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  UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio leads a lengthy discussion regarding proposals and counterproposals to abandon the Sproul Hall sit-in and to allow the police car to leave Sproul Plaza in return for concessions in regard to Jack Weinberg's arrest and the suspension of the eight students.
Savio speaks to crowd about "seriousness of the circumstances in which we find ourselves here and now." Calls for meeting on Sproul steps on the following Monday to discuss the statement developed by FSM and faculty negotiators with campus administration (see Part 12 below for final form of this statement).
Savio walks to the podium after the adjournment of the meeting, but is grabbed from behind by two policemen and.detained in a dressing room.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/pacificafsm.html   (5831 words)

  
  Mario Savio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 - November 6, 1996) was an American political activist.
Savio rose to prominence as a leader of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement, delivering a fiery speech in Sproul Plaza on December 2, 1964.
But Savio was not a fame-seeker and took modest jobs for twenty years before returning to college in the 1980s, this time at San Francisco State University, where he received a summa cum laude bachelor's degree and a master's degree in physics.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mario_Savio   (648 words)

  
 Mario Savio
Mario was one of the most passionate and eloquent voices in the struggle to end the disgrace of a massive underclass.
Mario was a loyal friend of the ACLU of Sonoma County, and is dearly missed by those of us who knew him, worked with him, and loved him.
Mario was also one of the early leaders of the mass movement against the Vietnam War.
www.aclusonoma.org /mario_savio.html   (419 words)

  
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Mario Savio, 1942-1996 by Mike Parker "There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even tacitly take part.
Savio's Place in the FSM Leadership Mario emerged as an undisputed leader in a movement which had a complex and often negative view of leadership.
Mario's conversational speaking method-which, by taking the audience through his own experiences, his own logic, and his own feelings ("Can you believe that?"), made thousands feel like they were also part of the process-conveyed that his experience and feelings were just more intense versions of theirs.
www.solidarity-us.org /mike66.txt   (2918 words)

  
 Mario Savio obituary   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mario Savio, the obscure UC-Berkeley philosophy student whose voice became the clarion of the Free Speech Movement that kicked off a generation of youth and counterculture rebellion, died Wednesday at a Sonoma County hospital.
Savio was born and reared in the same working class Queens neighborhood as former vice-presidential candidate Geraldine Ferraro, former New York Gov. Mario Cuomo and fictional TV character Archie Bunker.
Savio is survived by his wife, Lynne Hollander; his sons, Stefan of Vermont, Nadav of San Francisco and Daniel of Sebastopol; his father, Joseph of Covina; and his brother, Tom of Pasadena.
www.physics.sfsu.edu /savio-obit.html   (3627 words)

  
 [11-11-96] Jonah Raskin, Mario Savio -- The Death of a Radical
Mario Savio, unlike other radical activists of the 1960s, was a shy man, wary of the media and fully aware of the dangers of celebrity.
Savio, a leader of the Free Speech Movement (FSM) at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, wasn't the only radical from that era teaching at the college, but no one was more publicly identified with the 1960s, and no one carried on the tradition of protest into the 1990s with more vigor.
Although I read about Mario Savio and the FSM when I was a student and protestor at Columbia in New York City in the mid 1960s, I did not meet him until he joined the faculty at Sonoma State.
www.pacificnews.org /jinn/stories/2.23/961111-savio.html   (679 words)

  
 Mario Savio obituary
Savio was teaching mathematics and philosophy at Sonoma State, where he joined the faculty in the 1990s after teaching elsewhere in California.
Savio is remembered for the words he spoke on Dec. 2, 1964, from Sproul Plaza in front of Berkeley's main administration building, to a large crowd of protesters, many of whom took part in a sit-in inside the building and a campus strike.
Savio became a member of the executive committee of the Free Speech Movement, an organization representing a score of civil rights and political groups at Berkeley.
www.writing.upenn.edu /~afilreis/50s/savio-obit.html   (828 words)

  
 Mario Savio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mario Savio (December 8, 1942 - November 6, 1996) was an American (A native or inhabitant of the United States) political activist.
At the time of his death, he was on the faculty of Sonoma State University (additional info and facts about Sonoma State University) teaching mathematics (A science (or group of related sciences) dealing with the logic of quantity and shape and arrangement) and philosophy (The rational investigation of questions about existence and knowledge and ethics).
And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mario_savio.htm   (306 words)

  
 04.29.98 - UC Berkeley to honor Mario Savio, Free Speech Movement with library gift, café
BERKELEY -- Thirty-three years after Mario Savio mounted the roof of a police car to defend free speech at the University of California, Berkeley, the campus is honoring his name and the movement he started with a much-needed endowment for books, a University Library café, and a digitized archive at the Bancroft Library.
Savio raised a family after he left campus, and while shying from the limelight, remained firm to principles of activism and social justice, speaking out on behalf of a variety of causes up until his death in 1996.
Savio articulated with eloquence a reason for confronting social ills, Chancellor Berdahl said, and he brought to Berkeley a conviction that the campus was connected to the rest of the world, that an education was acquired both inside and outside the classroom.
www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/98legacy/04_29_98a.html   (1089 words)

