Famous speech: Mario Savio, UC Berkeley

Mario Savio, founder of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley (1964)

(Intelligent Channel) 1/8/13 Mario Savio, leader of the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley, on his 22nd birthday (1964) from THE EDUCATION ARCHIVE. Introduction by San Francisco Archivist Alex Cherian. 

Special thanks to Pat Patton and KRON-TV for helping to make this material more publicly accessible. For more info on the Free Speech Movement, visit UC Berkeley's Bancroft Library at: bancroft.berkeley.edu/FSM. For more info on this footage, visit the San Francisco Bay Area Television Archive at: diva.sfsu.edu/collections/sfbatv.

Peace. Spread the word.

UC Berkeley student Mario Savio (1942-1996) once gave a stirring speech on the steps of Sproul Hall (now the Mario Savio Steps). It was December 2, 1964, and riot police had surrounded the campus about to attack students like a battle right out of the US War on Vietnam (and Cambodia and Laos) but turned on American citizens. They used teargas dropped from choppers (probably military surplus) for the paramilitary Bay Area police forces congregating for this kinetic event (beat down and subsequent internment). The purpose of the CIA and Pentagon's wars is not only to dominate and rule the world. It is also to dominate the civilian population and turn it into a pro-military endless-war economy. This is Mario Savio's revolutionary speech in full.

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• Alexander Van den Hoeven, 9/18/11; CC Liu, Dhr. Seven, Pfc. Sandoval (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly