#freespeechmovement — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #freespeechmovement, aggregated by home.social.
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for 32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, questioned and resisted the restrictions.
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for 32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, questioned and resisted the restrictions.
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for 32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, questioned and resisted the restrictions.
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for 32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, questioned and resisted the restrictions.
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
Hundreds of students surrounded the police car holding Weinberg for 32 hours, keeping him from being taken away. Many made speeches from atop the car, and ultimately Weinberg’s release was negotiated.
University Chancellor Clark Kerr had been under pressure from the Board of Regents to ban expression of views considered communist, but the students, inspired by the Civil Rights movement, questioned and resisted the restrictions.
-
Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
-
Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
-
Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
-
Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
-
Originally published in Synapse on February 17, 1965.
"As a result of recent action on the part of The Regents and consultation with student and faculty groups, Chancellor Saunders has designated certain campus areas which may be used by students and staff for “planning, implementing, raising funds, and recruiting participants for lawful off-campus action.”
https://synapse.ucsf.edu/articles/2025/02/18/date-ucsf-history-four-free-speech-campus-areas-designated #History #FreeSpeechMovement #StudentActivism #HigherEd
-
Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
-
Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
-
Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
-
Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
-
Erwin Chemerinsky the Dean at #BerkeleyLaw explains the historical & rhetorical significance of #FreeSpeech on the 60th Anniversary of the campus #FreeSpeechMovement.
Ironically #Chemerinsky has become embroiled in a #FreeSpeech predicament with #StudentProtesters in support of #Palestine who emerged at an event at his home, where his wife physically confronted a female #CampusRadical student using a microphone. Dean Chemerinsky has since editorialized that "Our home is not a forum for free speech."
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley
1/2
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley
1/2
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley
1/2
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley
1/2
-
October 1, 1964 - The Free Speech Movement was launched at the University of California–Berkeley when mathematics grad student Jack Weinberg was arrested for setting up an information table for CORE (Congress of Racial Equality) in front of Sproul Hall, the administration building.
JackWeinberg #FreeSpeechMovement #UCBerkeley
1/2
-
"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”
-
"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”
-
"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”
-
"[Robert Cohen, NYU history and social studies prof] wrote:“college administrations in the Vietnam era used police force as a last resort in the face of major campus disruptions, this past semester administrators used police as a first resort to suppress student protests even when those protesters — encamped outdoors on campus plazas or lawns — did not commit major disruptions of the university & its educational functions.”
-
I have visited People's Park twice, in 2000 and in 2014.
Here are pictures of words from the park. Three of the pictures are words from the people who built it. The 4th is from the self-declared owners, who have now destroyed it.
Sky views of the park today are shocking. Almost all the remaining trees have been felled, defying a court injunction, and the park is once again "A muddy, rutted piece of land".
Easier to destroy than to build.
-
I have visited People's Park twice, in 2000 and in 2014.
Here are pictures of words from the park. Three of the pictures are words from the people who built it. The 4th is from the self-declared owners, who have now destroyed it.
Sky views of the park today are shocking. Almost all the remaining trees have been felled, defying a court injunction, and the park is once again "A muddy, rutted piece of land".
Easier to destroy than to build.
-
I have visited People's Park twice, in 2000 and in 2014.
Here are pictures of words from the park. Three of the pictures are words from the people who built it. The 4th is from the self-declared owners, who have now destroyed it.
Sky views of the park today are shocking. Almost all the remaining trees have been felled, defying a court injunction, and the park is once again "A muddy, rutted piece of land".
Easier to destroy than to build.
-
I have visited People's Park twice, in 2000 and in 2014.
Here are pictures of words from the park. Three of the pictures are words from the people who built it. The 4th is from the self-declared owners, who have now destroyed it.
Sky views of the park today are shocking. Almost all the remaining trees have been felled, defying a court injunction, and the park is once again "A muddy, rutted piece of land".
Easier to destroy than to build.
-
UC Berkeley makes dead-of-night push to wall off storied People’s Park
The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire perimeter of the park — just after midnight.
On their arrival, police surrounded the park.
Inside, they were met by several dozen protesters, chanting, “Long live People’s Park” along with shouts of “Fight back!”
Some held out for hours in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
By starting the exercise under the cover of darkness and during students’ winter break, university leaders hoped to minimize a conflict with activists adamant the park should remain open space, a living tribute to free speech and student activism.
The university planned to install the cargo containers over several days, banking on the massive metal structures to provide a more formidable barrier than the fences that protesters have easily breached in the past.
