tumultuous 1960s far-left student radicals launched the "free speech movement" at the University of California-Berkeley. Cruelly exploiting anti-Vietnam War and civil rights sentiments, the movement soon spread across the country to other campuses, often resulting in violence, property damage and shutdowns of universities and colleges -- at least temporarily until police were finally called in. These young thugs, who were christened the "New Left" by generally friendly national media, were no more interested in free speech than they were in signing up for a stint in Vietnam. What they really sought was free speech for themselves, but not for anybody else -- especially those who disagreed with them."

3/14/2008, Contra Costa Times, Tolerance should be the top priority, Martin Snapp

"The irony is that this is the exact opposite of everything Mario Savio, who was the reason many of us came to Berkeley in the first place, stood for. Mario loved to hear people whose views differed from his own. 'If someone had an alternate view, he'd listen seriously,' the late Prof. Reggie Zelnick, who was a junior faculty member during the Free Speech Movement era, once told me. 'And he was not above changing his position if he thought they were right.'"

3/7/2008, Workers' Liberty, Learning more in 32 hours than in 32 ordinary months, Tom Unterainer

"Jack Weinberg was arrested for trespass on the morning of 1 October 1964. His real "crime" was to be the loudest, most outspoken critic amongst a large group of students and campaigners who'd gathered to challenge restrictions against political campaigning at the University of Berkeley. Weinberg was typical of a number of students who'd started to question not only the world around them but the significance and relevance of their day-to-day lives. These students were influenced by and involved in the civil rights movement where their exposure to brutal, institutional racism armed them with the ability to resist oppression no matter how it was manifested."

3/7/2008, Oakland Tribune, Fashion intersects with history at UC Berkeley's 'From Plugs to Bling", Dino-Ray Ramos

"Switching gears from the traditional to a more radical fashion statement, Benemann displays one of his own outfits, something he wore in the '70s: a denim jacket paired with a Cal state shirt and blue-and-gold muffler. Though simple in appearance, the pieces personified the free speech movement, a stylish way to rebel from the more acceptable sport coats and ties of the '60s."

3/5/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, History of Cal student fashions on display, Patricia Yollin

"'It's so easy to lose history when your population is changing every year,' he said. 'You could stop a student and ask who Mario Savio or Bettina Aptheker was, and they wouldn't have any idea.' The two were leaders of the Free Speech Movement on campus, which began in 1964. Although many demonstrators then actually sported ties and took their shoes off when they jumped on police cars, Benemann said, their challenge to authority soon transformed fashion on campus."

2/20/2008, The Guardian, In defense of oratory, Sasha Abramsky

"Mario Savio's 1964 peroration outside UC Berkeley's Sproul Hall, the famous words that summed up the goals of Berkeley's free speech movement and set the stage for the campus upheavals of the second half of the 1960s, is still quoted and written about, not because Savio was a strategic genius but because he was an utterly magnetic speaker, throwing his words out before an agitated audience hungry for change."

2/18/2008, The Arizona Republic, Berkeley now is what it fought against, Jock Patton

"I was a freshman there in 1963 when the Free Speech Movement was at its loudest. People don't realize today that the administration of the school and the faculty were very conservative at that time. We had to swear we were not Communists just to register for classes, and all on-campus activities were strictly regulated."

2/12/2008, The Los Angeles Times, Power to all the people, editors

"It's no secret that the epicenter of the free-speech movement does not always encourage or easily tolerate speech with which it doesn't agree. But using city powers and resources in an effort to silence one side's speech while advocating another's goes over the top -- and in Berkeley, that's saying something."

2/12/2008, San Mateo County Times, Cancer claims San Mateo County's voice, Shaun Bishop

"At San Francisco State University, where he taught for several decades, Lantos had tested his oratorical skills several years before the free-speech movement took hold at UC Berkeley. William Mason, a professor emeritus of economics at the university, remembered seeing Lantos perched on top of the 'speaker's platform' in front of the campus cafeteria, debating politics with a professor of international relations."

2/9/2008, Workers' Liberty, speech fight that shaped the New Left, Tom Unterrainer

"Mario Savio, a student leader of the FSM and undergraduate in Physics and Maths, described the university administration as follows: 'We should not ask whether such intellectual cacophony and bureaucratic harassment are appropriate at universities - for certainly they are not - but rather, whether these local 'plants' in what Clark Kerr calls the 'knowledge industry' deserve the name university at all.'"

2/4/2008, The Daily Californian, Festival Shows That Hip-Hop is Alive and Well, Ethan Strauss

"It started with a panel discussion dedicated to examining the legacy of activism at Cal. There was a considerable trickle-down of Reagan-hating, as well as credit given to the "cultural revolution" that subversively accompanied his reign. The discussion seemed to be one part reflection, one part torch-passing. Older alumni (like former ASUC president Jeff Chang and Free Speech Movement veteran Bettina Apthecker) were conveying a tradition to the next generation."

2/4/2008, Jimma Times, Academic Unfreedom in Ethiopia Universities, Alemayehu G. Mariam

"There is ample evidence to show the dynamic role of universities and dissenting voices in bringing about far reaching social change. In the mid-1960s America, for instance, opposition to the war in Vietnam began at the University of California, Berkeley. The anti-war movement soon evolved into a Free Speech Movement which transformed American universities and the society at large in the decades that followed. Academic freedom in American universities contributed significantly to the debate and policy formulation in civil rights, civil liberties and social justice issues."

1/30/2008, Canada Free Press, City Calls Marines "Unwelcome Intruders", OnTheWeb

"'It is disgraceful that in the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, anti-military activists would attempt to silence the same military men and women who serve this country and give their lives to protect the free speech rights of all Americans, including these ungrateful and despicable people on the Berkeley City Council,' said Melanie Morgan, Chairman of Move America Forward."

1/29/2008, The Daily Californian Online, Selective Disservice, Editorial

"Berkeley of local lore is a haven for ideas that are unwelcome anywhere else. Whatever your beliefs, the story goes, you can pitch them safely here in a place whose name still evokes images of the Free Speech Movement. This city is the place to make an argument?-any argument. Unless, apparently, you work for the armed forces."

1/27/2008, The Boston Globe, Free Bob Avakian! Oh, he's already free? Never mind., Mark Oppenheimer

"In 'From Ike to Mao and Beyond' (2005), Avakian tells the riveting story of a middle-class California boy who moved left during the '60s, first in the Free Speech Movement and Students for a Democratic Society at Berkeley, then with the Black Panthers, and finally into the far-left Maoism of the party he founded in 1975."

1/25/2008, San Francisco Chronicle, Albert H. Bowker - UC Berkeley chancellor, Jim Doyle

"He joined the UC Berkeley administration after the turmoil of the Free Speech Movement and students' anti-Vietnam War protests of the 1960s - at a time when the university faced an erosion in state funding, overcrowded classrooms, and both salary and hiring freezes and layoffs."

1/24/2008, Los Angeles Times, Albert H. Bowker, 88; UC Berkeley chancellor, Elaine Woo

"When the opportunity arose to become Berkeley's sixth chancellor, Bowker was ready for the challenge. He found an atmosphere of 'deep suspicion if not open warfare,' not only on the Berkeley campus, where the Free Speech Movement erupted in 1964, but throughout the UC system. He decided at the outset that he would tolerate no sit-ins or unruly demonstrations. He met his stiffest challenge early in his tenure, when hundreds of students occupied the building that housed the criminology school, which Bowker found academically deficient. Calling in the police to remove the protesters 'wasn't the most pleasant thing in my administration,' Bowker recalled in an oral history some years ago, 'and I remember that practically all of my senior officers, the president of the student body, and everybody were there saying, 'No, don't do it; there will be bloodshed.'' 'Sometimes,' he observed, 'you have to crack a few heads.'"

1/22/2008, Berkeley Daily Planet, Commentary: A Free Speech Conundrum on Telegraph, David Nebenzahl

"This situation, a group with a religious axe to grind taking up residence in the heart of Berkeley's 'time warp' zone extending straight back to the 1960s, with the expected resulting jaw-grinding, is the classic free speech conundrum. And the proper reflex here, one would think, would be to let free speech prevail. After all, this spot is just a couple blocks from the holiest of holies, the public birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, the place where free speech became sacrosanct. ... What would Mario do?"

1/13/2008, The New York Times, Their Satanic Majesties, Charles Taylor

"This is a novel about the '60s in which the great political upheavals, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, civil rights, Vietnam and the assassinations are barely mentioned. The Beatles, who stood for the greatest sustained explosion of the utopian ideal in all of pop, are dismissed by one character as a group "from Liverpool of all places." In contrast to the love-and-peace ethos the decade is remembered for, every early Stones gig here ends with a fight."

1/13/2008, Los Angeles Times, UC Berkeley's bones of contention, Richard C. Paddock

"Similar disputes have played out elsewhere, but Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, is widely regarded as a bastion of liberalism. Since 1992, the city of Berkeley has celebrated Indigenous People's Day instead of Columbus Day. But at UC Berkeley, the debate over the bones has turned ugly. The bones, along with 400,000 Native American artifacts, are held by UC's Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology, which has a small exhibit space on campus but one of the largest collections of human remains in the U.S. outside a cemetery."

1/9/2008, Culture Change, What a Free Speech Movement instigator teaches us today, Jan Lundberg

"BC [Brad Cleaveland]: The resistance was intensive from about the time of my manifesto was published September 10, 1964, by SLATE. Many, including myself, had been working 24/7 until October 2, 1964 when the movement became explosive and hit the national and international press. That was the day we seized the police car in front of the Administration Building. This event was an astonishing one; explosive even, and in no small part because of the international press coverage. So, the beginning was the two weeks prior to October -- of highly intensive student activism -- and October 2, with the dramatic take-over of a UC police car. It occurred at noon during the heaviest foot traffic in the center of Sproul Plaza. We turned a police car into a speakers' platform and held it for 72 hours. By '64, and the FSM revolt, I'd been active for 7 years. I was the first treasurer of the first radical student group, SLATE Student Political Party. In '59, just after the top 3-4 leaders of SLATE left Berkeley for points East to grad schools, such as Columbia and NYU, I led SLATE in a 'defiance rally,' which, in turn brought about the early retirement of UC Berkeley's Dean of Students. In 1960, I was a principal organizer of the anti-HUAC demos in SF, on May 13th, l960. In 1962, I got my MA, under three principal faculty members, in Political Theory. The group formed under Hannah Arendt, who was a Spring '55 Lecturer, in the Political Science Department."

12/23/2007, New York Times, Think Again: Bound For Academic Glory?, Stanley Fish

"The decline in state support for higher education noted by Yudoff is in part a legacy of the 60's. I remember as a fledgling member of the Berkeley faculty in 1962 being given special treatment by merchants. The university, known as Cal, was a source of community pride. Three years later, after the Free Speech movement and a wave of student protests across the country, I had to be careful not to identify myself as a university employee. The middle-class reaction to left politics on campus had already set in, and in the decades that followed it has become an orthodoxy."

12/21/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Circa Berkeley, J. Cote

"Usually when people write stories or talk about Berkeley in the '60s and '70s, it involves Mario Savio and the Vietnam War. They also tend to go on and include facts about hippies, Telegraph Avenue, tear gas, the University of California, People's Park, James Rector, Ronald Reagan, the National Guard, SDS, the SLA, the Weather Underground, as well as painting vivid pictures of the counter-culture, subculture, and drug culture of those times."

12/07/2007, Pasadena Star-News, Five-star hotel or college campus?, Steve Scauzillo

"At Berkeley, the student guide emphasized the Nobel Prize winners and the number of volumes (as in books) housed in its historic library. He even spoke of the free speech movement."

12/7/2007, Middle East Online, Needed Now: Spirit of the Sixties, Vincent L. Guarisco

"The middle finger was directly pointed towards University administrations as well, for a variety of legitimate reasons. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement resulted in many arrests in its struggle. In fact, it had the largest number of student arrests in United States history. Like an army of hungry vultures, 700 angry policemen wielding clubs and spraying mace descended on the University during a peaceful day of protest and instigated a full-blown riot, assaulting dissenters (and news anchors) whose only crime was simply exercising their constitutional right to peaceably dissent in a public forum. Many were beaten unconscious in this shameless display of unnecessary violence. Only one day of many to remember in our nation's history."

12/7/2007, Ithaca Journal, The betrayal of the free speech movement, Alex Kantrowitz

"In late 1964 a fiery Mario Savio led thousands of Berkley students in what would become known as the now famous 'Free Speech Movement.' What had set the movement off was Berkley's refusal to allow students to disseminate civil rights literature on the university's 'Ho-Plaza-like' Bancroft strip. This refusal set modern liberalism's ancestors on fire in a quest to ensure free speech for all. In talking about the pursuit of free speech Savio exclaimed, 'The most beautiful thing in the world is the freedom of speech. And those words are in me, they're sort of burned into my soul ... To me, freedom of speech is something that represents the very dignity of what a human being is ... It is the thing that marks us as just below the angels.' The Berkley campus rallied around Savio and other student leaders and eventually won that right to free speech. They had beaten the university. Savio and his gang then went on to protest Vietnam and the rest is history; modern liberalism had its start."

12/7/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, No Conflict: Opposing Military, Supporting Free Speech, Becky O'Malley

"As traditional as is Berkeley's anti-war philosophy, the city has an equally long and passionate history of support for the rights of free speech and assembly, which supports the right of this Office to exist in Berkeley. The essence of the Free Speech Movement was protecting the right of all voices to be heard, even those at odds with the prevailing political climate of the time and place. Free Speech must not be limited to speech with which one agrees. To allow a legally permitted Office to be shut down, or to limit its right to do business because one disapproves of its message, gives lie to Berkeley's claim as a city tolerant of diverse viewpoints, and home of the Free Speech Movement."

12/4/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Tree-Sitters Celebrate One-Year Anniversary, Richard Brenneman

"For Michael Rossman, one of the leading activists of the Free Speech Movement that rocked the Berkeley campus more than four decades ago, it was the erection of the fences that transformed the protest into a free speech issue. 'I didn't know then that even earlier campus police had seized tables and literature' during the tree-sit, he said."

11/30/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Goines Posters on Display at Hillside Club, Karen Jacobs

"Goines came to Berkeley in 1963 to study classics. Advocating free speech, he was among 800 students arrested for occupying Sproul Hall. This landed Goines, then 19, in jail. His personal account of these times is told in his compelling book, The Free Speech Movement; Coming of Age in the 1960s."

11/29/2007, City on a Hill Press, Politics and personalit, Jessica Parral

"Bettina Aptheker has been many things in her life. She has been a feminist, a lesbian, a Communist, a leader in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, Jewish, Buddhist, an activist, an author, a mother, and a grandmother. Right now, she is one of UC Santa Cruz's most popular and renowned professors. Her classes regularly fill up and students give her intimate teaching style rave reviews. David Horowitz can't stand her, and historians question whether she is telling the truth about her childhood abuse. For Bettina Aptheker, the personal has always been political."

11/28/2007, Pacifica Tribune, Wandering and Wondering, John Maybury

"SWAMI SEZ '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)"

11/27/2007, The Daily Californian, Glory, Glory Hole-lelujah, Christine Borden

"Glory holes, however, have long been a UC Berkeley institution, at least since 1965. In November of that year, the Daily Cal launched a features series about homosexuality, starting with glory holes. Features editor Konstantin Berlandt wrote that 'in a 21-month period ... the Berkeley police arrested 240 people for homosexual offenses of 'soliciting or committing a lewd act in a public place or open to the view of the public' or 'loitering in a public restroom for the purpose of engaging in a lewd act,'' according to then Berkeley Police patrolman Joe Mulvey. Despite the liberalism of the Free Speech Movement, homosexuality was still hush-hush. Discreet pleasure was the only pleasure, and even then it could be a pain to tiptoe to the restroom."

11/27/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Commentary: Act Rationally: Go Independent, Joanna Graham

"Which brings me to my second point. Vote. Why not, it's fun. It feels all patriotic and small-town like Norman Rockwell, with the cute little flag out in front and the 'I voted' sticker to wear. But don't stop there! Think of something! Do something! Find others to do it with! Be creative! Be brave! Be aggressive! Throw yourself on the gears, like Mario Savio said. Absent divine intervention, what I do and you do and you do is our last, slim, chance to save the American republic. Which reminds me. Don't forget to keep your fingers crossed."

11/26/2007, The New York Sun, The Clintons' Berkeley Summer of Love, Josh Gerstein

"Mrs. Clinton's book says she and her then-boyfriend "shared a small apartment near a big park not far from the University of California at Berkeley campus where the Free Speech Movement started in 1964." Records from the university show that Rosenberg, who died in 1998, graduated from Berkeley in March 1971 and lived at that time in a small, second-floor apartment on Derby Street. The apartment was about six blocks from the main university campus and just three blocks from People's Park, the site of a violent 1969 confrontation between protesters and police that left one protester dead and more than 100 wounded. The left-wing law firm where Mrs. Clinton worked was still representing one of the leaders of that day's protests, Daniel Siegel, when she clerked there in 1971."

11/23/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, A Free Speech Grizzly Sermon, Michael Rossman

"This is the profound lesson from the Free Speech Movement, also. You should get it straight. The press makes it look like, 'oh, there were giants in the earth, in those days!' It's not true. We were just like you. Except we didn't have T-shirts like yours printed up, because it cost too much then. We had the same feelings of being outshouldered, neglected, bulldozed, nobody listens to us. We looked a little funny. We dressed a little funny. So it's not the past. The past is still in the present. This is a profound free speech issue. These people in the trees, they're there for me. I didn't climb the tree. They did it for me. Thank you, people in the trees. [applause] I'd like to say, 'because you were there, I didn't have to climb the tree.' But you know, that's a cop-out. That I didn't come before this, that I didn't climb a tree like Sylvia climbed the tree."

11/22/2007, San Diego Union Tribune, Authorities mull thorny options to uproot tree-sitters, Michelle Locke

"Both sides say they don't want a treetop confrontation in Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement of 1964, when students protested the university's ban on campus political activities and touched off a national debate over freedom of expression. The city is also home to People's Park, a haunt of '60s radicalism - and site of a 1969 occupation by the National Guard on the order of former Gov. Ronald Reagan."

11/18/2007, The State, Angie LeClercq's letters from the Lowcountry and beyond, Claudia Smith Brinson

"The two left for the University of California, where they supported Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, one of the opening salvos of the 1960s' culture wars."

11/11/2007, The Reporter, For 'Rosie' and all the riveters, Cathy Bussewitz

"'He [Henry Kaiser] brought people here into the Bay Area, black and white, who had never shared drinking fountains,' Soskin said. 'So the entire system of southern segregation was imported to the Bay Area. The groundwork was laid then, when the war ended, for the civil rights movement, which swept from Port Chicago to Richmond, from the Bay Area on to the University of California campus, into the free speech movement, on to Selma and across the country, and accelerated that social change.'"

11/8/2007, UCSD Guardian, Academic Fixation Encourages Political Apathy on Campus, Jake Blanc

"In the 1960s, Berkeley rode the wave of radical thought emanating from San Francisco, and still has a prevalent activist movement today. Founded during the '60s - a time of immense social and political upheaval - UCSD originally did have foundations in political dissent. The campus should be proud of its political roots and look to its once-proud activist community as motivation to revive its current one. UC Berkeley holds claim to the Free Speech Movement and Mario Savio's bold speech on top of a police car, but few are aware of UCSD's own historical protests, including that of George Winne, a 23-year-old graduate student who set himself on fire in the middle of Revelle Plaza in protest of the Vietnam War."

11/8/2007, The Daily Californian, Berkeley Filmmaker Connie Field's 'Apartheid and the Club of the West' is a Riveting History of Protest, Lisa Xu

"The arresting sight of thousands of protesting students flooding Sproul Plaza, jam-packed and agitated, appears about midway through 'Apartheid and the Club of the West,' the first installment of Berkeley filmmaker Connie Field's new documentary series about the history of apartheid in South Africa. Those who have no memory of the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, including the majority of current UC Berkeley students who hadn't even been born at the time, might be forgiven for assuming Field recycles footage from the Free Speech Movement and the Vietnam War protests in the 1960s."

11/8/2007, Indiana Daily Student, What is Art?, Ryan Brown

"The term 'activist art' refers to a style of art that uses imagery and irony very heavily to highlight public concern and (hopefully) promote a change in the status quo. It first began in the 1930s and reached a very strong peak in the 1960s, most notably in the civil rights, free speech and anti-war movements. Perhaps the most well-known quote from the free speech movement came from Mario Savio, a UC Berkeley philosophy major, who in a speech at Sproul Plaza in Berkeley, called out to activists: '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!'"

11/7/2007, The Huffington Post, Better Green Late than Never, Tim Berry

"There's no denying that 'Greening' has been a long time coming. A show of hands please ... how many remember the stir caused by 'The Greening of America?' Published in 1970, (Ok, a show of hands, how many were alive in 1970?) it was essentially a tribute to so-called 'counter-culture' ideas of the late 1960s. We're talking about Mario Savio and the free speech movement in Berkeley in 1964, then the anti-war movement of the late 1960s, the world wide student movement in 1968, civil rights, hippies, and, among all of that, environmentalism. It wasn't global warming back then as much as Rachel Carson's The Silent Spring; but it was a start."

11/7/2007, Los Angeles Times, A branch office of Berkeley's protest tradition, Thomas Bonk

"Welcome to Protest Central, where the roots grow deep in the campus soil. Protest is a well-known concept here, nurtured by the Free Speech Movement of Mario Savio in 1964, the People's Park protest of 1969 and the crackdowns by UC system President Clark Kerr."

11/5/2007, The Nation, Father of History, Christopher Phelps

"The precise nature of that painful past remained obscure until one year ago, when Seal Press published Bettina Aptheker's memoir Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel. Its central revelation, that her father had sexually molested her when she was a child, set off a furious, still-unsettled Internet debate over the veracity of those memories and came as a bombshell to admirers accustomed to thinking of Herbert Aptheker as a stalwart opponent of oppression."

11/4/2007, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Chris Watson Bookends: Tom Brokaw's book 'Boom!' looks at the outfall from the Sixties, Chris Watson

"The collected reminiscences run the gamut -- from the drugs of Haight Ashbury to the March on Selma and the Free Speech Movement, and including the riots in Watts, the assassinations, Ms. magazine, Watergate and Woodstock."

10/30/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley This Week, Editors

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: "From Jim Crow to Guantanamo: Prisons, Democracy and Empire" with Angela Davis, social activist and UC Santa Cruz professor at 7 p.m. at Pauley Ballroom

10/25/2007, The Golden Gate Xpress Online, Passion in protest, then and now, Deana Saenz

"Along with the idealistic views of the past, Ethnic Studies Professor Larry Salomon, who has taught his students about the history of SF State's involvement in the 60s protests, recounted the support of other major movements such as the Free Speech Movement and the Civil Rights Movement that were going on at the same time as the anti-war protests. 'Young students had already been cutting their teeth with things like the Civil Rights movement and Free Speech before the anti-war movement came along,' he said. 'And young people in the 60s believed that what they were doing on this campus would actually lead to change.'"

10/24/2007, The Van Der Galiën Gazette, Loss of Free Inquiry on Campus Betrays Liberal Legacy, Jason Steck

"In the 1960s, the origins of the campus free speech movement lay within the political left. The reaction by moderates and conservatives to the left on this issue is not always arising out of ideological hostility, but rather out of disappointment and disillusionment. We had thought that this was one issue where liberalism and conservatism should and did have common cause. For myself, it is love for the liberal principle of free inquiry - a principle that too many post-modern leftists and radicals have betrayed - that motivates special condemnation towards the left. It is time for some campus leftists and liberals to recapture their own moral and intellectual heritage."

10/21/2007, Boston Globe, Bonded with paper, Sam Allis

"Her conviction was further strengthened upon learning that, as an undergraduate at Berkeley in the 1960s, Sid [Berger] collected fliers announcing campus protests, labeled them and eventually sold the lot to the Free Speech Movement Archives at the California State Library."

10/19/2007, The Daily Californian, EDITORIAL: In Enemy Territory, Editors

"Since the Free Speech Movement and the protests against the Vietnam War, Berkeley has been viewed as the Mecca for anti-military sentiments. The city of Berkeley has declared itself a sanctuary for soldiers who choose not to fight in Iraq, and only this summer did Berkeley High School finally capitulate to allow the federal government to collect data on students interested in military service."

10/19/2007, Human Events.com, Showdown at Berkeley, Catherine Moy

"But Code Pink's calendar shows a concerted campaign to drive the recruitment office out of Berkeley, the birthplace of the free speech movement. One Code Pink protester held a sign that said, 'No military predators in our town.' 'A lot of good men have spilled their blood so Code Pink can do this,' veteran Jim Kelly said."

10/17/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, Campus Movie Fest: Student filmmakers let loose at San Jose finale, Justin Berton

"While many of the 41 movies submitted by UC Berkeley students aim for laughs on some level, others are serious-minded documentaries, such as 'A Free Lunch at People's Park,' which offers a glimpse into the city's homeless programs, and 'Billy,' an accounting of the campus's Free Speech Movement."

10/17/2007, Los Angeles Times, '60s still alive on a corner in Echo Park, Steve Lopez

"'The free speech movement literally started in my house,' says Goldberg, who hasn't ever been muzzled in the years that have followed. Every Friday evening, the brother of longtime teacher and pol Jackie Goldberg is at Sunset and Echo Park, happy to get a horn honk or a raised fist for all his cajoling about this crazy war and its crazier sponsors."

10/13/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley/Berslickerly, Ted Friedman

"In shop windows, on banners, everywhere one looks, Berkeley is celebrating itself like a gaggle of narcissists. Recently Berkeley has recognized the Free Speech Movement, various Nobel laureates, Julia Vinograd (Telegraph Avenue's best-known street poet), and Telegraph Avenue itself."

10/12/2007, The Daily Californian, EDITORIAL: Avoid the Stereotype, Editors

"As students, we see everyday that this campus is not the same school as it once was in the '60s. But to the rest of the nation, Berkeley is still synonymous with the revolutionary Free Speech Movement, radical flowers-in-their-hair hippies and crazy liberal politics. When the media displays images of the protesters the day of the debate, it will only reaffirm this generalization."

10/12/2007, Contra Costa Times, Snapp Shots: Beloved Cal professor a father figure to many, Martin Snapp

"Above all, they were brilliant teachers, and none was more brilliant than Jacobson. For many students, his lectures were life-changing experiences. I was one of them. I was attending college on the East Coast when the Free Speech Movement broke out at Cal in 1964, and I flew here to see what the shouting was all about."

