4/16/2005: Students, faculty, and community supporters are handing out fliers to counter military recruiters lies at CSU-Fresno this weekend. See the SunMt video of chants, drumming, and un-recruiting. Police on Friday threatened the activists with arrest if they continued handing out fliers. On Saturday the activists not only continued handing out fliers, but held a drum circle right next to the military recruiters table. They chanted anti-war slogans that drew a bigger crowd than the military. The Army recruiters countered by stealing posters from the counter recruiters, taking fliers from the hands of people who had received counter recruiting fliers, calling in the police to stop the counter recruiters, and even had an attractive female recruiter giving a hoola hoop demonstration to attract visitors. See the story from the Friday CSUF action HERE.

Students For Social Justice at Merced College held an event Friday, featuring anti-war speakers, spoken word artists, and musicians. While the anti war rally was assigned to the amphitheater on the fringe of the campus, the Army was given a prime location in the center of the school, next to the student union. A climbing wall was set up, posters were on display, and recruiters were engaging students as they walked by. One recruiter was heard cajoling a young Chicana student to "take a test" so she could be all she could be. When she said she didn’t have time to take the test the recruiter said he would "track her down." Police showed up on the scene later in the rally, and confirmed with an Indymedia reporter that they had heard a rumor that someone was going to burn a U.S. flag at the event.