An American college student looked out at a sea of protesters and spoke of a machine that had grown so “odious” that it had left people of good will little choice.
“You’ve got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it stop,” he said.
That scene played out 60 years ago at the University of California, Berkeley.
The words were directed at the university leadership, and referring to its restrictions on campus political activity.
But the speech, from the student leader Mario Savio, and the sit-in that followed could have happened yesterday.
Persons:
“ You’ve, you’ve, ”, Mario Savio
Organizations:
University of California
Locations:
Berkeley, Gaza, United States, Vietnam