10/8/2007, New York Magazine, Are the controversial comments of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (or Larry Summers or Bill O'Reilly or NARAL) really so threatening?, Kurt Andersen

"The seminal student uprising, the takeover of the UC Berkeley administration building in 1964, was driven by the all-American urge to expand the discourse: The Free Speech Movement protesters, liberal and conservative, demanded the right to hand out political fliers on campus. However, the following year, the emigre German Marxist Herbert Marcuse, newly tenured at UC San Diego, published his influential essay 'Repressive Tolerance,' arguing that the free expression of every sort of idea lulls us into accepting a larger oppression. We should not practice 'tolerance toward that which is radically evil,' he wrote; at a time 'of clear and present danger' to progressive dreams, 'tolerance cannot be indiscriminate ... it cannot protect false words.'"

10/6/2007, Beyond Chron, Forget Columbus: Let's Remember Italian Radicals, Tommi Avicolli-Mecca

"From 1935-50, Harlem Congressman Vito Marcantonio fought hard for progressive legislation (including civil rights) and was attacked vociferously for it by Joe McCarthy and his buddies. During the Civil Rights Movement, Italian Americans, such as singer Tony Bennett and Father James Groppi, joined the pickets and marches down South. Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane DiPrima and Gregory Corso were prominent voices among the Beat poets. Student activist Mario Savio led the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley."

10/4/2007, Payvand News, The New Warfront, Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich

"In 1964 a coalition of student groups at the University of California, Berkeley claimed the right to conduct political activities on campus; the coalition became known as the Free Speech Movement. Political activism and protests spread to other campuses in the 1960s. The youth movement's demonstrations soon merged with the protests of students who opposed the Vietnam War. By the spring of 1968, student protests had reached hundreds of campuses. At the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago, antiwar demonstrators clashed with the police, and the images of police beating students shocked television audiences. Violence peaked at an antiwar protest at Ohio's Kent State University in May 1970 when National Guard troops gunned down four student protesters."

10/2/2007, The Daily Californian, Judge Orders Protester to Vacate Grove, Angelica Dongallo

"Doug Buckwald, director of the Save the Oaks at the Stadium coalition, likened the tree-sitters to the Free Speech Movement. 'The new Sproul Plaza is in the oak grove,' Buckwald said."

10/1/2007, OpEdNews, The New Warfront, Soraya

In 1964 a coalition of student groups at the University of California, Berkeley claimed the right to conduct political activities on campus; the coalition became known as the Free Speech Movement. Political activism and protests spread to other campuses in the 1960s. The youth movement's demonstrations soon merged with the protests of students who opposed the Vietnam War.

10/1/2007, Today in History October first, Associated Press

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

10/1/2007, On-line Interview: Greil Marcus,

"Greil Marcus was born in 1945 and attended Berkley in the early 1960s. He majored in 'American Studies,' just as Berkley's Free Speech Movement was ratcheting up into its very own American study. Then he did some post-grad work in poli-sci. Lots of people, moved by their exposure to the transforming energies of the FSM, may have done likewise. What lots of people didn't do was become Rolling Stone's first reviews editor in 1969, thereby embarking on a career in music criticism so intellectually, emotionally and, yea, spiritually ambitious that by even calling it 'music criticism' I've already lied twice."

9/28/2007, The Huffington Post, Julie in the Sky with Diamonds: Across The Taymor Universe, Gregory Weinkauf

"'I think that young people were very turned on to the power that they had to change what was around them. There were so many movements: Black Power movement; Women's movement; Anti-War movement; Free Speech movement; Psychedelic Tune-In Drop-Out Don't-Get-Engaged movement, go off to a commune and live your own life. These kids were rebelling, they were rebelling against the 50s. They were rebelling against their conservative, adult parents who thought that they were actually giving their children everything, every opportunity, post-War."

9/28/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, 'Shakespeare's Greatest Hits', Ken Bullock

"Subterranean Shakespeare's CD, Shakespeare's Greatest Hits ('Two years in the making!') is something of an instant Berkeley minor classic, what with Michael Rossman (he of the Free Speech Movement) belting out 'The Ballad of Tom O'Bedlam' (which Robert Graves and Edith Sitwell both credited to the Bard) or tootling flute on other numbers with The Rude Mechanicals, or funnyman Ed Holmes and poet G. P. Skratz doing up the Scottish Weird Sisters' 'Double, double, toil and trouble' with Andy Dinsmore as World Music."

9/28/2007, Contra Costa Times, Piedmonter is who's behind wild, wacky parade in Berkeley, Martin Snapp

"He [John Solomon] grew up in the San Fernando Valley, where his family moved when he was 5 and entered Cal in the fall of 1964. 'Just in time for the Free Speech Movement,' he said. 'I didn't go to class; I struck with everyone else. It was mind-blowing -- and eye-opening, too.'"

9/26/2007, Christian Science Monitor, Hateful speech isn't hateful action, Jonathan Zimmerman

"Recall that in 1961, the University of California at Berkeley barred Malcolm X from appearing on campus. Communist speakers were banned until 1963, when the university decided to allow 'radical' speakers if they were balanced by "traditional" ones. Students' own speech was closely regulated, too. They could not solicit money or members for any political organization, because allowing such activity might give the university's imprimatur to their cause. Sound familiar? Today, the critics of Columbia sound a lot like Berkeley's administrators forty years ago. If you allow someone to speak on campus, the argument goes, you're giving them implicit approval. And some people are so reprehensible that they don't deserve it. But we can't trust university administrators - or anyone, really - to make this distinction. That's why students protested at Berkeley in the Free Speech Movement of 1964, the first salvo in a great national wave of campus dissent. Across the country, Americans won the right to say whatever they wished at our universities."

9/17/2007, The Daily Californian, Five Minutes With... John Garamendi, Angelica Dongallo

"Garamendi said although the environment on campus has changed since he was a UC Berkeley student during the Free Speech Movement in the 1960s, students today should strive to act on issues that affect them."

9/13/2007, New York Times, University Fences In a Berkeley Protest, and a New One Arises, Jesse Mckinley

"'I am appalled," said Michael Kelly, who leads a group opposing the stadium plan. 'I cannot believe that the institution that gave birth to the Free Speech Movement has done this.'"

9/13/2007, Los Angeles Times, Politicized UC Regents?, Amina Khan

"The one notable exception to this rule was UC President Clark Kerr, and his handling of the Free Speech Movement. The former UC Berkeley chancellor, who had clashed with Gov. Ronald Reagan, was summarily fired by the Board of Regents in 1967. But that was a different time and place, paranoia still reigned, the FBI was plotting actively to depose the chancellor, and Reagan made dumping Kerr part of his 1966 campaign. California, fortunately, has changed a lot since then, and academic freedom is prioritized far higher than political leanings."

9/13/2007, Daily Californian, This Week: Capturing Berkeley, Louis Peitzman

"'Berkeley in the Sixties': You know how people always talk about bringing back Berkeley? This is what they're referring to. Well, not the documentary so much as what it depicts: the political activism, the Free Speech Movement, the awesome music. Apparently there were also some drugs involved. Just a rumor I heard somewhere."

9/12/2007, Tikkun, The Israel Lobby, Michael Lerner

"My friend (and former leader of the Free Speech Movement) Mario Savio (not a Jew), shared that perception about the misguided harshness of Left critiques of Israel and joined with me in creating an organization that would be my first attempt at a 'Middle Path' that was both pro-Israel and pro-Palestine and that would support a demilitarized Palestinian state, an international force to provide security for both Israel and Palestine, reparations for Palestinians, and a return of Israel to the pre-1967 borders with minor border changes so that Jews could continue to live in the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem and worship at the Kotel (Western Wall)-it was called 'The Committee for Peace in the Middle East.'"

9/7/2007, American Thnker, Football and the Soul of Berkeley, Thomas Lifson

"But even more importantly, a great football team brings excitement and starts to change the atmosphere on campus. It is a fact that for all its academic honors and worldwide eminence, Cal is a bit of a laughingstock, a worldwide symbol of student and faculty radicalism run amok. At roughly the same time the Free Speech Movement broke out on campus, political control of the city switched from the Republicans to the Democrats, and continued onward in a leftward vector. Town and gown are inextricably linked; in point of fact, the university preceded the establishment of the municipality. To the consternation of local leftists, Berkeley, the campus and the community alike, is in the grip of pigskin fever. Comparatively few remember longhaired Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement; quarterback Nate Longshore and wide receiver DeSean Jackson are the heroes of the day, along with other players who create excitement. Instead of smelly hippies and fulminating Marxists, images of celebrating frat boys, cute and sexy cheerleaders, and heroic athletes dominate media mentions of Berkeley."

9/5/2007, UC Berkeley Press Release, Professor known for his inspirational teaching has died,

"Jacobson's interests in political theory, at times led to political action. During the 1960s he delivered a noted address in support of student demonstrators who had been arrested during the Free Speech Movement in 1964. He was an early public opponent of the Vietnam War. During the early 1980s, said Ken Jacobson, his father participated in demonstrations held to protest UC investments in companies with interests tied to South Africa, which then was living under apartheid."

9/3/2007, California Progress Report, A Remembrance of Alameda County's Labor Day Picnics, Bill Cavala

"Groulx himself was arrested and convicted of misdemeanors arising out of picket line incidents dozens of times. He used to laugh about being characterized as having the fastest left hand in the labor movement. (His only felony arrest stemmed from an accusation that he'd thrown a sheriff's deputy out of a second story window during the student sit ins during the UC Free Speech movement)."

8/31/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, UC Stadium Oak Grove Fence Prompts Violent Clash, Riya Bhattacharjee

"This fence is contrary to Judge Barbara Miller's ruling on Feb. 9 that there should be no physical alteration on the environment of the oak grove until the court rules on the merits of the case on Sept. 19,' he [Steve Volker, attorney for the California Oaks Foundation] said. 'It is a direct attack on fundamental rights, a noose on the First Amendment ... Berkeley is the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement and it now threatens to be its graveyard. This day will be remembered as a day of infamy for this university as an attempt to crush the community's voice.'"

8/24/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Kornbluth at Berkeley Rep, Ken Bullock

"Before the semi-triumphant finish, which brings the audience to an epiphany that they're part and parcel of their entertainer's commitment to recovering his actual sheepskin, Josh has brought in a cast of dozens, at least; by implication, teeming masses, including his unregenerately Red parents, his preemie brother (introduced afterwards in the audience), whom his father saved by holding and pacing the ward, the brave African American students caught between guardsmen and white mobs in the integration experiment at Little Rock, Lonnie Hancock and Don Perata (a wry sketch of a master politico working a not-too-friendly room) each finally facing an irritable gaggle of Berkeley activists in the state capitol, the Free Speech movement ... and whoeverelse he can recover from the history of Western Civilization for a temporary fit."

8/23/2007, SF Bay Guardian, The Human Be-In, Bruce B. Brugmann

"The anti-war and free speech movement in Berkeley thought the hippies were too disengaged and spaced out. Their influence might draw the young away from resistance to the war. The hippies thought the anti-war movement was doomed to endless confrontations with the establishment which would recoil with violence and fascism."

8/18/2007, San Jose Mercury News, California dream of free college wilts under fiscal pressure, Michelle Locke

"Big changes were sweeping across campus-the 1964 Free Speech Movement is considered a bellwether for the decade of campus protests that followed. 'Everybody in Berkeley was involved in politics during those days,' recalls Garamendi. "

8/14/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Pagodas? on Telegraph?, Richard Brenneman

"But if Ken Sarachan has his way, the pagodas will crown "Berkeley's greenest building," housing businesses on the first floor, a Free Speech Movement museum on the mezzanine, a grassy rooftop park doubling as a venue for live entertainment and public events, and a collection of pagodas accommodating a restaurant and what could become Berkeley's most unique apartments. He calls it the Free Speech and Architectural Expression Building, 'the Free Speech Building for short.'"

8/10/2007, The Argus, Technology enhances art of storytelling, Cecily Burt

"The organizers hope to collect stories from ordinary residents; early settlers on the railroad, those who moved west during and the war to work in the shipyards, and those who were part of civil rights struggles epitomized during the heyday of the Black Panther Party and Free Speech Movement."

8/7/2007, Le Monde Diplomatique, Unexceptional Californian exception, Christian Ghasarian

"This is the campus of Berkeley, home of the 1964 Free Speech Movement - student protests with international repercussions - where being different is the norm. There are stickers on cars and walls: 'Why be normal?' and 'Question reality!'"

8/6/2007, Chicago Sun-Times, Bears put faith in veteran line, Mike Mulligan

"Legend has it that a 24-year-old college student named Jack Weinberg, then the leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California-Berkeley, was the first to utter this sacred line: 'We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over 30.'"

7/22/2007, San Bernardino County Sun, Couple still activists after all these years, Debbie Pfeiffer Trunnell, Staff Writer

"In the years leading up to the Summer of Love, Ellen [Hattis], now a librarian and computer technician at Smiley Elementary School in Redlands, was caught up in the Free Speech Movement, which began in the 1964-1965 school year at UC Berkeley. At the time, students insisted that the university administration lift a ban on on-campus political activities and acknowledge the students' right to free speech and academic freedom. 'I remember wearing black arm bands and boycotting classes," Ellen recalled. "Everyone was radicalized - you couldn't help it.' ... To get his music out there, he formed a group called The Medicine Cabinet. The band included a guitarist who had been part of the Free Speech Movement, a drummer who was a classmate in medical school and two black kids from San Francisco who had entertained at his medical fraternity."

7/20/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Council Clashes Over Decorum, Shuts B-Town, Judith Scherr

"Spring's proposal calls for a public hearing in September on rules for public comment, which Phoebe Anne Sorgen told the council she supports. 'We need more public comment in the home of the free speech movement,' she said."

7/17/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Commentary: Mayor's Proposed Public Comment Rules Violate Fair Play, Dona Spring

"Urge the Council to set this matter for a special meeting/workshop to flush out the issues and to fully discuss the pros and cons of the alternative methods of structuring public comment proposed by Council-member Worthington and myself. (How ironic it is that we have to fight Berkeley's Mayor for our legal right to public comment in the cradle of the Free Speech Movement?!)"

7/13/2007, The Berkeley Daily Planet, Controversial Planning Manager Rhoades Quits, Richard Brenneman

"It was [Art] Goldberg, a veteran of the Free Speech Movement, who characterized Rhoades as 'the duplicitous insect who runs the Zoning Department (a subdivision of planning) and who specializes in keeping neighbors in the dark' in a June 6, 2003 letter to the Daily Planet."

7/10/2007, Salon Books, "The Trap", Astra Taylor

"Brook points out that Ronald Reagan instituted tuition at Berkeley -- reversing a 100-year-old tradition -- only after the Free Speech Movement of the early 1960s, a ploy to punish radicals. 'In the end,' Brook writes, 'tuition and other conservative economic policies did more to undermine student activism than any CIA-style investigation ever could.'"

7/10/2007, Blogcritics Magazine, Music DVD Review: Turned Up And Turned On, The Original Country Joe Band, T. Michael Testi

"Country Joe and the Fish were founded in the San Francisco area in 1965-66 as a political device; partially of necessity, and partially for entertainment when the Free Speech Movement was organizing a series of demonstrations on the Berkeley campus against the war in Vietnam." #1 - July 11, 2007 @ 15:27PM - Lee Felsenstein [URL] A point of history - the Free Speech Movement did not organize any demonstrations against the Vietnam war - it was an umbrella organization that fought for the right of student to organize for any political activity, and it dissolved itself shortly after that right was effectively won. The FSM created the political and cultural space for other organizations such as the Vietnam Day Committee to form and organize the demonstrations for which Country Joe wrote his songs. Much more detailed information can be found on the web page of The Free Speech Movement Archives.

07/01/2007, Mercury News, Tech pioneer weighs future of energy, Nicole C. Wong

"Lee Felsenstein might be best known for his role in the 1970s and 1980s as the legendary Homebrew Computer Club's master of ceremonies. Or as the 1990s inventor of the 'pedal-powered Internet.' But few know that he's never really liked using computers. He's a paper-and-pencil kind of guy. 'My talents are day dreaming and explaining - neither of which requires a computer,' said Felsenstein, a 62-year-old designer and developer of analog and digital products."

6/26/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, Can People's Park change?, Rick DelVecchio

"The park is best remembered for the 1969 violence, sparked when Gov. Ronald Reagan ordered in police to protect what was then a vacant construction site from squatters. It turned into one of the bloodiest confrontations of the Vietnam era. Less known is the work done by volunteers, in the spirit of the Free Speech Movement of 1964 and the ecology movement of the 1970s, to gradually transform the site into a real park and to persist despite the university's attempts to regain control. The pride and militancy of those who contributed to this effort can't be underestimated."

6/24/2007, Boston Globe, Privilege, tragedy, and a young leader, Neil Swidey and Michael Paulson, Globe Staff

"In the fall of 1965, Mitt Romney left behind Cranbrook, with its varsity sweaters and hand-delivered courtship letters, and moved across the country to San Francisco's Bay Area, which was fast becoming the capital of the counter-culture movement. By the time he settled into his freshman dorm at Stanford University, the nearby campus of the University of California-Berkeley had been fully radicalized by the anti-authority Free Speech Movement. In San Francisco, Haight-Ashbury was emerging as an LSD-fueled mecca for free-loving hippies in peasant skirts and dashikis."

6/18/2007, The Daily Californian, Chancellor Decries U.K. Group's Israeli School Boycott Proposal, Amanda Ott

"'Their threat to cut off all funding, visits, and joint publishing with Israeli institutions violates the fundamental principles of academic freedom and freedom of speech that are the hallmarks of great universities nationally and internationally,' Birgeneau said in his statement. 'We hold these values most deeply at Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement.'"

6/15/2007, Connecticut Post Online, Greek students anything but apathetic, Thomas Keane

"American college students should know about the Free Speech Movement and demonstrations that rocked the University of California's Berkeley campus in 1964. These protests led the way for student opposition to administrations limiting their academic freedom. Today, it seems, students no longer march over campus issues. Over spring break, I saw that this is not necessarily true. There are still students who choose to demonstrate, and even battle the police, over matters concerning their schools and academics. My family visited Athens, Greece, where we witnessed a student demonstration that became a riot."

6/14/2007, UC Berkeley News, Statement in response to British faculty union's proposed action against Israeli universities, Robert J. Birgeneau

"As chancellor of the University of California, Berkeley, I share the growing outrage over the efforts by some members of Britain's University and College Union to promulgate a boycott against Israeli academics and academic institutions. Their threat to cut off all funding, visits, and joint publishing with Israeli institutions violates the fundamental principles of academic freedom and freedom of speech that are the hallmarks of great universities nationally and internationally. We hold these values most deeply at Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement."

6/12/2007, Black Star News, "Revolution" Comes To Harlem, Sunsara Taylor

"Bob Avakian is a revolutionary communist leader from the 60's who fought alongside the Black Panther Party, against the Vietnam War, and came through the Berkeley Free Speech movement and has never sold out, never given up, and never backed away from the toughest questions and obstacles confronting the people and the prospects for real revolutionary transformation."

6/7/2007, Los Angeles Times, Martin Meyerson, 84; led UC Berkeley during '60s, Elaine Woo

"Meyerson was dean of UC Berkeley's College of Environmental Design when he was named acting chancellor in January 1965, three months after student protests over the right to engage in political activity and debate had exploded into the Free Speech Movement. During his six months as campus chief, Meyerson was confronted with a number of crises, including a controversy over graduate student participation in student government, rules for student political conduct and the so-called Filthy Speech Movement, which brought the expulsion or suspension of several students who insisted on the right to utter an obscenity in public. He was credited with uniting a sharply divided faculty and introducing changes that addressed some of the key complaints of student leaders. 'He was very supportive of open dialogue on campus,' recalled Bettina Aptheker, a professor of feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz who as a Berkeley undergraduate had been a leader of the Free Speech Movement along with Mario Savio and others."

6/7/2007, London Review of Books, Lectures about Heaven, Thomas Laqueur

"(No one has researched the question of how refugees from Nazi persecution reacted as a group to the student unrest of the Vietnam War era. At Berkeley, the two most important supporters of the Free Speech Movement at the Law School, Richard Buxbaum and Hans Linde, were Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution; the refugee scholar Leo Lowenthal, a leading member of the Frankfurt School, also sided with the FSM students. Others were on the side of the administration at various times or not engaged at all.)"

6/6/2007, UC Berkeley News, Martin Meyerson, former CED dean and acting chancellor, dies at age of 84, Kathleen Maclay

"BERKELEY - Martin Meyerson, who is credited with defusing some of the Free Speech Movement tensions at the University of California, Berkeley, while serving as acting chancellor in 1965, died Saturday (June 2). He was 84."

6/6/2007, Philadelphia Inquirer, A Penn president who reached out, Gayle Ronan Sims

"When the 1964-65 student uprisings began at the University of California, Berkeley, Mr. Meyerson was dean of the College of Environmental Design. When he became acting chancellor at Berkeley in January 1965, the student newspaper's headline read: 'Who's Martin Meyerson?' The leaders of the student Free Speech Movement soon found out. It was Mr. Meyerson who restored peace to the campus, opening his office to students and, in a symbolic move to address student complaints about dehumanized education, signing each of the thousands of diplomas Berkeley awarded that year."

6/6/2007, Daily Californian, Former UC Berkeley Chancellor Dies at 84, Tamara Bartlett

"Meyerson then rose to the position of acting chancellor at UC Berkeley in 1965, where he embraced the demands made by students during the Free Speech Movement. He opened up Sproul Plaza for political speeches and the distribution of literature, while also suspending students participating in the 'filthy speech movement,' displaying signs with obscene language, said his son Adam Meyerson. 'He came in and sort of brought peace to the campus,' Adam Meyerson said. 'He was quite admired by a lot of students and faculty.' At a time when relations between students and administration were tense, Adam Meyerson recalled his father bringing a personal touch to the chancellor's position when he personally signed every diploma for the graduating class of 1965."

6/2/2007, opednews.com, The Fall and Rise of Flower Power, Richard Neville

"THE ODIOUS OPERATION OF THE MACHINE The counter culture evolved through three stages: student power, flower power and peoples power. The Free Speech Movement sprang from of the university campus at Berkeley, California in the early sixties, as a result of attempts to stifle political discourse, and it set helped off a spirit protest that re-shaped the West. The Berkeley uprising mysteriously coincided with "anti establishment" protests in London, and again in far away Sydney, where students and academics rose up to eradicate censorship."

5/20/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, THE SUMMER OF LOVE, Joel Selvin

"'When the Haight was healthiest was when it wasn't known as the Haight,' says political activist Michael Rossman, one of the organizers of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement that started the era of student protests. 'There's a funny thing. I've known a number of people who've become famous and, by and large, the experience is really destructive,' he continues. 'Why do I mention this? Because something certainly as destructive happened from media attention to the Haight.'"

5/16/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, JON CARROLL (column), Jon Carroll

"Wolin was one of the people at the center of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, a movement that I was on the periphery of. Now he is a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In between, he worked at Princeton and inspired Kornbluth, luring him away from the hard sciences and into hard thinking."

5/16/2007, Los Angeles Times, Paging Dennis Kucinich: Can Berkeley lure a decent graduation speaker next time around?, Paul Thornton

"That's right: UC Berkeley, home of the 1964 Free Speech movement whose liberal student body scared conservatives into electing Ronald Reagan governor, was snubbed by an actor best known as Mel Gibson's Lethal Weapon sidekick. For a back-up speaker, the university looked in-house to its chancellor, Robert Birgeneau."

5/16/2007, Campus Progress News, Campus Con: A flimsy new film treats young conservatives as victims, Philissa Cramer

"Of course, these good old tensionless, no-backtalk days never really existed for the academy. It was tension within the academy that produced the Free Speech Movement, which began at Berkeley in 1964 and rapidly spread to campuses across the country as students called for changes to speech-limiting campus policies. Maloney and his colleagues say this movement inspired them; they've even trademarked the phrase "New Free Speech Movement." But the original Free Speech Movement was characterized by students' forceful assertion that they could think for themselves. The contemporary incarnation, in contrast, depends on the "empty-vessel" theory of education, which holds that students know nothing and absorb unquestioningly whatever they are told. Lack of respect for young people and those who choose to teach them is a recurring theme in conservative rhetoric, and here the New Free Speech Movement fits right in."

5/9/2007, The Japan Times, CHARTER TURNS 60, Eric Johnston

"Lummis first came to Okinawa with the U.S. Marine Corps in 1960. He later became a leading opponent of the Vietnam War. A veteran of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, Calif., in the mid-1960s, he returned to Japan and formed the group Gaijin Beheiren, which was associated with Beheiren, the nationwide movement that author Makoto Oda founded to help American soldiers who did not want to go to Vietnam."

5/9/2007, FrontPageMagazine, The Big Lie: On Terror, Antisemitism, and Identity, Jamie Glazov

"I was very much a part of this Arcadian Jacuzzi, a member of the approved Left, anti-American, anti-Zionist and pro-Palestinian, anti-colonialist, anti-corporatist, embracing all the multicultural pieties of the times. When I was a student at Berkeley, I used to hang out with Mario Savio and the guys and gals who roistered in the cafes and bars on Telegraph Avenue. You might say I was a fringe member of the Free Speech Movement."

4/30/2007, The Victoria Advocate, Filmmaker: Where have all the protests gone?, Aprill Brandon

"In 1964, at the University of California, Berkley, the student-led free speech movement helped lead the way for students' rights to free speech and academic freedom on college campuses. Over 40 years later, however, censorship and intolerance has come back full force in academia, according to filmmaker Evan Coyne Maloney. In an ironic shift, Maloney said, many of the people involved in the free speech movement are now running the schools and censoring speech from the other side."

4/23/2007, The Daily Californian, Howard Jeter, 89, Was Civil Rights Activist, Ryan Curtis

"During the 1960s, Jeter was involved in the Free Speech Movement and worked on the city's Committee for Fair Housing to obtain fair housing for people of all races, religions and ethnicities."

4/23/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, Editorial: Faculty speak on Cal-BP deal, Editors

"At least the turnout was larger than the typical sparsely attended faculty meeting. Some professors with long memories think it was the largest faculty meeting since the stormy days of the Free Speech Movement in 1964."

