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Name: Mario Savio Movement: Free Speech Movement

-The Free Speech Movement, or FSM, was a group of students at the University of California, Berkeley who advocated the right to free speech and to organize on campus, which had been banned. -Savio was the son of a Sicilian steel worker and two Catholic parents. -The fact that his parents were hard-core Catholics meant that Savio most likely had most of the normal views on civil rights and human rights. -He planned on becoming a priest so it can be implied that he was a better than average orator, as proven by his "Bodies Upon Gears" speech he gave at Berkeley College. -The speech was about how authorities (in this case the president of UC) sometimes take advantage of their constituents. -He makes the comparison from the authorities' view as the regular people being raw material that is just going through the "machine" and just goig with it. -Savio advocates that the people are not always happy with the machine and it is their duty to speak and act out under the First Amendment to stop the machine from ruining people's lives regardless of the consequence. -Savio was a student during his movement. -His father coming form a New York industrial life, Savio was a middle class child.

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 *  "Free Speech Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. .


 *  "Mario Savio - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 11 Jan. 2013. .