[Peace-discuss] YMCA partners with ARMY

[jencart]

Matt,

I think more effective images would be of US Flag-draped caskets, or hospitals showing our wounded men and women w/ legs and arms missing.   Can't be sure anyone thinking of enlisting has sympathy for the Iraquis.  Maybe quotes/photos of guys in uniforms objecting to stop loss.....

Ditto Neil about free speech, not including hate speech.  But I think equal time should apply here and means free speech for us too, hopefully @ the same time and place the army's trying to recruit.

Jenifer C.
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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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