4/20/2007, Los Angeles Times & syndicated, 'Alice Waters and Chez Panisse' by Thomas McNamee, Susan Salter Reynolds

"Waters spent her early years in New Jersey and then moved with her family to Van Nuys, where she attended high school. She went to UC Santa Barbara, then transferred to Berkeley in 1964 and graduated in 1967. Waters was active in the Free Speech Movement. In 1965, she and a friend took a life-changing trip to France; Waters returned, Sabrina-like, with a changed palate and a new appreciation for all things French. She and Free Speech Movement leader David Goines set up a household full of music and art and friends and books by the likes of Elizabeth David, Richard Olney and M.F.K. Fisher. Waters' reputation as a cook grew, and dreams for a restaurant coalesced around the name (after a Pagnol character)."

4/19/2007, Oakland Tribune & ANG Papers, Influential Berkeley activist dies, Kristin Bender

"BERKELEY - Howard Jeter, the first African-American substitute teacher in Berkeley and a man who fought for fair housing and other civil rights for African Americans in the Bay Area, has died. Mr. Jeter died of heart failure at Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley on Friday, said his son Charles Jeter. He was 89. Living in Berkeley in the 1950s and '60s, he was involved in the Free Speech Movement, the struggle for fair housing and equality and other issues."

3/30/2007, Frieze.com, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA, Megan Ratner

"By the early 1960s industrialized societies had begun conforming to the binary realities of computer bureaucracy, automation and standardization, often symbolized by the punch card. 'Do not fold, spindle or mutilate' became part of the vernacular. In a 1964 speech at the University of California, Berkeley, Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio declared: 'There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, it makes you so sick at heart, that [...] you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon wheels [...] 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.' His revulsion was provoked as much by society in general as by the tyranny of information technology."

3/28/2007, The New York Sun, Chez Alice Waters, Fred Volkmer

"In the late 1960s Ms. Waters was involved in a different type of revolution. She was caught up in the Free Speech Movement that turned the University of California on its head. When students began to be arrested, Ms. Waters, whose ideology was probably more reflexive than considered, decided that an opportunity to study at the Sorbonne was simply too good to pass up."

3/24/2007, The Arab American News, City takes stand against Iran war, Omid Memarian

"Berkeley is well known in the United States for its free speech movement in the 1960s and early 1970s, when the issues of racial justice and the Vietnam War absorbed the nation. It was also an era of social and cultural rebellion against conformity and 'the establishment.' No place was more affected by the politics and rebellions of these years than Berkeley. The city's image as 'the People's Republic of Berzerkeley' derives from this period."

3/23/2007, The Student Life, How Will Pomona React to Leader of Minutemen?, Mark Cromer

"I thought that's what Mario Savio, founder of Berkeley's legendary Free Speech Movement, said it was all about? Or as Jim Morrison put it to the cops on stage in New Haven in late 1967: 'Say your thing, man.' Maybe my baby-boomer roots are showing, but I still believe more ideas-even bad ones-are better aired than fewer ideas just because some people are willing to shout them down."

3/23/2007, The Seattle Times, "Alice Waters and Chez Panisse" | The whisk that stirred a revolution, David Laskin

"The story starts, fittingly, at Berkeley in the 1960s. Waters was a petite UC coed with a Patty Duke hairdo from Van Nuys High School when, in the fall of 1964, she got caught up in the Free Speech Movement that kick-started a decade of campus protest. Before she could blossom into a full-fledged campus revolutionary, however, she decamped to Paris for junior year abroad, tasted soupe de légumes and discovered that her true passion was French cuisine. The rest is culinary history."

3/21/2007, UC Berkeley News, Students adore retiring historian, Yasmin Anwar

"After seven years teaching at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, Litwack returned to UC Berkeley to join its history department in 1964, and became active in civil rights and the Free Speech Movement."

3/15/2007, Counterpunch, Confronting BP, Standard Schaefer

"So far, in pursuing this deal, UC Berkeley has tried to avoid public scrutiny, has tried to cover up the fact that BP might be able to control an enormous amount of the curriculum as well as research trajectories. It has disrupted the students right to demonstrate in front of California Hall-this at the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement."

3/11/2007, The Davis Enterprise, From page to screen, Elisabeth Sherwin

"'I met my husband, Hugh, there. He'd been part of the free speech movement; that was my idea of glamor. We got married the year I graduated and we came to graduate school at UCD together,' she added."

3/8/2007, Statesman Journal, Country Joe to perform at Lefty's, Michelle Theriault

"McDonald, 65, was at the center of the Berkeley free speech movement of the 1960s. But it wasn't until Woodstock, when his famous chant erupted from the mud-soaked audience and made its way into the Woodstock movie, that it became a cultural touchstone."

3/1/2007, KurdishMedia.com, Kurds and the forbidden fruit, Dr Rashid Karadaghi

"'I am tired of reading history; I want to make it,' the student leader of the Free Speech Movement in America was quoted as saying in 1964. It is about time the Kurds stopped reading history and started making it!"

2/27/2007, The Daily Californian, A Name of Some Significance, Roland De Wolk

"Jim Branson was a student at UC Berkeley in early 1964 when he got a reporting job at the Daily Californian. How was he to know, as he put it later, 'all hell would break out'? The 'hell,' of course, was the Free Speech Movement, a signature event in the history of this nation that reaffirmed with blood and tears and money that the 'whatever' amendment is for all Americans, not just those-as one old newspaper curmudgeon once put it-wealthy enough to own a printing press. As the never-ending battle for free speech continued, Branson became the Daily Californian's City Editor, then Managing Editor and finally, Editor in Chief. When the paper finally broke free of the university and became truly independent in the late 1960s, Branson was there, helping direct the paper's history of excellence in its most turbulent, challenging time."

2/27/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Tables Seized At Oak Grove; Running Wolf Jailed, Richard Brenneman

"Seizing information tables evoked strong resonance among members of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) because it was a campus move to evict information tables that ignited the spark that led to the movement's creation, said Jackie Goldberg, a retired member of the California Assembly and an FSM activist. 'That really started it all,' she said. 'It's interesting that they haven't quite figured it out yet. The random terror of the administration, as we called it then, only created more people interested in supporting the demonstrators. You would think the university had learned that the more you do stuff to these people, the more people will support them.' A Sept. 14, 1964, letter from Dean of Students Katherine A. Towle banning information tables from the sidewalk on Bancroft Way at the corner of Telegraph Avenue sparked simmering tensions on campus and ignited what was to become the FSM."

2/21/2007, The Berkshire Eagle, Shannon, Brian A.,

"After serving in the Army, Brian attended law school at the University of California Berkeley, where he became deeply involved in the Free Speech and Civil Rights movements. During this time, he worked to help register black voters in the South and became interested in Socialist politics. Brian worked in the field of typesetting and graphic design for most of his career and was the owner of Village Type and Graphics in New York City."

2/19/2007, The New Yorker, Notable Quotables, Louis Menand

It was Jack Weinberg, of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, who first said 'You can't trust anybody over thirty.'"

2/15/2007, Los Angeles Times, A radical change for two union militants, Joe Mathews

"A trumpet player in his youth, [Joel] Jordan became radicalized during the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, where he was a student."

2/7/2007, East Bay Express, Botero's Politics of Mediocrity, Chris Thompson

"'It is important because the subject matter is crucial to America's current image and reputation, and Botero has made a permanent record in this unlike that made in any other medium,' Ashley wrote. 'It is important for the way in which it was organized - outside of the museum and gallery channels - and for where it is shown - in the library of the university known for being the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement.'"

2/2/2007, Santa Cruz Sentinel., National activist-scholars to converge at UC Santa Cruz, Roger Sideman

"'It's very unusual to have this combination of scholars and activists with this amount of collective experience in scholarship and activism,' said Aptheker, a leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement who is now chairwoman of UCSC's Women's Studies department."

1/24/2007, UC Berkeley News, Botero exhibit joined by talk with artist, panels on violence, art, human rights, Kathleen Maclay

While the Abu Ghraib paintings are disturbing, Shaiken said, they also are powerful works of art and commentary that should be displayed and freely discussed. 'And what better place to host the exhibit than UC Berkeley, a great research university with ideals of openness?' he said, noting the campus is home to the Free Speech Movement.

1/22/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, The art of Abu Ghraib, Louis Freedberg

"'A library is a place which has enormously controversial and provocative ideas at its core,' said Shaiken. 'The only difference is that we're putting these works on the walls instead of on the shelves.' For a campus that spawned the Free Speech Movement, that is an entirely appropriate sentiment."

1/19/2007, Berkeley Daily Planet, Editorial: Cal's Continuing Cluelessness, Becky O'Malley

"We spent the exciting years of the '60s in Ann Arbor, from 1961 to 1973, so we had the chance to observe another way of doing university business close at hand. While our friends in Berkeley were enjoying riots and demonstrations of all kinds-the Free Speech Movement, People's Park, the anti-war movement-we in Ann Arbor enjoyed relative tranquility. It wasn't that nothing was going on: Students for a Democratic Society was founded in Ann Arbor, and someone burned down the naval ROTC building, among other excitements. But the phlegmatic reaction of the University of Michigan administration to any and all provocations avoided the massive confrontations that defined Berkeley in the '60s. As Carol Denney is fond of observing, Berkeley is not the home of the Free Speech Movement because the campus had so much free speech, but because the clueless UC administrators did their best to stifle it, with predictable results."

01/12/2007, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik, Leah Garchik

"At previous events, Larner has read a humorous poem not in the book, about 'the gerbil rumor' and a certain actor. In New York, he says, the poem got a laugh. In Berkeley, a man 'loudly interrupted me,' saying the actor who was the butt of the rumor was a good and spiritual man. Larner, who won an Oscar for writing the screenplay for 'The Candidate,' told the man that he is acquainted with the actor and that he didn't believe the rumor and 'I was having fun with it. But a suspicious growl arose from the audience, and I was advised never, ever to read this poem again.' In Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement, words must be watched."

1/7/2007, The New York Times, Little Asia on the Hill, Timothy Egan

"Today, he is iPod-free, a rare condition on campus, taking in the early winter sun at the dour concrete plaza of the Free Speech Movement Cafe, named for the protests led by Mario Savio in 1964, when the administration tried to muzzle political activity. 'Free speech marks us off from the stones and stars,' reads a Savio quote on the cafe wall, 'just below the angels.'"

1/7/2007, Sacramento Bee, Berkeley: Quirky university town evolves into an oasis of trendy shops, eateries, Allen Pierleoni

"The mural on the side of a building at Telegraph and Haste Street commemorates the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and People's Park, which is a short walk up Haste. For some perspective, see the condensed history at www.sacbee.com/travel."

1/2/2007, Chronicle of Higher Education, My Dream Archive, Christopher Phelps

"The experience can be transcendent, as it was for me this past summer when, sitting at a table in the special-collections department at the University of California at Davis's Peter J. Shields Library, I held a handwritten letter from Mario Savio, leader of the 1964 Free Speech Movement, to Hal Draper, gruff mentor to young Berkeley radicals. (Maybe you had to be there.)"

12/31/2006, Los Angeles Times, The city rediscovers the street, Christopher Hawthorne

"ACCORDING to urban-planning legend, the University of California at Santa Cruz, which opened in 1965, was designed without a central plaza for one reason: to inoculate the campus against the large student protests that were by that point already beginning to overwhelm UC Berkeley. Instead, students were scattered among smaller residential colleges designed, on the cloistered Oxford-Cambridge model, by Charles Moore and other leading California architects. In truth, it's unlikely that the layout of UC Santa Cruz flowed from any deliberate anti-protest strategy, since the campus master plan was largely fixed by the time the Free Speech Movement crowds filled Berkeley's Sproul Plaza in 1964. But UC Santa Cruz's multi-centered design, whatever its inspiration, did help keep the place relatively quiet even during the height of the Vietnam War. At least to a degree, planning was destiny for the political life of that campus."

12/17/2006, Los Angeles Times, Fred Turner's 'From Counterculture to Cyberculture', Giles Slade

"In 1964, Mario Savio of the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement denounced what Turner calls "the power of computers to render the embodied lives of individual students as bits of computer-processed information." But in 1996 John Perry Barlow, a former lyricist for the Grateful Dead, saw the same computational power as a chance to enter a world of authentic identity and communal collaboration. Clearly, something had changed. The remainder of Turner's book is an account of what changed, why and how."

12/8/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Committee Looks at People's Park's Future, Judith Scherr

"Advisory committee member, George Beier, president of the Willard Park Neighborhood Association, said in a telephone interview on Tuesday that he envisages changes in the park that include a memorial to the free speech movement and a café."

12/4/2006, Los Angeles Times, People's Park in Berkeley is still a battlefield, Rone Tempest

"What's missing now, Siegal said, is historical context. At the time that People's Park was created, Berkeley students had been in conflict with the university administration since the Free Speech Movement of 1964. Protests against the Vietnam War were escalating and the countercultural movement that began in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district was at its height. Ronald Reagan was governor."

12/4/2006, Huffington Post, "Bobby," A Moving Tribute to Robert F. Kennedy, Joseph A. Palermo

"I sense that the brief voiceover in the beginning of the film of Mario Savio's famous speech during the Berkeley Free Speech Movement was aimed to speak directly to the young people of today."

12/3/2006, TPM Cafe, When Father Didn't Know Best, Ruth Rosen

"Bettina Aptheker's engrossing memoir, 'Intimate Politics: How I Grew Up Red, Fought for Free Speech and Became a Feminist Rebel' is about breaking free -- emotionally, politically and intellectually -- from her father, Herbert Aptheker, the most famous Marxist historian in the United States, whose 1943 book 'American Negro Slave Revolts' shattered the image of happy, complacent slaves. It has also angered a few unreconstructed Marxist historians and scholars who still don't understand that incest is a crime, not simply an embarassing blemish on an otherwise significant career."

12/3/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Coming to terms with Father, Ruth Rosen

"Determined to be his loyal, perfect daughter, Aptheker writes that she repressed this memory, so that she could function in her father's world. Her denial allowed her to become one of the few female leaders of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964 and to play a major role in the trial of her childhood friend and comrade Angela Davis, who was acquitted of murder charges."

11/27/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Taj Mahal cools his heels in Berkeley again, blending thirst for world's music and its link to the land, Joel Selvin

"'It was Mario Savio got me out here,' he says, referring to the charismatic UC Berkeley '60s student protest leader. 'I saw Mario Savio on top of that car in Sproul Plaza and said 'great google-bee, I'm outta here.' I drove across the country. I wanted to go somewhere where it looked like the youth knew what time it was. Every other place, they were so afraid. Out here, it was happening.'"

11/27/2006, Political Affairs, Privatized Schools Don't Make the Grade, Lawrence Albright

"At the height of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, student leader Mario Savio spoke of the university as representing autocracy and viewing students as raw material to be used by corporations, which he opposed."

11/26/2006, Washington Post, The charming correspondence of a feisty British aristocrat who became a larger-than-life writer, Michael Dirda

"Throughout his career, Treuhaft took on myriad cases of perceived injustice, defending the wrongfully accused, agitating for retrials, fighting for prisoners' rights. He even became lawyer to the legendary Free Speech Movement at Berkeley and something of a hero of the times. In the late 1960s, a young Yale law student named Hillary Rodham spent a summer clerking for Treuhaft's law firm."

11/19/2006, Kansas City Star, 'Bobby' for a new generation MOVIES, Robert W. Butler

"'That's how far we've fallen,' Estevez said. 'Students at Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement and campus activism, don't know how to get politically involved.'"

11/16/2006, Los Angeles City Beat, Jackie Goldberg, Marc Haefele

"Those who know the details of her past may recall that her political career really began with the Free Speech movement at Berkeley, where she was a student over 40 years ago."

11/15/2006, Spiked, Overthrowing the father, James Heartfield

11/13/2006, Political Affairs Magazine, Celebrate...and keep organizing, Lawrence Albright

"The late Mario Savio, a leader of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, celebrated the FSM's victory by giving a speech and, at its close, said 'Don't go anywhere. We still have a war to stop.' He was, of course, referring to the Vietnam war."

11/10/2006, FrontPageMagazine.com, The Political Is Personal: Bettina Aptheker's Odyssey to Nowhere, David Horowitz

"'United Front' was itself a Communist term of art, and thanks to the ham-handed response of the FBI and the anti-Communist groups who attempted to taint the Free Speech Movement with Aptheker's presence, she became the most prominent figure of the Free Speech Movement after its actual leader, Mario Savio."

11/10/2006, Denver Post, Joan Baez keeps on singing out, John Wenzel

"She participated in historical protests, from Dr. King's march on the Lincoln Memorial to the birth of the free speech movement at Berkeley. She co-founded the Institute for the Study of Nonviolence in Carmel Valley, Calif. She traveled to Hanoi as the Vietnam War raged and helped establish Amnesty International on the West Coast."

11/5/2006, Los Angeles Times, Rose-colored view of political history, Michael Escobar

"I doubt the rose-colored version of the political past that George Skelton paints. I wasn't alive to see Ronald Reagan as governor, but I understand that he said, "If it takes a bloodbath to silence the demonstrators, let's get it over with," in reference to the 1960s student unrest at Berkeley. Is this quotation apocryphal? Students there started the Free Speech Movement in 1964, a watershed that led to the antiwar movement. From there, the "culture kampf" has divided this country ever since."

11/4/2006, Los Angeles Times, State's local ballot items include the symbolic, surreal, Lee Romney

"Critics of Berkeley's measure groused that its leaders should focus on neighborhood crime and economic decline. But backers - including Berkeley's mayor and assemblywoman - note that the city led the nation with the Free Speech Movement 40 years ago and could do so again with this issue. Besides, they say, federal agents have spied on nonviolent UC Berkeley antiwar activists, bringing the issue home."

11/3/2006, The Daily Californian, Lecture Ties Hip-Hop To Activism, Will Kane

"The lecture featured spoken-word artists and a panel discussion about the possibility of the hip-hop culture becoming the modern youth political movement, modeled after the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s. "

11/2/2006, The Daily Californian, The Dude Speaks, Robert Bergin

"The Dude of "the Big Lebowski" fame (Jeff Bridges) resembles more the Dude of days gone by-the Dude of the 60s and 70s who was part of the "Seattle Seven" student anti-war protesters (a group who spent a year in jail for trying to take a stand against the war in Vietnam.) This political activity runs in the family: [Jeff] Dowd's father, a former UC Berkeley professor, took part in the Free Speech Movement."

11/01/2006, Pacifica Tribune, Country Joe: Folksinger for the Ages, John Maybury

"Country Joe and the Fish came about during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, entertaining and politicizing 'the troops' on campus and Telegraph Avenue, then moving on to performing at civil rights marches and antiwar/antidraft demonstrations throughout the Bay Area. Joe and his band, including Barry Melton, had a big hand in fusing folk music, the blues, and psychedelic rock and roll. They played regularly at the Fillmore and the Avalon in San Francisco, and the Jabberwock coffee house in Berkeley. Their big hit, the Sixties anthem 'I Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag,' propelled Country Joe and the Fish to the upper reaches of Billboard's charts, where they stayed strong for two years."

11/1/2006, Los Angeles Times, Lawrence W. Levine, 73; historian's work backed multiculturalism in higher education, Elaine Woo

"He joined the civil rights movement in the 1960s, participating in sit-ins to integrate businesses in the Bay Area. He also joined other historians who marched in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery in 1965 with the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to draw attention to blacks' struggle for voting rights. During the Berkeley Free Speech movement, Levine defended students who protested the ban on political activity on campus."

10/31/2006, Washington Post, Lawrence W. Levine; Altered History Research, Joe Holley

"In 1962, he joined the history department at Berkeley, where he not only taught but also plunged into the occasionally raucous political life of the campus. He supported Berkeley students during the Free Speech Movement of the early 1960s and joined in sit-ins the Congress of Racial Equality organized to force local businesses to hire blacks. He also marched from Selma to Montgomery, Ala., in 1965."

10/31/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Arts: Photos of 1960s Berkeley at Art Center, Peter Selz

"Consisting of numerous photographs, the show is an eloquent visual document of the turmoil and agitation in the Bay Area at a time, when, it can be said, history was changed. The exhibition is organized in sections, addressing Civil Rights, Black Power and the Black Panthers, Berkeley and the Free Speech movement, the Peace Movement, the Feminist Revolution, the Rise of Latino Power, Cesar Chavez and La Huelga, Queer Defiance, Native American Activism and the beginning of the Environmental Movement. Among other things, it demonstrates the close relationship between apparent opposite activities: political action and the hippie counterculture. But the latter, with its slogan "Make love, not war" was also political in its stance against conforming to a corrupt system. It was all related to the war in Vietnam."

10/29/2006, Santa Cruz Sentinel., Bookends: Memoirist recalls the fight for free speech, the trial of Angela Davis and the rise of the Women's Movement, Chris Watson

"Deep into the 10-year process that resulted in her memoir - a memoir that was designed first and foremost to recall details about the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Communist Party, the beginnings of the Women's Movement and her intimate involvement with the trial of friend Angela Davis - Aptheker had an awakening that would change the arc of her story."

10/28/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkeley historian who championed multiculturalism dies at 73, Associated Press

"While on UC Berkeley's faculty in the 1960s, he [Lawrence Levine] participated in civil rights sit-ins and supported the student-led Free Speech Movement."

10/23/2006, UC Santa Cruz Currents, 'Stunning new memoir' from feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker, Scott Rappaport

"In her new book, Intimate Politics: How I Grew up Red, Fought for Free Speech, and Became a Feminist Rebel, Aptheker tells a fascinating story of her life-a life that traces her role in major historical and political events ranging from her co-leadership of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, the movement against the war in Vietnam, and the trial of Angela Davis, to the building of the Women's Studies Department at UCSC. Aptheker also tells a parallel story of shocking childhood sexual abuse, depression, and violence amid the backdrop of events that made up a key chapter in our nation's history. As Barbara Ehrenreich, author of Nickel and Dimed, puts it in a quote on the book's cover: 'You can read Intimate Politics as part of the history of American radicalism...Or you can read it as the painfully honest, often shocking, story of one woman's coming of age from confusion and depression to self-confidence and peace. Either way, you'll be riveted.'"

10/20/2006, Wall Street Journal, Young Republicans Now Flourishing At Liberal Berkeley, Pui-Wing Tam

"The University of California at Berkeley has been notable for firebrand leftist students like Mario Savio. The 1960s leader of the Free Speech Movement staged sit-ins on campus to demand students' rights to academic freedom and free speech. On a recent Thursday, one of the university's new generation of student leaders was playing with a life-size cardboard cutout of Ronald Reagan."

10/15/2006, Los Angeles Times, My Father the Icon; My Father the Molester, Bettina Aptheker

"As a child, I attempted to protect my parents from the political onslaught of the McCarthy era in the only way that I could: by my silence, and the erasure of the untenable, protecting myself from what a child could not bear. A little over two weeks after my mother's death in June 1999, my father and I talked about the sexual abuse. He initiated the conversation, asking as we were driving home from a Vietnamese restaurant. 'Did I ever hurt you when you were a child?' was how he started. I had been furious with him for about five years, carrying around the memories like a truncheon and yet unable to confront him. But I said yes, and once we talked, his anguish was so great, his apology so heartfelt, that all the anger left me in a great whoosh of an out breath, and then I felt nothing but great waves of compassion for him."

10/11/2006, ABQJournal.com, Vatican II Began On This Day, Bruce Daniels

"There's the Civil Rights marches, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War, Woodstock, but no other event captures the worldwide cultural revolution and last impact of the Sixties like the Second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II."

10/8/2006, History News Network, Shhh! Don't Talk about Herbert Aptheker, Jesse Lemisch

"But Intimate Politics is positively gripping, on Herbert as well as Bettina, on the CP, conflict within it, some of it directly between father and daughter (particularly on the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968), Bettina's movement away from it, her resignation and the family conflict around it, Bettina's awakening to feminism and to her lesbianism, the Free Speech Movement and its aftermath. With the re-release of Warren Beatty's Reds, maybe somebody will see the dramatic possibilities in this and make a movie out of it. Meantime, everybody in the left and feminism, as well as opponents of the left and feminism, should read this powerful book."

10/3/2006, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Divorcing Columbus, Tommi Avicolli Mecca and James Tracy

"This year, instead of conquest, we acknowledge those who stood up for justice. Everyone knows about Al Capone, but what about Mario Savio, a founder of the free speech movement in Berkeley in the '60s?"

10/3/2006, Contra Costa Times, Nobel for Berkeley physicist who mapped birth of the universe, Betsy Mason

"'It was: pick out the best science you can do and do it. That was so liberating. At Berkeley, it's no wonder the Free Speech Movement started here. It was the free science movement,' he said. 'That was the thing that really made it so that I could think about science that was out of the ordinary and into a new field.'"

10/1/2006, The Monthly, The Kilduff Files: Pearls of Wisdom | Stephan Pastis on Rat, Pig, and living the legal life, Paul Kilduff

"Occasionally I'll have a reference to Mario Savio or protesting. There's a series coming up where Rat becomes Bob Dylan. These are all things I picked up when I was at Berkeley."

9/30/2006, Boston Globe et al, Today in history - Oct. 1, Associated Press

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

9/29/2006, The Oregonian, Always staring at 'creative stuff', Jeff Baker

"Baross was involved in the Free Speech Movement and picked up a camera to take pictures of what was happening. It was the beginning of a lifelong period of restless creative energy that's seen her exhibit her paintings and photographs, write 15 plays and a libretto, publish film reviews, travel articles and cartoons, produce more than 40 documentary films, six animated films and some music videos."

9/28/2006, Oakland Tribune, East Bay on rise as destination for international travelers, Malaika Fraley

"'When you go international and say you're from Berkeley, people know exactly where it is. It's very esteemed abroad, more than it is locally,"'Hillman said. 'A lot of people are interested in the'60s and the Free Speech Movement; they want to know where the hippies were.'"

9/20/2006, UC Berkeley News, Schlock today, dissertation tomorrow, Barry Bergman

"He's compiled a burgeoning archive of online holdings as well, including a wide array of campus events - talks and interviews featuring such figures as Malcolm X, Robert Oppenheimer, and Margaret Mead, or everything you've ever wanted to know about the Free Speech Movement."

9/20/2006, The Connection Newspapers, American Century Theater Mounts "MacBird!", Brad Hathaway

"The play 'MacBird!' ran a whole year off-Broadway in 1967, upstairs at the Village Gate, during the days of the free speech movement at Berkeley, the rock movement at Woodstock and the free-love movement of the sexual revolution. It relied on the literate wit and audacity of its author Barbara Garson to create the headline-making, having the nerve to imply that Lyndon Johnson (or his wife Lady Bird) had ascended to the Presidency by having his predecessor, John Kennedy, assassinated in his home state of Texas - and it did it with much of the plot and a lot of the language from Shakespeare's 'Macbeth.'"

