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Students for a Democratic Society
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PRESS RELEASE
For immediate release: Contact: Zachary Hershman
Tuesday March 18th, 2008 Phone: 201.264.2200
WAVE OF 90 STUDENT PROTESTS HIT SCHOOLS AROUND THE NATIONSTUDENTS RISK ARREST IN WEEK OF ACTION FOR THE ANNIVERSARY OF WAR IN IRAQ
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE IN WASHINGTON ON MARCH 19th
Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) led student protests in over 90 schools Monday morning, marking the first day of a week of anti-war action for the fifth anniversary of the War in Iraq. From high schools to Harvard, students left class and took to the streets to demand an immediate end to the war in Iraq and a reinvestment in America’s schools. Students for a Democratic Society is challenging local schools around the country to adopt a progressive agenda.
Tamara Tal, an organizer with University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill SDS, said they are working with more than 30 student organizations, as well as campus workers and faculty, in order to build a broad antiwar coalition. “We’re raising the stakes and bringing that message home to the university,” said Tal. “We want the university administration to cut their ties with military recruiters, war profiteers and Army research labs.”
“Just like last year, thousands of SDS youth are leading their communities in active opposition to the occupation of Iraq,” said Charla Schlueter, another SDS organizer from North Carolina. “Students and youth are fighting for a future that is largely theirs. Young people are on the ground in Iraq, they are facing education cuts at home, and will inherit the policy mistakes of the last generation.”
On March 19th, the anniversary of the War, SDS will be holding a titanic “Funk The War” dance party and dramatic civil disobedience in the nation’s capitol of Washington. Hundreds of DC SDS members, along with friends The Baltimore Algebra Project and United for Peace and Justice, will be occupying the streets and the offices of war profiteers with hundreds of students and a mobile sound system.
University of Delaware SDS will be re-creating the occupation of Iraq in a street theater demonstration called “Operation First Casualty”. Soldiers in camouflage will patrol the streets before detaining, arresting and interrogating members of the audience disguised as passer-by.
In Asheville North Carolina, SDS is poised to beat last year’s 500 student turnout with a mass student strike and teach-in on March 19th, as part of a weeklong series of events in coalition with 12 other student groups and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Students for a Democratic Society was refounded two years ago to build progressive student power. SDS is the fastest growing student led organization in the nation, with over 100 chapters at schools and in communities. We win local campaigns for quality, affordable education, grassroots democracy, peace and justice.
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Students for a Democratic Society
http://www.newsds.org/march20/
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