After reading the assigned pages for this past week I was very inspired by the students at Berkely, in 1969. The protest was title "Battle of Berkely" where nine hundred people had been arrested. The battle was in protest towards University of California repossesing a vacant lot on Berkely's campus. The students did evreything possible to keep their civil rights. Dave Mandel created a song which outlined the whole event.
"The rebels were ousted, the tables banned,
The deans thought they had won their hand...
Then came a sight they never thought they'd see,
A genuine sit-in in the hall of Big C...
Civil Disobedience...an essay come alive...education in action"
The students had sit-ins and stood outside of their campus' building causing a scene and nothing would stop them not even the police. They had a right to stay outside and riot for what was rightfully theirs. This song was created has a nice ring to it as well. The song flows which reflects how things went with the protest. Although there was a lot of arrrests and what not the protest went fairly well.
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