9/19/2006, Sarasota Herald Tribune, Enduring game Simon says a lot about generation gap, Smithsonian Magazine/AP

"Many who study tipping points in social history contend that the oft-noted generation gap spontaneously erupted in the mid-1960s, when Jack Weinberg, a 24-year-old leader of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley, Calif., told followers not to trust anybody over 30."

9/12/2006, Los Angeles Times, 125 YEARS / EDUCATION: A COMMEMORATIVE EDITION / AN INTELLECTUAL CLIMATE, Patt Morrison

"The UC and Cal State campuses became the small stage on which the nation's vaster social dramas would be played out - the Free Speech Movement, anti-draft and anti-Vietnam War protests, all of which would bedevil both Gov. Ronald Reagan, who railed about 'beatniks, radicals and filthy speech advocates' at Berkeley, and San Francisco State University President S.I. Hayakawa, who dramatically ripped the wires out of speakers at a student rally."

9/12/2006, Los Angeles Times, From Berkeley, challenge to authority spreads, James Ricci

"Considering the circumstances and the sometimes violent nationwide student protest movement the incident was to help spawn, the arrest of Jack Weinberg was a decorous affair. Campus police officers took shifts sitting with Weinberg. They permitted students to pass him food and water, and empty cartons he concealed under his coat while relieving himself. Graduate student Savio took off his shoes before climbing atop the car to speak."

9/12/2006, Los Angeles Times, Buildings with reputation,

"Sproul Hall and Sproul Plaza with the Mario Savio Steps are located on the UC Berkeley campus. The hall and plaza are named for Robert Gordon Sproul. The steps were dedicated in 1997 for a leader of the 1964 free speech movement. (Robert Durell / LAT) Jul 19, 2006"

9/7/2006, Yahoo News, Los Angeles Times to Publish Sept. 12 Commemorative Special Section Profiling California Higher Education,

9/6/2006, UC Berkeley News, Mario Savio Memorial Lecture,

"Another familiar '60s figure, Tom Hayden - a leader of the student, anti-poverty and peace movements and a California state legislator for 18 years - will headline a special Mario Savio Memorial Lecture program commemorating the 10th anniversary of the death of Savio, a leader of UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. Hip-hop journalist/author Jeff Chang will discuss youth activism yesterday and today, and hip-hop artist Aya de Leon, newly appointed director of Poetry for the People at UC Berkeley, will perform. The evening includes a presentation of the Mario Savio Young Activist Award. Thursday, Nov. 2, 7:30 p.m., the Pauley Ballroom, Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Center"

9/5/2006, Washington Post, She Hopes 'MacBird' Flies in a New Era, Jane Horwitz

"When the play opened at New York's Village Gate, Garson was in her mid-20s, a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley -- that hotbed of anti-Vietnam War sentiment -- and a founding member of the Free Speech movement there. After 'MacBird!' she won a 1976-77 Obie Award for her off-Broadway children's play 'The Dinosaur Door,' but is more prolific as the author of nonfiction books, including 'Money Makes the World Go Round' and 'The Electronic Sweatshop: How Computers Are Transforming the Office of the Future.' She is working on a new play, titled "Security," about the economic, not the national kind."

9/1/2006, Contra Costa Times, A tale of two cities, Gary Peterson

"Tennessee has a statue honoring the Volunteer creed -- a toga-clad God, holding a torch bearing a real flame. If Cal were to commission such a statue, incorporating a real flame to honor its legacy, it would probably be of Mario Savio trying to give 1960s-era school president Clark Kerr a hot foot."

8/26/2006, Los Angeles Times, Liberal 'base' emboldens Republicans, Paul Kujawsky

"IN the 1960s, my sister was part of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley. She was arrested in a civil rights sit-in. Naturally, she was a lifelong Democrat."

8/22/2006, Gilroy Dispatch, New Public Web Site Boasts,

"For example, a high school teacher may use the site to quickly locate photos of the Black Panthers or University of California, Berkeley's free speech movement to illustrate the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s or a fourth-grader may use it to dig up photos of diverse miners during the Gold Rush to show California's early multicultural population, according to the California Department of Education's press release."

8/20/2006, Marin Independent Journal, Dr. Milton Estes advocates care for people at risk, Jane Futcher

"Steel, who founded the Gay and Lesbian Committee of the National Lawyers Guild and the Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom, won cases against many formidable opponents, including the U.S. military - for operating a train at the Concord Naval Weapons Station that severed the legs of protester Brian Willson as he tried to stop a shipment of weapons to El Salvador - and the FBI - for refusing for 15 years to release documents to San Francisco Examiner reporter Seth Rosenfeld about Berkeley's Free Speech Movement."

8/14/2006, KABC-TV and CNS, Jackie Goldberg May Be Next L.A. Superintendent,

"The openly lesbian Goldberg, a Democrat, is considered ultra-liberal by many of her colleagues in the Legislature's lower house. In her college days at UC Berkeley, she was active in the Free Speech Movement."

8/11/2006, New York Times, In 'Half Nelson,' a Student Knows a Teacher's Secret, Manohla Dargis

"Early in 'Half Nelson,' Mr. Fleck slips in a black-and-white news clip from 1964 of Mario Savio, a student at the University of California, Berkeley, and a leader of the Free Speech Movement, declaiming in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building that had become a flashpoint and battleground. "There is a time," says Savio, voice quavering with brilliant passion, '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.' That time Savio spoke of passed, at least for the left. 'Half Nelson' is a lament for the radical fires of the 1960's, but its makers are too utopian, and commercially savvy, to suggest all is lost. If Savio were alive (he died in 1996), he would be roughly the same age as Dan's parents, whom we meet over a dinner filled with loud talk and too many uncorked bottles."

August 10 - 16, 2006, Gay City News, Film Review: The Awkward Age, Ioannis Mookas

"At another point Dunne screens his own clip, of an unidentified Mario Savio shouting on the Berkeley campus amid the '60s student tumult. The autobiographical gesture-Fleck is a Berkeley native-points to one source of Dunne's corrosive weltschmerz. He's foredoomed to self-abasement, it would seem, by his '60s-firebrand parents, who live nearby in a more genteel neck of Brooklyn. "

8/2/2006, East Bay Express, What Killed Cody's?, Anneli Rufus

"From the end of WWII to 1964, those five blocks of Telegraph nearest campus were a quiet crewcut bohemia with two-way traffic and a supermarket. The founding of the Free Speech Movement that year by Cal student and future Cody's clerk Mario Savio turned it into the radical world capital of peace and love and sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll and manifestos and tear gas."

8/1/2006, Los Angeles Times, Eli Katz, 77; Yiddish Scholar Once Dismissed From UC Berkeley Over Political Affiliations, Dennis McLellan

"'It became an important case for faculty independence at the university,' Katz's son, Dan, told The Times on Monday. 'On the one hand, certainly it was one of the last examples of McCarthyite persecution - it was happening well after the heyday of McCarthyism. 'It had to do with a whole other era, the free speech movement, and the right of the faculty to be independent in terms of their assessments of someone's qualifications and ability to teach or not to teach in their department and be free from administrative interference."

7/29/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Eli Katz -- activist, Yiddish scholar at Cal, Sonoma State, Rick DelVecchio

"'Eli told me he had refused to answer those questions when asked by HUAC,' recalled a close friend, Sonoma State economics Professor Victor Garlin, 'and that he would continue to refuse to answer those questions because they were irrelevant to his qualifications as a professor.' As a result, he was let go at the end of the academic year. Professor Katz took his case to the Academic Senate Committee on Privilege and Tenure. The committee decided the chancellor had been wrong and persuaded the university, which was under pressure from the burgeoning Free Speech Movement on campus, to reinstate Professor Katz."

7/27/2006, PBS, What goes on the Net stays on the Net: Is there a beer bong on YOUR resume?, Robert X. Cringely

"Maybe the answer, as Jack Weinberg put it during the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in 1965, is to not trust anyone over 30."

7/27/2006, International Herald Tribune, Europa: The Tuscan paradise, and the world beyond, Richard Bernstein

"The scene here reminds me of something that I heard a long time ago during the American countercultural revolution of the '60s, when Mario Savio predicted that the struggle over leisure time would constitute the main political battle of the future."

7/26/2006, Contra Costa Times, Berkeley council passes on Cal election ruling, Martin Snapp

"'Cal students have been fighting outside meddling in their political rights since the Free Speech Movement,' said senior Van Nguyen. 'This resolution may be only symbolic, but it's a slippery slope.'"

7/24/2006, The Daily Californian, City Council Has No Business Meddling in ASUC Affairs, Van S. Nguyen

"Since the 1960s, thousands of UC Berkeley students like Mario Savio and Michael Rossman have protested on the steps of Sproul Plaza and California Hall at the forefront in the fight for free speech and press in student government and the campus newspaper. Fast forward 40 years and students at UC Berkeley are reaping the benefits of the struggle in the form of ASUC autonomy. While it is difficult for students to conceptualize a campus where our voices are silenced, the reality is that student voice has come with a price and a historical struggle. We are part of this struggle, and in order to preserve our autonomy, we must take action. "

6/18/2006, The New York Times, In Berkeley, a Store's End Clouds a Street's Future, Jesse McKinley

"In the 1960's, the Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio worked behind the counter at Cody's, and tear gas was known to waft in occasionally when Vietnam War protesters clashed with police. With a mix of obscure and scholarly texts and superstar writers - Mr. Rushdie dropped in unannounced in the mid-1990's, as did Mr. Ginsberg - Cody's was a must-see stop on college tours and in guide books."

6/16/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Comrades Recall Stew Albert, Richard Brenneman

"Albert came to San Francisco in 1965, befriending poet Allen Ginsberg and other prominent figures of the Beat era before finding his way to Berkeley and plunging into the heady radicalism ignited two years earlier by the Free Speech Movement."

6/15/2006, Artnet, Reflected Glory, Ben Davis

"It is important to put this influence in perspective, however. Like Beuys, [James Lee] Byars had an activist streak, staging performances in solidarity with anti-war protestors and the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. But he could also be fickle in his intellectual enthusiasms. The same year as his anti-war work, strangely, Byars also voyaged to the east coast to spend time with the archetypical Cold War intellectual, Herman Kahn, father of the concept of Mutually Assured Destruction and inspiration for Dr. Strangelove. Byars made a series of artistic tributes to Kahn, and was taken enough with the man that he would later refer to himself as "the skinny Herman Kahn." (Still later, as a conceptual project, he was to declare himself the 'artist of the Pentagon.')"

6/9/2006, El Vaquero, Student Activist Overcomes Racism, Olga Ramaz

"'The] Bay area seems a lot more progressive than Los Angeles,' she said. 'In terms of politics, I felt that Berkeley has more to offer to someone like me who is into history and anything that involves politics.' During the '60s, Berkeley was famous for its student activism. The Free Speech Movement of 1964 began when the university tried to remove political pamphleteers from campus."

June 2006, The East Bay Monthly, How Not to Die in Oakland | Newspaperman Al Martinez takes Oakland sensibilities to L.A., Paul Kilduff

"I was doing a column six days a week [on the op-ed page] and he [Knowland] kept killing the columns. When I backed the Students for the Democratic Society or Mario Savio and his Free Speech Movement, he'd kill 'em. I went into his office many times and said, more or less, this is bullshit, it's my byline, it's a column. This went on for a couple of years, fighting and fighting, and finally he said, you do it my way or not at all."

5/31/2006, Berkeleyan, Cody's final chapter, Wendy Edelstein

"Ben Bagdikian, former dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, recalls that during the Free Speech Movement protests of the '60s, Cody's provided 'a safe harbor for people in danger from the troops and the hostility of Gov. [Ronald] Reagan.'"

5/26/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Willa Klug Baum, 1926-2006, Brandon Baum

"Ongoing ROHO projects include oral histories of the wine industry, mining, the environmental movement, the Disability Rights Movement, the Free Speech movement, anthropology, UC history, engineering, science, biotechnology, music, architecture, and the arts. ROHO's largest projects document California government from the Earl Warren Era to the present."

5/23/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Andrew Martinez, 'The Naked Guy,' Dies in Jail, Riya Bhattacharjee

"Martinez was responsible for staging a "nude-in" on campus with over 20 people in September 1992, an action he vociferously defended at the event as well as in the media. Martinez defended his Sproul Hall Plaza "nude-in" by saying that he was trying to make a point about free expression in the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement."

5/21/2006, Los Angeles Times, UC Berkeley's `Naked Guy' Dies in His Jail Cell, Associated Press

"In 1992, Martinez organized a 'nude-in' protest at the university's Sproul Plaza. He said he was trying to make a point about free expression at the birthplace of the 1964 Free Speech Movement."

5/19/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, Beier Challenges Worthington Again for District 7 Seat, Judith Scherr

"'The more people in the park, the safer it will be,' said Beier, who envisages a park café where people who frequent the park would train and work, an idea Beier credits to the park advisory committee. He is also calling for a memorial to the Free Speech Movement."

5/17/2006, UCLA Daily Bruin, Board no stranger to government pressure, Nancy Su

"During the 1960s' Free Speech Movement that emerged from student protests at UC Berkeley, Kerr was criticized by conservative government leaders for being too lenient on student protesters. The FBI was also tracking Kerr because he fought against the firing of UC Berkeley faculty who refused to sign anti-communist loyalty oaths required of UC faculty in 1949."

5/16/2006, Berkeley Daily Planet, 50th Anniversary of the Great UC Panty Raid, Steven Finacom

"'In reality, two years after the raid Chancellor Clark Kerr-still viewed as a liberal in those pre-Free Speech Movement days-was named UC President."

5/14/2006, The New York Times, The Way We Live Now, Josef Joffe

"The European student movement of the late 1960's took its cue from the Berkeley free-speech movement of 1964, the inspiration for all post-1964 Western student revolts. But it quickly turned anti-American; America was reviled while it was copied."

5/9/2006, The Edmond Sun, They're stealing our pride, Dick Tunison

"I'm not sure when the downward slide began. I know self-criticism was alive and well in December 1964 when Mario Salvio led the Free Speech movement in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. I was there at the time on a recruiting mission for my company. The language used to describe almost everything I held dear, including my country, was either crude or searing to the ears. It was likely not the first time those bad actors belched their vitriol at nearly everything our society viewed with pride. But Salvio participated in the creation of a movement that has gained momentum and now seems unstoppable."

4/27/2006, Gay City News, Haven Herrin being arrested at West Point, along with 20 others Wednesday., Paul Schindler

"In a brief address to the reception guests on Tuesday evening, Reitan amplified on the importance of empowering LGBT youth. After reciting a list of earlier social justice campaigns he had studied-including the Freedom Ride that began in May 1961, the anti-war movement, the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, the battle against apartheid, and the 1989 demonstrations at Tian'anmen Square in Beijing-Reitan said, 'At all these major justice movements youth are on the forefront and I look at the LGBT rights movement and I wonder where the youth are. We see individual acts of heroism here or there... but there is not an interconnectivity. Soulforce Equality Ride was our first try at it, but it will not be our last.'"

4/13/2006, Los Angeles Times, California as global symbol, Robert Lloyd

"But best of all is Emiko Omori's 'Ripe for Change,' possibly because it is about the real stuff of life: food. Alice Waters is here, the link between the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and fine dining, arguing for the seasonal and locally grown, and so is writer-grower David Matsumoto, making you care crazily about a peach."

4/5/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Examiner archives to Cal, Rick DelVecchio

"'This has got Jonestown. It's got the Loma Prieta quake,' he said. "'t's got the Free Speech Movement, World War II, the 1934 waterfront strike.' The materials stretched end to end span 3,000 linear feet, or more than a half-mile of shelf space. They will be moved bit by bit from the Examiner's building in San Francisco to a university warehouse in Richmond, where they will be cataloged and eventually made part of the library's resources on campus."

4/1/2006, New York Times, Norman Leonard, 92, a Defender of Rebels and Dissenters, Dies, Wolfgang Saxon

"During the same decade, Mr. Leonard helped defend West Coast leaders of the Communist Party against charges, under the Smith Act, of advocating the violent overthrow of the government. The Supreme Court reversed their convictions on First Amendment grounds. He also represented clients called to testify before the House Committee on Un-American Activities, defendants charged with harboring a fugitive, and one who was tried under the Taft-Hartley Act for serving as a union officer while being a member of the Communist Party. In the 1960's and 70's, Mr. Leonard argued for demonstrators protesting hiring practices at San Francisco hotels; students arrested during the 'Free Speech' rebellion at the University of California, Berkeley; and Vietnam-era draftees who had refused induction into the Army."

3/30/2006, People's Weekly World Newspaper, 'Walkout' highlights Chicano history. MOVIE REVIEW, Pepe Lozano

"Esparza went on to say, 'How one's ancestry could be pejorative is hard to grasp today, but there have been people who have experienced discrimination and overcame it, and that's one of the things we were looking to do, to stand up for our rights and be treated like all other Americans. 'The free speech movement of '64 at Berkeley, the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, what Cesar Chavez was doing in the fields and the growing women's movement were all very vivid examples to us. 'There was a feeling we could change the world,' he concluded. 'That's what protected and motivated us.'"

3/26/2006, Alternet, Neocons as a "foreign import", Jan Frel

A second reason for the low ebb of dissent is an attitudinal shift in the American Jewish community, particularly among those active politically, a shift exemplified by the rise of neoconservatism. It is clear to anyone remotely interested in the question that the Old Left (the American Communist Party and its related organizations) was in great part Jewish, the New Left in great part the direct offspring of the Old. Without the radical Jewish children of radical parents, there would have been no early SDS, no Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, no New York kids going South for Freedom Rides to turn the civil-rights movement into a matter of national conscience. By the late 1960s, the Left was more ethnically diverse, but young Jewish radicals had been its leavening agent.

3/19/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, How former sex writer Laura Albert and her extended family became 'JT LeRoy,' pulling off one of the strangest literary hoaxes of our time, Heidi Benson

"In the mid-'60s, the Knoops returned to the States, settling in San Francisco -- drawn to the Free Speech Movement and the literary scene around City Lights Books. Here, Knoop began making films. Geoffrey was born in 1967; the Knoops divorced soon afterward."

3/15/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Marion Nestle, the nutritionist and author the food industry wants to muzzle, is speaking freely at UC Berkeley, Carol Ness

"Just last week, Nestle spoke to a standing-room-only forum on obesity and free speech at Cal's Free Speech Cafe (no soda served). Behind her, a wall-size photo showed students massed for a Free Speech rally in the 1960s, when she was a grad student in nutrition. 'I'm there, somewhere,' she says. Later, after her SpongeBob-sprinkled talk about freedom of speech and food marketing, she compares then and now."

3/15/2006, Houston Chronicle, When a peaceful walk turns ugly HBO film traces 1968 protest in Walkout, Mike McDaniel

"'The free-speech movement of '64 at Berkeley, the civil rights movement of Dr. Martin Luther King, what César Chávez was doing in the fields and the growing women's movement were all very vivid examples to us. There was a feeling we could change the world. That's what protected and motivated us.'"

3/11/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Norman Leonard -- noted labor, civil rights lawyer, Marianne Costantinou

"Mr. Leonard's cases included his 1954 defense of Harry Bridges before the U.S. Supreme Court, in which he successfully got the labor leader's perjury conviction overturned. Other cases included the defense of activists who picketed in spring 1964 at the Sheraton-Palace Hotel to protest a whites-only hiring practice; the defense of UC Berkeley students during the fall 1964 Free Speech Movement; conscientious objectors during the Vietnam War; and the representation of people subpoenaed before the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings for alleged Communist Party activity."

3/9/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik [column], Leah Garchik

Mario Savio's oration inspiring the Free Speech Movement's campus revolt is the basis of a talk given in a "Battlestar Galactica'' episode to be broadcast Friday by the Sci-Fi Channel. Lynne Savio gave permission for use of her late husband's words.

3/8/2006, UC Berkeley News, A man of civility and conscience, Cathy Cockrell

"Chamberlain's activism extended to issues on the Berkeley campus, most notably the 1964 Free Speech Movement - in which he tried to serve as an intermediary between students and the administration - and subsequent skirmishes over free speech at Sproul Hall (now Mario Savio) Steps and the Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (now Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory). At one point during the FSM, recounts physicist Art Rosenfeld, 'students had taken over Moses Hall, demanding some UC action which Owen and I thought was partly reasonable, partly overdone.' According to Rosenfeld, the two faculty members shouted to students inside that they wanted to speak with them, were hoisted by rope to the second story, and worked out a compromise with the students over coffee, beer, and doughnuts. At the end of the FSM crisis, Chamberlain penned a letter to faculty at other UC campuses, saying that 'some of our best students are supporters, and ardent ones, of the FSM. I am trying to listen and I ask you to listen. See if they are not saying, 'Respect our civil disobedience.....Show us that we have the full rights of citizens whether we are this year on the learning end or the teaching end of the University.'' Two years later, when the campus administration wanted to restrict student speakers to Lower Sproul Plaza, it was this letter of Chamberlain's that Mario Savio quoted in an address to 5,000 students - and Chamberlain to whom he appealed by name, along with the rest of the faculty, to stand up, again, 'for what they once thought was worth defending....' 'I have found that the practice of having speakers at noon on Sproul Steps has been most pleasant and refreshing,' Chamberlain subsequently wrote Chancellor Roger Heyns, in characteristically civil wording. 'I like the feature that as one walks through Sather Gate one hears a few sentences and can then decide whether to tarry or move on I think it has added to our campus life a very positive tone.....I have heard,' he went on, 'that Sproul Steps has become a symbol of student defiance of the Administration, of its ability to show the students who is master in this house. I think I too am guilty a bit of symbolism. I feel that the use of voice amplification on Sproul Steps stands as a symbol of freedom of speech on the Campus.'"

3/2/2006, San Francisco Chronicle, Owen Chamberlain -- co-discoverer of the anti-proton, David Perlman

"As one of the world's great contemporary physicists, Dr. Chamberlain was noted for his long and vocal opposition to nuclear weapons and the arms race, for his eloquent defense of dissident Soviet scientists and, on the Berkeley campus, for his strong support of students and the Free Speech Movement during the turbulent '60s. He was also tireless in his opposition to the Vietnam War and worked hard at Berkeley to increase the enrollment of minority students."

3/1/2006, Los Angeles Times, Physicist Owen Chamblain Dies at 85, AP

"Besides his scientific achievements, Chamberlain was a humanist and social activist who took part in Free Speech Movement demonstrations in the 1960s and spoke out on race relations, the Vietnam War and many liberal causes, Steiner said. In the 1950s and 1960s, he campaigned for a nuclear test ban treaty."

2/27/2006, Z Magazine, No Activism?, Yves Engler

"One of the very best examples of what can be accomplished by organized and dedicated student activists is the Berkeley Free Speech movement. ... 1964 when the university administration declared a stretch of Telegraph Avenue, the Bancroft strip, just outside the main gate to the Berkeley campus, off limits for political activity. The area had become associated with demonstrations against Berkeley and Oakland businesses that practised discrimination. The conservative university regents pressured Berkeley to close this recruiting ground for activists and restrict student agitation in adjacent areas. ... After some 800 people were arrested in a peaceful sit-in the events reached the point where on Friday December 4, 8,000 students attended a Free Speech Movement afternoon rally. '[A] strike on December 3-4 was supported by 60 to 70 percent of the [27,000-strong] student body' and most teachers assistants and even faculty supported it. On December 8 the academic senate voted 824-115 in favor of the substantive demands of the FSM and by January the regents had more or less given in to student demands."

2/17/2006, Stanford Review, Door-to-Door Policy Violates First Amendment Rights, Robert J. Corry, Jr.

Door-to-door leafleting enjoys a long tradition in American jurisprudence, and it is the only way for the Stanford Review and other alternative publications to effectively disseminate their message. Ever since the 1960's Free Speech movement that began across the Bay at Berkeley, student freedoms have expanded while university efforts to restrict free speech have waned. The historical trend (and student, faculty, and public opinion) favors my clients in this instance.

2/10/2006, Contra Costa Times, Eclectic exhibit celebrates library's centennial, Robert Taylor

Among the revelations is the faded, spotted handwriting in a diary by Patrick Breen, one of the survivors of the Donner Party ("Unsuccessful attempt to cross the mountains" he wrote in the snowbound Sierra in 1846.) Another is the collection of political fliers and newsletters from the Berkeley campus, from the right-wing "America First" contingent in 1941 to the 1965 "declaration of independence" by the Free Speech Movement.

2/05/2006, Oakland Tribune, People's Park advocate dies of cancer at 66, William Brand

"A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., Albert moved to Berkeley in the early 1960s and took part in almost everything radical as opposition to U.S. involvement in Vietnam escalated. Although he wasn't a UC Berkeley student, he was arrested during the Free Speech Movement in 1964 and made bail along with Mario Savio."

2/2/2006, lewrockwell.com, A Non-Nostalgic Recap of the 'Sixties, Cary North

"I shall mark the beginning of the youth counter culture with the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley, which was put together on an ad hoc basis on October 1, 1964, by Bettina Aptheker - another Mencken pin-up girl - who was the daughter of American Communism's chief ideological spokesman, Herbert Aptheker. When all is said and done, Bettina had more effect on American culture in one afternoon than her father had in a lifetime of Marxist speculation."

1/31/2006, San Jose Mercury News, Former Berkeley anti-war figure dies, Martin Snapp

"A veteran of the 1964 Free Speech Movement, Albert joined with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin in 1968 to found the Youth International Party, better known as the Yippies. More of a theatrical happening than a political party, the Yippies nominated a pig named Pigasus for president."

1/29/2006, Los Angeles Times, Rich Life on Behalf of Poor, Henry Weinstein

"Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg (D-Los Angeles), a leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, praised Wilkinson as man 'who inspired people because he was courageous.' 'It's important to remember his life, but it's also important to pick up the torch," she said. "We should have a Frank Wilkinson Memorial Brigade. No meetings. Just a large e-mail list to do outrageous actions.'"

1/29/2006, Agencia Reforma, Rebeldia universitaria, Claudia Ruiz-Arriola

Corría el mes de diciembre de 1964 cuando Mario Savio, estudiante de Filosofía, se trepó sobre el cofre de un auto frente a la Rectoría de la Universidad de Berkeley, en California y, ante miles de jóvenes, lanzó una vibrante protesta contra los caciques universitarios de su País: "Llega un momento cuando la inercia de la maquinaria universitaria es tan odiosa, que tienes que poner tu cuerpo sobre los engranes y sobre las ruedas, sobre las palancas, y sobre todo el aparato burocrático para obligarlo a detenerse. Y debes indicarle a la gente que maneja el aparato, a la gente que se cree dueña de él, que a menos que seas libre, harás todo lo que puedas para evitar que la maquinaria trabaje".

