The Berkeley Historical Society and Museum has just produced its first documentary: Inside the Free Speech Movement, directed by Linda Rosen and edited by Jai Jai Noire and Tonya Staros with Melanie Mentzel, is being released in four parts for the 60th anniversary of the movement. This newly edited video, based on oral history interviews done in conjunction with the 50th anniversary, is augmented with historic photographs and original sound recordings. We are indebted to the Free Speech Movement Archives and to the photographers and reporters who captured the times.
FSM began the national student rights movement of the mid-sixties and seventies, using civil disobedience for mass activism. Defending constitutional rights against efforts to repress them is uncannily prescient today. Watch and learn how they did it.
Featuring: Bettina Aptheker, David Lance Goines, Patti Iiyama, Anita Medal, Kathleen Piper, Jack Radey, Seth Rosenfeld, Peter Dale Scott, Leon Wofsy, and many others.
This event will be the premiere showing of Inside the Free Speech Movement, Part One, including:
- Precursors to the Free Speech Movement
- Free Speech Zone, Administrative Crackdown
- United Front
- Police Car Scene
- March on the Regents’ Meeting
- Sit-In and Arrests
- The Strike
- The Arraignment
Linda Rosen and Bettina Aptheker will introduce the video and take questions after the showing.
Parts One and Two will be posted on the Berkeley Historical Society YouTube channel on September 5, and you will be encouraged to watch the second half on your own. Part Four, The FBI Spies on UC Berkeley, with Seth Rosenfeld, will debut on Zoom on September 12 at 7 pm. Part Three will be posted later.
Space is limited—please sign up on Eventbrite. Admission is free (donations appreciated).