  
 Veterans of the Civil Rights Movement Veterans -- Mario Savio
Then Savio, Weinberg and other students went to Mississippi to participate in the dangerous voter registration campaign of the "Freedom Summer." Three civil rights workers were slain the month before.
Savio returned and led the Berkeley chapter of Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, which had organized the Freedom Summer on campus, but political activity was banned.
Savio was working against Proposition 209 to save affirmative action on state campuses when his heart failed at age 53 on the eve of last week's election.
www.crmvet.org /mem/savio.htm   (728 words)

  
 Jazz/Jerry Jazz Musician/Free Speech Movement historian Robert Cohen interview.
Well, you had students like Mario Savio, the leader of the Free Speech Movement, who had just come back from the south where they helped register fls to vote, and he was not necessarily in the mood to have someone come along and tell him he couldn't promote political advocacy on campus.
Mario Savio, for example, participated in the first demonstration involving civil disobedience at Berkeley in the spring of 1964 -- before the fall Free Speech Movement -- because he was sympathetic to the Movement, but also because he wanted to impress his girlfriend.
Savio was someone just coming into his own, studying philosophy and physics and sciences, in the process of trying to figure out what made the world work and sorting out his feelings about it.
www.jerryjazzmusician.com /linernotes/free_speech_movement.html   (5846 words)

  
 Mario Savio's FBI Odyssey SETH ROSENFELD / SF Chronicle 10oct04
Savio was back on the Sproul steps on April 26, 1965, attacking the university's plan to punish four students for using obscenities on campus.
Mario Savio and Suzanne Goldberg were excused from their Alameda County trial for the Sproul Hall sit-in for one day, to be married.
Savio said he hoped "I will not have to continue to be a very public person after the campaign, and I will be able to return to working," adding, "If this speech making and public activity after the campaign becomes one of the major focuses...
www.mindfully.org /Reform/2004/Mario-Savio-FBI-COINTELPRO10oct04.htm   (7204 words)

  
 11.07.97 - Howard Zinn to be speaker Nov. 13 at first annual Mario Savio memorial lecture
The new lectureship is sponsored by relatives and friends of the late Mario Savio and will be an annual event, as will a grant awarded each year to a promising young social activist.
Savio died of a heart attack in Sebastopol on Nov. 6, 1996.
Savio's actions in 1964, as he pressed for freedom of speech for students within the campus, created a national Free Speech Movement, a major event in the history of the University of California that stimulated similar actions for free student speech in universities nationwide.
www.berkeley.edu /news/media/releases/97legacy/11_07_97b.html   (583 words)

  
 Free Speech Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Free Speech Movement was a student protest that began on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley in 1964 under the informal leadership of student Mario Savio and others.
In protests unprecedented at the time, students demanded that the university administration lift a ban on on-campus political activities and recognize the students' right to free speech and academic freedom.
The Sproul steps, now called "Mario Savio Steps," may be reserved by anyone for a speech or rally.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Berkeley_Free_Speech_Movement   (813 words)

  
 Newsletters of the SFSU College of Science & Engineering Alumni Chapter
Mario Savio (BA, 1984, MS, 1989, Physics and Astronomy), the philosophy student who became the passionate voice of the Free Speech Movement and inspiring a generation of youth and counterculture rebellion, died November 6 at a Sonoma County hospital.
Savio, 53, had been in a coma and on life support since suffering a heart attack November 2nd.
Savio lead one of the first sit-ins, where students held hundreds of police officers at bay for thirty-two hours.
www.sfsu.edu /~science/newsletters/spring1997/specialtothisissue.html   (706 words)

  
 Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement
Savio's rise to power, if that is an appropriate way to express it, is not easy to explain.
He did have the courage of his convictions, the willingness to confront the issues forcefully and directly, and the intellectual ability to grapple with the issues that were at hand.
Some say it was Savio's aggressive activism combined with a prudent sense of good judgment and timing which gave him the uncanny ability to decide what course of action was appropriate or what type to appeal to make to the crowds.
samsloan.best.vwh.net /savio.htm   (6756 words)

  
 Mario Savio, the FBI and COINTELPRO
The FBI trailed Mario Savio for more than a decade after he led the 1964 Free Speech Movement at the University of California at Berkeley, and bureau officials plotted to "neutralize" him politically -- even though there was no evidence he broke any federal law, according to FBI records obtained by The Chronicle.
Edgar Hoover's FBI targeted Savio because he was the nation's first prominent student leader of the '60s, and top FBI officials feared protests would spread from Berkeley to other schools, the records show.
The bureau took these actions against Savio even after San Francisco FBI agents repeatedly told bureau headquarters that he was not connected with, or influenced by, any subversive political group or foreign power.
www.reclaimdemocracy.org /articles_2004/mario_savio_fbi_cointelpro.html   (1179 words)

