Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder
Speechless
Hi, reader. I wrote this in 2011 and it's now more than five years old. So it may be very out of date; the world, and I, have changed a lot since I wrote it! I'm keeping this up for historical archive purposes, but the me of today may 100% disagree with what I said then. I rarely edit posts after publishing them, but if I do, I usually leave a note in italics to mark the edit and the reason. If this post is particularly offensive or breaches someone's privacy, please contact me.
Police shut down the airspace and part of the subway and crushed donated books and tossed out reporters here, where I live, in New York City.
And in Berkeley, at the University of California at Berkeley, where I went to college, where there is a Free Speech Movement Cafe in one of the libraries, where they send out entreaties to ask me for alumni money, they beat peaceful protestors.
I feel heartsick. How could you.
