Category Archives: Activism

Audio: Mario Savio – “place your bodies upon the gears” Speech

Memorial to the Free Speech Movement in Berkeley

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Hear Mario Savio, a key member in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement. He is most famous for his passionate speech “place your bodies upon the gears” address delivered December 2, 1964, at The University of California at Berkeley

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The FSM and the Six Year War, 1964-70.  By  Arleigh Williams: Dean of Students (online book)

Audio: Dr. Benjamin Spock in Berkeley 1968

Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician (with hi...

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Recorded at Berkeley Community Theater, 4 Feb. 1968. Talk on the charges against Spock for conspiring to aid, abet, and counsel young men to resist the draft…

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Audio: Sproul Hall Sit-in 1968

Memorial Glade and Sather Tower on the campus ...

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Recorded: at University of California, Berkeley. Description: anti-war demonstration at the Berkeley campus. Length: 2 recordings (110 min.)…

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Audio: My Lai Incident

Unidentified Vietnamese man (during the My Lai...

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The Sory Behind the My Lai Incident: Examination of various aspects of the My Lai massacre, the attempted cover-up, and the military trial.

Part 1: The pinkville story (30 min.). – BROADCAST: WBAI, Dec. 1969.

Part 2: “My Lai 4” (30 min.). – BROADCAST: WBAI, Dec. 1969.

Part 3: Bbiological warfare and the cover-up (32 min.). – BROADCAST: WBAI, Dec. 1969

Military Monitor 1969

A Higher Standard with Seymour Hersh