Berkeley in the 60s

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UBC (Vancouver)
Wednesday October 31, 2007
Screening begins 19h00
Venue: The Norm Theatre, UBC Student Union Building

USA / 1992 / 117min

The highly acclaimed documentary chronicles the 1960s counterculture as it was born and bred at the University of California, Berkeley. What began as a campus Free Speech Movement blossomed into a generation's social revolution, women's liberation, and the Black Panther's struggle. Student activism began to take concepts of democracy and equality taught in their classes and apply them to real life by coordinating a transformation of the university power structure. The film unrolls in three sections: Confronting the University, Confronting America, and Confronting History,

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