You to our speakers to start meaning tonight we have with us dr. Bettina becker, a distinguished professor emerita, feminist studies, university of california, santa. She has taught for more than 40 years an activist scholar. She coled the Free Speech Movement uc berkeley in 1964 and the National Student Mobilization Committee to end and the war in vietnam. She played a leading role in the International Movement to free angela davis. But she was a member of the communist party. From 1962 to 1981, and she has been of the lgbt movement. The late 1970s and has published several, including the morning breaks, the trial of angela davis tapestry, the life, womens work, womens consciousness and meaning of daily experience, and a memoir politics how i grew up. Read and fought for free speech and became a feminist rebel, which was nominated for lambda literary award in 2006. We also have with us tonight dr. Estelle friedman. Shes the Edgar Robinson professor in u. S. History emerita at stanford
She coled the Free Speech Movement uc berkeley in 1964 and the National Student Mobilization Committee to end and the war in vietnam. She played a leading role in the International Movement to free angela davis. But she was a member of the communist party. From 1962 to 1981, and she has been of the lgbt movement. The late 1970s and has published several, including the morning breaks, the trial of angela davis tapestry, the life, womens work, womens consciousness and meaning of daily experience, and a memoir politics how i grew up. Read and fought for free speech and became a feminist rebel, which was nominated for lambda literary award in 2006. We also have with us tonight dr. Estelle friedman. Shes the Edgar Robinson professor in u. S. History emerita at stanford university. She cofounded the program in feminist gender and sexuality studies. The recipient multiple teaching awards. She has held fellowships the National Endowment for the humanities, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation an
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