BERKELEY — Calling UC Berkeley's 1960s turmoil "a dead movement," protesters on Wednesday knocked a tribute to the Free Speech Movement off the steps of Sproul Hall and voiced their own concerns about student-fee hikes and other issues.
Exactly 45 years after the face of the movement, Mario Savio, spoke to thousands on the same steps, a few dozen demonstrators forced student-government leaders to cancel their commemoration. The same protesters later read a line from Savio's Dec. 2, 1964, speech in unison.
Organizers of the invading demonstration said it was time to focus on "a living, breathing movement" rather than a 45-year-old one, but they allowed some who had come for the Free Speech Movement tribute to speak to the crowd of about 200.
Among the speakers was physics professor Richard Muller, who was arrested during the 1964 Sproul Hall sit-in. Ultimately, Muller said, the Free Speech Movement was a failure because of today's intolerance on campus.
"We could not invite Condoleezza Rice here, as a prominent black woman, because of the fear she would be booed down," he said. "We have less free speech today than on the day I was arrested."
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13911371?nclick_check=1
Wow... that says a lot about the little Nazi liberals running around the campus, especially when one of their own calls them on it. Liberals don't like freedom of speech, unless it follows their agenda.
Exactly 45 years after the face of the movement, Mario Savio, spoke to thousands on the same steps, a few dozen demonstrators forced student-government leaders to cancel their commemoration. The same protesters later read a line from Savio's Dec. 2, 1964, speech in unison.
Organizers of the invading demonstration said it was time to focus on "a living, breathing movement" rather than a 45-year-old one, but they allowed some who had come for the Free Speech Movement tribute to speak to the crowd of about 200.
Among the speakers was physics professor Richard Muller, who was arrested during the 1964 Sproul Hall sit-in. Ultimately, Muller said, the Free Speech Movement was a failure because of today's intolerance on campus.
"We could not invite Condoleezza Rice here, as a prominent black woman, because of the fear she would be booed down," he said. "We have less free speech today than on the day I was arrested."
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/ci_13911371?nclick_check=1
Wow... that says a lot about the little Nazi liberals running around the campus, especially when one of their own calls them on it. Liberals don't like freedom of speech, unless it follows their agenda.
