[Peace-discuss] VICTORY: CIA recruitment SHUT DOWN!

[Barbara kessel]

Adding my voice to the chorus of congratulations. "Their security has been
compromised"? More like "their image has been compromised." Great photos and
a creative way to oppose them. Like others, I also hope that you can extend
the effect through publicity.  Barbara Kessel
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Ricky Baldwin <baldwinricky at yahoo.com>wrote:

> Absolutely!  Great!  Congratulations!  And thanks!
>
> Are you guys writing this up for the Public i?  the IMC website?  sending a
> quick article to Democracy Now or Free Speech Radio News?  Z magazine, In
> These Times and others would also likely run something short - longer if you
> present as an example of the larger opposition to the CIA, etc. - if you
> sent it, my bet.
>
> One of you should definitely write a crowing letter to the evil NG,
> Pantagraph, etc., explaining the necessity of this.  WILL would probably run
> a "public square" comment.
>
> It's really cool - make the most of it!
>
> Ricky
>
> "Speak your mind even if your voice shakes." - Maggie Kuhn
>
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> *From:* C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>
> *To:* martin smith <send2smith at yahoo.com>
> *Cc:* ivaw_midwest at googlegroups.com; "peace-request at lists.chambana.net" <
> peace-request at lists.chambana.net>; peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net; STOP
> <stop at iresist.org>; coalition <coalition at iresist.org>
> *Sent:* Thursday, April 9, 2009 11:03:25 PM
> *Subject:* Re: [Peace-discuss] VICTORY: CIA recruitment SHUT DOWN!
>
> Congratulations.  Well done.
>
> It would be worthwhile to use this event to publicize your quite
> appropriate objections, on campus and elsewhere.
>
> Anyone who wants to know why events like this are necessary should read Tim
> Weiner's recent book, 'Legacy of Ashes: the History of the CIA," precisely
> because it's not by any sort of leftist but by a long-time NY Times
> reporter, thoroughly tamed to the requirement of establishment media.  It
> makes the story he has to tell all the more damning.  --CGE
>
> martin smith wrote:
> > (see attached pics!)
> >
> > *Students Shut Down CIA Recruitment at UIUC*
> > On April 9, members of the Campus Antiwar Network, Iraq Veterans Against
> the War, and the International Socialist Organization joined forces for a
> third annual protest against the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
> recruitment session at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
> However this year, students and activists were stunned by their victory when
> the CIA canceled the session at the last minute, shamed by our tactics which
> exposed the Agency’s dark history of assassinations, political sabotage and
> torture.
> > Outside the session door, one activist donned a black Grim Reaper cloak
> and stood with arms extended on a milk crate to greet potential recruits and
> remind them of the brutal atrocities conducted at Abu Ghraib with CIA
> complicity.  Another used a simple pillowcase as a hood and kneeled with
> arms clasped behind his back to show the treatment by prisoners common at
> Bagram Air Base and Guantánamo.  Others passed out informational leaflets
> and challenged attendees to consider the lies to be presented by the CIA,
> which claimed in their campus ad to be “looking for a diversity of people
> for the important job of keeping America safe.”
> > Campus police showed up at the request of the CIA operative in attendance
> who, according to the officers, requested to “have us removed.”  However,
> the policemen checked our campus IDs and then notified us that we could stay
> as long as we did not impede traffic.  Five minutes later after our
> continued vigilance, we were thrilled when we heard that the CIA would
> cancel the session, claiming that since the student newspaper had shown up
> and taken pictures for an article featuring our protest that security had
> been compromised.  We suspect their true motive for cancelling was their
> embarrassment over our collective message: “Say NO To The CIA Recruiting on
> our Campuses!”
> >
> > According to the International Red Cross, the CIA frequently used
> techniques against prisoners held in secret overseas detention centers or
> “black sites” that “constituted torture” in violation of the Geneva
> Conventions.  Prisoners received cruel and degrading treatment, including
> beatings, sleep deprivation, extreme temperatures, strip searches,
> starvation, scare tactics utilizing canines, and waterboarding.  Some
> detainees then faced “rendition,” the transferring of prisoners and
> outsourcing of torture to other countries where the CIA operates, especially
> those known for committing human rights violations, such as Egypt, Jordan,
> and Syria.  Many of these prisoners become “ghosts,” detainees whom
> officials refuse to give information about the location or status of to
> either family members or lawyers on the grounds that their incarceration is
> needed for long-term interrogation.
> > Such barbaric deeds are a gross violation of international and U.S.
> constitutional law and are crimes against humanity on par with the U.S.-run
> concentration camps of Japanese American citizens during World War II and
> the “gulags” of Soviet Russia.  Among the prisoners are possibly hundreds of
> innocent people, whose only crime is to be Arab, Muslim, and a person of
> color.  Moreover, such tactics by no means keep “America safe” but rather
> alienate local populations by its heavy-handed nature, and provides a window
> of opportunity for terrorist-group recruitment.
> >
> > CIA Director Leon Panetta reiterated the Obama administration’s
> commitment to continue several Bush administration policies in the so-called
> war on terror. Panetta told reporters the US will continue controversial CIA
> drone attacks in Pakistan that have killed hundreds of civilians. He also
> said that while CIA interrogators will have to abide by the Army Field
> Manual, President Obama can still approve harsher techniques using wartime
> powers and that the "CIA retains the authority to detain individuals on a
> short-term basis."
> >
> > Activists and students should stand up to the CIA whenever they attempt
> to recruit on college campuses or in your community.  With even a small
> number, you can shut down their recruitment meetings and score an important
> victory for peace and justice.  As Campus Antiwar Network member Eric Heim
> explained, “I was pretty shocked when I found out that we managed to cancel
> the meeting.  To finally have a visible victory was a huge morale boost. The
> CIA needs to be opposed when and wherever it appears because it is nothing
> but an agent of empire that destroys democracy and helps establish US
> hegemony across the globe through force and brutality.”
>
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