"Free speech movement" et Berkeley cinquante ans plus tard

Les manifestations qui se sont déroulées sur le campus de l'université Berkeley en 1964 ont contribué à la reconnaissance des droits et à la défense de la liberté d'expression. Malheureusement la nouvelle génération ignore souvent cet épisode de l'histoire américaine et leurs intérêts semblent bien différents. La lutte est-elle terminée? Retour sur les incidents de 1964 par le biais des commémorations.

 "Few current students interviewed seem to know much about the rise of activism that began on their campus. Today’s students “are very passionate about animal rights, green energy, niche issues,” said Chloe Hunt, the editor of the student newspaper, The Daily Californian.

The rally on Wednesday was part of a semester-long celebration of the Free Speech Movement. Several dozen undergraduate courses are being offered on the movement, and the schedule of campus events includes poetry readings, a singalong and panel discussions on inequality, activism and voter suppression. All freshmen were asked to read “Freedom’s Orator: Mario Savio and the Radical Legacy of the 1960s” by Robert Cohen, a New York University history professor and visiting Berkeley lecturer teaching a course on the 1960s."

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/02/us/free-though-subdued-speech-50-years-later.html?ref=us