In “The Essential Mario Savio: Speeches and Writings that Changed America,” noted historian of the FSM and Daily Cal alum Robert Cohen ensures his discussion of Mario Savio, known as the lead ...

Hundreds crowded into Pauley Ballroom for the annual Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Wednesday evening, given this year by Anthony “Van” Jones, who served on President Barack Obama’s Council on ...

Now that Cal has the go-ahead from the State Supreme Court to build student housing in People’s Park I thought of Mario Savio, one of the leaders of the ’64 Free Speech Movement who was also for ...

BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- From Friday night through next week, UC Berkeley will celebrate 50 years since the birth of the Free Speech Movement. On Oct. 1, 1964, students sat down at Sproul Plaza ...

BERKELEY, Calif. – In the waning days of 1964, University of California, Berkeley, students inspired by the fight for racial equality found their collective voice in challenging a campus ban on ...

A June 18 Letter to the Editor included the following “lament”: “The hypocrisy of the protesters to demand compassion and justice for the people of Gaza, while showing no compassion and inflicting ...

“The students are restless,” says University of California President Clark Kerr and he would beyond a doubt include Mario Savio. Born in New York city, Savio glided through high school at the top of a ...

Ever since the student protest movement at the University of California degenerated into a naughty-naughty display of obscene words in March, it has fallen into impotent fragments. Last week Mario ...

Forty years ago, student activist Mario Savio stood on the steps of Sproul Hall in Berkeley, Calif., demanding the right to engage in political activity on the campus. Savio's actions touched off a ...

Hundreds of people gathered on the University of California, Berkeley campus Wednesday to protest the Trump administration’s latest attack on academic freedom. They stood before the famed steps named ...

A chronology of the student free speech movement in the early 1960s produced by Robin Steinhardt and Philip Maldari for the KPFA 30th anniversary celebration in March 1979. This program uses cuts from ...