[Peace-discuss] Fwd: Counter-recruitment and free speech
Al Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Mon May 9 22:43:06 CDT 2005
For your possible action.
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "U.S. Labor Against the War" <uslaw at igc.org>
> Date: April 22, 2005 10:13:50 PM CDT
> To: uslaw_educationworkers at lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [uslaw_educationworker_taskforce] Escalation of the attacks
> on Free Speech at San Francisco State
> Reply-To: uslaw_educationworkers at lists.riseup.net, "U.S. Labor Against
> the War" <uslaw at igc.org>
>
> Escalation of the attacks on Free Speech at San Francisco State
>
> Students at San Francisco State still need your help. The
> attack against students activists for the March 9th counter
> recruitment protest has escalated. On April 1, 2005, the six
> student organizations that endorsed the demonstration
> (Students Against War (SAW), LA Raza, Voices for Sexual
> Freedom (VOX), Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavour (PACE),
> M.E.C.h.A. and the International Socialist Organization
> (ISO)) recieved letters stating that the administration is
> beginging formal Disciplinary Proceedings against them. This
> is on top of the 3 invdividual students who received letter
> from judicial affairs on March 22nd. The groups involved may
> be facing formal hearings as soon as Monday, April 25,
> 2005.
>
> WHAT YOU CAN DO
>
> We ask the public to couninue speaking-out against the
> administration's plans to limit free speech rights, and
> demand that no sanctions be placed on students organizations
> that helped to plan the March 9th protest.
>
> Please contact:
> Robert A. Corrigan, SFSU President
> Phone: (415) 338-1381, Fax: (415) 338-6210
> Email: corrigan at sfsu.edu
> please CC your email to: cansfsu at hotmail.com
>
> Penny Saffold, SFSU Vice President/Dean of Students
> Phone: (415) 338-2032, Fax: (415) 338-0900
> Email: psaffold at sfsu.edu
> please CC your email to: cansfsu at hotmail.com
>
> Also, please sign our online petition at
> http://www.petitiononline.com/556/petition.html
>
>
> MARCH 9TH COUNTER-RECRUITMENT DEMONSTRATION
>
> On Wednesday, March 9th, students from New York to San
> Francisco rallied to protest military recruiters on their
> campuses. The students were expressing their outrage at the
> military's anti-gay "don't ask, don't tell" policy, the
> diversion of federal funding away from education into
> military spending, and the war in Iraq. At San Francisco
> State University, the administration has responded with
> police action and secret meetings.
>
> At SFSU over 150 students joined Students Against War -- the
> school's Campus Antiwar Network chapter -- and other groups
> to protest Air Force recruiters and Army Corps of Engineers
> attending a school sponsored career fair. The crowd flooded
> the fair, surrounding their tables and chanting. When Air
> Force recruiters tried to wait out the protest, students
> staged a peaceful anti-war sit-in and teach-in.
>
> POLICE INTIMIDATION AND UNIVERSITY THREATS
>
> The following day, recruiters returned to the SFSU career
> fair. As soon as two activists entered the career fair,
> eight police officers forcibly removed them from their own
> student center, pushing them and twisting one activist's
> arm. When the other activist asked why she was being forced
> to leave, she was pushed into a doorway, told she was
> causing a fire hazard by standing there, and then kicked out
> of the building.
>
> A number of members of Students Against War have received
> official notices of appointment from the Coordinator of
> Judicial Affairs dated March 18, 2005. The letters state
> that the administration has received a complaint from the
> Chief of Public Safety and that each student must meet
> individually with Judicial Affairs. The letter specifically
> states that the meetings are confidential and none of the
> students have been informed of nature of the charges against
> them. Failure to respond the summons may jeopardize the
> student’s status at San Francisco State University.
>
> On April 1, 2005, the six student organizations that
> endorsed the demonstration (Students Against War (SAW), LA
> Raza, Voices for Sexual Freedom (VOX), Filipino American
> Collegiate Endeavor (PACE), M.E.C.h.A. and the
> International Socialist Organization (ISO)) received
> letters stating that the administration is beginning
> formal Disciplinary Proceedings. The groups involved
> may be facing formal hearings as soon as Monday,
> April 25, 2005.
>
> The university disciplining students and organizations for a
> peaceful demonstration is unacceptable. The actions of the
> police and the San Francisco State administration are a
> blatant attempt to stifle dissent and create a climate of
> intimidation. The administration is purposely singling out
> the leading organizers as well as political organizations on
> campus to prosecute.
>
> San Francisco State University should be ashamed that they
> are a shell for the US military. They undermine their own
> anti-discrimination policies and commitments to diversity by
> allowing a racist, sexist and anti-gay institution to
> recruit on campus. When the administration refuses to defend
> it own policies, students are forced to be the moral
> backbone of the university. The students and organizations,
> who participated in the March 9th demonstration, where
> defending their classmates and refusing to let one more
> person become cannon fodder in an illegal war.
>
> These attacks are an attempt to go after one of the leading
> campuses in the growing counter recruitment movement around
> the country. If they can punish students at San Francisco
> State for protesting, it will be easier to arrest, sanction
> and intimidate students on other campuses.
>
> For more information about the March 9th protest:
> http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/breaking/003099.html
> http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2603424
> http://kpix.dayport.com/launcher/4122/?tf=video_player.tpl
>
> Watch a video of the protest at
> http://www.indybay.org/uploads/collegenotcombat.mov.
>
> We urgently need your help. Please lend your support to
> anti-war student activists and activists who are fighting
> the militarization of our schools by letting the
> administration know that their actions are not supported by
> members of the community, students, alumni, faculty, and
> staff.
>
> Sincerely, Students Against War
> cansfsu at hotmail.com
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Al Kagan
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
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Urbana, IL 61820
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akagan at uiuc.edu
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