1/26/2006, Belfast Telegraph, Bishops, beatniks and Free Derry Corner ..., Eamonn McCann

"The vibrancy of beat poetry still shimmered in Berkeley when the black civil rights and anti-war movements erupted in the following decade. The college commendably filled its history-conferred role, and emerged as one of the epicentres of US student radicalism. The Berkeley Free Speech Movement was especially significant. (One of its leaders, Lenni Brenner, aka Glaser, later one of Bob Dylan's gurus on New York's lower east side, was in Derry last year as a guest of the Foyle Ethical Investment Campaign.) At one point, Berkeley students, like their counterparts at the Sorbonne, the London School of Economics, Berlin etc, occupied the campus. Whereupon, they erected a scrawled sign outside: "You Are Now Entering Free Berkeley." Which came back to mind in the small hours of the morning of the day after the student march from Belfast - the Burntollet march - arrived in Derry in 1969."

1/8/2006, Los Angeles Times, Protest politics on canvas, Lynne Heffley

"'When I came here,' Selz says, 'it was the free speech movement ... the civil rights movement, moving right into the antiwar movement. And the counterculture was very much centered here, especially in San Francisco. At the same time, we must not forget that two of our right-wing presidents, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Reagan, came from here. So we really are very much a center of political art.'"

1/2/2006, Oakland Tribune, You see gridlock, I see heaven, Douglas Fischer

"Take the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley. The 1964 protests alienated a tax base that didn't understand why they had to pay to educate a bunch of ill-mannered ingrates. Ronald Reagan swept into the governor's mansion in part on the promise to "fix the university." State support for its crown jewel was never the same. But the riots launched a student movement that eventually shook the nation in the late 1960s and revolutionized higher education in the country. And it came, organizer Mario Savio said, because of the political character of the Bay Area. 'This is one of the few places left in the United States where a personal history of involvement in radical politics is not a form of social leprosy," he wrote in "West of the West.'"

1/1/2006, The Seattle Times, Notable area deaths in 2005,

"Scott Glascock, 63, activist who co-owned Cafe Flora, a well-known vegetarian restaurant, died May 12 in Seattle of cancer. His experiences extended from California's Free Speech Movement in the 1960s to the rise of the gay-rights movement, the AIDS epidemic of the '80s and the blending of liberal politics and for-profit business in the '90s."

January 2006, Monthly Review, Lost and Found: The Italian-American Radical Experience, Marcella Bencivenni

"Another significant example is that of Mario Savio, a principal figure of the New Left and the Free Speech movement of the 1960s, presented by Fagiani, who was expelled by the university and sentenced to four months of prison for his political activism."

12/28/2005, WorldNetDaily.com, Who is Cary Grant?, Jim Rutz

"The under-30s of today seem even worse off than Jack Weinberg, when he gave the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement its trademark, 'Don't trust anyone over 30.' Well, dudes and dudettes, I was there when Clark Kerr was getting Sproul Hall cleaned out and Mario Savio was whipping up the troops. The FSM was great fun, but it was mainly a bunch of quasi-moral children, none of whom ever planned to be over 30. However, their memories did extend back further than last week, which I can't say for the wired-but-weird trendoid kids of today."

12/14/2005, Hampton Roads Daily Press, At HU, the really big issues remain to be resolved, editors

"The graduates of Hampton and all our schools will have opportunities because previous generations - of women and men, of blacks and whites, of visible leaders and anonymous citizens, of suffragettes and civil rights advocates - weren't compliant and complacent. They sat down and sat in. They stood up and they linked arms and they hoisted signs and they marched: across bridges and down streets, across the mall in Washington and into segregated classrooms. They cajoled and proselytized and spoke up until their throats were raw and their voices were heard. They were as obtrusive as they could stand to be. Because being unobtrusive is no way to secure freedoms, or to gain rights, or to pursue justice or equality - or to protect any of the freedoms or rights or justice or equality that were hard won by those who went before"

12/4/2005, San Jose Mercury News, The Politics of Art, Jack Fischer

"The wall text never really tries to answer why California artists of the post-war years have been more willing to engage politics than their colleagues elsewhere around the country, except to note that many of the popular political movements of those years -- the 1964 Free Speech Movement at the University of California-Berkeley, the Chicano labor movement that grew from the work of Cesar Chavez, environmental activism -- all have early and deep roots in the state."

12/2/2005, The Daily Tar Heel, Film scales UNC's political culture, Morgan Ellis

"Kindem's focuses on how students protested the ban and the 'across the wall talks' in March 1966. For the talks, communists Herbert Aptheker and Frank Wilkinson spoke to University students on the Franklin Street side of the wall, which didn't break the law and allowed people to protest the ban. The documentary doesn't confine itself to the University and thoughtfully places the situation on a national scale, connecting the area to more celebrated free speech movements, such as Mario Savio's at the University of California-Berkeley."

11/29/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Books: Burdick and the Ugly American: The Novelist as Propagandist, Phil McArdle

"The student protest movement burst into flame two years later. Although civil rights activists in the Free Speech Movement struck the initial spark, many observers believed the tinder that turned an incident into a conflagration was the university's severe neglect of undergraduate teaching."

11/23/2005, Muzica, Joan Baez, Arthur Levy

"In 1964, she withheld 60% of her income tax from the IRS to protest miltary spending, and participated in the birth of the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley."

11/21/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Abstract painter who shunned the gallery scene, revered Jesse Reichek gets a posthumous exhibit, Jesse Hamlin

"'His work could've been seen and collected a lot more if he'd been more of a mind to market it,' said Berkeley architect Murray Silverstein, a student of Reichek's at Cal in the '60s who bonded with him during the Free Speech movement. Silverstein, who worked on the renovation of the Cheese Factory space, recalled Reichek as a 'great rebel spirit and a great storyteller, a kind of Brooklyn street kid who joked about everything under the sun, a lefty who was angry at authority. He could be difficult. He came to certain convictions about painting and art, and they were kind of chiseled in stone for him.'"

11/19/2005, The Age, Berkeley the template of higher learning, Gerard Wright

"IT MAY be only an accident of geography, but the University of California at Berkeley really does look down on the world, from high in the hills above San Francisco Bay. This is the American brain factory that Melbourne University has taken as a model for its new two-tiered system of degree structure, in the same way that a church architect would look to Notre Dame as a template. ... But for all that (and them), Berkeley is best known as the incubator of the free speech movement, the place where what became national student protests against the Vietnam War began."

11/18/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Conservative Professor Faces Critical Audience, Judith Scherr

"With Yoo on the panel sponsored by Black Oak Books and the Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center was moderator Jeffrey Brand, dean of the University of San Francisco Law School, Gordon Silverstein, political science professor at UC Berkeley and Peter Irons, political science professor at UC San Diego. A participant in Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, Irons is best known for his role in the 1983 overturning of the conviction of Fred Korematsu, the Japanese-American man who refused orders to go to an internment camp during World War II."

11/17/2005, UC Berkeley News, Obituary Joseph Tussman,

"The crisis occasioned by the Free Speech Movement of 1964 again found Tussman in the fray. He rejected 'the attempt to deal coercively and punitively with problems of mind and spirit.' Working with Jacobus tenBroek, who chaired the Senate's committee on academic freedom, he supported the more permissive of two competing resolutions, noting it was 'public knowledge that it is strongly supported by chairmen of departments. Nevertheless, it is a good motion.' It passed by a large majority, and the crisis was resolved."

11/16/2005, Oakland Tribune, Activist Berkeley professor dies--Joseph Tussman headed philosophy department, played part in free speech movement, Katherine Pfrommer

"After a brief stint of teaching at Syracuse and Wesleyan universities starting in 1955, he returned to Berkeley in 1963. He became chair of the department of philosophy the following year and played a fairly significant role that year in helping mediate a solution between students and the school during the Free Speech Movement, his son said."

11/9/2005, Newsday, 'Easy Rider' joins the Army, Kate O'Hare

"'I've always been political,' Hopper says, 'but I haven't always been a Republican. I was with Martin Luther King [and] at the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. I was a hippie. I was probably as left as you could get without being a Communist.'"

11/8/2005, The Navhind Times, Music school declares results,

"Panaji Nov 7: The Associated Board of the Royal School of Music, London, has declared the results of the successful candidates of the October 2005 practical examinations. MERIT (piano) Grade 3: Antonio Mario Savio D'Costa"

11/4/2005, The Post, 'World Can't Wait' for decent journalism, Damon Krane

"Many historians date the beginning of the Civil Rights Movement with the student walkout at Virginia's Moton High School in 1951. That walkout led to one of the court cases that resulted in the Supreme Court's landmark desegregation decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The Free Speech Movement, which occurred at the University of California at Berkeley during the 1964-65 academic year, held its first student strike in Dec. of 1964."

11/4/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley: The View From Hiroshima, Steve Freedkin

"Can cities really help rid the world of the ultimate weapon of mass destruction? To the naysayer, we can point to our own city's legacy. Was it 'pie-in-the-sky' idealism to expect that apartheid could be brought down largely by a boycott started in a small California city? Was it 'wishful thinking' for UC Berkeley protesters to believe their Free Speech Movement could break the shackles of censorship on campuses throughout the country?"

11/1/2005, American Heritage, The Power of 2857, William S. Pretzer

"I had just entered kindergarten in Sacramento, California, when Rosa Parks was arrested in Montgomery. I was in high school as the Free Speech Movement rocked the Berkeley campus of the University of California just 80 miles to the west and as the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert F. Kennedy rocked the nation."

10/30/2005, Revolution, The Free Speech Movement, Bob Avakian

"I think this was just when we found out that the governor, Pat Brown, was sending the troopers to bust us, and Mario talked about the duplicity and the double-dealing of the university administration and the governor and so on - that they hadn't negotiated in good faith and that they'd done these back-handed things - but then he said, 'And this is just like what our government is doing in Vietnam.' This was in early December of 1964, and I was actively looking into the Vietnam War and trying to figure out what stand to take on it, but I ­hadn't made up my mind yet."

10/28/2005, Daily Californian, Journalist Blasts Bush at Memorial Lecture, Kevin Amirehsani

"In front of an overflowing Pauley Ballroom audience last night, investigative journalist and author Seymour Hersh, who won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing the 1968 My Lai Massacre, gave a harsh critique of American foreign policy as the main speaker for the ninth annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture. ... In addition to Hersh's speech, The Mario Savio Young Activist Award was also presented to Erin Durban, a 22-year old activist from Denver, who among other things, has led Colorado's first anti-Iraq war student effort and organized gay and lesbian rights groups."

10/28/2005, Columbia Journalism Review, FOIA Falters, Martin E. Halstuk

"San Francisco Chronicle reporter Seth Rosenfeld successfully sued the FBI to obtain records that revealed that in the 1960s, during the tumultuous free speech movement in Berkeley, the bureau had launched a covert - and illegal - campaign to fire then University of California President Clark Kerr and conspired with the CIA to pressure the California Board of Regents to force out liberal professors. Rosenfeld filed his request in 1981, while a journalism student at UC-Berkeley. It took three lawsuits and fifteen years before the FBI began releasing the records, which would form the basis of Rosenfeld's 2002 series 'Reagan, Hoover and the UC Red Scare.' As the court battle played out, the FBI spent $1 million to suppress the documents. To date, Rosenfeld has yet to receive all of the records that the FBI agreed to release, totaling some 17,000 pages. 'In my experience, the FBI's reluctance to comply with the FOIA is even greater now, a time when it's collecting more information on citizens that ever before,' he said."

10/27/2005, Oakland Tribune, Faded star does not deter 'peace mom', Josh Richman

"'She who bursts upon the scene as new news very quickly departs the scene as old news, and for the same reasons,' said Todd Gitlin, a 1960s activist who is now an author and Columbia University journalism and sociology professor. 'In August, in contrast to the news surroundings then, she was hot. In October, she's not.' It is not a judgment on her sincerity or efficacy, he said, but she does not - and perhaps cannot - have the star status and historical staying power of some'60s activists such as Mario Savio or Abbie Hoffman, Gitlin said."

10/17/2005, Contra Costa Times, Veterans Day event canceled in Berkeley, Martin Snapp

"'Their position was that no matter what he said, because he was a member of Gold Star Families, he wouldn't be allowed to speak,' McDonald said. 'I've been doing this for 10 years, and this is the first time content and affiliation ever came up for discussion. I was shocked to find this kind of narrow-mindedness in my own hometown, in Berkeley, the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement.'"

10/12/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, THE NORTH COAST: A Kayak Adventure, Paul McHugh

"Crusaders included country veterinarian Kortum and his brother Karl; a feisty, elderly rancher named Rose Gaffney; Dave Pesonen, a young veteran of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement; and Hazel Mitchell, a Texan working as a Bodega waitress."

10/6/2005, Keene Equinox, 'Bringing it all back home' with 'No Direction Home', Katelyn Sommer

"Scorsese did a superb job emphasizing the relationship between Dylan's topical writing and the events that mounted his lyrical poetry. In one scene, we see the Free Speech Movement in the early '60s, shot together with a performance of 'It's Alright Ma'. 'So don't fear, if you hear, a foreign sound, in your ear, it's alright Ma.'"

10/6/2005, Daily Californian, After 46 Years, The Party's Still Going at Local Restaurant, Bryan Thomas and Emma Gutierrez

"The couple opened the popular Mexican restaurant Mario's La Fiesta on the corner of Telegraph Avenue and Haste Street in 1959, and was soon playing host to tear-gassed students and baton-wielding police officers who dropped in for a quick bite between protests during Berkeley's Free Speech Movement days."

10/4/2005, Village Voice, New Scorsese Documentary Only a Pawn in Dylan's Game, Jon Dolan

"Scorsese only rarely condescends to the "while Vietnam escalated, America did the twist" school of pop history gew-gawing. When he does (say, for the Kennedy assassination or a Mario Savio freestyle), the images have a refracted rush and seem almost new."

10/4/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, First Person: UC, Berkeley Honda: Free Beer, But No Free Speech, Zelda Bronstein

"'We can't distribute our fliers?' I said. 'Isn't that what the Free Speech Movement was all about?' John Lame, a passerby who said he was a UC employee and a member of AFSCME, joined the protest. But the lieutenant was adamant. I asked: 'Is this part of the university's time, place and manner [of assembly] rules?' She said it was and told me to check out UC's website."

10/02/2005, Chico Enterprise-Record, But This is Chico: Let's hope City Plaza can become vortex of downtown's energy, Steve Brown

"UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza was the mother of all vortexes - academic, cultural and political - when I was a student there in the early 1970s. The plaza was completed in the early 1960s, just in time to be the staging area for the Free Speech Movement. It was the site of numerous protests throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s. As a budding journalist, I once covered an anti-Vietnam War demonstration there for the student newspaper, the Daily Californian."

9/30/2005, Boston Globe et al, Today in history - Oct. 1, The Associated Press

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

9/29/2005, UC Berkeley News, Talking straight while walking backward, Cathy Cockrell

"Later this week a rare breed will gather at the foot of the Campanile to celebrate and reminisce - folks who know by heart not only the number of bells in the tower's carillon but how many bones are in the Valley Life Sciences Building's T. rex, what year Doe Library was built and who it's named for, where to find the largest (and smallest) campus bear sculptures, and how many were arrested during the Free Speech Movement. The Friday event will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the campus Visitor Center and the generations of student tour guides who have shared the campus, through their own eyes, with the public"

9/27/2005, Weekly Standard, The Cost of Free Speech, Harvey Mansfield

"At Berkeley, home of the Free Speech Movement of the late '60s, 'progressive social censorship' was applied against opponents of affirmative action (outlawed in California in 1996 by Proposition 209). A series of incidents arising over cartoons in the student newspaper, law school admissions, and protests against visiting speakers created an atmosphere of intimidation, even though it was not formalized in a speech code."

September 23 - 29, 2005, Orange County Weekly, Criticize Larry Agran, Go to Jail, Stephen C. Smith

"Larry Agran likes to acknowledge that he participated in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in the 1960s-can even recite key passages from Mario Savio's famous 1964 speech outside Sproul Hall in which Savio called on students 'to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus' of 'the machine' 'to make it stop.'"

9/14/2005, UC Berkeley News, Lettter to the Editor, Andrew Paul Gutierrez

"But sometimes the UC bureaucracy resurrects miscreants after death for its own purposes. A good example is Mario Savio, who at the height of the Free Speech Movement uttered words now found scripted on the walls of the campus Free Speech Café: '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, 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.'"

9/12/2005, Daily Times, VIEW: An unreconstructed sixties liberal, Syed Mansoor Hussain

"Students all over the world were now able to do things that young people had never been able to do before. It all started with the free speech movement in the University of California at Berkeley in 1964 and went on to become the anti-Vietnam War movement that forced Lyndon Johnson, who was president of the US, to decline a second term. Internationally, the government of Charles de Gaulle was almost brought down in 1968 as was the Soviet control over Czechoslovakia the same year (the Prague Spring)."

9/2/2005, FrontPage Magazine, Fighting Campus Hate, Leila Beckwith

"Bettina Aptheker, professor of women's studies, is a self-identified lesbian activist who was also a Communist Party member until 1991. She was one of the leaders of the Free Speech movement at UC Berkeley, which in 1964 executed the first takeover of a university building in order to protest a regulation forbidding recruitment for political organizations on campus. The success of the Free Speech movement marked the beginning of the politicization of campus life and of university curricula, which continues to this day."

8/31/2005, Daily Californian, Tradition of Political Protest No Longer A Source of Pride, Jane Yang

"Even today, the notion of UC Berkeley spirit conjures up images of the infamous Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio and the hippie counter-culture."

8/29/2005, Daily Californian, Opinion: Stuck in the Muck, Darryl Stein

"But how much remains of the Free Speech Movement-era Berkeley? I mean, sure, there are the residents of the surrounding city, some of whom seem unaware that the 60s have ended, but more Berkeley students spend their time working on problem sets than protest signs."

8/25/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Burney Threadgill Jr. -- FBI agent in Bay Area during the Cold War, Seth Rosenfeld

"By the late 1950s, membership in the Communist Party had dwindled. But in 1964, student protests erupted at UC Berkeley, and Mr. Threadgill was among the agents initially assigned to investigate whether communists had caused the demonstrations. The agents concluded they had not, he said, and that the students were rebelling against campus rules restricting free speech."

8/18/2005, Contra Costa Times, Universities go digital, Matt Krupnick

"'I think the pressure on faculty is to recognize that there's a level of digital literacy (with incoming students) that wasn't there when they were students,' Eckhouse said. 'Any attempt by faculty to pretend they're on the cutting edge is like professors in their 60s and 70s trying to be part of the Free Speech Movement. The students are smarter than that.'"

8/14/2005, Washington Post, Burned, Baby, Burned: Watts and the Tragedy of Black America, John McWhorter

"But political rebellion always leaves in its wake people who are moved more by the sheer theatrics of acting up than by the actual goals of the protest. At the University of California at Berkeley in 1964, for example, the Free Speech Movement rose up against indefensible suppression of students' speaking truth to power. But on the same campus the following year, a new bunch started the 'Filthy Speech Movement,' based on emblazoning curse words on placards and watching the suits squirm. It was rebellion for rebellion's sake."

8/13/2005, The Coffee House, John McWhorter's Bad Dream, Todd Gitlin

"In a peculiarly phantasmagorical piece in today's Washington Post Outlook section, John McWhorter asks why the Watts riots broke out forty years ago this month, and supplies an amazing answer: a new mood of "treating rebellion for its own sake," a mood that--are you sitting down?--came from whites. Yes, blacks ran amok in Watts because 'it became a hallmark of moral sophistication among whites to reject establishment mores, culminating in the counterculture movement.' McWhorter keeps talking about his 'research,' but all he can offer toward this bizarre substitute for history is the notion that the admirable Free Speech Movement of 1964 morphed into 'the 'Filthy Speech Movement,' based on emblazoning curse words on placards and watching the suits squirm....That kind of unintentional by-product of genuine activism hit black America between the eyes.'"

8/12/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Is Free Speech Dead in Berkeley?, Jonathan Wornick

"Known around the world for alternative thinking, tolerance, magnificent beauty, a great university and birthplace of the Free Speech Movement, Berkeley residents have much to be proud of."

8/10/2005, Laconia Citizen, School integration pioneer remembered in Meredith, Bethany Gordon

"'Of course around that time the Free Speech movement was going on,' explained Michael. 'While my father [Dr. Neil Sullivan] was in the process of integrating the K-12 system, there were massive student strikes at the University to decide if students would be punished for off-campus activities.'"

8/1/2005, Daily Californian, Opinion: Children of the Corn, Alex Stathopoulos

"UC Berkeley is famous for its history of defending stifled freedoms and breeding activism among the intellectual elite. There's no doubt about it-incoming students have seen and been awed by the 1960s movies in which angry mobs fill Sproul Plaza with demands for First Amendment rights. The daring students of the Free Speech Movement breathed life into a stagnant educational culture and catalyzed change through personal sacrifice."

7/31/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Cook's Night Out: Victoria Wise, GraceAnn Walden

"I have to ask Wise -- who said she wasn't a leader, but 'sat at the feet of Mario Savio' -- if they won. 'In the very long run, yes. In the short run, no,' she says, 'because everyone got sapped.'"

7/26/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Commentary: Life in a Company-I Mean, University-Town, Neal Blumenfeld

"You know the answer to the riddle: Where does a 900-pound gorilla sit? Anywhere he wants. Forty-one years ago, during the Free Speech Movement (FSM), we learned that there is indeed a gorilla in town, but camouflaged in Blue and Gold and crying out 'Go Bears!' Questions about nuclear weapons labs, the treatment of UC workers and teachers' assistants, or deals with the City of Berkeley are finessed by the administration ultimately down-or up-to the Regents, the university's own college of cardinals."

7/23/2005, Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Linda Farris, 1945-2005: Gallery pioneer promoted young artists, Regina Hackett

"She enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley in 1962 and participated in the free speech movement of 1964, the dawning of radical campus politics. After graduation, she knocked around Europe, looking at art. When she came home, she married a commercial airplane pilot and moved to Seattle. One day, she saw a small space for rent in Bellevue and opened a gallery."

7/12/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley This Week, editors

"Free Speech Movement Poetry Festival, featuring Jack Hirschman, Paul Sawyer and others, from 10:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Berkeley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship Hall, 1924 Cedar St. at Bonita. 528-5403."

7/9/2005, Los Angeles Daily News, Goldberg has strength of her own convictions, Jim Sanders

"Goldberg, a leader in the 1960s Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, is as comfortable with a microphone as Lance Armstrong is with a bicycle or Barry Bonds is with a bat."

7/6/2005, New York Times, Keep These Kids From Eating Veggies? Try., R. W. Apple Jr.

"IDEALISTIC as she is, Ms. Waters, 61, is no political naif. During and after her years at the University of California she was active in the radical Free Speech Movement there, and she has maintained a lively interest in public affairs ever since."

Summer 2005, Western Historical Quarterly, Book Review: At Berkeley in the Sixties, Amy E. Farrell

"Freeman's perspectives on life at Berkeley in the early 1960s should captivate any historian of the 1960s, from her keen observations about the role that the built environment of the Berkeley campus played in shaping the movement to her overarching argument that the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964 was 'not a battle in the Civil Rights Movement but a skirmish in the Cold War.'"

July 2005, The Monthly, The Kilduff File: How PC Can You Be?: An interview with Camille Paglia, Paul Kilduff

"And it's a scandal that the whole Berkeley campus has ostracized me because, you know, for havens sakes, anyone from the 60s who was on the progressive side regards the free speech movement at Berkeley as the beginning of it all and I feel when I came on the scene in the early 90s that I was just in the direct line of that. It was my libertarian positions against the campus speech codes and so on. I think Berkeley itself has forgot about it's own progressive roots"

Summer 2005, Pressing Times, David Lance Goines: An Interview, Shirl Pleskan and Matt Marsh

PRESSING TIMES: With the advantage of history and hindsight, what is your view of the Free Speech Movement? GOINES: Well, it's hard to say. I'm not sure we have enough history and hindsight yet to say, but it was definitely instrumental in getting Ronald Reagan elected governor and that was, of course, his steppingstone to the White House. I'm not sure that he would have been elected without the FSM to use as his punching bag. It was part of a trend of university students becoming actively involved in the politics of the day. I don't think that it could be isolated and said to be either seminal or indispensable. It was important in forming a nucleus of people who started the anti-war movement. Then again, I think it would have happened anyway. If it hadn't happened at the University of California, Berkeley, it probably would have happened somewhere else.

6/27/2005, Los Angeles Times, Longtime Democratic insider dies at 82, Myrna Oliver

"The two men remained close even after Dutton left to join the John F. Kennedy presidential campaign in 1960, and Brown appointed him to a prestigious 16-year term as a University of California regent. Serving from 1962 until he resigned in 1976, Dutton championed student protesters in the free-speech movement at Berkeley's People's Park and anti-Vietnam War demonstrations on all campuses."

6/21/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Column: The Public Eye: What's the Matter with Berkeley?, Zelda Bronstein

"But what else would you expect? Progressive Lawrence and Irvine are newsworthy; progressive Berkeley rates a yawn. Ever since the Free Speech Movement coalesced in Sproul Plaza 40 years ago, this town has symbolized cutting edge liberalism to the world at large."

6/17/2005, FrontPageMagazine.com, Jerusalem Bus 19 Comes to Berkeley, Abraham H. Miller

"Observers of the Berkeley political scene had a different interpretation of the disparity in the city's accommodation to the two groups of demonstrators. Up until the 1970's, the City of Berkeley, unlike the the campus, was a fairly middle of the road to conservative city. In the 1970's, the ranks of the citizenry swelled with former students and leftist activists who had come to Berkeley to be involved in the social movements that began with the Free Speech Movement in 1964. Some of these students did not leave, even if they graduated. Enchanted by the Berkeley lifestyle and political scene, they stayed and directed their political activism into local politics as well as into national issues. By the mid-1970's, the Berkeley City Council reflected this new political reality."

6/12/2005, Contra Costa Times, Campuses reject polarizing guests, Matt Krupnick

"In 1983, United Nations Ambassador Jeanne Kirkpatrick was heckled so mercilessly during a speech at UC Berkeley that she withdrew as the commencement speaker at Smith College. Berkeley Chancellor Ira Heyman wrote in the university newspaper afterward that he was disgusted by students' actions, especially at the home of the Free Speech Movement. 'I am deeply troubled by recent events that violate basic principles of respect for other people and opposing views," Heyman wrote at the time. 'I am embarrassed that Berkeley has been advertised around the world as a place that succumbed to mob rule.'"

