Monday, March 14, 2005
Uncle Sam Goes to College
COMD: Committee Opposed to Militarism and the Draft
The movement to resist the militarization of college campuses continued to grow during the month of March. At the City College of New York (CCNY), security guards roughed up students who were protesting the presence of military recruiters and then charged the students with assault. Full story:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opmcc154175648mar14,0,2925018.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
Amy Goodman interview with CCNY students, one of whom is a former Marine recruiter:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1450222
One student wrote: "Getting the military out of our schools and replacing them with real educational opportunities is our generation’s fight. No one will do it for us. We owe it to ourselves, the Iraqis, and the American soldiers dying for a lie."
Full story:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=35&ItemID=7453
The movement to resist the militarization of college campuses continued to grow during the month of March. At the City College of New York (CCNY), security guards roughed up students who were protesting the presence of military recruiters and then charged the students with assault. Full story:
http://www.newsday.com/news/columnists/ny-opmcc154175648mar14,0,2925018.column?coll=ny-news-columnists
Amy Goodman interview with CCNY students, one of whom is a former Marine recruiter:
http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1450222
One student wrote: "Getting the military out of our schools and replacing them with real educational opportunities is our generation’s fight. No one will do it for us. We owe it to ourselves, the Iraqis, and the American soldiers dying for a lie."
Full story:
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=35&ItemID=7453
# posted by Jorge Mariscal @ 7:43 PM 
