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ROTC military recruiters off campus! Protest this Saturday at UC Berkeley, 10am
ALL ANTI-IMPERIALISTS: Join this united front protest! ROTC OFF CAMPUS! ALL US TROOPS OUT OF THE NEAR EAST NOW! April 12, this Saturday at 10am. UC BERKELEY, in front of Wheeler Hall.
Right now, the U.S. imperialist rulers are engaged in a campaign of mass murder and destruction in Iraq, to be followed by direct colonial occupation of that country. Meanwhile, the Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) continues to operate under academic cover at UC Berkeley and other campuses. The military killers-in-training of ROTC are planning on showcasing themselves at "Cal Day," April 12, by rappelling down a building on UC Berkeley's campus--a truly gross spectacle considering the carnage the imperialist military is presently piling up in Iraq. ROTC chapters are direct appendages of the U.S. military--we must mobilize in militant demonstrations to drive them off campus! Students can strike a direct blow against the U.S. imperialist war machine by making it impossible for them to recruit and organize for murder on campus. Join and help build a united front demonstration to demand: ROTC Off Campus! All U.S. Troops Out of the Near East Now!
Initiated by the Spartacus Youth Club. If you or your organization would like to endorse this demonstration based on agreement with the above two slogans, please contact us at 510-839-0851.
Initiated by the Spartacus Youth Club. If you or your organization would like to endorse this demonstration based on agreement with the above two slogans, please contact us at 510-839-0851.
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I do not recall any ROTC at Sonoma State University from which I graduated in 1971. Promoting the military is antithetical to serious academic study and should never be allowed at any school, certainly not at any public university. The military can promote their murderous agenda on their military bases. I URGE EVERYONE WHO CAN TO ATTEND THIS DEMONSTRATION. At the top of our agenda must be kicking ROTC off all campuses and teaching the workingclass to boycott the military. In other words, they should stop fighting the bosses' wars and instead fight the bosses here at home, that is, organize a labor movement.
"Driving" ROTC off campus doesn't sound like a rationale plan, or at least one that reflects an understanding of the best way to go about it. The ROTC is on campus at the invitation of the particular school, so that the school does not lose Government funding. The school can choose to give up the funding, which they would have to do by statute, and not permit ROTC recruiting. Your target is misplaced. You will not "drive" the ROTC off campus. As you said, they are the military. You must get the school to give up the MONEY!
Well, if that's the case, then the Iraqi's sur have a strange way of fighting back:
(AP) - Saddam Hussein's rule over the capital has ended, U.S. commanders declared Wednesday, and jubilant crowds swarmed into the streets here, dancing, looting and defacing images of the Iraqi leader. A Marine tank toppled a giant statue of Saddam in a sweeping, symbolic gesture. In the most visible sign of Saddam's evaporating power, the 40-foot statue of the Iraqi president was brought down in the middle of Firdos Square. Cheering Iraqis, some waving the national flag, scaled the statue and danced upon the downed icon, now lying face down. As it fell, some threw shoes and slippers at the statue — a gross insult in the Arab world.
(AP) - Saddam Hussein's rule over the capital has ended, U.S. commanders declared Wednesday, and jubilant crowds swarmed into the streets here, dancing, looting and defacing images of the Iraqi leader. A Marine tank toppled a giant statue of Saddam in a sweeping, symbolic gesture. In the most visible sign of Saddam's evaporating power, the 40-foot statue of the Iraqi president was brought down in the middle of Firdos Square. Cheering Iraqis, some waving the national flag, scaled the statue and danced upon the downed icon, now lying face down. As it fell, some threw shoes and slippers at the statue — a gross insult in the Arab world.
It's not that difficult to understand, if you're not developmentally disabled.
Typical Iraqis A) hate Hussein and other dictators, and B) also don't want to be taken over by an anglo parent country again, like they were administered by the British empire until the treaty of Versailles. They don't want the US to administer their government or their natural resources. C) Iraqis never voted that thousands of civilian deaths were tolerable
All these nonexclusive notions can be entertained at the same time!! People who can think abstractly rather than in pure dualisms can realize that opposition to Hussein does not necessarily involve support of Bush, and appreciation for removal of the dictator does not involve an invitation for US determined government.
Typical Iraqis A) hate Hussein and other dictators, and B) also don't want to be taken over by an anglo parent country again, like they were administered by the British empire until the treaty of Versailles. They don't want the US to administer their government or their natural resources. C) Iraqis never voted that thousands of civilian deaths were tolerable
All these nonexclusive notions can be entertained at the same time!! People who can think abstractly rather than in pure dualisms can realize that opposition to Hussein does not necessarily involve support of Bush, and appreciation for removal of the dictator does not involve an invitation for US determined government.
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