Commentary: Harvard radicals, Julian Assange and the right to 'liberate' the mail of the ruling class

Fifty years ago this spring, Harvard students occupied the school's administration building, demanding that the university end its complicity in the Vietnam War by kicking ROTC off campus. The student demands also included creating a black studies program and ending evictions of working-class people from property the university wanted to develop.

We didn't realize at the time that we were also raising another issue that continues to resonate today: whether the 1st Amendment protects the publication of "stolen" documents - a question back in the headlines today with the Trump administration's indictment of Julian Assange, publisher of WikiLeaks, for espionage.

In 1969, the building occupation ended