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Berkeley, CA November 30, 1966: Mario Savio former U.C. student and leader of the now defunct Free Speech Movement speaks to sit-ins at the University of California. U.C. Student Union students and non-students were protesting the presence of three military recruiters on the campus. A struggle ensued with students and police when police attempted to serve warrants on the leaders of the protest.
Make Peace through Art
Occupy Cal 2011
at UC Berkeley, Sproul Plaza
11/15 Noon
Nikon FM; Nikkor 50mm f/1.4
Ilford FP4 iso 125
#82 in our series of #99problems posters, to mark the 50th anniversary of the international rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association. 99 reminders that human rights are not the problem.
Learn more about the Berkeley Free Speech Movement: calisphere.org/exhibitions/43/the-free-speech-movement/
Berkeley, CA December 3, 1964: Twenty-one year old Mario Savio addresses a crowd of students in Sproul Hall at the University of California. Savio,who is the leader of a huge demonstration on campus is protesting the university's disciplinary actions being taken against four student free-speech leaders. In this photo he was giving instructions to students on passive resistance as Sproul Hall was locked up last night when students took over the building. Mario Savio, a Manhattan-born philosophy major, is one of the four against whom disciplinary action is being taken by university officials.