[Peace] Fwd: [uslaw_educationworker_taskforce] Kent State Threatens
Iraq Veteran with Expulsion;
How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.
Al Kagan
akagan at uiuc.edu
Sun Nov 6 20:49:25 CST 2005
Begin forwarded message:
> From: "U.S. Labor Against the War" <uslaw at igc.org>
> Date: November 5, 2005 5:35:53 PM CST
> To: uslaw_educationworkers at lists.riseup.net
> Subject: [uslaw_educationworker_taskforce] Kent State Threatens Iraq
> Veteran with Expulsion; How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.
> Reply-To: uslaw_educationworkers at lists.riseup.net, "U.S. Labor Against
> the War" <uslaw at igc.org>
>
> Kent State Threatens Iraq Veteran with Expulsion - Activists spring to
> defense of free speech
> October 29th, 2005
> http://www.traprockpeace.org/kent_state_students/
> UPDATE: Activists, writers and professors come to the defense of Kent
> State Students (see statements of support and letters to Kent State
> administration)
>
> Join with Anthony Arnove, Bonnie Weinstein, Brian Willson, Camilo
> Mejia, Charles Jenks, Charles Peterson, Cindy Sheehan, Dave Zirin,
> David Swanson, Elizabeth Wrigley-Field, Gilda Carbonaro, Hadas Thier,
> Justino Rodriguez and Nick Bergreen of the “City College 4?, Howard
> Zinn, Jeffrey St. Clair, Kristin Anderson, Lindsey German for Stop the
> War Coalition (UK), Michael Letwin, New York City Labor Against the
> War, Michael Smith of “Berkeley 3?, Mitchel Cohen, Nagesh Rao, Norman
> Solomon, Pablo Paredes, Phil Gasper, Rania Masri, Rebecca Sambol,
> Sally Shaw, Sheri Leafgren, Sherry Wolf, Stan Goff, Sunny Miller for
> Traprock Peace Center, Tariq Khan, and Ward Reilly in supporting Kent
> State students.
>
> Kent State Administration Threatens Iraq Veteran with Expulsion
> by Nikki Robinson
>
> Call/email the Kent State University administration to tell them how
> you feel.
> Carol Cartwright- University President: 330.672.2210
> Carol.cartwright at kent.edu
> Greg Jarvie- Dean of Undergraduate Students: 330.672.9494
> Gjarvie at kent.edu
> William Ross - Executive Director of the Undergraduate Student
> Senate: 330.672.3207 wross at kent.edu
>
> IRAQ WAR veteran and Kent State student, Dave Airhart, is under
> attack for opposing the war he considers “unjust” and attempting to
> stop any more students from being used as “cannon fodder.”
>
> On October 19, the Kent State Anti-War Committee (KSAWC) stood around
> the Army recruiters, who had brought a rock-climbing wall to entice
> students over to talk with them. A member of KSAWC and former
> Afghanistan and Iraq War veteran, David Airhart decided to show his
> opposition against the war by exercising his rights of free speech.
> After filling out liability forms Airhart climbed the rock wall. Once
> he reached the top he took out a banner, which he held under his
> jacket, and draped it over the wall. The banner read: Kent, Ohio for
> Peace. Airhart was forced to climb down the back of the wall because a
> recruiter was coming up the front, yelling at him. As he was climbing
> down another recruiter came up the back and proceeded to assault
> Airhart both verbally and physically by pulling his shirt, forcing him
> off the wall.
>
> Airhart was fined $105. by city police for disorderly conduct and
> told that he will have to go to judicial affairs at the university
> where he will face probation or expulsion. When asked why he wanted to
> counter-recruit against the military Airhart responded, “I do not feel
> that the administration should allow the military to recruit their
> students for an unjust war that is taking the lives of innocent
> people. They should be protecting their students, not using them for
> cannon fodder.”
>
> The recruiter who assaulted Airhart was never charged with disorderly
> conduct; nor was the bigot who came by screaming profanities and
> spitting at KSAWC members fined for being disorderly. Somehow an Iraq
> War veteran hanging a banner, which called for peace, was disorderly
> and the others were not.
>
> Even after the atrocities of the May 4, 1970 massacre at Kent State
> University the military has the audacity to come to campus and attempt
> to recruit students for their illegal war. However, KSAWC, which is a
> member of the national grassroots organization, Campus Antiwar Network
> (CAN), counter-recruits against the military every time they are on
> campus. We stand around the table of the military, hold signs, chant
> and pass out literature exposing the lies of recruiters.
>
> The administration’s blatant attack against the antiwar movement will
> not be tolerated. We can clearly see that the administration does not
> want its students and veterans practicing free speech on this campus,
> especially if we are taking a stand against the war in Iraq. However,
> we will continue to fight.
