Reflection paper on the Documentary Berkeley in the sixties uring class we were shown the film Berkeley in the sixties directed by Mark Kitchell. Released in New York in September 26th 1990, the film was a documentary showcasing the free speech movement starting with the House Un-American Activities Committee that was taking place in San Francisco Hall in 1960. The documentary would highlight the many demonstrations and protests that occurred at or around the Campus of the University of California, Berkeley in the sixties. Regarded by many as the center of political activism, it was here at the heart of this campus where we would see the barbaric enforcement and overreaction to the protests/demonstrations by the university’s leadership and local police that had taken place at Berkeley. Started from a group of political radicals on the Berkeley Campus, SLATE would
Grow into one of the first groups to proactively advocate for free speech, sometime using protests and sit-ins as weapons against injustices. What made SLATE so appearing was its bi-partisan stand that it was controlled by no individual campaign party. That the members were from all different political parties focusing on one common goal. In the First 20 minutes of the Film in which Martin Luther King was highlighted as a speaker. He would state some of the uphill battles that were similarity faced by the students on campus. I was so captivated by this speech I had to look for it on Social media sites and found it. Dr. King would say “"When we look at modern man, we have to face the fact that modern man suffers from a kind of poverty of the spirit, which stands in glaring contrast to his scientific and technological abundance. We've learned to fly the air like birds, we've learned to swim the seas like fish...and yet we haven't learned to walk the Earth as brothers and sisters”. I would