Section A01
Week 7
"Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the way of campus activism" was an interesting read because I didn't realize how hard it was back then to get a protest started. I never realized that there was a time when a university could ban political protests on campus. I thought that freedom of speech would always have allowed these people to peacefully protest against injustice that they see. I'm not one to protest. I tend to get annoyed if I see people protesting around me when I'm just trying to relax somewhere on campus, but I respect their right to talk against whatever they see fit and I don't think that we should be limiting it at all. One of the things that they were protesting during that movement was the excessive police force that was used. This is something that we still see today as seen during the recent Davis pepper spray incident.
It seems though that even though it is much easier and more accepting to start protest now, large scale protests on campus are pretty infrequent and harder to get organized. Especially to the scale of these Berkeley protests. This might be due to people like me who are pretty indifferent and aren't really motivated to do stuff like this. How can we get the youth to be more active politically?
References
Cohen, R. (1985). Berkeley Free Speech Movement: Paving the Way for Campus Activism. OAH Magazine of History. Retrieved November 05, 2017.
[Digital image]. (n.d.). Retrieved November 5, 2017, from http://media.npr.org/assets/img/2014/10/05/mario_savio_wide-38bc8712e8ad13dc66b97a9ee06adee2c1581286-s900-c85.jpg
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