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People’s History of Wayne State University Flyer PDF
Half-Size People’s History of Wayne State University Flyer

Original post by Aaron and reposted by Radical Blogs

Aaron Petcoff, Wayne State University SDS
Detroit, MI
This is a call to all chapters of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Wisconsin to convene in Ann Arbor, MI on Saturday, 6 January and Sunday, 7 January for the first Midwest SDS Convention.
The purpose of the convention is to build […]

A “Day Of Outrage” protester (Photo: Thomas Good)
New York, NY - December 21 The protests demanding justice for Sean Bell, gunned down by the NYPD on November 25, 2006, continue - and are getting more militant. A “Day Of Outrage” protest, called by the December 12th Movement / Black Men’s Movement for “Black Thursday” […]

It was recently announced that the College of Education at Wayne State will require “all students enrolled in initial teacher preparation programs will be required to have the college-specified laptop before classes begin.” All students in the CoE recieved a letter from the CoE Dean Paula Wood. The college-specified laptop is the Apple MacBook, which […]

Here are the addresses for the locations of the 2007 Midwest Regional Convention, held on January 6th and 7th.
January 6th
ICC Ed. Center
1510 Hill,
Ann Arbor 48104
January 7th
Michigan Union
503 S. State St.,
Ann Arbor 48109
There is a conference call this Wednesday, the 20th at 9:00PM EST, for the planning of housing, transportation, the agenda, and outreach.
Dial-in Number: (319) […]

(Photo: Joshua Russell)
From the very beginning the Northwest convention had a very different feeling than the previous two. There has been very little MDS involvement in the Northwest so students had planned the entire conference. Friday night, a group of Lewis & Clark SDSers, including myself, crammed into two cars and headed over to Reed […]

A CodePINK member holds a sign that expresses the fellings of New Yorkers (Photo: Thomas Good)
New York City - December 16, 2006. Thousands of New Yorkers filled the streets to express their outrage with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) today. “Shopping for Justice” was the tagline given the mass protest and march […]

Leafletting for the CIW (Photo: Thomas Good)
by Tomer Malchi
McDonald’s makes its billions not only by selling more fast food than any other restaurant, but also by using its massive purchasing power to drive down the price of the tomatoes it buys. This downward pressure hits farmworkers the hardest: they earn 40 cents per […]

“How can we retain students? Let’s stop arresting them…”
- Roger Salerno, Pace Professor (Photo: Thomas Good)
New York, NY - December 11, 2006 Around Noon on December 11th, 2006, the Pace University downtown campus, on Park Row, was quiet. As the first journalist on the scene I hung out near the undeployed NYPD barricades. Eventually Frank […]

New York, NY - December 11, 2006.  Pace University faculty from both the New York and Westchester campuses will assemble at 1 Pace Plaza in Lower Manhattan Monday afternoon at 12:30 PM to express their views regarding the recent arrests of five individuals on the Pace University campus.
Three Pace students and two local activists were […]