Seymour Hersh: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture

One of America's premier investigative journalists, Seymour Hersh shocked the world with his expose of the military's treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. His revelation of the My Lai massacre and its cover-up during the Vietnam War won the Pulitzer Prize for international reporting. He writes regulary for The New Yorker on military and security matters and is the author of many books. The 9th Annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture & Young Activist Award is presented annually to honor the memory of Mario Savio (1942-1996), spokesperson for Berkeley's Free Speech Movement of 1964, and the spirit of moral courage and vision which he and countless other activists of his generation exemplified; to promote...

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[westphalianprinz]

Mario Savio was a great student activist. I wish we had someone around like that today.

[Re3volution]

Berkeley glorifies be protestors of the past and yet punishes anyone that dares to say anything about the current system! Berkeley has become conformed again, it needs a new revolution!

[ForexReviewsCentral]

Great Discussion here. 

[Tsnore]

The Iraq War will be studied endlessly for years and we will never really know why the sum total of Bushevik ignorance attacked in 2003.

[greatsea]

I think the getting kids to talk after fighting analogy was weak and imprecise. If you have a criticism of Bush's policy of reticence say exactly why you disagree with it; don't gloss over it with some catchpenny nursery school analogy.

[wuz352]

Didn't Mario say something about the board of directors in his famous speech? Is this just me? People are full of shit, haha.

[tessler6868]

begging in your introduction is really bad form...

[internationallawman]

Mario Savio was arrested many times and beaten up on several occasions. He worked on black voter registration and other civil rights issues in Mississipi, which cost several northern white college students like him their lives. He was under constant FBI surveillance for about a decade starting in 1964.

Instilling cynicism and hopelessness in the population is a calculated tool used to keep the masses in line. Standing up for what you believe is *easier* now.

Fight like hell and organize.

[westphalianprinz]

We can't even talk about controversial things in class, because (allegedly) we can't offend conservatives (Bushevik-types) in the class. Really, that's just an excuse to avoid talking about anything that has to do with class power or whether our economic system is fair or viable.