Sixty years ago, on this day, October 1st, 1964, the Free Speech Movement is launched on the campus of University of California, Berkeley. The amount of carbon dioxide in the air was roughly 319ppm. As of 2024 it is 4xxppm, but check here for daily measures.  The context was that the black civil rights movement … Continue reading October 1, 1964 – The Free Speech Movement kicks off in Berkeley