The anti-Gaza war protests and encampments that have taken place at universities across the country have drawn the attention of everyone from the President to the media and members of Congress, provoking comparisons with the student movements of the 1960s. Robert Cohen, the foremost expert on UC Berkeley’s Free Speech Movement (1964) and its famed orator Mario Savio, joins us to discuss what we can learn from the past and the present in order to be prepared for what lies ahead. 

Episode Resources:

• LA Times “Opinion: Today’s protests are tamer than the campus unrest of the 1960s. So why the harsh response?”
• 94.2 KPFA “A History of Student Movements”