"Tuesday is 60th anniversary of an event that shaped our world: The Berkeley Free Speech movement, which set the stage for modern liberalism - and the right's backlash
How bittersweet that a wave of campus repression is drowning their victories."
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60 years after the day college students won free speech, their rights are vanishing
It's hard to celebrate the anniversary of 1964's Berkeley Free Speech Movement when students are losing their right to protest.Will Bunch (The Philadelphia Inquirer)
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in reply to Laffy • • •10/ "But will today’s youth generation — coming of age in a more repressive time, saddled with problems like debt and rampant careerism not faced by their predecessors — be able to accept that torch? Huge issues, including the constitutional right of dissent and the future of colleges as bastions of open discourse and critical thought, hang in the balance. Sixty years later, America is desperately waiting for a second Free Speech Movement."
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