Free Speech Movement veterans, historians respond to the Occupy Cal events

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Free Speech Movement veterans, historians respond to the Occupy Cal events

By Daily Cal Staff | Staff
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Sunday, November 13, 2011 at 6:30 pm

An appeal to the UC administration to restore Berkeley’s free speech tradition

We the undersigned Free Speech Movement (FSM) veterans and historians remind the UC administration that the university’s emergence as a center of free political expression on campus began in 1964 when the Free Speech Movement’s free speech principles were adopted by the UC Berkeley division of the Academic Senate in its historic Dec. 8 resolutions. Those resolutions affirmed the “content of free speech or advocacy should not be restricted by the university.

 

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