The Free Speech Movement (FSM) was a massive, long-lasting student protest which took place during the 1964–65 academic year on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley. The Movement was informally under the central leadership of Berkeley graduate student Mario Savio. Other student leaders include Jack Weinberg, Tom Miller, Michael Rossman, George Barton, Brian Turner, Bettina Aptheker, Steve Weissman, Michael Teal, Art Goldberg, Jackie Goldberg and others.
Memorial to the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley
Mario Savio leading a rally on the steps of Sproul Hall in 1966
Free Speech Monument, Sproul Plaza, Berkeley, California
Campus protest or student protest is a form of student activism that takes the form of protest at university campuses. Such protests encompass a wide range of activities that indicate student dissatisfaction with a given political or academics issue and mobilization to communicate this dissatisfaction to the authorities and society in general and hopefully remedy the problem. Protest forms include but are not limited to: sit-ins, occupations of university offices or buildings, strikes etc. More extreme forms include suicide such as the case of Jan Palach's, and Jan Zajíc's protests against the end of the Prague Spring and Kostas Georgakis' protest against the Greek junta of 1967–1974.
City University of Hong Kong students staging a sit-in during 2014 Hong Kong protests over blocking of electoral reforms
Student occupation at Cambridge University, 2010
Student syndicalist general strike in Chile
Brazilian students march against the military rule in Brazil, 1966