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http://mrossman.org/
Michael Rossman, one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement, the UC Berkeley event that launched the era of student protest, died yesterday. He was 69 years old and was done in by leukemia.
I didn't know him personally, but a few years after a story I'd written on the subject of the Free Speech Movement was published by Pif magazine he found it online and wrote to me with suggestions and an invitation to reprint it at the FSM website if I could correct the many historical inaccuracies in the piece. I recall that a few of the old FSM participants had read the story and found my errors quite vexing whereas Michael had defended the story. I wish now that I'd found the time to rewrite the piece and get it on the FSM website.
Here are some links to Rossman's writings:
Looking back on the Free Speech Movement
The Betrayal of Lenny Glaser (at Counterpunch)
Michael Rossman essay on Political Posters
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