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National Day of Counter-Recruitment Action on December 6; NYC action at
BMCC recruiting station
National counter-recruitment day of action endorsed by Cindy Sheehan, Tim
Carpenter of PDA, and more
By Campus Antiwar Network
On December 6, NYC protesters will gather at the military recruiting
station by BMCC, as part of a national day of counter-recruitment action
organized by the Campus Antiwar Network and endorsed by Cindy Sheehan,
Howard Zinn, Dahr Jamail, war resisters Pablo Paredes and Camilo Mejia,
Progressive Democrats of America director Tim Carpenter, and many more --
including, by a unanimous vote of the city council, the city of Berkeley,
CA.
Keywords: War & Peace, Local, Youth, Security, Activism, Education,
Join CINDY SHEEHAN, HOWARD ZINN, DAHR JAMAIL, war resisters PABLO PAREDES
and CAMILO MEJIA, Progressive Democrats of America director TIM
CARPENTER,
Iraq Vets Against the War & Campus Antiwar Network member DAVID AIRHART,
and -- by a unanimous vote of the city council -- BERKELEY, CA in
sup****ting this day of counter-recruitment action on December 6! (Full
endorsement list below.)
* NATIONAL DAY OF COUNTER-RECRUITMENT *
December 6, 2005
Campus Antiwar Network
http://www.campusantiwar.net
NEW YORK ACTION:
Tuesday, December 6, 2005 @[EMAIL PROTECTED]
noon
@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
military recruiting station by Borough of Manhattan Community
College--199 Chamber St
A,C,E,1,2,3 to Chamber St., walk three blocks west
* Say No to the Solomon Amendment!
Campus Anti-War Network is calling for actions around the country to show
the federal government that they cannot intimidate schools for kicking
out
military recruiters. On December 6, the Supreme Court will hear the FAIR
v
Rumsfeld case (brought by several universities), which will decide
whether
schools can ban military recruiters wihout losing federal funding.
Currently, the Solomon Amendment allows the government to cut off federal
funding from schools that ban military recruiters. This policy forces
schools to accept military recruitment, even though the military's
anti-gay
"don't ask, don't tell" policy violates university anti-discrimination
policies.
* Bring the movement for COLLEGE NOT COMBAT to your town!
On Dec 6, when the Supreme Court hears FAIR v Rumsfeld, students will
hold
protests at military recruiting stations, federal buildings and school
administrative offices across the country, including in San Francisco,
Seattle, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York City, and many other places.
In
Wa****ngton, D.C., a demonstration will take place on
the steps of the Supreme Court.
We are proud to join the fight against anti-gay discrimination in the
military. We also believe that recruitment for the war in Iraq has no
place
in schools. Our action comes amid increasing revelations of the horror of
the Iraq occupation. Recent video footage shows that the US used chemical
weapons (white phosphorus) in Fallujah, laying bare the
truth about exactly who is using "weapons of mass destruction" in Iraq.
Nobody should have to take part in this to pay for school! On December 6,
we refuse to let the military recruit young people to kill and die in a
war
based on lies.
December 6 is also the one-year anniversary of Navy petty officer Pablo
Paredes's refusal to board his ****p in protest of the war, which sparked
a
national campaign that displayed and strengthened the growing refusal of
soldiers to fight this war. Recently, the counter-recruitment movement
won
a massive victory in San Francisco, where 60% of voters approved a
College
Not Combat proposition to oppose military recruiters in schools and
sup****t
scholar****ps to counteract the poverty draft -- which targets the poor
and
people of color. Today, with the Bush administration in a growing crisis
and expanding calls for immediate withdrawal, we want to spread the
"College Not Combat" movement across the country!
Let's mobilize on Dec 6 to counter the military's ability to wage its
illegal war, sup****t the right of universities to oppose military
recruiting on their campuses, and bring the troops home from Iraq!
Say No to the Solomon Amendment!
COLLEGE NOT COMBAT! TROOPS OUT NOW!
