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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (192072)	6/19/2012 11:26:39 AM
From: Bread Upon The Water	Respond to of 543925

You got the creds man!

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (192072)	6/20/2012 2:49:18 PM
From: brushwud	Respond to of 543925

the FSM was the missing link, which really started the campus protest movement. Its genesis starts with Goldwater... At a Computer History Museum event a few years ago, Lee Felsenstein mentioned a short movie about a late friend of his which had just come out: amazon.com I was absolutely floored to learn this about Fred Moore: "In 1959, as a freshman at Berkeley, Fred Moore sent a letter to the attorney general informing him of his refusal to register for the draft. A few weeks later he went on a solo sit-in hunger strike on the steps of Sproul Hall against compulsory ROTC training and drills. Later, it would be recognized as one of the key precursors to the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley campus five years later. "Fred returned to Berkeley only after U.C. made ROTC voluntary..." Can you imagine that ROTC was mandatory for men at Berkeley in 1959? And that a lone freshman protested this on what came to be called the Mario Savio Steps? The movie also tells of how 17-year-old Fred tried to pilot a rowboat to Cuba on a peace mission, but wound up landing back in Florida after running out of water. His father was a colonel working at the Pentagon.