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1969: AEL Sit-in
For nine days in April, 1969 hundreds of students and their allies occupied Stanford's Applied Electronics Laboratory, site of classified military research. Occupiers baked bread, took over a printing press, and held interminable meetings, using the sit-in as a based for organizing the entire Stanford campus.
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To view the files from the May 16, 1969 Protest at SRI,