>
> We believe in getting troops out of Iraq now, as well as assuring
> that they have a voice to stand in opposition to the war when they
> return. It is obvious that the Kent State administration does not care
> about Iraq Veterans who attend their school. After everything Airhart
> had to go through and see as a soldier, after viewing thousands of
> innocent Iraqi lives being taken, he has every right to exercise his
> opposition to this war. The administration may have the audacity to
> punish an Iraq Veteran for speaking out against the war, but the Kent
> State Anti-War Committee will continue to fight back for all Veterans
> and students right to exercise free speech against the war. We will
> continue to challenge our administration’s role in recruiting for the
> war and demand our right to a ‘recruiter-free’ school.
>
> Call and e-mail the Kent State University administration and let them
> know how you feel.
>
> Carol Cartwright- University President: 330.672.2210
> Carol.cartwright at kent.edu
>
> Greg Jarvie- Dean of Undergraduate Students: 330.672.9494
> Gjarvie at kent.edu
>
> William Ross - Executive Director of the Undergraduate Student
> Senate: 330.672.3207 wross at kent.edu
>
> KSAWC is a member of the national student grassroots organization,
> Campus Antiwar Network (CAN) - http://www.campusantiwar.net
> ======================================================
>
> How Bush Visit Became the Siege Of Howard U.
> Washington Post
> By Courtland Milloy
>
> Sunday, October 30, 2005; Page C01
>
> It was Soul Food Thursday at Howard University last week, and many
> students were looking forward to their favorite meal: fried chicken,
> macaroni and cheese, collard greens and cornbread. At lunchtime,
> however, students discovered that much of the campus had been locked
> down and that the school's cafeteria was off limits.
>
> Apparently, many of them did not know that President Bush and first
> lady Laura Bush had arrived for a "youth summit" at the Blackburn
> Center, where the dining hall is located. Stomachs began to growl,
> tempers flared, and, eventually, a student protest ensued.
>
> In case you missed the broadcast Friday on Fox 5 (WTTG-TV), reporter
> Robbie Chavez was at Howard trying to interview protesting students
> when a campus security guard showed up and tried to stop him.
>
> Chavez: The university went to great lengths . . .
>
> Guard: I'm asking you to leave the campus now.
>
> Chavez: . . . to hide angry protesting students . . .
>
> Guard: I'm warning you, you don't do that.
>
> Chavez: . . . a big effort to keep a lid on the growing frustration.
>
> During the protest, dozens of students locked arms around a flagpole
> in the Quadrangle, a designated forbidden zone at the center of the
> campus, and refused to move despite warnings from campus security that
> Secret Service rooftop snipers might open fire on them.
>
> You'd have thought Howard had taken a page right out of the Bush
> administration playbook on quashing First Amendment freedoms. In a
> letter posted the day before on a university Web site, President H.
> Patrick Swygert wrote that, having notified the campus via e-mail in
> July, he was sending a reminder of the Bush visit. But students
> complained that they hadn't seen either message and criticized school
> officials and the Bush administration for poor planning.
>
> Chavez said: "This is what university police and the Howard
> University administration did not want publicized: students angry
> after being shut out of parts of their own university."
>
> What might have been a public relations coup for Bush -- a visit to a
> historically black college to show concern for at-risk youths -- ended
> up as another Katrina-like moment, with the president appearing
> spaced-out, waving and smiling for television cameras while students
> were trying to break through campus security to get to the
> cordoned-off cafeteria.
>
> Of course, the episode was nothing compared with all the other bad
> news Bush got last week, including the indictment of White House aide
> I. Lewis Libby on perjury charges. But what happened at Howard was
> illustrative nonetheless of how a seemingly minor mess, easily avoided
> by a more attentive White House, could have repercussions down the
> road.
>
> The Republican Party is trying hard to win over black voters before
> the midterm elections, and Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele needs the
> support of black Democrats in his bid to become the first black
> Republican in the U.S. Senate since Howard alumnus Edward Brooke of
> Massachusetts (1967-1979). So one thing Bush didn't want was a ruckus
> during a visit to Howard.
>
> All he had to do was drop in on Soul Food Thursday, be seen sharing a
> wing and some collard greens with students -- and score one for the
> GOP.
>
> But the visit went from bad to worse. On a day when the U.S. Senate
> passed a resolution paying tribute to civil rights icon Rosa Parks,
> who died last week, campus security guards were telling students that
> if they wanted to eat they'd have to come back when the president and
> first lady were gone, then go to a service door at the rear of the
> dining hall and ask for a chicken plate to go. Never mind that a
> student meal plan at Howard can cost as much as $2,500 a semester.
>
> Howard is not some hotbed of political activism. The biggest event of
> the year is homecoming, which features two fashion shows, a step show
> and lots of hip-hop celebrities. As the rapper Ludacris put it in his
> summer hit, "Pimpin' All Over the World":
>
> Jump in the car and ride for hours,
>
> Makin' sure I don't miss the homecoming at Howard.
>
> To set off a student protest at this school, you'd have to be
> politically tone-deaf in the extreme, out of touch and flying blind.
> And yet, Bush did it.
>
> God help us in Iraq.
>
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Al Kagan
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University of Illinois Library
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