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Download the PDF Copy of the Fall 2014 Cal Disorientation Guide! Cal Disorientation Guide 2014: The "Free" Speech Edition Photo: Free Speech Movement, 1964 Will you be there? (DIS)ORIENTATION GUIDE: 1. A selection of underground information you’ll never get from your dorm, CalSO, or the Daily Cal. 2. An invitation to a more liberated college experience, pollinated by critical thought and creative action. 3. A collection of thoughts and questions “THEY” don’t want you to consider. “We don’t propose you transfer to another school, for the system Welcome to Berkeley! is not unique to Berkeley. We don’t propose that a student drop out – education can still be a valuable thing. We do propose that You are standing on some historically rich soil, and this ‘zine you use the University – don’t let it use you. We can shape our you hold in your hot little hand is one of its many fruits. education and experiences as much as they shape us.” –DisGuide ‘81 “In 1969, radical students first introduced a “Disorientation” program at Berkeley. The purpose of the Disorientation was to Drawing upon our progressive legacy, a group of UC students, provoke discussion about the University as an institution, its role workers, and alumni with varying political perspectives joined in society, and its impact on the values and aspirations of its stu- together to publish this collection of articles. There are many dents. Many students had come to feel that the University, despite issues that we have not touched on due to limits of time and a rhetoric of “personal development” and “academic freedom”, space. Rather than a final statement, we hope that this guide will was not so much concerned with the interests of students and pu- be a catalyst. We urge all students, faculty, workers, alum, and blic as it was with those of business and the military [...] Students local community to discuss, analyze, criticize, and most of all, to developed Disorientation as a means of challenging the prevailing become involved. image of the university as a center for liberal education.” -- Dis- Guide 1977 We suggest that the cultural evolution of humanity not be thought of as a linear progression, but rather as a slow and cycli- Fast forward to today, Fall 2014, the 50th Anniversary of cal one -- like a coil or spring, looping round to similar territory the Free Speech Movement, and it seems that the need for decade after decade, slowly but surely ascending. students to exercise critical thought and organized pressure to counter the corporate control of our public institutions is Where on the helix of history are we today? That’s for us to more necessary than ever. decide collectively. This semester is sure to be punctuated by official UC com- Hit us up online, where we’ll be posting news, events, and com- memorations of our social movement legacy, sanitized and mentary throughout the semester: memorialized to create picture perfect representations of what were truly messy, often confrontational social processes. The- facebook.com/CalProgressiveCoalition se movements were usually organized by small groups, often CalProgressiveCoalition.wordpress.com driven more by ideals than expertise, and have always, always twitter.com/CalProgressives been marginalized and repressed by university administrators and police. First general assembly: Tuesday, September 9th, 6:30pm. Location to be released. CALENDAR 9/1: UAW 2865 Labor Day Happy Hour, 3-5 at Jupiter (2181 10/8: Sutardja dai hall banatao auditorium, 4-5:30: FSM panel: Shattuck)--members of the grad+ student union get a free beer "Voting Rights" on us! 10/8: Strike Debt at UCB Presents "The Rolling Jubilee and Stu- 9/4: SEAL’s first open meeting- Meet on steps of Dwinelle at 6pm dent Debt Cancellation" Time is TBD See Strike Debt UCB Fa- cebook Page For Updates 9/9: First General Assembly 10/13: FSM panel: "Inequality in National and Transnational 9/17: Regent’s Meeting- Fossil Free Divestment vote Perspective: A Conversation with Emmanuel Saez and Branko Milanovic". Location tba, 5:30-7: 9/17: Boalt hall school of law, 4-5:30: FSM panel: "Free Speech on Campus: From the Free Speech Movement to Occupy" 10/25: 2nd Annual Student-Labor Organizing Conference. Stu- dents from across the UCs will educate each other on issues facing 9/27: FSM Alumn events- details about student panel TBA students and workers, and learn the skills needed to fight back! 10/1: FSM Rally on Sproul, 12-1. 10/31: Hip Hop Punk Halloween Party; Zombie Napolitano Costume Contest 10/1: FSM Panel 3:30 - 5 11/19-11/20: Regents' Meeting at UCSF Mission Bay 10/1: Deadline for UC to Respond to AB94 (Budget transparen- cy law) 12/2: The 50th anniversary of the FSM Sproul Hall occupation stay tuned and come to coalition meetings for more info 2 Speech Re- Free Movement Revisited This This fall fall will will bring bring with with itit the 50th40th_ anniversary anniver- of thesary Free of Speech the Free Movement. 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