Berkeley Free Speech Movement Forged An Organizing Blueprint
U.S. universities have always been sites of contestation and political struggle. Today, their governing bodies are dominated by representatives of corporate power. Issues like the student debt crisis and military research are bound up with universities. The right wing, often joined by establishment Democrats, attacks college curricula and scapegoats students to score political points.
Student activists today are challenging university ties to everything from fossil fuels to racist policing — and, of course, to the genocide in Palestine.