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![Faculty Rally on Obscenity Case March 24th 1965](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 3/24/1965Call Number: CE 722Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
This recording is taken from a faculty rally following the banning of the UC student publication, the Spider. Mario Savio is the first speaker and he talks about what’s at stake concerning this issue. The following speakers are all faculty members and talk about a wide range of topics including the responsibility of faculty in protecting students’ rights, the need for student gains to be codified, the need to not lose perspective of larger issues including the civil rights struggle in Selma, various perspectives on the filthy speech movement, and that student actions demonstrate that students care about the university community.
![4/23/65 Rally: Coalition Politics and the Student Bill of Rights. Interviews with Mario Savio and Charles Flynn](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/23/1965Call Number: CE 725Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Rally speakers include student organizers Brad Cleaveland and Fred Bauer discussing a proposed student bill of rights, the relative merits of coalition building and direct action, and the desire to represent all students. Detailed discussion of the fate of the Tussman Proposal, an experimental curriculum plan. A student speaks on behalf of the University Reform Movement, a coalition organization. Event announcements including details of CORE’s restaurant pickets in Oakland. The Freedom Singers perform “We Shall Overcome” and there is a chant for “Freedom Now.” Interview with Mario Savio who discusses his perspective on the Filthy Speech Movement and the lack of due process in student discipline, as well as the media’s representation of him. Interview with Charles Flynn of anti-FSM University Students for Law and Order, who discusses his changing views and working with FSM students to propose a disciplinary court with student jury.
![4/26/65 Rally Part 1; Interview with Art Goldberg](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/26/1965Call Number: CE 726Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
A black student organizer speaks about racial discrimination and abuse from campus staff and police during a conference organized for Berkeley High students on the UC campus, and a rally that is taking place to demand accountability. History professors Reggie Zelnik and Kenneth Stampp discuss the Meyer report released by the Regents and the lack of due process for disciplinary action. SLATE candidates for student government Sandor Fuchs and Luis Hernandez speak briefly and encourage voting. Mario Savio speaks at length on various topics. Brad Cleaveland and Marvin Garson announce an upcoming debate regarding tactics. Art Goldberg is interviewed about his expulsion and plans to challenge it through the court system.
![4/26/65 Rally Part 2: Formation of the Free Student Union](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/26/1965Call Number: CE 727Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Campus rally held in support of the formation of the Free Student Union, a successor to the Free Speech Movement. Many brief speeches and announcements by a number of student organizers and some discussion of the purpose and nature of a student union and student strikes. Some discussion of Mario Savio's resignation from the FSM.
![4/28/1965 Press Conference: Formation of the Free Student Union](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/28/1965Call Number: CE 728Format: 1/4 3 3/4 ipsProducers: Colin EdwardsCollection: Colin Edwards Free Speech Movement
Post-rally press conference announcing the formation of the Free Student Union. Major organizers discuss the union’s intent to unite the student body around issues of the “form and nature of education,” specifically discussing advocating for a holistic education as opposed to job training, as well as advocating for due process in FSM-related disciplinary matters.
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