Anyone Ever Heard of Mario Savio???

[GalleryGod]

:think: testing your LEFTIST roots,here.:hippie:

[northernsoul]

1. you mean he's not an Italian chef?

who's that "Mario's Kitchen" guy then?

[StopTheMorans]

2. i think I'm wrong

but was he the big student speaker on the berkeley campus in the mid 60's? Again, could be completely wrong, wasn't even around then, seem to remember it from a college course a coupla years ago?

[GalleryGod]

6. You are cor-RECT,Sir!

ding!ding!ding!
Founder of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement in '64

[StopTheMorans]

8. shucks:)

looks like the liberal arts degree (history) pays off sometimes, even though I have had 7 jobs in the 2 yrs since I graduated, none of which have anything to do with history:) Although can't really complain, have a good one now even in the doldrums of the shrub economy.

JAIL TO THE THIEF!

[greatauntoftriplets]

3. 1960s

Berkeley free speech movement.

[GalleryGod]

7. Yes!

I recommend the DVD "Berkeley in the 60's" to all of you!
:hippie: :hippie: :hippie:

[larryepke]

4. Berkley!

Free Speech Movement!
Power to the People!
Up Against the Wall, Mother*****rs!

[GalleryGod]

9. EXcellent ! Hats Off to Larry!

:bounce: :hippie: :hippie: :bounce:

[disgruntella]

5. is he one of the super mario bros?

Just kidding. ;-) I was born in 1970 but heard of him in the Berkeley Free Speech Movement (thanks, PBS!)

[GalleryGod]

10. NETFLIX: "Berkeley in the 60's"-Reagan GASSED Students!

By helicopter no less! With "vomit/nausea gas"! Little Hollywood Closet Queen!:silly: :crazy: Hope he lives in dementia to be 100!

[regularguy]

11. Philly born Berkeley free speech dude...

said something about the system becoming so "odious" that you need to throw your self on gears of the machine to screw it up. I always thought that Rage against the machine got their name from him......

[Karmadillo]

12. Mario Savio's speech before the FSM sit-in

http://www.fsm-a.org/stacks/mario/mario_speech.html

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There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!

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[damnraddem]

13. He's that guy who wouldn't keep his mouth shut.

Sparking the Free Speech Movement at Cal Berkeley.