Mass Protests

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In this documentary film, different protests by the student activists of UC Berkeley on various issues throughout the 1960’s have been shown. The first resistance in the sixties started with a demonstration against the House Un-American Activities Committee that tried suppress political freedom in May 1960. After this incident, the students with political interests had started to gather and form small groups. The Campus Administration was upset about the introduction of off-campus issues such as Civil Rights, testing of nuclear weapons, etc. by these groups. However, student activism carried on in the favor of Civil Rights. Their demonstration against the hotel industry created pressure on the university administration, causing them to ban …show more content…
The university administration arranged a big meeting where student leader Mario Salvio was dragged down from the stage by police when he had tried to speak. This had initiated the Free Speech Movement causing the students to draft a resolution and present it to Academic Senate where it was passed. As a majority of the faculty had joined the side of free speech, the activists found themselves victorious and soon, shifted their focus on stopping American involvement in Vietnam War. A new committee called the Vietnam Day Committee was formed that carried out mass protests throughout the streets of Oakland and Berkeley for the next couple of years while facing tremendous police brutality. During this time, the country observed the emergence of the Hippie culture that was seen in the streets of San Francisco and spread quickly in Berkeley campus after a strike in 1966. While the political activists continued to try to stop Vietnam war, the Hippie culture simply tried to influence politics by causing a cultural change. During this time the police brutality against the African Americans had massively increased. To protect the community against this brutality, the Black Panthers Party
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