""Last summer I went to Mississippi to join the struggle there for civil rights. This fall I am engaged in another phase of the same struggle, this time in Berkeley. The two battlefields may seem quite different to some observers, but this is not the case. The same rights are at stake in both places -- the right to participate as citizens in democratic society and the right to due process of law. Further, it is a struggle against the same enemy. In Mississippi an autocratic and powerful minority rules, through organized violence, to suppress the vast, virtually powerless majority. In California, the privileged minority manipulates the university bureaucracy to suppress the students' political expression. That "respectable" bureaucracy masks the financial plutocrats; that impersonal bureaucracy is the efficient enemy in a "Brave New World."...We have encountered the organized status quo in Mississippi, but it is the same in Berkeley...."
Mario Savio
Thai activists embrace Hong Kong activists, the four battlefields might seem quite different to some observers, it is the struggle against the same enemy, it is the same in Berkeley, the same in Jackson MS, the same in Bangkok, the same in a thousand battlefields throughout Africa and Latin America, the same everywhere in the entire world in thousands of battlefields all at once, washed by a thousand currents.
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