Mario Savio

The Police Riot at Berkeley: If They'll Beat a Poet Laureate, Will They Kill a Student?

Jesse Kornbluth | Posted 01.13.2012

Read More: UC Berkeley, Celeste Langan, Geoffrey O'Brien, Mario Savio, Occupy, Robert J. Birgeneau. Robert Hass, Politics News
Jesse Kornbluth

Someone proposed a definition of "class warfare" you won't hear on television: "The rich are now rich enough to pay half the population to kill the other half of the population." Sickening, that -- and, I fear, prophetic.

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Authors: Throw Yourself Upon the Gears of Big Publishing

Mark Coker | Posted 07.18.2011

Read More: eBook Publishing, Future of Publishing, Mario Savio, Free Speech, Ebooks, Free Speech Movement 1960's, Free Speech Movement, Big Publishers, UC Berkeley, Traditional Publishing, Books News
Mark Coker

Until recently, if a publisher refused to publish an author's book, it limited an author's ability to reach readers. Now, the e-book printing press is free and available to all.

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Student Riots vs. Internet Attacks

Jan Herman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, Student Riots, Bradley Manning, Internet Attacks, Mario Savio, Guerrilla Geeks, Media News
Jan Herman

Violence in the streets scares the shit out of the authorities. More than guerrilla geeks, student rioters in the streets send the authorities into a...

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Civil Rights Movement Reassembles to Ask: What's Next?

Saul Landau | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John Lewis, Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, Alabama, Voting Rights Bill, Governor George Wallace, Bob Moses, Sncc, Harry Belafonte, Eric Holder, Rev, Jim Crow, Martin Luther King, Civl-Rights-Movement, Segregation, Julian Bond, Tennessee, Lyndon Johnson, Mississippi, David Harris, James Lawson, North Carolina, Mario Savio, Politics News
Saul Landau

On February 1, 1960, four black students took seats at a lunch counter at the Greensboro, North Carolina, Woolworth's. The white waitresses ignored th...

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