Inside the Free Speech Movement: Inner Workings to the Aftermath features new material not included in the Full Documentary. Watch FSM leaders and supporters tell this groundbreaking story in their own words. Based on oral history interviews, it shows how they organized a successful protest movement from the bottom up, as well as its influence and consequences.
The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at Berkeley (1964-65) catalyzed the national student rights movement of the mid-sixties and seventies, using civil disobedience for mass activism. Watch and learn how they did it. Standing strong against efforts to repress constitutional rights is uncannily pertinent again today.
Featuring: Bettina Aptheker, Laurie Baumgarten, David Lance Goines, Henry Elson, Patti Iiyama, Anita Medal, Kathleen Piper, Jack Radey, Peter Dale Scott, Louise Weiler, and Leon Wofsy
Director: Linda P. Rosen
Video editors: Jay Jay Noire and Tonya Staros with Melanie Mentzel
Inner Workings
• UC Administration
• Leadership
• Organization of the FSM
• Press Central
Consequences
• The Trials
• Anti-war Movement: Vietnam Day Committee on Campus
• Influence of the Free Speech Movement
We are indebted to the Free Speech Movement Archive and to the photographers and reporters who captured the times.
The Berkeley Historical Society & Museum and auditorium will open at 1:30. The 67-minute film will be introduced at 2:00 and followed by a half-hour discussion with FSM veterans, then another half hour opportunity to see the current exhibit, On the Waterfront: The Other Side of Berkeley.
Admission free. Donations appreciated.