Student Protesters: Know Your Rights! Panel, UC Berkeley, 10/5/10: photos and audio

by dave id

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 11:27PM

On Tuesday, October 5th, at the Free Speech Movement Cafe in UC Berkeley's Moffitt library, the Berkeley ACLU and the ASUC Student Advocate's Office presented a "Know Your Rights" panel in advance of the October 7th National Mobilization for Education. Panelists included UCPD Chief Mitchell Celaya, ACLU of Northern California lawyer Linda Lye, and Geoff King, Staff Attorney with the First Amendment Project.

[Pictured above: panelists at the Free Speech Movement Cafe, seated in front of a photograph of Mario Savio being arrested at UC Berkeley. The quote on the wall to the right is from Savio's historic speech on December 2nd, 1964: "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!"]

Geoff King spoke largely on issues related to the rights of journalists and citizens who document protesters and police at demonstrations. His talk included discussion of his recent work on behalf of this reporter in quashing an illegal search warrant sought by and granted to UCPD after a protest at the Chancellor's campus residence on December 11th, 2009.

Sit-In in Support of October 7th National Mobilization for Education
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/10/01/18660447.php

October 7th, 2010 – Day of Strike & Action
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2010/08/27/18656922.php

For more information: http://www.indybay.org/education/

§Protesters: Know Your Rights! audio

by dave id

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 11:27PM

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Unfortunately, about one half hour of audio from the event is missing here due to technical difficulties (batteries died), which included about ten minutes of the end of Linda Lye's talk and roughly the first seventeen minutes from the Q&A session that followed the panel. Missing audio is indicated with short silence and a beep in the recording. Almost every question from the audience was directed at Chief Celaya, most of which were focused on the police brutality of November 20th, 2009, during the student occupation of Wheeler Hall, when one woman had her hand crushed by a police baton and a man was shot with a rubber bullet.

http://www.indybay.org/education/

§Jason Shultz, Free Speech Movement Cafe Educational Programs

by dave id

Wed, Oct 6, 2010 11:27PM