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Op-Eds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Disinviting a speaker on Free Speech Movement's 50th anniversary
it would likely surprise Savio that the UC Berkeley administration today, unlike its predecessors that had sparked the FSM by repressing free speech in 1964, is taking a free speech stance by refusing to disinvite Maher while students have advocated disinviting the controversial comedian. In this sense one can say that on its 50th anniversary the FSM — or at least its free speech idealism — is occupying UC's administration building without a sit-in.
Op-Eds
NOVEMBER 14, 2014
Disinviting a speaker on Free Speech Movement's 50th anniversary
it would likely surprise Savio that the UC Berkeley administration today, unlike its predecessors that had sparked the FSM by repressing free speech in 1964, is taking a free speech stance by refusing to disinvite Maher while students have advocated disinviting the controversial comedian. In this sense one can say that on its 50th anniversary the FSM — or at least its free speech idealism — is occupying UC's administration building without a sit-in.