6/10/2005, SiliconValleyWatcher, how the Sixties counterculture smashed the work of leading computer researchers, Tom Foremski

"Mr Markoff points out that the PC revolution grew out of the turbulent times in the 1960s, from the free speech movement, the anti-war protests, and the drug culture. The implication is that out of this internal societal war between the generations - the old and the young - good things emerged such as the PC. .... Lee Felsenstein, one of the computer researchers mentioned in the book remarked "We were caught up with what was going on around us, we were against the institutions."

6/9/2005, SiliconValleyWatcher, A tribute to one of Silicon Valley's most influential and forgoten researchers at Xerox Parc event, Tom Foremski

"Both these labs had the same types of uber-geeks, super smart and inspired by the 60s free-speech movement to question everything. .... Challenging accepted notions and speaking your mind was not done much. It was difficult. That's why there was a free speech movement. It was revolutionary. The computer lab researchers of the time found they were discovering new methods of communication and computing by challenging accepted notions." .... "Lee Felsenstein ran the Homebrew Computer Club, and designed the Sol and Osborne 1, two of the original personal computers. He is currently a partner at the Fonly Institute, a consulting and research organization focused on developing groundbreaking products that place computer power in the hands of ordinary people."

6/5/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, How the state Democratic Party left Pat Brown and me, Phil Tracy

"Until the free-speech movement and the war in Vietnam shattered it, close to 10 years later, the liberal-labor coalition ran the state of California and in retrospect, didn't run it all that badly. You could say the fumes from that last burst of political synergy -- a dozen university and college campuses, 1,000 miles of freeways, the California Water Project -- is what's keeping us going today, despite all the abuse the state's infrastructure has been handed."

6/3/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Not Just for Undergrads: Adagia Opens on Bancroft, Kathryn Jessup

"The building is owned by a Presbyterian Ministry, which uses the rest of the facility to house more than 100 students and host conferences and events. During the 1960s, Westminster House was a gathering place for student organizers of the free speech movement."

5/27/2005, The Socialist Worker, The struggle that stopped the Vietnam War, Paul D'Amato

"There was a direct connection between these struggles. For example, Mario Savio, a leader of the Free Speech movement in Berkeley, which was the immediate prelude to the antiwar movement, had gone to Mississippi to take part in Freedom Summer civil rights organizing in 1964. He returned to participate in sit-ins against racial discrimination in restaurants, hotels and supermarkets in the San Francisco Bay Area."

5/16/2005, The Seattle Times, Gentle activist Scott Glascock lived his beliefs, Warren Cornwall

"His [Scott Glascock's] experiences extended from California's Free Speech Movement, in the 1960s, to the rise of the gay-rights movement, the AIDS epidemic of the '80s, and the blending of liberal politics and for-profit business in the '90s."

5/4/2005, The Nation, Keep Talking, Asheesh Kapur Siddique

"When most Americans think of student activism, they are likely to recall the Port Huron Statement of 1962, UC-Berkeley's Free Speech Movement in the mid-1960s, Kent State in 1970, the antiapartheid and Central American solidarity protests of the 1980s or the more recent fights against sweatshop labor on campus. But this past week here at Princeton University suggests that the list needs updating."

5/4/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Vernon DeMars -- UC professor, architect who influenced Bay Area, John King

"'Without Sproul Plaza it's hard to imagine the Free Speech Movement' that attracted international attention in 1964 when students occupied nearby Sproul Hall, said David Littlejohn, a professor emeritus of journalism who has written extensively on architecture. 'Vernon certainly didn't know that would happen, but he thought in terms of places for living ... all along he wanted street theater, where people could live the public life.'"

5/4/2005, East Bay Express, Jury Rigged?, Will Harper

"You might think that the district attorney in a county that spawned the Free Speech Movement and the Black Panthers would be no stranger to controversy."

5/2/2005, ZD Net, The true origins of the personal computer, Dan Farber

"In the San Francisco Bay area, in the midst of Vietnam War protests, acid trips, folk dancing, minicomputers, est, Spacewar, the Free Speech Movement and youthful idealism, a diverse group of individuals-both buttoned-up scientists and hippie nerds-saw the potential to scale from world of punch cards, time-sharing and minicomputers to powerful computers designed for individuals."

5/2/2005, Slashdot, What The Dormouse Said, timothy

"But the truth of those half-heard folktales from my youth is that nearly every concept in the personal computer predates all of this, in a delightfully picaresque tale that starts in the late 1950s and weaves together computers, LSD, the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, the Vietnam War and dozens of characters....The list goes on: Larry Tesler, Ken Kesey, Joan Baez, Ted Nelson, Lee Felsenstein, Bill English, Janis Joplin, and Bill Gates."

4/29/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Berkeley: Memoir follows author's road to communism, Rick DelVecchio

"Avakian, 62, a veteran of the Free Speech Movement and other upheavals of the Bay Area in the 1960s, makes an unqualified case for Marxism-Leninism as a fertile thought system that's as alive now as it was when the two revolutionary masterminds created it to answer what they saw as capitalism's fundamental inhumanity."

4/29/2005, Revolution Online, SF Bay Area Celebrates Release of Bob Avakian's Memoir, correspondent

"A group of honorary co-hosts--who feel in different ways that having a society-wide conversation about Bob Avakian's memoir, and Avakian himself, is important--came together. The co-hosts included Lawrence Ferlinghetti, internationally known poet, publisher, and owner of City Lights Bookstore; actor Peter Coyote; author and activist Julia Butterfly Hill; veteran activist Yuri Kochiyama; Barbara Lubin of the Middle East Children's Alliance; former political prisoner (San Quentin 6) Luis "Bato" Talamantez; hip hop artist and popular Refa One; UC Berkeley African American Studies Professor Ula Y. Taylor; social activist Richard Aoki; SF State Professor of International Relations Dwight Simpson; attorney Bob Bloom; Michael Rossman, an activist and archivist from the Free Speech Movement; the spoken word crew Chico Speaks Out; veterans of the Black Panther Party, and others."

4/29/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Campus Bay-Inspired Bills Clear Assembly Committee, Richard Brenneman

"Tuesday's hearing was a reunion of sorts for Goldberg and Wendel Brunner. Both were activists in Berkeley's Free Speech Movement."

4/26/2005, Daily Californian, ASUC and Academic Senate Need to Get Priorities Straight, Peter Tadao Gee

"In Mario Savio's famous speech before the FSM Sit-in 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. 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 quote gives us a great metaphor for UC Berkeley, about how it's just a giant machine that needs to be fixed. As optimistic as I am about our new campus leadership, I strongly believe the only way Birgeneau can be successful here at UC Berkeley is if everyone in the "machine" gets their act together. Student leaders and academic faculty alike need to be equal partners with the Birgeneau administration in order to make sure that everyone in California has the right to an equal and valid education."

4/26/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Author Offers Portraits of Spanish Civil War Vets, Richard Brenneman

"Berkeley's New Left was flourishing, an evolution of the same sense of moral outrage that had fueled the Free Speech Movement and the earlier protests against the House Un-American Activities Committee protests in San Francisco, where Berkeley people had played leading roles."

4/21/2005, Ka Leo O Hawaii, Philosopher to hold lecture at Ballroom,

"A former Rhodes Scholar and Don at Oxford University, Searle received his Ph.D. in Philosophy there in 1969. At Berkeley in the 1960s, Searle was the first tenured faculty member to support the Free Speech Movement. He is the author of numerous books, the most recent -- Mind: A Brief Introduction -- was published in 2004."

4/20/2005, UC Berkeley News, Chapela files suit against UC over denial of tenure, Public Affairs

"Reacting to this claim, Associate Vice Chancellor for Public Affairs George Strait said, 'Given that this campus is the home of the Free Speech Movement, and is where academic freedom is tightly guarded, the charge has little credibility.'"

4/19/2005, Tri-Valley Herald, Professor sues UC in tenure spat, Michelle Maitre

"Strait said it was ironic Chapela would accuse the university of squelching opinions. We're the home of the Free Speech Movement and the champion of academic freedom. For someone to allege we are anything other than that is not to be believed, Strait said."

4/18/2005, The Militant, American concentration camps, Patti Iiyama

"The parents of the author, Patti Iiyama, were held at the Japanese internment camp at Topaz, Utah, during the second world war. Iiyama was on the executive committee of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964; a labor organizer for the National Farmworkers Association in Delano, California, in 1966; and the Socialist Workers Party candidate for Secretary of State of California in 1970. She also ran on the SWP slate for various offices subsequently."

4/18/2005, Hawaii Reporter, Freedom for Me But Not for Thee, James Roumasset

"The Free Speech Movement at Berkeley in the mid 60's was a reaction against the administration's suppression of anti-war literature. But with the increasing influence of former campus radicals in the nations colleges and universities, the effort to suppress speech that is judged offensive to women and minorities was embodied in the proliferation of speech codes."

4/12/2005, Daily Californian, Opinion: Give the Assembly Its Independence, Rishi Sharma

"The Graduate Assembly at UC Berkeley has represented the interests of graduate students for generations. Its legacy includes the boycott of apartheid South Africa, the free speech movement, the civil rights struggle, and resistance to McCarthyism."

4/12/2005, Columbus Free Press, Congresswoman Cynthia Mckinney Urges Reform of Voting Process at Historic Conference, Anna Thompson

"'We don't know if our elections have been rigged. We need to be concerned about this. The curtain will have to be pulled off the wizard. Mario Savio said 'There comes a time when the machine becomes so odious that you can't take it apart. You have to stop the machine.'"

4/8/2005, Jackson Citizen Patriot, Teach-in set at Albion, staff

"Among those expected to attend are: Staughton Lynd, a labor attorney, Quaker and lifelong pacifist; Bill Davis of Vietnam Veterans Against the War; Joel Geier, a member of the 1964 Berkeley Free Speech Movement; Sherry Wolf, an editor of the International Socialist Review, a Chicago-based magazine; Bille Wickre, associate professor of art history at Albion College; and Greg Martin of the United Methodist Church of Ann Arbor"

4/6/2005, Excalibur, Progressive disruption, Maryam Behmard

"From Berkeley's Free Speech Movement to the Thai student uprising in 1976, Tehran's revolt in 1979, the formation of the Black Panthers and even the notorious Weather Underground, student activism is a widespread phenomenon, the centre of social justice issues and civil rights and a voice that cannot be suppressed. The underlying message of any retaliation in the history of student movements has been a fight for freedom."

4/5/2005, Daily Californian, Graduate Assembly Seeks Autonomy, Tiffany Hsu

"The assembly is the only graduate student government in the state that is a subsidiary to its undergraduate equivalent and has been so since its conception during the Free Speech Movement. The assembly is still not recognized by the chancellor as a formal, autonomous body."

4/1/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, New Look, New Year, Same Goals, Becky O'Malley

"Carol Denney likes to remind us that Berkeley was the home of the Free Speech Movement because of the University of California's determined opposition to free speech, not because free speech was protected here. Berkeley needs a newspaper which remembers its complex and paradoxical past, and which understands and accepts its responsibility for shaping the future."

3/29/2005, Contra Costa Times, Free speech at risk, professor tells Cal crowd, Matt Krupnick

"Free-speech rights used to protect professors who offered personal opinions in class, but that day has passed, Churchill said Monday at an academic-freedom forum on the campus where the Free Speech Movement began in 1964."

3/29/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, The Nonstudent Left, Hunter S. Thompson

"One of the realities to come out of last semester's action is the new 'anti-outsider law,' designed to keep 'nonstudents' off the campus in any hour of turmoil. It was sponsored by Assemblyman Don Mulford, a Republican from Oakland, who looks and talks quite a bit like the 'old' Richard Nixon. Mr. Mulford is much concerned about 'subversive infiltration' on the Berkeley campus, which lies in his district. He thinks he knows that the outburst last fall was caused by New York Communists, beatnik perverts and other godless elements beyond his ken. The students themselves, he tells himself, would never have caused such a ruckus. Others in Sacramento apparently shared this view: the bill passed the Assembly by a vote of 54 to 11 and the Senate by 27 to 8. Governor Brown signed it on June 2. The Mulford proposal got a good boost, while it was still pending, when J. Edgar Hoover testified in Washington that forty-three Reds of one stripe or another were involved in the Free Speech Movement."

3/29/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, Hunter S. Thompson's Portrait of Berkeley, Michael Rossman

"In 1965, the late Hunter Thompson got his first break as a journalist when he was asked to write an article for the venerable Left journal The Nation, about Berkeley after the Free Speech Movement."

3/26/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Controversial professor to speak at Cal, Charles Burress,

"'I am pleased to invite Professor Churchill to the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement in higher education,' said panel organizer Ling-chi Wang, an associate professor of ethnic studies at Cal."

3/16/2005, East Bay Express, The Revolution Comes to Rossmoor, Chris Thompson

"As a woman in a silver Mercedes-Benz SUV shot him the first scowl of the day, Stephens glanced at her rear bumper and guffawed, 'A Cal sticker! Oh, my God! She must have been before Mario Savio!'"

3/14/2005, Boston Globe, Reporter's FOIA request dates to 1981, Martha Mendoza

"'The (FOIA) statute says 20 days,' said Barbara Elias, the FOIA coordinator at the National Security Archive, who surveyed federal agencies to find the oldest pending request. 'There is no excuse that could extend search and review to 24 years.' She said she'd urge Rosenfeld not to get frustrated and give up. He's not about to."

3/11/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, No Decision on Landmark Law Revision, Richard Brenneman

"Then the planners launched into a discourse about the use of the term 'integrity,' prompting a discussion about places where 'Mario Savio slept here' and an eventual burst of laughter from O'Malley and more discussion."

3/11/2005, Berkeley Daily Planet, An Easy Place to Cut Spending, Becky O'Malley

"The meeting I attended last week was graced by the presence of City Attorney Zach Cowan, Planning Department chief Dan Marks, Current Planning Director Mark Rhoades and LPC secretary Giselle Sorensen. Discussion got off into deeply uncharted waters on frivolous topics like landmarking Mario Savio's student apartment, and yes, Virginia, they all looked somewhat silly, and I couldn't help laughing a bit."

3/10/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik Column, Leah Garchik

"The following appeared in Herb Caen's column 10 years ago: 'As you may have heard, KPFA's left-winging McCarthy-defying political commentator, William Mandel, has been fired, justlikethat, after 38 years, and such prominent lib/rads as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, David Brower and journalist Alexander Cockburn are protesting loudly, to no avail. ...'' That 'no avail'' turns out to have been true, but old lefties don't give up on matters of principle. A petition to the station's general manager, Roy Campanella II, demanding Mandel's return, was presented on Monday. Ten years is a long time to be collecting signatures, and the signers list now includes Daniel Ellsberg, Pete Seeger, Ed Asner, Tillie Olson and the three mentioned above, except it's now the late David Brower. Campanella wasn't at the station when the 13 Mandelistas (including 88- year-old Mandel, 'smiling ear to ear,'' said my spy) arrived. They demanded that the station agree to Mandel's return by April 4 (or else more petitioning, I guess). Power to the people."

3/4/2005, UC Berkeley News, The struggle for Berkeley's 'soul as an institution', Jonathan King

"Berkeley's handicaps are not insignificant, Edley said. It's no longer a wealthy campus, but instead one suffering from a decline in public support that afflicts K-12 as well as public higher education. It is vulnerable to state regulation and other forms of political oversight, continuing a trend, he said, that extends back half a century to the McCarthy and Loyalty Oath era, on up through the Free Speech Movement and the Reagan reaction against it right up to the present day. Efforts to stand against the current climate, Edley said, guarantee that 'trouble will rain down upon us from political quarters.'"

2/27/2005, Orlando Sentinel, Remembering gonzo journalism's founding father, Elaine Woo

"His break came when Carey McWilliams, editor of the Nation, hired him to write a story on the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley. It was McWilliams' idea to tackle the Hells Angels next."

2/27/2005, Associated Press, Thompson's tales of California-based counterculture produced admiration, backlash, Beth Fouhy

"He covered the 1964 Free Speech Movement at University of California, Berkeley and immersed himself in Haight-Ashbury's hippie subculture. He even spent a year covering the Hell's Angels motorcycle gang as they cruised up and down the Pacific coast. To his far-flung readers, Thompson's California was a free-spirited and often lawless environment that celebrated illegal substances and rebellion."

2/23/2005, Oakland Tribune, City Took Its Lumps from Thompson, William Brand and Nicholas Yulico

"One of his former editors Paul Krassner, editor of The Realist, said he met Thompson in the mid-1960s, appropriately, at a Vietnam Teach-in at the University of California, Berkeley, the campus that gave the world the Free Speech Movement."

2/18/2005, Sacramento Bee, Prejudice and pride: A daughter's film examines bold stand by Japanese American couple in WWII, Dixie Reid

"'I went home to San Francisco one weekend after the Mario Savio speech, and I was angry about human rights,' Ina said. 'My mother said, 'I have to tell you something.' My parents were afraid I was going to be an outspoken radical and bad things would happen to me. My mother would say, 'We don't want to see your face in the newspaper. You don't know what the consequences can be.'"

2/12/2005, Morocco Times, Books: Review: Semantics and epistemology, Anita Burdman Feferman

"My talk today is about Tarski in the 1960s, when he himself was in 'his' sixties. It is a period that more than one of his students labeled "the heyday of logic in Berkley." It was the heyday of a lot of other things too: the free speech movement, the student revolution, the civil rights movement, the anti-war, or peace movement, and of course the famous "summer of love" that was accompanied by the constant sound of rock and roll music, and lasted for much longer than a summer. But that story is, of course, way beyond the scope of this talk."

2/11/2005, The Denver Post, Gov't Mule guitarist on successor to FM, listening "with our eyes", Warren Haynes

"Photography: "Jim Marshall: Proof" is a book of the legendary photographer's amazing photos, mostly shot during the '60s and '70s. He's got everyone, from rockers Jim Morrison, Joplin, Bob Dylan, the Beatles and the Grateful Dead, to blues and jazz greats T-Bone Walker, Charles, Ben Webster and Thelonius Monk to filmmakers Woody Allen and Elia Kazan, labor leader Cesár Chavez and the leader of the Free Speech Movement, Mario Savio. This collection is filled with familiar photos, including shots that would become album covers for Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane and the Allman Brothers Band."

2/8/2005, Oakland Tribune, Berkeley puts $650,000 into library book tracking system, Kristin Bender

"But in Berkeley, the home of the Free Speech Movement, concerns about Big Brother are emerging. Some worry the radio-frequency identification technology - used by other libraries, the government and as a retail tracking device - could become a surveillance tool compromising the privacy of everyone."

2/1/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Is the biographer of activist Judi Bari a tool of the right -- or just a skeptical liberal?, Edward Guthmann

"Collier is a former left-wing radical who met Coleman during the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley in the mid-'60s and worked with her at the leftist magazine Ramparts. Coleman says Collier approached her to write the Bari biography, but she denies he tried to influence her interpretation."

1/21/2005, News Tribune, Protesters organize 'counter-inaugural', Kristie Miller

"Jo Freeman, a veteran of the 1968 Berkeley Free Speech movement, remarked on the diversity of the protest groups. 'So many people want to participate, one organization can't contain them all.'"

1/21/2005, LA Weekly, To Succeed, Must We Secede?, David L. Ulin

"We talk about our history of progressive politics, from Llano to Upton Sinclair's 1934 End Poverty in California campaign to the free speech movement to gay rights."

1/21/2005, Colorado Daily, 'Out of class, in the moment', Bronson R. Hilliard

"If there was a leader of the protest, it was BHS senior Travis Moe, who said he had been corresponding with '60s activist (and current California politician) Tom Hayden and researching the Berkeley Free Speech movement to draw inspiration this year."

1/19/2005, Arab News, If You Don't Love It, Leave Town, Fawaz Turki

"So to get away from a campy event like the inauguration of a Republican president, and the hicksters attending it, I shall head on to California, California dreamin', laid back, mellow New Age California where the Free Speech Movement started at Berkeley, hippies took over Haight, Rodney King wants us all to get along, Tania (nee Patty Hearst) robbed a bank with her putative revolutionaries from the Symbionese Liberation Army, and O.J. Simpson, well, the man just walked."

1/14/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, Pot-using politician did dopey thing, Chip Johnson

"As an attorney, Siegel is surely familiar with the legal concept of time, place and manner restrictions on even sacred First Amendment rights, although come to think of it, he may not have been too hot on those rules when he was a student activist and Free Speech Movement supporter in his days at UC Berkeley."

1/11/2005, Daily Times, VIEW: Students and politics, Syed Mansoor Hussain

"The formal beginning of it all in the US was the free speech movement in (University of California) Berkeley in 1964; and the foundation of the SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) in 1960, leading in time to the anti-war (in Vietnam) movement that forced President Johnson not to seek re-election. The upheaval also gave us the hippies, drugs and the sexual revolution."

1/9/2005, San Francisco Chronicle, S.F. may no longer be the state's most progressive city, James B. Goodno

"The authors identify several key actors in this drama, notably Jackie Goldberg, a former city council member and current state legislator, who worked tirelessly to pull together 'various (and sometimes conflicting) strands of the progressive community.'"

1/8/2005, Grand Forks Herald, IN THE SPIRIT: As the saying goes, what goes around comes around, Naomi Dunavan

"Pastor Don recalls the turbulent 1960s, especially Mario Savio, the student leader who became nationally known when he boldly articulated students' concerns over the Vietnam War."

12/31/2004, Los Angeles Times, A Merry Prankster Keeps On Chuckling, Steve Lopez

"'Lenny Bruce opened the doors for all the guys like me; he prefigured the Free Speech Movement and helped push the culture forward into the light of open and honest expression.' Bruce went after 'the powerful people, to puncture the pretentiousness and pomposity of the privileged.'"

12/25/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Pearls Before Swine [comic], Stephan Pastis

"I should tell you Pig, that my name is not really 'Wee Bear."...My real name is Moses Savio Chavez...Moses is for Robert Moses, the civil rights activist who struggled to help Blacks vote in Mississippi...Savio is for Mario Savio, whose famous speech atop a police car ignited the Free Speech Movement...and Chavez is for Cesar Chavez, whose hunger strikes improved the lives of immigrant farm workers."

12/23/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Ralph J. Gleason's 'J'accuse', Ralph J. Gleason

"Forty years ago this month, Ralph J. Gleason spoke out eloquently in support of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. At the time, there wasn't great support for the movement in the press, but that didn't stop Gleason from speaking his mind. The following column originally appeared on Dec. 9, 1964, and was later reprinted to honor Gleason after his death. It remains a significant document in the history of the movement, a document made, to quote Gleason, 'with sweat and passion and dedication to truth and honor.'. "

12/23/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Don't let the tweed jackets, trench coat and pipe fool you -- Ralph J. Gleason was an apostle of jazz and rock with few peers, Joel Selvin

"The Gleason home, less than a mile from campus, was action central. Student leaders sought his advice and held meetings in the living room."

12/23/2004, North Carolina Times, Bears' program rises swiftly despite BCS snub, Mike Sullivan

"During White's time on the Berkeley campus, the football program was overshadowed by the ongoing Free Speech Movement, which began in 1964 and celebrated its 40-year anniversary this fall. Demonstrations and protests were regularly held against the wishes of campus administrators. On Oct. 1, 1964, when police attempted to arrest a civil-rights organizer who was passing out leaflets, students conducted a sit-in and the police car was unable to leave campus. Two months after that, approximately 800 students were arrested for occupying Sproul Hall. It remains the largest mass arrest of students in U.S. history. 'Berkeley became noted as the center of disenchantment and rebellion,' White recalled. 'It was really an unfortunate thing. It affected the athletic department in a horrible way. A lot of people liked the fact it was known as a radical place. Ironically, most of the radicals weren't involved with the university.'"

12/22/2004, San Francisco Bay View, Decentralize the power grid, Leuren Moret

"The Free Speech Movement was about the Vietnam War - and corporations - and now it's that time again, to put sand in the gears of the machine and prevent it from working at all until we too are free. '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; and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon all the apparatus, 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.' That's a quote from Mario Savio, icon of the Free Speech Movement, written on the walls of the Free Speech Café on the UC Berkeley campus. 'People power' can bring public power to our municipalities. Citizen by citizen, city by city, we must make a collective effort to take back our democracy and have fair and representative elections."

12/20/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE: The Berkeley backlash, Louis Freedberg

"It would be easy to explain what's happening as a sign that Berkeley, the home of the Free Speech Movement and the the first city to pass a divestment ordinance against apartheid South Africa, is losing its progressive edge. But that would be a faulty analysis."

12/20/2004, Contra Costa Times, Multimedia savvy leads Campanella to KPFA, Tony Hicks

"Founded in 1949, KPFA is one of the loudest liberal voices in one of the nation's most liberal cities. The station practically provided play-by-play for the 1960s cultural revolution as one of the first media outlets willing to give voice to UC Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. A decade earlier, KPFA was one of the nation's only radio stations to give a forum to man and women targeted by McCarthyism."

12/19/2004, New York Times, Where Aquarius Went, Christopher Hitchens

"Easy as it is to mock the atmosphere of Berkeley -- ''Berserkely'' -- in those days, there was a thread that connected the free speech movement to the freedom riders and to the exposure of depraved statecraft overseas, and this volume [''What's Going On, California and the Vietnam Era," Edited by Marcia A. Eymann and Charles Wollenberg, Oakland Museum of California/University of California Press] restores that connection with exemplary force."

12/8/2004, Stoneham Sun, I sound funny in Texas, Peter Costa

"I tell the story of being one of two reporters serving as the news pool selected to interview then-governor of California, Ronald Reagan. I had prepared a list of questions that I thought would push the good governor back on his heels. But after talking with him and listening to what he had tried to do as governor to improve the plight of the poor, to improve public education, even to protect free speech - a big issue back then during the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley - we came away with a different, better impression of the man."

12/7/2004, New York Press, Column, Paul Krassner

"And although the San Francisco FBI office had once put Mario Savio on the Reserve Index, a secret list of people to be detained without judicial warrant in the event of a national emergency, in 1997, a year after Savio's death, the steps in front of Sproul Hall were named the 'Mario Savio Steps.' I guess those are signs of progress."

12/7/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Changes Would Speed Landmarks Process, Becky O'Malley

"The ad recited charges against project opponents which skirted the cliff of libel without actually falling over it, but since the targets were pillars of the Free Speech Movement, we figured they'd be able to take it in their stride."

