Watching the movie Berkeley in the Sixties in class was very interesting. I was very moved by the power of the human spirit in the students who all banned together for their right to the freedom of speech at berkeley. It lead to a discussion in class about why students don't all get together and protest today. An interesting thing someone brought up is that there are so many things to be upset about that it is hard to all get together and agree about one topic and fight for it. I did go to a protest in San Francisco in 2003 to protest the Iraq war though. I think there were about 200,000 or way more ppl there, but of course the media was estimating less. Everyone was perfectely peaceful and just marching down the street(I think it was Market Street) The end of the march was at city hall. They had to shut down all the streets. I took the BART into the city with hundreds of garishly dressed chanting, singing, music playing people. It was an awesome event I was lucky to be there for that moment in history.
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