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DESCRIPTION:Fifty years ago students at UC Berkeley, many of them returned from the 
 Freedom Summer in the South, demanded the right to engage in political 
 activity on campus. When their demands were denied by the University 
 adminstration, they created a militant, nonviolent movement that occupied 
 the Administration building. Eight hundred students were arrested, touching 
 off a massive student strike.\nIn conjunction with the 50th Anniversary 
 Free Speech celebration at Berkeley starting on September 26, three 
 veterans of the of the Free Speech Movement will discuss the events of 50 
 years ago and their relevance today.\n\nFeatured speakers\n\nLynne 
 Hollander Savio\nWorked with the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, the 
 Poor People’s Corporation in Mississippi and Cambridge Friends of SNCC. 
 Organizer and Communications Director for SEIU Local 509 (Mass. Social 
 workers); chair of the Mario Savio Memorial Lecture and the FSM 50th 
 Anniversary Reunion; Associate Producer of “FSM: A Play with Music about 
 a Moment that Changed America.”\n\nMike Smith  \nFSM executive board 
 member, veteran of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and Selma, Alabama 
 March. Dismissed from UC for antiwar activity 1966; Oakland Seven member 
 acquitted of conspiracy for organizing Stop the Draft Week 1969. Registered 
 Nurse; current member of the Sonoma County Democratic Party Central 
 Committee\n\nJack Weinberg\nHis arrest on the Berkeley campus in 1964 was 
 the spark that ignited the Free Speech Movement. 1960s activist in the Bay 
 Area civil rights, student and anti-war movements, organizer and first 
 State Chairman of the California Peace and Freedom Party; trade union 
 activist; currently Senior Policy Advisor to IPEN, a network of 
 environmental health NGOs working to eliminate toxic 
 pollution.\n\nCosponsored by Unitarian Universalists for Peace and 
 Justice-San Francisco\nWheelchair accessible • Snacks and tea 
 served\n\n\n https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/02/18761059.php
SUMMARY:The Free Speech Movement — 50 Years Later
LOCATION:Unitarian Universalist Center, Martin Luther King Room.\n1187 Franklin 
 Street, San Francisco \n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/09/02/18761059.php
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