Berkeley Mario Savio Celebration

[FluxRostrum]

Run time: 16:18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ul3umAiwLm0   Posted on YouTube: December 03, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: December 04, 2009 By DU Member: FluxRostrum Views on DU: 502

 
An intervention during the depoliticized, sanitized commemoration of the 45th Anniversary of Mario Savio’s famous speech. "We will not permit the museumification of Berkeley’s radical past, especially now, as we enter into a new cycle of struggle. The Free Speech Movement is not a way to sell coffee, nor is it a rhetorical sop the administration can use to pacify the existing movement."

http://reclaimuc.blogspot.com
http://www.youtube.com/user/occupyeverything
http://www.savio.org

[GreenTea]

1. Mario Savio - look him up - For those who don't know

Savio' dedication, his powerful communication, via his passion, truth and insightful foresight of what was to occur, where we are now...trashed by the Regents, (soon to be) Gov Reagan-types, the corporate republicans and the rulers who needed to dismiss this thorn, this progressive voice even as it was evolving they were dismantling it all with bullshit & glitter knowing we'd all be sucked in by the repetitive corporatism & materialism as we've "progressive" today....

I love to hear the extremely bright Savio speak back then at Cal Berkeley..as raw as he may seem to many today...though nothing as obsolete as how we furiously forgot, as we are today....inevitably, as Savio certainly knew....but still he tried. - What else could he do, as young people (almost exclusively, the poor) were being sent off to die for imperialism, corporatism!

[EFerrari]

2. There's a great documentary called Berkeley in the Sixties

that is played on PBS, sometimes on Free Speech TV or on Link. It has footage of Mario and also interviews some of the organizers that were active at the time. :hi:

[winstars]

3. GREAT DOC!!!

CHECK IT OUT IT'S VERY GOOD...

[EFerrari]

4. Welcome to DU, winstars!

In a different doc, I found out that Mario worked at Cody's bookstore at the time.