Tuesday, March 04, 2008

Mario Savio & Kent State

This is a clip of Mario Savio from 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!"


Mario Savio


In addition, there is a contemporary application based on the inspiration of Savio.


Chris Goodman is a young man who states he is willing to get arrested in his push for quality education. He reads his acceptance speech for the Mario Savio Youth Activist Award at the Algebra Project's 25 year anniversary forum. Chris won this award for his work with the Algebra Project.


Likewise, this is a short summary of the events that occurred at Kent State.

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