Mario Savio speaks at a People’s Park rally in Berkeley, Calif., June 26, 1969. Photo: Associated Press In “ What Happened to Free Speech?

The sound of buzzing surveillance drones over Gaza played from a loudspeaker on the steps of UC Berkeley’s Sproul Hall, on the very spot where Mario Savio rallied for free speech in the 1960s. A ...

At Berkeley: The UC Berkeley Divestment Coalition established a Free Palestine Encampment on the Mario Savio Steps in front of Sproul Hall, joining thousands of students from universities nationwide.

History The Free Speech Movement (FSM) Café, centrally located at the entrance to Moffitt Library, is a casual place to gather, study, or take a break with friends and colleagues. It is also a venue ...

Mario Savio, leader in the University of California Freedom of Speech Movement, speaks before students in the University's Greek Theater in Berkeley, Calif. on Dec. 7, 1964.

Cohen’s book — his ninth on the era — contextualizes Savio’s letters and speeches to chronicle the history of two key moments of 1960s: the Mississippi Freedom Summer and the Berkeley Free ...

These words, from Free Speech Movement leader Mario Savio’s historic speech outside Sproul Hall just before that movement’s culminating sit-in on Dec. 2, 1964, are among the most famous ...