-
UC Berkeley makes dead-of-night push to wall off storied People’s Park
The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire perimeter of the park — just after midnight.
On their arrival, police surrounded the park.
Inside, they were met by several dozen protesters, chanting, “Long live People’s Park” along with shouts of “Fight back!”
Some held out for hours in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
By starting the exercise under the cover of darkness and during students’ winter break, university leaders hoped to minimize a conflict with activists adamant the park should remain open space, a living tribute to free speech and student activism.
The university planned to install the cargo containers over several days, banking on the massive metal structures to provide a more formidable barrier than the fences that protesters have easily breached in the past.
-
UC Berkeley makes dead-of-night push to wall off storied People’s Park
The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire perimeter of the park — just after midnight.
On their arrival, police surrounded the park.
Inside, they were met by several dozen protesters, chanting, “Long live People’s Park” along with shouts of “Fight back!”
Some held out for hours in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
By starting the exercise under the cover of darkness and during students’ winter break, university leaders hoped to minimize a conflict with activists adamant the park should remain open space, a living tribute to free speech and student activism.
The university planned to install the cargo containers over several days, banking on the massive metal structures to provide a more formidable barrier than the fences that protesters have easily breached in the past.
-
UC Berkeley makes dead-of-night push to wall off storied People’s Park
The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire perimeter of the park — just after midnight.
On their arrival, police surrounded the park.
Inside, they were met by several dozen protesters, chanting, “Long live People’s Park” along with shouts of “Fight back!”
Some held out for hours in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
By starting the exercise under the cover of darkness and during students’ winter break, university leaders hoped to minimize a conflict with activists adamant the park should remain open space, a living tribute to free speech and student activism.
The university planned to install the cargo containers over several days, banking on the massive metal structures to provide a more formidable barrier than the fences that protesters have easily breached in the past.
-
UC Berkeley makes dead-of-night push to wall off storied People’s Park
The university launched the extraordinary operation — designed to double-stack metal cargo containers around the entire perimeter of the park — just after midnight.
On their arrival, police surrounded the park.
Inside, they were met by several dozen protesters, chanting, “Long live People’s Park” along with shouts of “Fight back!”
Some held out for hours in a makeshift treehouse and on the roof of a single-story building in the park.
By starting the exercise under the cover of darkness and during students’ winter break, university leaders hoped to minimize a conflict with activists adamant the park should remain open space, a living tribute to free speech and student activism.
The university planned to install the cargo containers over several days, banking on the massive metal structures to provide a more formidable barrier than the fences that protesters have easily breached in the past.
-
"Don't trust anyone under 30!"
#FreeSpeechMovement -
"Don't trust anyone under 30!"
#FreeSpeechMovement -
"Don't trust anyone under 30!"
#FreeSpeechMovement -
"Don't trust anyone under 30!"
#FreeSpeechMovement -
@blogdiva Reagan’s counter-revolution began before 1968 or ratification of the #26thAmendment. He won the California Governor’s race by demonizing college students, especially the #FreeSpeechMovement at #UCBerkeley, and minority voters. He then ended free public education at the college level while jump-starting homelessness by closing many residential mental health facilities.
-
@blogdiva Reagan’s counter-revolution began before 1968 or ratification of the #26thAmendment. He won the California Governor’s race by demonizing college students, especially the #FreeSpeechMovement at #UCBerkeley, and minority voters. He then ended free public education at the college level while jump-starting homelessness by closing many residential mental health facilities.
-
@blogdiva Reagan’s counter-revolution began before 1968 or ratification of the #26thAmendment. He won the California Governor’s race by demonizing college students, especially the #FreeSpeechMovement at #UCBerkeley, and minority voters. He then ended free public education at the college level while jump-starting homelessness by closing many residential mental health facilities.
-
@blogdiva Reagan’s counter-revolution began before 1968 or ratification of the #26thAmendment. He won the California Governor’s race by demonizing college students, especially the #FreeSpeechMovement at #UCBerkeley, and minority voters. He then ended free public education at the college level while jump-starting homelessness by closing many residential mental health facilities.
-
@blogdiva Reagan’s counter-revolution began before 1968 or ratification of the #26thAmendment. He won the California Governor’s race by demonizing college students, especially the #FreeSpeechMovement at #UCBerkeley, and minority voters. He then ended free public education at the college level while jump-starting homelessness by closing many residential mental health facilities.