BREAKING--Live blogging the protest at LIEberman's office

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/6/14/16231/8457

Please head over and check it out.

Code Pink is there and many people with them. We need to get more people to move through these offices and call and fax. If you can't get to DC then please support the efforts of those who are live-blogging and trying to make a difference to media coverage and make a difference in policy.

Mario Savio's speech before the FSM sit-in


Editorial note: This is the conclusion of Mario Savio's memorable speech, before Free Speech Movement demonstrators entered Sproul Hall to begin their sit-in on December 3, 1964. His climactic words about "the operation of the machine" have been quoted widely ever since, out of context, as the existential emblem of the FSM. (Or mis-quoted, since he said "passively" rather than "tacitly.") The beginning of Savio's talk -- about the technical details of the failed negotiations and the administration's reprisal --has never been transcribed. We hope to make it available soon, for it provides a fuller view of the balance of thought and feeling in his speech, and in the FSM.



We have an autocracy which runs this university. It's managed. We asked the following: if President Kerr actually tried to get something more liberal out of the Regents in his telephone conversation, why didn't he make some public statement to that effect? And the answer we received -- from a well-meaning liberal -- was the following: He said, "Would you ever imagine the manager of a firm making a statement publicly in opposition to his board of directors?" That's the answer! Now, I ask you to consider: if this is a firm, and if the Board of Regents are the board of directors, and if President Kerr in fact is the manager, then I'll tell you something: the faculty are a bunch of employees, and we're the raw material! But we're a bunch of raw material that don't mean to have any process upon us, don't mean to be made into any product, don't mean to end up being bought by some clients of the University, be they the government, be they industry, be they organized labor, be they anyone! We're human beings!


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!


Now, no more talking. We're going to march in singing "We Shall Overcome." Slowly; there are a lot of us. Up here to the left -- I didn't mean the pun.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7Mf9j8co70&eurl=

Ever since those times, those who run the machine have made sure that it's body-proof

that control.

I hear those words whenever i hear of another i see the machinery of war move ahead.
I hear those words whenever i see politicians lie, or beat the drums for war.

We must shut down this massive machine now. this is not a request.

Each day, our sons and daughters are dying, for nothing other than greed and good ole American fascism. It sickens me. We MUST put our bodies "upon the gears and upon the wheels" and make it stop. We've relied on our elected leaders, and we surely must know by now that was and is futile.

This comrade passed away this week, but not before he did his patriotic duty.

thank God we aspire to something more than the basest human instincts. Thank God we keep asking "what if?"

in Con.?

And we need to be the media. Thanks for checking and kicking. It looks like another day in the LIEberman establishment is gone.

:kick:

I hope they'll rotate and occupy the offices of ALL who support an endless presence in Iraq.

NOW THAT is something I can get behind!!

GO JOE, GO JOE, GET THE HELL OUT OF OUR CONGRESS!

Keep the heat on that monster!

(associate of Karendc)

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/14/19257/4339