Books Not Bombs! (College students go on strike to protest war)

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[mountaineer]

March 5th National Student Strike

Books Not Bombs! Stop the War Against Iraq!

The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) calls upon students on campuses across the United States to join us in a one-day student strike on March 5th, 2003. As students and youth, our futures will be shaped by the actions that the Bush administration takes today. A US attack on Iraq will inevitably:

• Endanger the lives of US servicemen and women
• Increase the suffering of the Iraqi people while slaughtering thousands of innocent people
• Encourage terror attacks against the US around the world and at home
• Be used as an excuse to erode civil liberties
• Divert resources from education and social services
• Subvert historical precedent and international law

As students and youth, the future of this country, we are disturbed by the lack of attention paid to the real needs of Americans, especially education. Financial aid opportunities and family income are rapidly losing ground to the rising cost of higher education. *1 Low-income families are facing decreasing access to education. Student debt is increasing. *2 All while the US military budget steadily increases (12% from 2000 to 2002 *3).

We say NO! to this war of terror to increase American power and take control of strategic oil supplies. Join us in a student strike March 5th to demand:

US Government:

• End the drive for military action and economic sanctions that target the people of Iraq
• Fund education to ensure that everyone in the US has access to higher education
• Re-allocate military funds to eliminating poverty and building peace and home and abroad

Campus Administrators:

• Declare opposition to the war
• Disclose and eliminate military research contracts
• Freeze or lower tuition and fees
• Transfer money for JROTC to college preparation and counseling and from ROTC to financial aid

The Bush Administration’s war on Iraq is a venture for control of the region and its oil supplies, not national security, democracy, or human rights. ...

[TheBigB]

I'll bet money you'll never see an SEC school pass one of these idiotic things.

[mountaineer]

We're on strike for peace!

[creamedcorn]

As our local news failed to report today: While 1,000 students at UT protested the war...49,000 did NOT.

Your assumption being that all 49,000 must support going to war. With us or against us, right? It's that easy. Well, by that logic we should vacate every elected office, since a majority of registered voters regularly fail to show up at the polls.

[mountaineer]

Your assumption being that all 49,000 must support going to war

I'd say that was your inference, not the poster's assumption. How do you know what he or she assumed?

[creamedcorn]

You got me. I should've used a question mark.

[flying Elvis]

If they protest and miss my class its going to be an unexcused absence.

[TXBubba]

Thank you mountaineer. No, I was not making an assumption. I was showing that the media has an orgasm because 1/50th of a school's student body skips class to play in the streets. I do make the assumption that part of that 1,000 was there just to have fun and had no intellectual or emotional attachment to the protest itself.

All Freepers are invited to join us in the Freep of the Creep here in Austin tonight!

[cinFLA]

These protesters need Mom and Dad to spank their pimple covered butts and take them out of school.

Those mom's and dad's are the protestors of the '60's.

[TXBubba]

Can't resist...per creamedcorn...your assumption is that all of their parent's were protestors in the 60s. I don't think that is the case.

[Fresh Wind]

Shouldn't the title be "Bongs Not Bombs"?

[mountaineer]

No one said they didn't have the right to expres their opinion. Unfortunately, it's not a learned opinion - it's a rote recitation of the same old tired slogans the left has been spewing for years. Further, their premises are faulty (this war is only about oil, etc.), they illogically relate a perceived right to a low-cost higher education and increasing student debt with the Iraq conflict, and they seem to harbor the irrational and naive belief that their "strike" will accomplish anything. People who don't actually work for a living are the last ones who should threaten to strike.

[Chancellor Palpatine]

I used to go to the racetrack instead of going to class.

Wonder if that means I'm a lot more shallow than these kids?

[Mike Darancette]

March 5th, 2003

What a great day to schedule Mid-Terms (no make-up).

[tje]

The only way they could strike is by going to work....

[mountaineer]

Depends - did you win?