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Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for!
Magda Hassan Wrote:
Keith Millea Wrote:
Quote:These marching orders were taken most seriously in where else? the birthplace of the Free Speech Movement back in 1964, at Sproul Plaza, entry way into the University of California at Berkeley. FSM's birth was prompted by the arrest of Jack Weinberg for soliciting money for the civil rights movement. He was put into a police car, but a spontaneous sit-down trapped it. Eventually the roof was used as a FSM platform.

The amazing arrest of Jack Weinberg,placed in a police car,and surrounded by protesters for 32 hours.This is what Democracy looked like, "back in the day"!

Thanks for this Keith! I haven't seen this before. Good to see how it started.

Yeah, That's pretty much where it all started....the FSM at Berkeley! People couldn't yet articulate their feelings of how America had changed after the Assassination of JFK, but they felt it viscerally. Vietnam was starting to heat up under Johnson and there was a stirring that swept through the Country, growing for the next 13-15 years. Now, with Occupy, I feel they stand on the shoulders of the FSP and what came after, just as the FSM stood on the shoulders of the Civil Rights Movement and on and on back.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
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Occupy Everywhere - Sept 17th - Day of Rage Against Wall Street and what it stands for! - by Peter Lemkin - 21-11-2011, 06:23 PM

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