12/5/2004, San Luis Obispo Tribune, Mr. Blakeslee goes to Sacramento, Ryan Huff

"The famously liberal university -- birthplace of the Free Speech Movement -- profoundly impacted the Republican Blakeslee to be tolerant of others' views."

December 2004, The Journal of American History, Review: At Berkeley in the Sixties, W. J. Rorabaugh

"Jo Freeman's carefully researched, gracefully written, but curiously subdued book, part memoir and part scholarship, joins a growing list of works about the free speech movement {FSM} at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964. Other recent additions include President Clark Kerr's self-serving memoirs, the activist David Lance Goines's exuberant account, and the excellent collection of essays edited by the historians Robert Cohen and Reginald Zelnik."

12/1/2004, California Monthly, Letters to the Editor: The FSM's footprints, various

"As a student at Cal during that era, I believe that the Free Speech Movement directly contributed to the healthy skepticism of government's so-called truths in this country. Whatever one's political beliefs, the FSM helped expose the tendency of government agencies to cover up uncomfortable facts. The UC administration did it, LBJ the Democrat did it, Nixon the Republican did it. We learned many things in that era, and one of the constant truths we learned is, Never take a politician's statement at face value. This generation of students needs to learn the lessons of that generation. Jerome Fishkin '65 San Francisco"

11/30/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Vote Count Protests Blast Media Silence, J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

"Anderson likened the movement to investigate election irregularities to Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of the '60s. 'Just like then, we're going to have to throw ourselves into the machine and stop its gears,' he said."

11/23/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, After career springing others, bondsman sculpts himself a new life, Marianne Costantinou

"His biggest bailout was after 800 people were arrested at Berkeley. The arrest so overwhelmed the jail that Barrish offered to just bail out everyone en masse, and worry about their paperwork and financial backing later. 'I'll just guarantee everybody,' he says he told the D.A. and judge. To this day, Barrish says, strangers walk up and thank him. 'You don't know me,' they tell him, 'but you bailed me out for the Free Speech Movement.'"

11/18/2004, New York Times, Republicans Outnumbered in Academia, Studies Find, John Tierney

"BERKELEY, Calif. - At the birthplace of the free speech movement, campus radicals have a new target: the faculty that came of age in the 60's. They say their professors have been preaching multiculturalism and diversity while creating a political monoculture on campus"

11/8/2004, The Newspaper Guild, Bosses put 'the Boss' off-limits for journalists, Andy Zipser

"Ironically, this December 3 marks the 40th anniversary of an event that should be celebrated by every champion of free speech, uncensored reportage and unfettered thought-even if he or she works for a newspaper, magazine, television station or other news medium. Forty years ago, Mario Savio stood on the steps of Sproul Hall at Berkeley and launched the Free Speech Movement by thundering: '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!' Savio died in 1996. It's taking the rest of us a little longer."

11/8/2004, Contra Costa Times, Cal chancellor wrestles with familiar woes, Matt Krupnick

"Since taking over from Berdahl on Sept. 22, Birgeneau has tried to acclimate himself to the vibrant campus amid the rumbling of fiscal worries. He attended Cal's slim football loss to top-ranked USC in Los Angeles last month. He spoke to students from atop a car to commemorate the Free Speech Movement's 40th anniversary. And he endured the bureaucratic hassles of securing a physics office and lab to continue his research into the microscopic."

11/7/2004, The Statesman, Bush at the gate, Oindrila Mukherjee

"One of the places where protest has been most vociferous is the university campus. The leader of the pack was University of California at Berkeley in the 1960s when student activists against the war in Vietnam clashed with university administration over the use of campus facilities for their campaign, a confrontation that led to the Free Speech Movement. Campus counterculture peaked in 1968 when 221 major demonstrations took place in over 100 campuses across the country between January 1 and June 15."

11/7/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Letters: Inspired by Savio, Wendy Preuitt

"I was a high school classmate of Savio's in New York. At that time in his life, he was known as Robert 'Bob' Savio. What comes to mind foremost about him, is his gentility, tremendous intelligence and his awful stutter. Through the years I had heard bits and pieces about him and his multitude of problems, both political and emotional. However, until reading this article, I never really had the complete story. Thanks for all of your hard work researching and writing about this tragic figure. It is a sad tale because he was so brilliant and had so much potential -- so much more to give to us."

11/7/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Letters: Inspired by Savio, Mike Sher

"A personal reminiscence about Mario Savio. Decades ago, we both went to Van Buren High School in Queens Village, N.Y. We were one class apart, and everyone called him Bob. He was astoundingly bright and good looking, but had a bad speech problem, a stutter. The year I graduated, he began to overcome his speech problem and ran for president of the student body. In the time I was there, he was the only intellectual who ever won. He went on to become the dynamic speaker we all recall from Sproul Plaza."

11/2/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Self-Government: An Idea Whose Time Has Come?, Sharon Hudson

"Berkeley recently-and rightfully-celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement. But news coverage of the events barely mentioned the heavy-handed role the university played, in first causing the movement by curtailing speech, and later in ratcheting up the violence that accompanied subsequent protest activities. Today UCB basks in the glow of the FSM, but don't forget: UC was the oppressor that made Berkeley radical. And still does."

11/1/2004, UC Santa Cruz Faculty Newsletter, Faculty in the News, editor

"Bettina Aptheker was quoted in the San Francisco Chronicle, Alameda Times-Star, Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Tribune, San Mateo County Times, the Argus, and Tri-Valley Herald and in additional stories about the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley. Various news outlets also featured Aptheker as a recipient of an award for Excellence in Education presented by the National Organization for Women (NOW)."

11/1/2004, The News Tribune, Where have all the protest songs gone?, Diane de la Paz

"Savio, who became a philosophy professor, died in 1996 at age 53. He's been featured in a History Channel special and in the documentary 'Berkeley in the Sixties.' But with no musical legacy, he's been eclipsed by other free-speaking spirits such as John Lennon."

11/1/2004, Oakland Tribune, 'Bear Minimum' memories, Dave Newhouse

"'My mom and dad dropped me off on campus,' McCaffrey recalled of his freshman year. 'We walked around campus just when Mario Savio was giving his first speech. My dad said, 'Mike, you're going home.' My mom said, 'He can't, he's on scholarship.' That was my introduction to Cal.'"

November 2004, California Monthly, 'It changed my life', Martin Snapp

"Restaurateur Alice Waters '67 said, 'Without FSM, there would have been no Chez Panisse.' Waters opened her trend-setting restaurant in north Berkeley in 1971, instigating a 'delicious revolution' around the world. 'Mario led by example, not by telling people what they ought to do, and I've tried to do that, too,' she said of Savio, who withdrew from the public eye in the late 1960s because he feared that a cult of personality was forming around him. (Savio died at age 53 in 1996 of heart disease after a lifetime of heart trouble.)"

November 2004, California Monthly, Repossessing ourselves, Michael Rossman

"In the FSM, for the first time, our energy and critique focused on the institution we inhabited. Many of us felt that we revolted against the administration mainly because its decree kept us from continuing to serve others. Yet even this was personal, selfish, in being our deeper education, a reaching for soul. So, immediately, our focus turned from the threatened Civil Rights Movement to ourselves; it was our own state as political citizens that was being threatened, abused, that was to be fought for."

November 2004, California Monthly, Speaking freely: Former students remember the FSM, Lisa Rubens

"Weissman exercised those skills as head of the Graduate Coordinating Committee and as a member of the FSM Steering Committee, but he says that the power of the FSM came primarily from its many participants. 'The amazing thing was that people would come to rallies, hear discussions, talk with their professors, and then write stuff up,' he says. 'Lots of people did things on their own. Because of the way the movement was operating, there was no need to get central authority for anything.'"

November 2004, California Monthly, Robert Birgenau's path to Berkeley, Russell Schoch

"In the summer of 1965, Birgeneau joined six fellow students in the Southern Teachers Program at Benedict College in South Carolina to teach and do civil rights work. The group included two veterans of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley who, Birgeneau volunteers, 'were much more politically sophisticated than I was. I got a lot of my political education from those FSM people.'"

10/30/2004, Le Web de L'Humanité, histoire En 1964, le campus faisait la revolution, Envoye special

"Sous la houlette de Mario Savio, les étudiants s'organisent. Un mouvement voit le jour : le Free Speech Movement (FSM, mouvement de la liberte de parole), qui va appeler a la greve."

10/29/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Preservationists Fight to Save Venerable West Berkeley Pub, Richard Brenneman

"The building figures prominently in Berkeley history as a popular watering hole and gathering spot for students, Cal fans, community groups and a large contingent of regulars-among them Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio and many of his colleagues."

10/26/2004, Counterpunch, Lessons for 2004, Lenni Brenner

"Most Americans had never heard of Berkeley. Suddenly Mario Savio, the FSM's gifted orator, was listened to all over the world. Abroad, decades after, when I said I lived in Berkeley, educated people commonly said something about the FSM. The town became the holy land for freedom fans everywhere."

10/25/2004, San Jose Mercury News, Flood of campaign ads hard to miss, voters say, Truong Phuoc Khánh, Connie Skipitares and Dan Stober

"Poizner, an articulate and intense man, has pursued the Assembly seat with the energy needed for a corporate takeover. The more casual Ruskin wears his hair longer and is not as polished a speaker. He talks to voters about his days during the University of California-Berkeley free speech movement in the 1960s and of his long involvement in Democratic politics in Redwood City."

10/24/2004, Boston Globe, Vietnamese want war exhibit in Calif. to include their voice, Bobby Caina Calvan

"California became the center of early antiwar demonstrations, which in turn helped give rise to the Free Speech Movement, the tie-dye culture, acid rock, and later the Black Panthers."

10/20/2004, North Gate News Online, Free Speech Era Expert Sees Links to 1934 Strike, Emilie Raguso

"'The story of Berkeley in the '60s starts in the '30s,' said Jo Freeman, an outspoken organizer in the Free Speech Movement while an undergraduate at Berkeley between 1961 and 1965. Freeman--who later registered voters with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in Atlanta's Southern Christian Leadership Conference and went on to get both a doctorate in political science and her law degree--put Berkeley's early activist history in perspective in a lecture at Moses Hall on how anti-communism misunderstood and subsequently shaped the protest movement: 'People were connecting the dots wrongly. I don't think a single party in that conflict had any idea of what was going on.'"

10/19/2004, Daily Californian, Peaceful Muslims Deserve Better, Hiraa Amber Khan

"In light of the commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, it is hard to believe that blatant travesties of free speech not only still exist in our society, but stand unchallenged by a public that highly values freedom of expression."

10/18/2004, The California Aggie, UC service workers rally at Berkeley over weekend, Katy Tang

"'I'm hoping that the public actually starts to recognize that the workers on all the campuses are providing a vital service for keeping the campus clean, and that we're as valued as any of the faculty out there,' she said. 'If it wasn't for us, the campus would have to shut down, but we don't feel like we're being represented in the contract negotiations that way.' Slichter participated in the march where workers flooded the major intersection of Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue - across from the Free Speech Movement's birthplace."

10/18/2004, Daily Californian, Time Reporter Named Daily Cal Alumnus of Year, Josh Keller

"'I owe so much to the FSM, and not just for my career,' he [Jim Willwerth] says. 'I got in the middle of the FSM, and I saw what happens when people make a political protest that really annoys whoever is in power.'"

10/17/2004, The Malaysia Star, Cool look at hip era: review of The Hippie Dictionary, Martin Vengadesan

"Another section lists the most influential people then: besides current icons Bob Dylan and Mohamad Ali, and "period-people" like Allen Ginsberg and Timothy Leary, the likes of Bella Abzug, Buckminster Fuller and Mario Savio also had a great impact at the time."

October 16 / 17, 2004, CounterPunch, Those Who Went Before, Alexander Cockburn

"These days the left and PC crowd would find that the woman was opposed to affirmative action, or some such, and would have driven her out with oaths and curses. They have no idea of tactical coalitions. So much for the heritage of Sixties radicalism. Not everyone's gone to seed, to be sure. There's Lenni, who finally got me off the chair and actually there are many, many more who understand the importance of the third word that comes after Free Speech, namely 'Movement'. Without a movement you have nothing, and you've built nothing. That's what the ABB 'leftists' don't understand now. November 3 will be a bit late in the day to start looking for one."

10/15/2004, Santa Cruz Sentinel, Greenwood, Aptheker honored by NOW, uncredited

"Aptheker, a leader in the Free Speech Movement, has taught the popular 'Introduction to Feminism' course at UCSC for 24 years."

10/15/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, LEAH GARCHIK, Leah Garchik

"At one of those Free Speech Movement events, Gar Smith heard Paul Krassner saying, 'I ran into Jesus the other day. He had a tattoo. It read 'W.W.I.D.''"

10/15/2004, Daily Californian, Opinion: Revive the Movement, Kevin Deenihan

"The only way to truly honor the Free Speech Movement would be to keep its ideals alive and fighting. Instead we've been spending weeks killing it. Students familiar with the Free Speech Movement should recoil from the sentimentalized, self-congratulatory Boomer Lovefest that is FSM 2004"

10/14/2004, UC Santa Cruz Press Releases, UC Santa Cruz professor Bettina Aptheker receives California NOW Award for Excellence in Education, Scott Rappaport

"'Awardees are selected based on their commitment to equality-driven education and the general advancement of women in the field of education.' said CA NOW president, Megan Seely. 'These women are stellar examples of the kind of individual who not only is successful in her chosen profession, but for whom the personal is professional, and the professional is political. They are well deserving of accolades, and we are proud to honor them.' A leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in 1964, Aptheker is a scholar of history with a national reputation for her talents as an instructor. She started out in 1980 as the sole lecturer in the UC Santa Cruz Women's Studies Department, became the department's first ladder-rank faculty member in 1987, and was honored with the Alumni Association's Distinguished Teaching Award in 2001."

10/14/2004, UC Berkeley News, For some, the free-speech battle isn't over yet, Barry Bergman

"Rossman, who has written extensively about the FSM, pointed to what he termed the 'schizophrenic relationship' between Berkeley administrators and free speech. 'Free speech was never won at Berkeley,' he insisted, citing difficulties faced by graduate- student instructors in their attempts to form a union. 'It's not over,' he said. 'The same problems, the same struggles occur and occur again.' Widespread acceptance of the FSM, he said, began only after Mario Savio's death in 1996. 'When Mario dies, the Free Speech Movement suddenly becomes OK across the county. It becomes known as part of the 'good Sixties,'' said Rossman sardonically, complaining that Berkeley has yet to properly honor the movement. Rossman bluntly derided the doughnut-shaped slab on the plaza - a monument to the FSM. The hole in the center of the concrete circle, he observed, is 'too small to contain even an individual human brain, let alone to testify to the fact that the FSM was a superbly collective movement.' 'There is [still] no explicit mention of the Free Speech Movement' in Sproul Plaza, Rossman continued. There is a plaque for Savio on the steps of Sproul Hall, he noted, but 'Mario was not the movement. He was a hero, but he was not the movement.'"

10/14/2004, UC Berkeley News, Molly Ivins said that?, Wendy Edelstein

"'Don't you know, that's what we do again and again in this country,' said Ivins, pointing out that Americans willingly surrender civil liberties in an effort to quell their fears of such menaces as communism, crime, drugs, illegal aliens, and terrorists. 'We think we can make ourselves safer by making ourselves less free. I'll tell you something: When you make yourselves less free, all that happens afterwards is that you're less free. You are not safer.'"

10/14/2004, Daily Californian, Alums Fund-Raise to Leave Gift of New Political Center, Stefanie Shih

"Instead of donating the usual bench or fountain to UC Berkeley, the class of 1968 is hoping to leave a more personal mark on campus-launching a campaign to raise between $500,000 and $1 million to develop a Center for Social and Political Civility. The graduates, who were sophomores when Mario Savio stood atop a police car to fight for free speech rights on campus during fall 1964, are hoping the new center will reflect the values and goals of their time spent in the Free Speech Movement."

10/14/2004, Berkleyan, FSM vets urge students to change the world, Bonnie Azab Powell

10/13/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Letter: On art and war, Robbin Henderson

"Besides the many fascinating writers and activists participating in 'The Free Speech Movement at 40' celebration at UC Berkeley, the Berkeley Art Center has mounted an exhibition titled 'War, Peace and Civil Liberties' that features local artists and others from across the country, Argentina and Canada."

10/12/2004, Oakland Tribune, Berkeley honors Free Speech Movement, editors

"At the celebration Friday of the Free Speech Movement on Sproul Plaza, Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau, who was a graduate student at Yale when the Free Speech Movement inspired him to join the Civil Rights Movement, told students they should be proud to carry on the tradition. But he said he agreed with some critics, saying free speech too often is reserved for those who preach certain 'politically correct' views."

10/12/2004, Daily Californian, Editorial: FSM Should Mean Free Speech for Al, editor

"In using his speech as a platform for bashing our current president, former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean cheapened the message of the Free Speech Movement and presented a partisan call to arms, rather than what event planners had anticipated, an unbiased rally for freedom of speech."

10/12/2004, Daily Californian, Letter: FSM Event Coordinator Criticizes Dean, Michael Rossman

"The San Francisco Chronicle's Saturday story about the Free Speech Movement's 40th anniversary commemoration includes a significant mistake. In a picture captioned, 'Former presidential candidate Howard Dean is surrounded by well-wishers after his speech,' I am shown hugging Dean and whispering in his ear. I was actually saying, 'You sure are a selfish, egocentric, self-centered S.O.B.!' My remark was justified, because Dean completely violated advance agreements about his speech."

10/12/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, FSM Meets Again at Sproul, Richard Brenneman

"Howard Dean opened his own stump speech with an homage. 'Arnold, you better watch out, because Jackie Goldberg's comin' ta getcha!'"

10/12/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Psychiatrist's Encounter With FSM Shaped Life, Richard Brenneman

"When young psychiatrist Neal Blumenfeld read that students had staged a protest at Sproul Plaza, he drove his Triumph TR-3 sports car as close as he could get to the campus, then walked over for a first-hand look. Within days of that 1964 protest he'd been ousted from his part-time consultancy with the Berkeley Police Department and had established himself as what Free Speech Movement leaders described as 'the movement shrink.'"

10/11/2004, UC Berkeley News, "Give up cynicism": FSM@40 speakers call on today's students to change their world, Bonnie Azab Powell

"And this time, they also had a platform on top of the car to stand on. ASUC president Misha Leybovich held up his sneakers as he told the crowd how the 1964 students had respectfully removed their shoes before climbing on top of the car. (Despite their care, the hood of the car was damaged - "and we paid for that damage," Goldberg asserted later.) Leybovich admitted that he had known little about the Free Speech Movement until the untimely death of history professor and FSM veteran Reginald Zelnik, and marveled that at 20 years old he was older "than half the cats" who had been involved back then. He said he felt shame when reading about how cowardly the student government of the day had been, and pride that today's ASUC actively battles injustice on behalf of students."

10/11/2004, UC Berkeley News, Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh spills the secrets of the Iraq quagmire and the war on terror, Bonnie Azab Powell

"'Bush scares the hell of me' Hersh came to Berkeley at the invitation of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism and the California First Amendment Coalition. His appearance in the packed ballroom of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union was the fitting end to a week of high-profile events in honor of the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement."

10/11/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik [Column], Leah Garchik

"Dorka Keehn was at dinner at Chez Panisse after Molly Ivins gave a Mario Savio Memorial Lecture at UC Berkeley last week, and Ivins talked about becoming a celebrity. 'People used to come up to me and tell me I was their hero.' And she used to respond, 'Please, for your sake, get a new hero.' Nowadays, she said, she just says, 'Bless your heart.'"

10/11/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, 40 years on, Free Speechers talk all they want, Meredith May

"Hirsch, a statistics instructor at Ohlone College in Fremont, brought his celebrated poem about the Free Speech Movement to share: 'It was about democracy -- slow, painful, laborious, lasting through the night, the height of inefficiency, yet in the morning's light, the coalition, like the flag, was still there.' It was Joan Baez, leading us in singing, 'We Shall Overcome.' It was people climbing ropes to get into Sproul Hall to be arrested. ...'"

10/11/2004, Daily Californian, Dean Leads Calls for New Movement, Catherine Ho and Betty Yu

"'I was surprised, as a representative of a nonpartisan group that co-sponsored it I was a little upset,' said Becca Cramer, co-president of the Berkeley ACLU."

10/11/2004, Daily Californian, FSM Panel Recalls Movement's Origin, Kim Perry

"As more students pushed for free speech, administrators cracked down by limiting even more avenues of expression, Franck said. Although the students began their fight for rights they considered fundamental, they became the leaders of a larger movement. 'We started out as liberals and we became radicals,"'Franck said."

10/11/2004, Daily Californian, Students Not Eager for FSM Events, Rachel Luna

"As dozens of Free Speech Movement veterans flocked to UC Berkeley to relive what they created 40 years ago, they had a chance to teach students on campus about how they caught national headlines in the fall of 1964."

10/10/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, '60s Free Speech leader got caught in FBI web, Seth Rosenfeld

"The FBI trailed Mario Savio for more than a decade after he led the 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, and bureau officials plotted to 'neutralize' him politically -- even though there was no evidence he broke any federal law, according to FBI records obtained by The Chronicle. J. Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted Savio because he was the nation's first prominent student leader of the '60s, and top FBI officials feared protests would spread from Berkeley to other schools, the records show. The bureau used tactics against Savio that Congress in 1976 found were improper -- including some similar to investigative methods that agents may now use against suspected terrorists under the Patriot Act and under loosened FBI guidelines, experts said"

10/10/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Mario Savio's FBI Odyssey, Seth Rosenfeld

"The 1964 Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, which staged the nation's first major campus sit-ins of the '60s, was being used in a Soviet plot against America. Hoover implied that the Communist Party USA was manipulating Mario Savio, the Berkeley student who'd become famous for leading the FSM. "Communist Party leaders feel that based on what happened on the campus at the University of California at Berkeley, they can exploit similar student demonstrations to their own benefit in the future," Hoover testified on March 4, 1965. But FBI files show Hoover knew there was no evidence Savio or the Free Speech Movement were under the influence of any group plotting to overthrow the U.S. government. He knew the FSM was a nonviolent protest against a university rule barring students from engaging in political activity on campus. He knew Savio broke no federal law. He knew because his agents had told him."

10/10/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, When politics met theater in the streets, Heidi Benson

"At that moment, what would become a decade of social protest was just getting started at UC Berkeley. First came the Free Speech Movement, launched in 1964 to protest campus crackdowns on freedom of expression. []Stew Albert -- like thousands of other young people -- was attracted to the FSM's insistence that students had the same constitutional rights as adults. The FSM opened the door for the Vietnam Day Committee, the Berkeley anti- war group that staged one of the nation's largest campus teach-ins about Vietnam in 1965. Albert soon became a leader of the committee."

10/10/2004, Sacramento Bee, Papers: FBI trailed 1960s movement leader, Associated Press

"FBI investigators trailed a 1960s student protest leader for more than a decade despite having no evidence he broke any federal laws, a newspaper reported Sunday. Hundreds of pages of FBI files, obtained by the San Francisco Chronicle, showed that investigators collected personal information about Mario Savio, including documents on his marriage and divorce, without a court order. The FBI also obtained copies of Savio's tax returns in violation of federal rules."

10/10/2004, NPR, Free Speech Landmark for Colleges, Margot Adler

"But if there was one main theme of the rally it was an attack on cynicism. Jackie Goldberg, a member of the California State Assembly, and one of the original leaders of the Free Speech Movement told students there's a mythology - that you are disinterested and that we who are in our sixties are better than you... hogwash, she said, you're light years ahead of us."

10/9/2004, The Washington Post, After the Revolution, The Commemoration, Tommy Nguyen

"The notion that the Free Speech Movement was a victory of the left is a time-honored misconception. At the beginning of the school year in 1964 when, at the height of the civil rights era, the university banned political advocacy of off-campus social issues on school property, both liberal and conservative student groups joined forces, calling themselves the United Front. 'It's always exciting to be a part of a movement made up of people who don't normally agree with one another,' says Goldberg. She is the first spokeswoman for the group. 'That was the genius of the FSM: It had left, right and center.'"

10/9/2004, San Jose Mercury News, University commemorates Free Speech Movement, which started 40 years ago, Associated Press

"The 1964 Free Speech Movement successfully protested a ban on political activity on campus. It is viewed as opening doors for the wave of protests that followed in the following decade."

10/9/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Free speech returns to Sproul, Charles Burress

"The Free Speech Movement's electrifying act of defiance 40 years ago -- surrounding a police car at UC Berkeley and using it as a speaker's platform -- received a long-delayed curtain call Friday as movement veterans and former Democratic Presidential contender Howard Dean used another police car as a stage for fiery oratory. This time, however, UC police willingly provided the vehicle, and the former scowls of campus administrators had become smiles."

10/9/2004, Oakland Tribune, Free Speech Movement vets look to pass torch to Berkeley students, Michelle Maitre

"BERKELEY -- In 1964, University of California, Berkeley students dented the top of a police car when they hopped up on it and staged an impromptu protest that would later become known as the start of the Free Speech Movement. On Friday, when hundreds gathered in Sproul Plaza to mark the 40th anniversary of the movement, speakers addressed the crowd again from the top of a police car. Only this time, they mounted the steps of a specially constructed wooden platform bearing a stern warning sign that no more than two people -- max! -- were to stand on the platform at the same time. Obviously, concessions to the establishment were made at the 40th anniversary celebration, but some of the spirit of the original day remained."

10/9/2004, Contra Costa Times, Free Speech Movement trumpeted at Cal, Martin Snapp

"'I really didn't know much about the Free Speech Movement until professor Reggie Zelnik was killed last summer,' said student association president Misha Leybovich, referring to the co-author of the definitive book on movement. Zelnick was killed in a truck accident on campus in May. 'The more I found out about it, the more I realized it has important lessons for my generation,' Leybovich said."

10/8/2004, The Guardian, UK, Berkeley Celebrates Free Speech Movement, Michelle Locke, Associated Press

"'They depend on cynicism to keep you out of the battle,' thundered state Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg of Los Angeles and a former Free Speech Movement leader. "Are you going to keep out of the battle?' 'No!' roared the crowd. [Howard] Dean told students merely voting is not enough. They should run for office or support someone else's campaign. 'You have the power to stand up as they did in this very spot 40 years ago for a democratic America which allows ordinary people to reclaim their government," he said. "You have the power. Use it.'"

10/8/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Free Speech Movement Turns 40: Celebrating 4 decades of mouthing off, Charles Burress

"Such accessibility and two-way communication with the mass of students, combined with group leadership, kept the movement going strong even after 95 percent of the leadership and 85 percent of the core followers were locked up after the Sproul Hall occupation, said Kathleen Piper, another executive committee member who is now an artist. 'We still put a picket line around every major building on campus,' she said at a panel of movement leaders speaking on 'The Nuts and Bolts of the FSM.'"

10/8/2004, Oakland Tribune, Ivins' left-leaning humor hits mark, Michelle Maitre

"She also sat down for a brief question-and-answer session with Orville Schell, dean of UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism, one of the sponsors of Ivins' talk. Most of the questions -- solicited from the audience and written on slips of paper before Ivins' lecture -- were about President Bush, except for one posed by UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau. In brief remarks before Ivins took the stage, Birgeneau asked about the status of free speech in America today -- whether it's better or worse than it was when the Free Speech Movement launched in 1964. In some ways it's better and in some ways it's worse, Ivins said. 'There is more pressure to conform,' she said, pointing to a national mass media that is increasingly owned by a small number of corporations that she said are more concerned with the bottom line than providing news coverage."

10/8/2004, Daily Californian, His Speech Muzzled Before, Professor Stood With Students, Sonja Sharp

"Movement leaders found a sympathetic ear in Searle, who felt his own free speech had been curtailed previously by Berkeley administrators in 1961, when he was barred from speaking at a Boalt Hall School of Law function against 'Operation Abolition,' an anti-communist propaganda film. Searle was informed just an hour before he was scheduled to talk that he would not be speaking."

10/8/2004, Daily Californian, Movement Preservation Is His Life's Work, Catherine Ho

"As a teaching assistant in mathematics, he-alongside thousands of other students-was struck by a "historical thunderbolt," finally finding a venue to voice his ideas on civil rights."

10/8/2004, Daily Californian, Editorial: Shirts Should Be Sold, Editors

"On the same day the campus celebrated fortieth anniversary of Free Speech Movement, administrators barred the Cal Surf Club from selling "Fuck the Trojans" T-shirts on campus, citing an infringement of the school's copyright. UC Berkeley should embrace this swell of school spirit, rather than quell students' free speech."

10/7/2004, UC Berkeley News, Researching the Free Speech Movement, Jonathan King

"Collections of primary-source materials are vast and varied in the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive and the Online Archive of California's Free Speech Movement Archive, not to mention the plainly named Free Speech Movement Archive, developed by Michael Rossman and other FSM activists. The latter contains numerous items of interest not duplicated on either UC site."

10/7/2004, The New York Sun, 40 Years After Free Speech Movement, Counterculture Figures Have Become the Establishment, Josh Gerstein

"In 1964, thousands of students surrounded the police car that was preparing to haul away the violator. This time, the police are providing a police cruiser for the movement's commemoration. 'It's a perfect example of how institutionalized it's become,' said one of the movement's leaders, Jo Freeman."

10/7/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Free Speech Movement Turns 40, Carrie Sturrock

"'Every decade is different,' said New York University Professor Robert Cohen, who co-edited 'The Free Speech Movement, Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s.' 'I don't think students today should be put down for not having a mass insurgency. There has always been an activist tradition to Berkeley, and when issues matter to students, they protest. It's a stereotype that students don't care or are ready to riot at the drop of a hat.'"

10/7/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik, Leah Garchik

"A couple of hecklers shouted out during Monday night's Herb Caen Lecture at UC Berkeley, a Mark Danner/William Kristol debate on the election. After one man ignored J-school Dean Orville Schell's repeated requests that he refrain from interrupting, campus police removed him. This was a justified action in the eyes of many, but my spy notes with irony that UC Berkeley's celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement."

10/7/2004, Oakland Tribune, It's not Big Brother, but someone's watching at Cal, Kristin Bender

"It's no coincidence that Goldberg and his group of students are on Sproul Plaza this week introducing and explaining the camera. This month, UC Berkeley is commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, which in 1964 opened doors for greater student involvement in campus affairs and launched a spirit of activism that is still a trademark of university students today. 'The name 'Demonstrate' is meant to have multiple meanings,' said Goldberg, who is also an artist. 'It's about the technology and also a reference to the demonstrations that have been out here (in Sproul Plaza).'"

10/7/2004, Daily Californian, Opinion: Disintegrating Integrity, Tejas Narechania

"This week, we celebrate the civil liberties which we, as a campus community, have fought to protect. The Free Speech Movement was a great win for, well, free speech. While it is important to reflect on the victories we've won for the Bill of Rights, it is equally important to be aware of-and fight against-abuses of these civil rights, including the constant attacks to the unabridged right of freedom of press."

10/7/2004, Daily Californian, Free Speech to Bash Bush, Elysha Tenenabum

"One of President Bush's most famous journalism foes from his home state of Texas stood in front of the generation that led the Free Speech Movement last night to tell them something they already knew: Politics should be fun-especially when exercising free speech."

10/7/2004, Daily Californian, Club Banned From Selling Explicit Shirts, Conor Dale

"He said it was ironic that he could not produce a shirt with an expletive on it during the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement."

10/7/2004, Daily Californian, FSM Veterans Wax Nostalgic for '60s, Sonja Sharp

"'It turns out it's more dramatic than the formula heroism,' Timberg said. 'When you actually conjure their different views, then you get a better image of what the movement was actually like.'"

10/7/2004, Daily Californian, Art Review: "War, Peace and Civil Liberties", Alice Fanchiang

"Remedios Rapaport continues the optimism of 'Soupcart' by positively addressing all three topics of the exhibition with her three dimensional work, 'Power to the People.' Painted in the style of carousels from the 1800s, the piece is eye candy with purpose. A peephole lets viewers see a collage of demonstrations-the suffrage picketers of 1917, Ghandi's Salt March in 1930, Martin Luther King Jr. leading the last leg of the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965. The piece debuts just in time for the 40th Anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, and it reminds us that we, as a people united, have the power to affect change."

10/6/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Free Speech Movement Turns 40, Charles Burress

"Asked why the FSM changed from pariah to icon, Cohen said UC officials in 1964 had had a 'more constricted view of campus free speech rights' conditioned by the Red Scares of the '30s and '50s and a fear that campus leniency with radical activism would jeopardize state funding. 'In hindsight,' he said, 'it is easier for UC officials to look at the FSM more calmly and to see that it was at its heart a democratic movement championing free speech.'"

10/6/2004, Daily Californian, Opinion: Some Assembly Required, Andro Hsu

"Last Friday marked the fortieth anniversary of the start of the Free Speech Movement. In 1964, Mario Savio ignited the movement with these impassioned words: 'If (the university) is a firm ... then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product ... We're human beings!'"

10/6/2004, Daily Californian, DE-Cal Courses a Legacy of FSM, Catherine Ho

"'The students were on a mission to return the university to the students-the body of masters and scholars,' Felsenstein said."

10/6/2004, Daily Californian, Public Access to Robotic Camera Fosters Discourse, Angela Chen

"In conjunction with ongoing Free Speech Movement activities, the Vice Chancellor's office has authorized a temporary increase in zoom level between noon and two o'clock this week in order to demonstrate the camera's power, capable of a 22x zoom-a magnification previously deemed too close for comfort by former Chancellor Robert Berdahl and Vice Chancellor Paul Gray last spring. It was reduced to 10x to avoid the possibility of privacy infringement on neighboring apartment buildings."

10/5/2004, Daily Californian, Crossing Paths, Lindsay Meisel

"'(Kerr) was moving in a methodical and careful way to bring about more freedom of speech on the campuses,' said then-UC Berkeley spokesperson Ray Colvig, 'but he didn't realize how fast things were moving by 1964.' Kerr had a predicament: As the Free Speech Movement gained steam, he was too liberal for many of the UC regents, and too conservative for student activists."

10/5/2004, Daily Californian, What Was the Free Speech Movement?, Jeff Hirsch

"It was a questioning of authority. Did the administration have the right to set arbitrary rules governing political activity? The first rule was that there were to be no tables, as they obstructed traffic. Later, it was that there could be tables where they had been, but with no advocacy of actions like registering to vote. Later still, the administration declared students could advocate actions, but not ones that might later lead to arrests for civil disobedience or anything else. This is known as prior restraint of speech."

10/5/2004, Daily Californian, Editorial: Stanford Speech Silenced, Editors

"At a time when Berkeley is celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, the censorship of art for religious or any other reasons is ironic. College campuses are seen as a place where discourse is more free than in other arenas. A decision such as this one turns the clocks backward-whatever happened to freedom of expression? "

10/5/2004, Daily Californian, Lawyer Recalls Free Speech Activism, Mal Burnstein

"We hear of the 'leaders,' an impressive bunch, but too few ever appreciated that the 'leaders' were merely reflective of the moral strength of the rest of the FSM, not the cause of it. While Mario Savio was more articulate than most, he knew he was not more moral than his cohorts and tried to make the press understand that. That is the most significant lesson, to me, of the FSM."

10/5/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Free Speech-The Next 40 Years, Becky O'Malley

"Many universities, particularly private ones, have lately been seduced by the European concept, in the interest of maintaining order on campus, but it's a bad idea. If hating is going on, better we should all know about. Just shutting up nasty people doesn't put an end to whatever nefarious action plans they may be contemplating, and in fact it makes it harder for the rest of us to combat their influence with effective counter-speech. And it's easy for those in power to slide over from banning "hate speech" to banning any form of expression of ideas which is annoying someone. Just last week we got a report that the Berkeley police, on orders from above, had been ticketing people who honked their horns to show support as they passed a union demonstration."

10/5/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Hersh, Ivins, Krassner on Campus For FSM Anniversary Events, Richard Brenneman

"Friday's main even happens-where else?-around a police car in Sproul Plaza at noon. The rally features movement speakers, campus representatives and a dissection of the Patriot Act."

10/5/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley This Week, editors

"Free Speech in Dangerous Times Celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement, Oct. 5 - Oct. 10. at UC Berkeley. For details on events, see www.fsm-a.org "

10/4/2004, Tri-Valley Herald, University of California, Berkeley, commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement with a number of public events this week.,

"Oct. 14: - Film of a talk by Bob Avakian, Free Speech Movement participant, 7 p.m., ACT 1 & 2 Theater, 2128 Center St., Berkeley. Tickets: Revolution Books, 2425 Channing Way, Berkeley, (510) 848-1196. This event is not sponsored by the campus"

10/4/2004, Oakland Tribune, Free speech fight lives on, Michelle Maitre

"'The free speech movement, in and of itself, was one of the greatest actions taken on behalf of the furtherance of democracy,' said Amaury Gallais of the Berkeley College Republicans. 'The fact that we can set up a table on campus every day and we can express our minds -- we can speak against the administration if we want to, or speak against actions taken by other student groups -- it's the primary legacy of the free speech movement. It's huge.'"

10/4/2004, Daily Californian, Saying Less Today: Some Say Free Speech Spirit Lost on New Generation, Betty Yu

"'If you aren't willing to fight for (your rights) you will lose them,' Lustig said. 'They're not set down for all time. Once they're won they're not won for all time.'"

10/4/2004, Chico Enterprise Record, The Free Speech Movement in 1964 was largely peaceful., Larry Mitchell

"The Free Speech Movement in 1964 was largely peaceful. One has to say 'largely' because during the initial demonstration, when students surrounded a police car, a group of 100 or so mostly fraternity members threw lighted cigarettes and eggs at the protesters. They stopped at the request of the pastor who ran the Catholic Newman Center."

10/3/2004, Chico Enterprise Record, Locals were at Berkeley for movement that made history, Larry Mitchell

"Brannam recalls seeing Weinberg loaded into a police car. He said another student, David Goines, who later became a leader in the Free Speech Movement, turned to him and said, "What can we do?" 'I'd been reading some of the stuff Gandhi had written, so I said, We could sit down,' Brannam recalled."

October 2 / 3, 2004, Counterpunch, The First Ex-Catholic Saint, Lenni Brenner

"However, when someone goes through Mario's suffering, then studies physics -- when I can't do elementary algebra -- & then says he doesn't have a head for politics, he gets all my affection."

10/1/2004, The Globe and Mail, SOCIAL STUDIES: A DAILY MISCELLANY OF INFORMATION, Michael Kesterton

"It was a joke? On this day 40 years ago, University of California student Jack Weinberg was arrested for distributing civil-rights leaflets on the Berkeley campus. Before the police car could take him away, more than 2,000 students sat down around the vehicle and remained there for 32 hours. It was the beginning of the Free Speech Movement, which helped shape a generation. Mr. Weinberg later coined the phrase: 'We don't trust anyone over 30,' when officials appointed a youngish man to negotiate with the FSM, thinking he might be more acceptable to them. In 1988, Morgan Spector of Pasadena wrote The Los Angeles Times that the student radical was just stalling negotiations with his remark -- which students treated as a joke -- but the press seized on the catchphrase and kept it alive. Years later, reporters even tracked down Mr. Weinberg on his 30th birthday, to his apparent embarrassment."

10/1/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, LEAH GARCHIK, Leah Garchik

"So today's subject is peep shows. UC Berkeley announced this week that as commemoration of the Free Speech Movement 40th anniversary approaches, a new Web cam has been installed at Sproul Plaza. According to UC Berkeley industrial engineering professor Ken Goldberg, the plaza is 'inherently a stage,' and the Web cam 'opens that stage up to the world.' Not everyone sees it that way. Peter Franck, lawyer for the Free Speech Movement, says the Web cam also makes it possible to 'monitor and tape everything that anyone does on Sproul Plaza.'''

October 2004, reasononline, Welcome to the Fun-Free University The return of in loco parentis is killing student freedom., David Weigel

"Ironically, a one-time member of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement seized on this approach when she became an administrator. Annette Kolodny, a dean of the University of Arizona's College of Humanities, used her 1998 book Failing the Future to explain why colleges needed to regulate what students said. In concert with other administrators, Kolodny had stiffened penalties for offensive speech and created workshops in which new students could have their values certified or corrected. Her bogeyman was 'antifeminist intellectual harassment,' and her polices were designed to bring contrary speech out into the open, so it could be 'readily recognized and effectively contained.'"

10/1/2004, People Magazine, The Week Ahead, Serena Kappes

"MONDAY, OCT. 4: Movie and music stars will come together to defend civil liberties at the ACLU Freedom Concert at Avery Fisher Hall in New York City's Lincoln Center. Sean Penn, Robin Williams and Jake Gyllenhaal will be on hand to do spoken-word pieces while Mos Def and Paul Simon are among the musical performers. "History has shown us that a little censorship, wiretapping, unlawful detention and deporting all lead to the radical dissolution of our freedoms," composer and producer of the event Philip Glass said in a statement. Among the highlights of the evening is a tribute to late comedian Lenny Bruce, a poster boy of the free speech movement."

10/1/2004, Los Angeles Times, Free to Be Silent at UC Berkeley, Rone Tempest

"Searle predicted that one day there would even be a statue of the late Free Speech leader Mario Savio, who died in 1996, on the campus next to the monuments to Free Speech era Chancellor Clark Kerr - who blamed the protests on 'Mao-Castroite' influences - and legendary football coach Pappy Waldorf."

10/1/2004, Juneau Empire, This Day in History,

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

10/1/2004, Daily Californian, Editorial: Honor the Free Speech Movement by Voting, Editors

"What they wanted was simple-the right to table and flier for outside political causes on campus. Today, the tables line up daily on the concrete for President George W. Bush, for candidate Senator John Kerry, for socialism, for abortion-for political beliefs of any stripe and color. But with less than one-third of those ages 18 to 24 voting in the last presidential election, we must ask in Mario Savio's words: are we passively taking part?"

10/1/2004, Daily Californian, FSM Cafe Serves Up History, Traci Kawaguchi

"Prior to the dedication of the cafe, angry letters from staff and alumni were sent to then-Chancellor Robert Berdahl slamming the commercialization of the Free Speech Movement. Nonetheless, Stephen Silberstein, the benefactor who donated $1.3 million to build the cafe, said he wanted students to have a connection to the Free Speech Movement. 'I thought it was a good idea to have a memorial to Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement in the center of campus,' Silberstein said. "

10/1/2004, Daily Californian, Still Much to Say: 40 Years After Clash, Students and Administration Collaborate to Honor Tumultuous Pas, Catherine Ho

"Forty years ago to the day, UC Berkeley sophomore Bettina Aptheker scrambled shoeless atop a police car in Sproul Plaza in front of a sea of blinding television lights and a roaring crowd of 2,000. She read Frederick Douglass: 'Power concedes nothing without a demand.'"

10/1/2004, Contra Costa Times, SNAPP SHOTS, Martin Snapp

"As Lee Felsenstein, who was actually there, told me last week, 'I had to make a choice. Was I a scared kid who wanted to be safe at all costs? Or was I a person who had principles and was willing to take a risk to follow them? It was like that moment in 'Huckleberry Finn' when Huck says, 'All right, I'll go to Hell.''"

10/1/2004, Boston Globe et al, Today in history - Oct. 1, The Associated Press

"Today's Highlight in History: Forty years ago, on Oct. 1, 1964, the Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California at Berkeley."

10/1/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, From Atop a Police Car, A Revolution Was Born, Richard Brenneman

"I remember him [Savio] saying that the principle was freedom of speech on campus, not the tables. So he suggested moving the tables to Sproul Plaza. That was when the police car came," she [Aptheker] said."

9/30/2004, UC Berkeley News, The Free Speech Movement at 40: Greybeards join with today's ASUC in planning a weeklong commemoration of 1964-65's watershed events,

"Any attempt to mark the 'anniversary' of the UC Berkeley Free Speech Movement requires that you first identify its genesis. Was it the mid-September 1964 announcement by Dean of Students Katherine Towle that advocacy literature and activities on off-campus political issues would no longer be permitted within 'the 26-foot strip of brick walkway at the campus entrance on Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue'? Was it the Oct. 1 arrest of Jack Weinberg on Sproul Plaza (followed by the 32-hour immobilization of the police car in which he was placed) that took place after much debate and demonstration in response to Towle's directive? Or the arrival on campus, a day later, of some 500 police and Highway Patrol officers, some armed with riot sticks, as the crowd of onlookers and protest sympathizers swelled to more than 7,000?"

9/30/2004, Daily Californian, Free Speech: Past and Present, Sonja Sharp

"A former member of the movement's steering committee, Rossman said UC Berkeley would not be the campus it is today without the Free Speech Movement. 'The first thing that put modern Berkeley on the map was the struggle against House Committee on Un-American Activities,' Rossman said. 'The university said essentially that thou shalt not make political action from this campus.'"

9/29/2004, Oakland Tribune, UC Berkeley holds public events leading up to Nov. 2, Staff

"Ivins delivers the eighth annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture from 7 to 8:30 p.m. next Wednesday in Zellerbach Auditorium. Free tickets on a first-come, first-serve basis beginning at 5 p.m. in front of the auditorium."

9/28/2004, UC Berkeley NewsCenter, Sproul Plaza webcam adds new dimension to free speech, Sarah Yang

"The new webcam is being unveiled at Sproul Plaza, the heart of activity on the University of California, Berkeley campus as the University prepares to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement. 'Sproul Plaza is inherently a stage, and by putting the webcam here it opens that stage up to the world,' said Ken Goldberg, the UC Berkeley professor of industrial engineering and computer science who is heading the project called 'Demonstrate.'"

9/28/2004, Contra Costa Times & Knight Ridder News Service syndication, Free speech at 40, Martin Snapp

"[Marilyn] Noble's vantage point as den mother gave her a unique view. 'As I was cooking in the kitchen, I listened to the arguments going on, and I was struck by their scholarship and sophistication. These were highly educated people trying to figure out how to do the right thing. It was like listening to the founding fathers debating the Declaration of Independence. I kept thinking, 'The administration are idiots if they don't realize what they're up against.'"

9/28/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley This Week,

"WEDNESDAY, SEPT. 29 KQED Public Radio's 'Forum with Michael Krasny' Live broadcast from the Pauley Ballroom East in the MLK Student Union, UC Campus. Program topics are: 9 a.m. Proposed changes to UC's undergraduate eligibility standards, 10 a.m. Student activism 40 years after the Free Speech Movement. Free and open to the public. 415-553-2119. www.kqed.org/radio."

9/26/2004, The Daily Bruin, Where is your voice?, Richard Clough

"Savio's agitation, along with several other growing movements, served as a model for large-scale protests and gave birth to widespread civil rights and, later, anti-war protests on campuses across the country."

9/24/2004, Sacramento Bee, Social consciousness: A role that Danny Glover embraces, Marcus Crowder

"'I graduated from high school in 1965 and went to college during the era of the civil-rights movement, the free-speech movement and the anti-war movement,' he said. 'Being socially active was practically a rite of passage during that time.'"

9/24/2004, North County Times, Cal State students: Moore to come after all, Bruce Kauffman

"Sociology professor Sharon Elise echoed the sentiment. Invoking the replacement of Malcolm X's scheduled appearance with one by the Rev. Billy Graham at Berkeley during the free speech movement of the 1960s, she said, 'We are not supposed to think. We are just supposed to obey ... Question to the president: Who and what is served by the refusal to bring Michael Moore to campus?'"

9/24/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Free Speech Movement Veterans Plan Commemoration for October, Richard Brenneman

"Though four decades have passed since the Free Speech Movement (FSM) rocked the world, many of the same threats that galvanized the movement then have returned full force, say participants organizing the upcoming 40th anniversary commemoration."

9/22/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Leah Garchik, Leah Garchik

"Country Joe McDonald and his band will play at World Peace Music Awards ceremonies in San Francisco Saturday; at the Oakland Museum in conjunction with its show about California and the Vietnam War, Oct. 1; and at a 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement event at the Greek Theatre Oct. 8."

9/22/2004, Eureka Times-Standard, Nation's historians converge in Eureka, Sara Watson Arthurs

"But other aspects of California history are also up for discussion. The citrus industry in the Santa Clara Valley; the 1960s free speech movement in Berkeley; and the history of land preservation in Big Sur are also among workshop topics."

9/15/2004, Daily Californian, ASUC, New Ninja Discount Card Join Forces, Sonja Sharp

"The extra windfall will help fund the student government's sponsorship of the 40th anniversary celebration of the Free Speech Movement this October and a possible "battle of the bands" in the spring, Leybovich said."

9/13/2004, H-1960s, Jo Freeman, At Berkeley in the Sixties: The Education of an Activist 1961-1965, Judith Ezekiel

"Freeman's memoir provides a blow-by-blow narrative of events seen through the lens of an FSM moderate.' Indeed, despite her participation in sit-ins and her repeated arrests, Freeman emerges from the story as a moderate who, contrary to "Rumor Central," remained a dedicated member of the movement's core and subsequently a life-long political activist."

9/10/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Columnist defends racial profiling as aid to war on terror, Charles Burress

"The reaction to Malkin's speech, recorded by a bank of TV cameras, was closely watched in part because of past disruptions of conservative speakers on a campus famous as the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement."

9/9/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, LEAH GARCHIK column, Leah Garchik

"Among the array of events announced by organizers to mark the 40th anniversary of the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley is an Oct. 10 all-day 'FSM veterans gathering in Strawberry Canyon. . . . General socializing . . . food, levity, trinkets, more hootenanny, dancing, wheezing ...'"

9/9/2004, Daily Californian, Oppression of the Lefties, Tejas Narechania

"I challenge the campus community at UC Berkeley to lead the path and get behind the left-handed population to fight for their rights. Here, at the heart of the Free Speech Movement, we can start a new revolution in civil rights equality and demand equal accommodations across the lines of dexterity. In doing so, we can improve Berkeley's reputation as an academic center of excellence, one that offers greater amenities to the left-handed students bound for great things, and to me."

9/8/2004, East Bay Express, The Wars at Home, Brady Kahn

"With so much material to cover, the editing process must have been a challenge. One museumgoer who said she lived through the era complained about the display on the Free Speech Movement because it failed to discuss the movement's origins in the protests against the House Un-American Activities Committee hearings in San Francisco. Arguably more problematic than the FSM display is a short video clip of Nixon's resignation speech, mixed in with other footage from the early 1970s. Here, spectators who didn't live through the Watergate era may get the false impression that Nixon's resignation was an outgrowth of his Vietnam policy."

9/7/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Oakland Museum's Vietnam Exhibit Evokes a Time Gone, And Yet Still Here:, J. Douglas Allen-Taylor

"At the Free Speech Movement station there is another huge photo, a familiar one of FSM leader Mario Savio marching through Sproul Gate followed by thousands. Beside it is a 1964 Oakland Tribune with a headline reading 'Hundreds of UC Sit-Ins Jailed.' The headline is in red, as if the conservative Knowlands, then-owners of the Tribune, were making the less-than-subtle point that the "red" Communist menace was swarming into Berkeley."

9/2/2004, Washington Square News, A link to the past, one sit-in at a time, Rivka Bukowsky

"Cohen, chair of Steinhardt's department of teaching and learning, has written two books on student activism, 'The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s' and 'When the Old Left Was Young,' on Depression-era activists. He explained that in America, college activists have historically succeeded in changing the status quo."

9/2/2004, UC Berkeley News, Berkeley's new faculty arrivals hear about the campus's traditions and opportunities from those who know them best, Barry Bergman

"For the most part, though, the daylong orientation session, in the Lipman Room of Barrows Hall, steered clear of present financial straits, focusing instead on Berkeley's singular history - from its humble beginnings in 1868 through Rube Goldberg, Mario Savio, 18 Nobel laureates, and the enduring Cal-Stanford rivalry - and the bright future facing the latest additions to the Berkeley faculty, including another 20 new hires not in attendance."

Fall 2004, The Museum of California, Clothes: More Than Meets the Eye, Inez Brooks-Myers

"Clothing is often an indicator of how a society is changing. Mario Savio, a leader in the 1964 Free Speech Movement at U.C. Berkeley, wore a suit, neat shirt, and necktie. His degree of formality was higher than we find now among some pastors at Sunday services!"

September 2004, California Monthly, Reginald Zelnik, professor of history and free speech advocate, Leon Litwack

"He held steadfast to his belief in social justice, even as so many others--the politically stylish--fell by the wayside of compromise, indifference, and accommodation. He exemplified in many ways the slogan popularized in 1968 by French students in the streets of Paris: "Soyez realistes, demandez l'impossible." (Be realistic. Demand the impossible)."

8/30/2004, Daily Californian, Commemorating the History of a Professor, Amaris White

"'He believed passionately in human rights and social justice,' said Eugene Wong, a former Princeton roommate and UC Berkeley colleague. 'He believed that change was possible and fought for it.'"