Free Speech Movement Returns to California Campuses... Students Take on What Mario Savio Called "The Machine"...Now Imposing Impossible Tuition Rates & Laws Against Free Speech Criticism of the Apartheid Bellicose State of Israel & AIPAC Domination of US Politics
California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/cali-s04.shtml
November 18, 2011 UC Davis Students Pepper Sprayed by Cop for Sit-in Protesting Another Round of Incredible Tuition Increases & in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Excerpt from article by Tom Carter 4 September 2012 at World Socialist Web Site :
"Under California H.R. 35, it appears that the Goldstone report is now to be considered “anti-Semitic.”
California passes resolution defining criticism of Israel as anti-Semitism
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2012/sep2012/cali-s04.shtml
November 18, 2011 UC Davis Students Pepper Sprayed by Cop for Sit-in Protesting Another Round of Incredible Tuition Increases & in Solidarity with Occupy Wall Street
Excerpt from article by Tom Carter 4 September 2012 at World Socialist Web Site :
"Under California H.R. 35, it appears that the Goldstone report is now to be considered “anti-Semitic.”
The resolution also contains a denunciation of “suppression and disruption of free speech that presents Israel's point of view.” This appears to be a reference to the “Irvine 11” incident last year, in which 11 students shouted down Israeli ambassador Michael Oren during his speech at the University of California at Irvine.
The 11 students shouted, “Michael Oren, you’re a war criminal,” and “You, sir, are an accomplice to genocide.” These students were later arrested, charged, and convicted of the crimes of “conspiracy” and violating Oren’s rights. (See University of California students convicted for protesting Israeli ambassador’s speech.)
The resolution goes on to state that the “Assembly recognizes recent actions by officials of public post secondary educational institutions in California [e.g., the prosecutions of the Irvine 11] and calls upon those institutions to increase their efforts to swiftly and unequivocally condemn acts of anti-Semitism on their campuses and to utilize existing resources . . . to help guide campus discussion about, and promote, as appropriate, educational programs for combating anti-Semitism on their campuses.”
On California's campuses, as on campuses and workplaces internationally, explosive class antagonisms are increasingly apparent. Massive tuition hikes year after year coupled with job losses and skyrocketing youth unemployment present an entire generation of young people with an increasingly impossible situation."
Mario Savio on the operation of the machine - Free Speech Movement, Berkeley, CA December 3, 1964
"We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?" That's the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material[s] that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!
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 passively take part, and 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. 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!"
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 passively take part, and 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. 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!"
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