Saturday, April 24, 2021

"Berkeley in the Sixties" (documentary)

Director-Producer Mark Kitchell; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Ashley Wells (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly
Those were the days, Christians and Buddhists uniting for peace opposing The War Machine. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. stood by his personal friend, Vietnamese Buddhist monk Venerable Thich Nhat Hanh, two Nobel Peace Laureate nominees and one winner, Dr. King (pinterest.com).

Berkeley in the Sixties (doc)
The film Berkeley in the Sixties highlights the origins of the Free Speech Movement beginning with:
CIA says: Change is a comin (Leary and Alpert)
The film features 15 student activists and archival footage of revolutionary wunderkind orator Mario Savio, Todd Gitlin, folk singer Joan Baez, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Huey Newton, Buddhist Allen Ginsberg, future right-wing U.S. president Gov. Ronald Reagan, and The Grateful Dead.

The film is dedicated to Fred Cody, founder of Cody's Books. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It also aired on the PBS series POV. More

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