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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 edition 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

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, 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, 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."

2/19/2007, 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 tak