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Just heard that once the administration facility closes at 10 PM Pacific that the students have taken over, all of the student 'sit in' protestors will be arrested.Organizers have put out the call for more students to come out to enforce 5 items on a 'list of demands' to university adminsitration. (presumably anti-war type demands)

Workers and students across the nation plan to skip work and school Wednesday in a national moriatorium to stop the impending war against Iraq.Backed by dozens of religious, labor, community and anti war groups, the moriatorium's theme is 'no school, no work no business as usual.'Participants are being encouraged to call in sick close their businesses, cancel classes, hold workplace talks about the war, conduct special services at house of worship and stage non violent protests.The student walkout has gained a momentum of its own, with thousands of students on more than 200 campuses pledging to boycott classes.In the Bay...

Students at hundreds of high schools are planning a walkout on Wednesday to protest the Bush Administration's plans for war in Iraq.The 'student strike' is being coordinated by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, an organization of 15 student groups that came together after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.The coalition, which calls the action 'Books not Bombs,' has linked student protests against war in Iraq with a call for better financed schools.'Were getting about 10 schools a day contacting us to participate, and it's probably about 35-40 percent high schools, said Andy Burns, an organizer who is...

Non-violent protestors will plan to try and blockade the TransAmerica Pyramid, the Pacific Exchange and other 'war making' corporate and federal headquarters in San Francisco the first day after a prospective United States attack on Iraq.Nobody-not police nor activists who have participated in planning sessions for weeks-know how many people will show up.Still, mindful of the ability of free form groups as the Critical Mass bicyclists to tie up downtown-and of the protests in San Francisco after the start of the 1991 Gulf War that resulted in 1,000 arrests-police and some of the events intended targets are preparing for some...

Protesters settled in front of Democratic United States Senator John Edwards Raleigh office awaiting arrest for their efforts to make a statement that the Senator has not gone far enough to oppose a war with Iraq.But despite the fact that the protestors were breaking the law by blocking an entrance into a public building, the police on site chose not to intervene. Three participating University of North Carolina students Anna Carson Dewitt and Sascha Bollag, both freshman and senior Scott O' Day said they were disappointed when the police refused to arrest them. All three have prior arrest for civil...

The White House's postponment of a literary symposium it believe was becoming politicized led two former U.S. poets lauerate to characterize the decision as an example of the Bush Administations hostility to dissenting voices.'I think there was a general feeling that the current Administration is not really a friend of the poetic community and that its program of attacking Iraq is contrary to the humanatarian position that is at the center of the poetic impulse,' Stanley Kunitz the 2000-2001 poet lauerate, said Thursday.In a statement, Rita Dove, who served a poet lauerate from 1993 to 1995 said the postponement confirmed...