Organized by the Campus Antiwar Network
http://www.campusantiwar.net
/ RecruitersOut@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
BY:
ORGANIZATIONS: Bay Area United Against War; Bloomington Peace Action
Coalition; the Central Committee for Conscientious Objectors; Central
Vermont Peace and Justice; the City of Berkeley, CA, by unanimous vote of
its city council; Cities for Peace; Free Palestine Alliance;
International
Action Center; International Socialist Organization; Justice in Palestine
Coalition; Mid-South Peace and Justice Center; Peninsula Raging Grannies;
San Juan Peace Network; Stop the War Coalition (UK); Texans for Peace;
Traprock Peace Center; Youth Against War and Racism
INDIVIDUALS*: AHMED SHAWKI, editor, International Socialist Review and
member, steering committee, National Council of Arab-Americans; ANTHONY
ARNOVE, editor, Iraq Under Siege; BONNIE WEINSTEIN, Bay Area United
Against
War; BRIAN WILLSON, member, coordinating Committee, Humboldt Bay Veterans
For Peace, and Commissioner, Arcata City Nuclear Free Zone and Peace
Commission; CAMILO MEJIA, war resister; CARL WEBB, war resister; CEYLON
MOONEY, co-coordinator, Wheels of Justice Tour, Voices for Creative
Nonviolence; CHARLES JENKS, Advisory Board Chair, Traprock Peace Center;
CHARLES PETERSON, Holyoke Community College student assaulted for
peaceful
counter-recruitment; CHARLIE JACKSON, co-founder, Texans for Peace; CINDY
SHEEHAN, mother of U.S. soldier killed in Iraq, who camped outside Bush’s
Crawford ranch to hold him accountable; DAHR JAMAIL, writer; DAVID
AIRHART,
Iraq war veteran and Kent State student who beat expulsion charges for
peaceful counter-recruitment; DAVID ROVICS, progressive songwriter and
musician; DAVID SWANSON, co-founder of AfterDowningStreet.org; DAVID
ZIRIN,
author, What’s My Name Fool? S****ts and Resistance in the United States;
DENNIS KYNE, Gulf War veteran and activist; DIRK ADRIAENSENS, coordinator
of SOS Iraq and member of the Executive committee of the Brussells
Tribunal; FRANCES CROWE, founder of Northampton Draft Information Center
in
1968 (she counseled over 2000 young people on the draft) and co-founder
of
Traprock Peace Center and Western Mass AFSC; HOWARD ZINN, author of
People’s History of the United States; M. JUNAID ALAM, co-editor of
LeftHook.org; KATHY KELLY, Co-coordinator, Voices for Creative
Nonviolence;
LINDSAY GERMAN, convenor, Stop the War Coalition (UK); MICHAEL LETWIN,
Co-Convener, NYC Labor Against the War, and Former president, UAW Local
2325; NATYLIE BALDWIN, Mt. Diablo Peace & Justice Center; NORMAN SOLOMON,
author and syndicated columnist; PABLO PAREDES, war resister; PALOA PISI,
publisher of Uruknet (Italy); PAT ELDER, co-founder, DC Anti-War Network;
PHIL GASPER, Professor of Philosophy at Notre Dame de Namur University in
California; RANDY KEHLER, Vietnam War draft noncooperator, long-time
peace
activist/war-tax refuser, former national coordinator, Nuclear Weapons
Freeze Campaign, co-founder and first Director of Traprock Peace Center;
RANIA MASRI, writer and researcher; SHANNYN SOLLITT, Peace
Activist/Educator -NetWorks Productions; SHUJAA GRAHAM, exonerated Death
row prisoner, anti death penalty activist; TARIQ KHAN, George Mason
University student assaulted and arrested for peaceful
counter-recruitment;
THOMAS F. BARTON, publisher of G.I. Special; TIM CARPENTER, director of
Progressive Democrats of America; TODD CHRETIEN, author of Proposition
I/College Not Combat ballot initiative in San Francisco; WARD REILLY,
South
East National Contact - Vietnam Veterans Against the War, Veterans for
Peace, Baton Rouge
We welcome all organizations to endorse this day of action and/or
organize
with us. If you want to endorse, organize an action in your area, or
learn
about the action nearest you, email recruitersout@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
and check
out
our website at http://www.campusantiwar.net
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