J. Stitt Wilson: the 1st Savio Hauled off the Stage, Oak Grove Tree-Sit, Dec. 2, 2006–Sept. 9, 2008 The Fight for Accessibility, 1972 (and last) Socialist Mayor Dec. 7, 1964 Activists took to the trees when plans for a new sports complex included the destruction of When Ed Roberts applied to UC Berkeley he of Berkeley, April 1, 1911 After 2 months of FSM protests, a long-standing grove.The protestors likened the tree removal to a hate crime. Ultimately faced resistance, not because of his qualifica- Wilson ran for Berkeley mayor strikes, and sit-ins, UC President theactivists—and the trees—came down, but not before they had accomplished the longest tions, but because he was quadriplegic. Ulti- on a platform of city ownership Clark Kerr called a meeting at urbantree-sit in history. Student Athlete High Performance Center, SAHPC (formerly the mately he was admitted, and he and several of utilities. After election, his the Greek Theatre where he oak grove) other disabled students formed a group called socialistagenda was stymied by addressed 16,000 students and the“Rolling Quads,” which was instrumental in a conservative city council, and faculty members. After Kerr openingup the campus to the severely disabled. he declined to run for a second spoke, Savio took the stage, but The Naked Guy Emerges, 1992 Robertsis considered by many to be the father of term. 1745 Highland Place was hauled off by police before thedisability rights movement. Berkeley sophomore Andrew Marti CowellHospital (Wilson’s house) he could speak. GreekTheatre Strikes for Ethnic Studies, Jan. 22, 1969 - (now Haas School of Business) TheThird World Liberation Front, a coalition of minority nez ignited controversy by strolling student groups, initiated a month-long strike demand- around campus and attending class ing the establishment of an ethnic studies department in the nude. He was first arrested while jogging naked near the South Campus Bombings, #1: July 2, 1982/#2: May 15, 1985 at Berkeley. After numerous violent clashes with police - Ted Kaczynski, 26 years after resigning from Berkeley and moving to a remote and more than 150 arrests, the students succeeded. In side dorms. Southside Dorms cabinin Montana, emerged as the anonymous terrorist, the Unabomber. Of 16 March of 1969, UC President Charles Hitch authorized attacks,2 found targets in Berkeley: Diogenes Angelakos, professor emeritus the establishment of the country’s first ethnic studies ofelectronic engineering, and grad student John Hauser were seriously injured department.Barrrows Hall (Ethnic Studies dept.) in the blasts. Cory Hall

Mob Surrounds Chancellor’s Mansion, Dec. 12, 2009 Upto 75 people, some with torches, surrounded chancellor Robert Birgeneau’s residence in pro- test of tuition hikes and layoffs. Chanting,“No justice, no peace,” the mob smashed planters, SLA Kidnaps Patty Hearst, Feb. 4, 1974 windows, and light fixtures before being driven A left-wing guerrilla group called the Symbio- off by police. University House nese Liberation Army kidnapped 19-year-old First People’s Park Riots, April 20, 1969 Berkeley student and Hearst media empire A group of a hundred or so activists, resi The Death of Rosebud, Aug. 25, 1992 - heiress, Patty Hearst. Just two months later dents, merchants, and students laid claim Hearst was photographed wielding a machine 20-year-old homeless activist Rosebud Denovo was shot dead by police when to a rubble-strewn lot owned by UC Berke she broke into the chancellor’s mansion wielding a machete. A self-professed - gun during an SLA bank 2603heist. Benvenue ley and named it People’s Park.Haste and Ave. (Hearst’s apt) anarchist, she had previously been involved in protests over development of Bowditch People’s Park and at the time of her death was awaiting trial for explosive possession. University House Harry Edwards, 1967 Loyalty Oath Conflict, Aug. 1950 Professor Edwards cofounded the In August of 1950, 31 UC professors were fired for refusing to sign an Shantytown Protests, Olympic Project for Human Rights in oath pledging loyalty to the U.S. constitution and denying affiliation Mar. 31, 1986 protest of racism in sports. Inspired - withsubversive groups. Edward Tolman, a professor and a psychologist, 800 anti-apartheid demon by Edwards, two Americans, Tommie Cody’s Books Fire Bombed, helped lead the resistance. He sued the regents, leading to a 1952 deci- strators erected a symbolic Smith and John Carlos, raised gloved March 1, 1989 sion by the California Supreme Court to reinstate the professors and shantytown in front of the Wheeler Hall Occupation fists in a Black Power salute (angering An unknown assailant tossed a declare the oath unconstitutional. Tolman Hall chancellor’s office to protest Nov. 20, 2009 many Americans) during their medal homemade firebomb through UC investment in companies 40students barricaded them - ceremony at the 1968 Olympics. the window of independent doing business in South selves inside Wheeler Hall Barrows Hall bookstore Cody’s Books. It was Africa. In response to the to protest layoffs and a 32% thought to be a reprisal for a Draft Card Burning, May 5, 1965 - tuition increase.The standoff prominent window display of protests, UC regents eventu Barrington Hall Co-op Riot, Mar. 3, 1990 Severalhundred Berkeley students marched ally voted to divest $3.1- bil lasted 11 hours until protes- The Satanic Verses, Salman Aviolent melee erupted between Berkeley police and 350 to the Berkeley Draft Board in protest of the lion in South Africa holdings. tors were arrested by police. Rushdie’s controversial novel residents of Berkeley’s oldest and largest student-owned U.S. military occupation of the Dominican California Hall Wheeler Hall that earned the author death The Killing of James Rector, Vietnam Day Committee Vs. Republic.The protesters presented the staff cooperative.In the decades since its inception in 1933, the threats from radical Muslims. co-ophad earned a reputation for left-wing political activ - May 15, 1969 Hell’s Angels, Oct. 16, 1965 with a black coffin and 40 students burned 2454 Telegraph Ave. On“Bloody Thursday,” 2,000– Counter cultures clashed when their draft cards. Bancroft and Fulton ism,drug-fueled bacchanals, and wild concerts that helped launch the Bay Area punk scene. At the time of the clash, 3,000 protestors clashed w/ theVietnam Day Committee, an Barrington Hall was slated for closure due to noise and police in an attempt to reclaim antiwar group founded by Jerry People’s Park. Bystander James Rubin, organized a march from UC Freshman Anarchist, Feb 28, 1918 liability. By the time the melee was over, 17 were arrested Howl, Draft 3, 1954–55 and 8 hospitalized. 2315 DwightWay and Ellsworth Rector was shot and killed by Berkeleyto the Oakland army base. Beat poet Allen Ginsberg wrote the third draft of his Berkeley freshman Maurice B. Fruit was arrested for police. Telegraph Repertory After being stopped by police at epic poem“Howl” while living in a cottage in Berke- distributing anarchist propaganda. Fruit admitted to Theatre, 2519Telegraph Ave. the Oakland border, the leaders of ley. It would become his most famous work and the being a revolutionary, but had a change of heart after themarch were attacked by a dozen subject of an obscenity trial that would catapult the arrest and was ready to serve the United States if members of the Hell’s Angels. Ginsberginto the public consciousness as a leading called upon to fight. 2203 Atherton St. Telegraph Ave. andWoolsey St. radical of his generation. 1624 Milvia St (Berkeley/Oakland border)

