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DESCRIPTION:  ** PRESS CONFERENCE: June 5, 2006 **  Contacts: Karen Knoller, Freshman, 
 SFSU Ten - (818) 554-5382  Doniella Maher, SFSU Ten – (916) 801-0378  
 SFSU STUDENTS BEING HARASSED BY THEIR ADMINISTRATION, DENIED LEGAL 
 REPRESENTATION  PRESS CONFERENCE PLANNED TO "DEFEND THE SFSU TEN!"  What: 
 Press conference to deliver petition to Administration, discuss University 
 actions against the SFSU Ten  When: Monday, June 5, 2006, 11:00 AM  Where: 
 Corner of 19th Ave & Holloway Ave, SF, next to the Administration Building  
 Speakers: Nancy Mancias, Peace Campaign Cooridinator: Global Exchnage; 
 Carlos Villarreal, National Lawyers Guild; Todd Chretien, Green Party 
 Candidate for U.S. Senate; Sharon Adams, NLG attorney representing the SFSU 
 Ten; Karen Knoller, one of the SFSU Ten  San Francisco State University 
 Administration has initiated disciplinary proceedings against antiwar 
 activists. The students, also known as the “SFSU Ten,” have received 
 notices requesting confidential meetings with University Administration 
 officials to investigate a complaint filed by the campus police chief 
 regarding the protest of military recruiters on April 14th, 2006. No copy 
 of the complaint or any of the allegations has thus far been provided to 
 the students. According to University code, potential outcomes of these 
 disciplinary proceedings include suspension or expulsion.  The public 
 response to defend these students has been overwhelming. A circulating 
 petition (http://www.petitiononline.com/sfsu10/petition.html ) has been 
 signed by over 1200 people including Gold Star Mom Cindy Sheehan, 
 conscientious objector Camilo Mejia, and  Denis Halliday, the former UN 
 Assistant Secretary General who resigned in protest as the UN's 
 Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq. The students plan to present the 
 Adminstration with this petition on Monday.  The students sought 
 representation from the National Lawyers Guild to defend their basic 
 constitutional due process rights by demanding that all documents related 
 to the complaint be provided before any meetings take place and that only 
 one joint meeting be held with all the students. Sharon Adams, the lawyer 
 representing the students was told that the University would not cooperate 
 with lawyers and that her letter requesting a copy of the complaint and a 
 joint meeting between the students and the University was going to be 
 ignored. In doing so, “the University is violating students' rights to 
 due process” stated Sharon Adams of the National Lawyers Guild.  The 
 April 14 protest involved a small group of students clapping and chanting 
 inside the school gymnasium, about 25 feet from the recruiters themselves. 
 Without any warning, a large group of police stormed in and began dragging 
 students out physically.  Following the botched police response, the 
 University initially barred the students from being on campus for 14 days, 
 making several students homeless, then balked amidst public outcry, saying 
 students could come back after just three days. The University then waited 
 until finals week before issuing the current wave of disciplinary action. 
 The students feel that this is an effort to divide and conquer, 
 intimidating individual students in an attempt to silence them. They are 
 therefore demanding a joint conference.  "The Administration wants to 
 eliminate vocal resistance to the war by violating our right to free speech 
 and freedom of assembly," stated Michael Hoffman, a grad student and 
 Teaching Assistant in Mathematics, "and given the fact that US Marines are 
 committing war crimes in Iraq- slaughtering civilians in Haditha and 
 torturing prisoners in Abu Ghraib - the University should be defending 
 students from deceptive and discriminatory military recruiters instead of 
 punishing us for standing up for what is right."  The SFSU Ten are holding 
 a press conference on Monday, June 5, 2006, in order to discuss 
 disciplinary proceedings, the events of April 14 and to present the 
 administration with the petition. You are encouraged to attend.  \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/02/104293.php
SUMMARY:Defend the SFSU Ten! Antiwar Students Deliver Petition
LOCATION:Corner of 19th Ave & Holloway Ave  (Just outside the SFSU Administration 
 Building)
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/02/104293.php
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