[Peace-discuss] YMCA partners with ARMY

[Matt Reichel]

Could always test the Y's commitment to "free speech" by showing up with 
some blown up images taken from Abu Ghraib and placing them alongside the 
recruitment booth.

Funny that corporations and the global military industrial complex have the 
same rights that were intended for people to use in defense of institutional 
evils like these....

-
matt


>From: <kstepans at uiuc.edu>
>To: peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] YMCA partners with ARMY
>Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 17:26:49 -0600
>
>It is not everyday you can discover the "oportunities" of the
>ARMY on the front lawn of the University Y.  But today was
>such a day.  You could also get a free keychain, talk with a
>ROTC student, hear some rock blasting from speakers, and win
>some tickets to a basketball game.  107.1 (the planet) and
>the ARMY paired up to glamorize enlisting in the military.
>But why were they allowed on the Y lawn?   Is this common
>policy?  Does anyone know if this has happened before?  I am
>disturbed that the Y would allow people to recruit out
>front.  Even if they guise it as free speech (which I do not
>yet know their reasons) it will not lead to free speech
>wherever the people who enlist end up going.  I find this
>unethical and counterproductive to many of the events that
>take place at the Y.
>
>-kate stepanski
>student peace action member
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