  
 Democracy Now! | The Free Speech Movement: Reflections on Berkeley in the 1960s
Mario Savio, recorded on December 3, 1964 at the University of California Berkeley shortly before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in.
He was Mario Savio, and the mass protest around the police car on Sproul Plaza, the central campus thoroughfare, helped to launch the Free Speech Movement.
Mario stepped on top of the car as the first person to speak, and there was an open microphone there for 30 hours.
www.democracynow.org /article.pl?sid=03/11/21/1524217   (2340 words)

  
 Mario Savio Links
Mario Savio -- The Death of a Radical, Nov 11, 1996
This is a commencement speech that Mario Savio delivered at his son's Nadav's graduation from Sidwell Friends School on June 10, 1988.
Notes by Julia Stein on the Mario Savio Memorial at UC Berkeley, Dec. 12, 1996.
www.fsm-a.org /mariolinks.html   (189 words)

  
 UC Berkeley Library Social Activism Sound Recording Project: Free Speech Movement
Mario Savio leads a lengthy discussion regarding proposals and counterproposals to abandon the Sproul Hall sit-in and to allow the police car to leave Sproul Plaza in return for concessions in regard to Jack Weinberg's arrest and the suspension of the eight students.
Savio speaks to crowd about "seriousness of the circumstances in which we find ourselves here and now." Calls for meeting on Sproul steps on the following Monday to discuss the statement developed by FSM and faculty negotiators with campus administration (see Part 12 below for final form of this statement).
Savio walks to the podium after the adjournment of the meeting, but is grabbed from behind by two policemen and.detained in a dressing room.
sunsite.berkeley.edu /VideoTest/pacificafsm.html   (5085 words)

  
 RW Online: In Memory of Mario Savio   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mario Savio was best known as a leader of the Free Speech Movement student upsurge at the University of California at Berkeley in 1964.
Mario was among the college students who joined the Freedom Summer in Mississippi, and he described his reaction to attempts by the UC Berkeley administration to censor the political activities of students in the civil rights movement.
In the same week Mario Savio died, hundreds of students rose in opposition to the passage of Prop 209, which would outlaw affirmative action in California.
rwor.org /a/firstvol/882/mario.htm   (290 words)

  
 The Mario Salvo Legacy
Given the attack on free speech in this nation, it is appropriate to remember Mario, to bring him and his example to the attention of younger activists, and to share the thoughts other comrades in the FSM had on the occasion of Mario’s unfortunate death.
Mario has removed his shoes so as not to damage the paint.
During a panel discussion, Mario warned that the country is "moving in a direction that one could call creeping barbarism." His pessimism ran deep, far deeper than concern over the rightward drift of American politics.
www.heartlandcafe.com /journal/jrnl_47/j47_pl01.htm   (915 words)

  
 Hartford Advocate: The Steps of Mario Savio?   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Mejia's maturity and eloquence, in fact, recalls Mario Savio, a 21-year-old philosophy student at the University of California, in Berkeley.
Savio, who had been radicalized by his experiences in the Civil Rights movement during the previous year, became the moral leader of the 1964 Free Speech Movement and, by its influence, the example for college-aged students for the rest of the decade.
Savio addressed the crowd from the roof of the police car via bullhorn.
hartfordadvocate.com /gbase/News/content?oid=oid:59327   (837 words)

  
 Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Fund
GUERNEVILLE, CA - August 11 - The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture Fund is seeking nominations for the sixth Mario Savio Young Activist Award.
They may be e-mailed to savio@sonic.net, faxed to 707-823-7028, or mailed to Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, PO Box 152, Guerneville, CA 95446.
Mail (with supporting documents if desired) to: Mario Savio Memorial Lecture, PO Box 152, Guerneville, CA 95446; or e-mail to savio@sonic.net; or Fax to: 707-823-7028.
www.commondreams.org /news2003/0812-02.htm   (533 words)

  
 The Free Speech Movement: Media Resources, University of California Berkeley
Includes interviews with Mario Savio after his release from Santa Rita prison, Dec. 3, 1964; scenes of general student strike, Dec. 1964; Mario Savio and Clark Kerr at the Greek Theater convocation, Dec. 7, 1964.
Newsreel clips of Mario Savio addressing student demonstrators during the Free Speech Movement at the University of California in 1964, followed by brief interviews with Mario in 1994 and 1995.
Interviews with current students and others in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley concerning their knowledge of Mario Savio and the Free Speech Movement which occurred on that location in the mid 1960s.
www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/FSM.html   (2788 words)

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