KPFA, 1949 A Map of In 1949 the Pacifica Foundation, a pacifist Mario Savio’s Speech, Dec. 2, 1964 nonprofit, created the country’s first listener- Occupy Cal Demonstrations, Berkeley philosophy graduate student, Radical Berkeley supported radio station. For 60+ years, KPFA Nov. 9, 2011–March 2012 political activist, and central figure of the Activism to Anarchy has served as a far-left megaphone, but in Students and teachers organized National Guard Helicopter Sprays FSM, Mario Savio stood on the steps of Radical is a loaded term. It has been used as both recent years the station has earned more a series of protests over tuition Students w/Tear Gas, May 20, 1969 Sproul Hall.There he delivered his famous attention for internal strife than radio content. increases, mandatory furloughs, When several thousand students gathered speech to a crowd of several thousand. tribute and slander to describe everything from MLK and Berkeley Way firings, and raises for administra- in Sproul Plaza to mourn James Rector, the “There’s a time when the operation of the people and actions to ideas and the movements tors. After demonstrators created National Guard, called in by Gov. Ronald machinebecomes so odious … you’ve got they inspire. The word is also relative, revealing BLOODY THURSDAY: © STEVEN CLEVENGER/CORBIS; NATL a human chain in Sproul Plaza, Reagan, sprayed them w/tear gas.The fumes to put your bodies upon the gears and  as much about the speaker—and the era in which The People’s Republic of Berkeley GUARD: H95.18.969. LONNIE WILSON, UNTITLED NATIONAL campus police broke up the gath- endangered patients at the campus hospital uponthe wheels, upon the levers, upon all GUARD HELICOPTER SPRAYING TEAR GAS ON DEMONSTRA and caused skin burns on swimmers at a the apparatus, and you’ve got to make it it’s spoken—as it does about its subject. Both the In 1992, the Berkeley City Council declares TORS IN SPROUL PLAZA, 1969. GELATIN SILVER, 11 X 14 IN. THE ering, leading to accusations of Purple Haze, Feb. 21, 1965 that Oct. 12 will no longer be celebrated OAKLAND TRIBUNE COLLECTION, THE OAKLAND MUSEUM OF excessive force. Sproul Plaza nearby swimming pool. Sproul Plaza stop!” Sproul Hall Steps University of California, Berkeley and the city it CALIFORNIA, GIFT OF ANG NEWSPAPERS.; TREE SIT: AP PHOTO/ gave rise to have been labeled “radical,” and both Police raided the home of Berkeley dropout as Columbus Day, but as Indigenous- Peo BEN MARGOT; NAKED GUY: THE LIFE IMAGES COLLECTION/ Stanley Owsley, expecting to find a meth lab. ples Day. • On Jan. 25, 2008, they declare GETTY IMAGES; GINSBERG: GETTY IMAGES; OWSLEY: REUTERS; have found themselves in conflict with, or the tar- All they found in his bathroom lab was LSD, the Marine Recruitment Center to be HEARST KIDNAPPED: AP PHOTO/ANTHONY CAMERANO; Berkeley High School Radical Alumni HARRY EDWARDS: AP PHOTO; SAVIO SPEECH: BANCROFT get of, radical movements and actions. It’s made then legal. Owsley supplied huge quantities “unwelcome visitors” and issue a permit Bobby Seale (dropped out in ’54): cofounder of the Black Panther LIBRARY; SAVIO GREEK: AP PHOTO/ROBERT W. KLEIN; DRAFT for an interesting history, an examination of which to the likes of Ken Kesey and his Merry Prank- to Code Pink to demonstrate in front of CARD: GETTY IMAGES; OCCUPY CAL: JEFF CHIU/AP; OCCUPY Party • John Froines ’57: chemist, anti-war activist, UCLA professor, sters, the Beatles, and Jimi Hendrix (purport- WHEELER: EDDIE Q. WRIGHT; BROKEN POT: COURTESY OF THE and one of the Chicago 7 • Bob Avakian ’60: veteran of the FSM, inevitably leads to the question: What is radical? the building. • In 2012, Berkeley becomes DAILY CALIFORNIAN; LOYALTY OATH: BANCROFT LIBRARY; edly“inspired” by Owsley’s drug when he the first U.S. city to declare Bisexual Pride KPFA: KPFA RADIO; PEOPLES REPUBLIC: JOSEPH TESTA; BERKE chairman of the Revolutionary Communist Party • David Brower ’29: —Coby McDonald wrote “Purple Haze”). 1647 Virginia St. Day—Sept. 23. City Hall LEY HIGH: AP PHOTO; VIETNAM DAY: © BETTMANN/CORBIS; Founder of Friends of the Earth ED ROBERTS: UC BERKELEY, UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES