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Subsequent Journalism of the FSM

This bibliography covers printed journalism related to the FSM from 1965 on, with many illustrative quotations, and such links to the actual texts as we can provide. Its compilation has been a labor of devotion, discussed in the introduction. This list is updated frequently and the top date below will indicate the last addition date.

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

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

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, 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, 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."

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 émigré 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.'"

06/15/2007, 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."

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.'"

1/26/2006, 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 Gam, 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 révolution, Envoyé spécial

"Sous la houlette de Mario Savio, les étudiants s'organisent. Un mouvement voit le jour : le Free Speech Movement (FSM, mouvement de la liberté de parole), qui va appeler à la grève."

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."

10/13/2004, 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.'"

8/30/2004, Contra Costa Times, Friends mourn Berkeley scholar, Kiley Russell

"'Most of us in academia are either eccentrics or bores or both, and it is extraordinary how Reggie was neither ... Most importantly, he made life make sense,' Slezkine said."

8/29/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Heyday founder is booked for life, Annie Nakao

"In those heady times, as Berkeley was in the midst of a publishing ferment unleashed by the Free Speech Movement, there were no less than 100 small presses, with (now defunct) names like Shameless Hussy Press and Somber Reptile."

8/29/2004, Contra Costa Times, Vietnam era's legacy lingers, Robert Taylor

"Alison Greenberg, 59, and her husband Jerry, 65, said the exhibit captured the era well -- from Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement to rock record albums. Alison Greenberg took part in protests during the war, she said, much to her mother's horror."

8/27/2004, Santa Cruz Sentinel., Patriot Day discussions planned for around the county, Ramona Turner

"Santa Cruz's Resource Center for Nonviolence will host "Dissent is Patriotic." Panelists will include David Harris, a Vietnam draft-resistance leader and journalist; Bettina Aptheker, a leader of the UC Berkeley free speech movement, lifetime radical organizer for women's rights and member of the UC Santa Cruz Department of Women's Studies; and Noura Erakat, a young Palestinian-American peace activist and Boalt Hall law student. The event begins at noon at the Del Mar Theatre on Pacific Avenue."

8/27/2004, San Mateo County Times, Readying for the political challenge, Justin Jouvenal

Friday, August 27, 2004 - Assembly candidate Ira Ruskin's political career largely began on a stage before 5,000 protesters during one of the seminal political events of the late 60s: U.C. Berkeley's Free Speech Movement. Mario Savio, the well-known leader of the movement, asked Ruskin to speak one afternoon after Berkeley's administrators threatened to banish protesters to a far corner of the campus for making too much noise. 'See, it's not the microphone the chancellor is concerned about,' Ruskin yelled from the stage after abandoning the mike, according to his autobiography. 'It's what we're saying that he objects to.'"

8/26/2004, The Daily Californian, Administration Hails Freshmen, Transfer Students, Kelly Paik

"Leybovich celebrated the fighting spirit of the campus by telling the history of famous campus sites in his speech, including Sproul Plaza and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. Sproul, home of the Free Speech Movement, will celebrate its 40th anniversary in October."

8/26/2004, Daily Californian, Administration Hails Freshmen, Transfer Students, Kelly Paik

"Leybovich celebrated the fighting spirit of the campus by telling the history of famous campus sites in his speech, including Sproul Plaza and the Martin Luther King, Jr. Student Union. Sproul, home of the Free Speech Movement, will celebrate its 40th anniversary in October."

8/26/2004, Alameda Times-Star, Rites to eulogize UC Prof Zelnik, Staff

"Zelnik mentored young Russian history scholars during his tenure at UC Berkeley, defended students during the tumultuous Free Speech Movement and wrote several books on Russian labor history."

8/25/2004, San Francisco Chronicle, Reginald Zelnik -- UC Berkeley historian, Charles Burress

"He was a leading expert of Russian labor history and was well-known for his support of students, beginning with his defense of Free Speech Movement activists during his first year on the Berkeley faculty in 1964."

Aug. 25 - Aug. 31, 2004, San Francisco Bay Guardian, Rad storm rising, Tom Gallagher

"Freeman hadn't previously known Mario Savio, 'the philosophy undergraduate who articulated our innermost feelings so well,' as she describes him, but she quickly recognized the ability to connect global and local issues that made him the movement's prime orator. She also noted the weaknesses that would plague the student movement as it turned its attention toward the war: a new 'generation' of activists coming along every two years, the dream of 'revolution on one campus,' and the spirit of Savio's comment to her that 'the difference between you and me is that you would settle for a drab victory, while I prefer a brilliant defeat.'"

8/24/2004, AlterNet, The Summer When Everything Changed, Ruth Rosen

"Many of these college students returned home transformed. They had stood up to authority and challenged received wisdom about racial superiority. No surprise, then, that many of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement, which erupted in early fall at the University of California at Berkeley, had been among those who had fought segregation in the South. No surprise, either, that some of the young women in the civil rights movement jump-started the feminist revolution after they had learned to question the "natural order of things" and because some felt they had been subordinated or exploited during Freedom Summer."

8/21/2004, San Jose Mercury News, A visit to our haunted past, Mike Antonucci

"'What's Going On? -- California and the Vietnam Era' opens Saturday and runs through February. It's a big exhibition, more than four years in the making, mixing displays of memorabilia and photographs with audio guides that include oral histories from refugees, soldiers and others. Although it's global in its implications, its focus is California, where the Free Speech Movement was born in 1964, where key military installations existed and where many Southeast Asia refugees later settled."

August 20-26, 2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Commentary: A Modest Proposal For a Berkeley Roadside Attraction, Albert Sukoff

"SIXTIESLAND...Daily demonstrations would be scheduled on the plaza: the Free Speech Movement would be recreated at 10 o'clock, filthy speech at noon and an generic anti-war theme would take center stage at 2 o'clock. The highlight of the day would come every afternoon at 4 o'clock with a recreation of the 1964 incident when demonstrators encircled a police car, a bronze replica of which would be installed as a permanent sculpture on Sproul Plaza. A Mario Savio look-alike would take to the roof and give the memorable throw-your-bodies-on-the-levers-of-the-machine speech."

8/17/2004, Dissident Voice, Don't Trust Anybody Over Thirty, Harold Williamson

"For those of you who don't know about the free speech movement at Berkeley during the sixties, a twenty-four-year-old Jack Weinberg said, 'We have a saying in the movement that we don't trust anybody over thirty.' Being in my sixth decade as a member of the human community, I think that is still damned good advice."

8/13/2004, Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeley Technophiles Launch Campaign Software Revolution , Richard Brenneman

"The newest revolution to emerge from Berkeley may seem quieter-even geekier-than those surrounding People's Park and the Free Speech Movement, but its architects hope its effects will prove even more enduring in reshaping the fabric of the American body politic. Henri Poole, the organizer of presidential contender Dennis Kucinich's Internet campaign, and Dan Robinson, who ran the national Meet-Up list for Howard Dean's campaign have come up with a piece of software they believe will bring political power back to the neighborhood and community."

7/30/2004, Berkeley Voice, Brennan's isn't going anywhere, Martin Snapp

"'He was very disturbed by the protest demonstrations of the '60s,' said Elizabeth. 'One time he saw a demonstration on TV, and he spotted one of our customers. He was outraged. He said,