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The War on Terror: A Credible Threat (4/24)
Teach-in at University of California, Santa Cruz
April 24, 2006, 10am-7pm
The Quarry
April 24, 2006, 10am-7pm
The Quarry
The War on Terror: A Credible Threat will be a teach-in on surveillance, university life and the war on terror. It is to be a day of reflection on U.S. International Politics and University Life.
As a result of student demonstrations against military recruiters in April 2005, the Defense Department listed our campus as a "credible threat." They specified neither their means of assessment nor the nature of the threat. Because the United States government explicitly labeled the University of California at Santa Cruz a "credible threat" in its "War on Terror", we as educators are obliged to seek and to provide an understanding of both this "War" and the "threats" that the US Government claims to combat.
We have decided to take this occasion to present a thorough examination of the War on Terror, making links between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, illegal surveillance, the Patriot Act, unitary executive powers, harassment of Middle East Studies programs, efforts to hamper academic freedoms, torture and rendering, criminalization of immigrants, and U.S. support for authoritarian regimes who have used the rubric of the War on Terror to harass their own citizens.
The event will take place on Monday, April 24. We are inviting political activists, journalists, Congressional representatives, lawyers, professors, students and performers to speak.
Major funding for the teach-in has been provided by:
Office of the Chancellor
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
Student Affairs
American Civil Liberties Union
Anthropology Department
Center for Cultural Studies
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community
College 9 and College 10
Community Studies Department
Cowell College
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Feminist Studies Department
History Department
Institute for Advanced Feminist Research/Feminism and Global War
Institute for Humanities Research
Latin American and Latino Studies Department
Literature Department
Merrill College
Politics Department
Psychology Department
Sociology Department
Stevenson College
Women's Center
As a result of student demonstrations against military recruiters in April 2005, the Defense Department listed our campus as a "credible threat." They specified neither their means of assessment nor the nature of the threat. Because the United States government explicitly labeled the University of California at Santa Cruz a "credible threat" in its "War on Terror", we as educators are obliged to seek and to provide an understanding of both this "War" and the "threats" that the US Government claims to combat.
We have decided to take this occasion to present a thorough examination of the War on Terror, making links between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, illegal surveillance, the Patriot Act, unitary executive powers, harassment of Middle East Studies programs, efforts to hamper academic freedoms, torture and rendering, criminalization of immigrants, and U.S. support for authoritarian regimes who have used the rubric of the War on Terror to harass their own citizens.
The event will take place on Monday, April 24. We are inviting political activists, journalists, Congressional representatives, lawyers, professors, students and performers to speak.
Major funding for the teach-in has been provided by:
Office of the Chancellor
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor
Student Affairs
American Civil Liberties Union
Anthropology Department
Center for Cultural Studies
Center for Justice, Tolerance, and Community
College 9 and College 10
Community Studies Department
Cowell College
Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office
Feminist Studies Department
History Department
Institute for Advanced Feminist Research/Feminism and Global War
Institute for Humanities Research
Latin American and Latino Studies Department
Literature Department
Merrill College
Politics Department
Psychology Department
Sociology Department
Stevenson College
Women's Center
For more information:
http://www.thewaronterror.org/
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March 30, 2006
Contact: Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp [at] ucsc.edu
Husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame to headline teach-in at UC Santa Cruz
Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson—the husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame—will be among the featured speakers at “The War on Terror: A Credible Threat,” a daylong teach-in that will take place on Monday, April 24, at UC Santa Cruz in the Quarry Amphitheater.
The 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. public event will feature nationally known speakers for a day of reflection on U.S. international politics and university life. Guest speakers will include U.S. Representative Sam Farr; prominent law professors from UCLA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Georgetown University; Santa Cruz mayor Cynthia Mathews; and senior UC Santa Cruz faculty members. Chancellor Denton is also expected to attend and speak briefly. Admission is free.
Wilson is now at the center of a controversy involving the White House, the CIA, and the Iraq war. His wife’s identity was disclosed after he asserted in a New York Times op-ed column that the administration twisted prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from a nuclear weapons program.
The teach-in is designed to address growing concern over warrantless searches of U.S. citizens, confirmed reports of torture in U.S.-controlled prisons, alleged violations of constitutional and international law in the war on terror, and the deteriorating situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. It was initiated by Faculty Against War—a group of 25 senior UC Santa Cruz faculty members—and a coalition of student organizations, including Students Against War (SAW).
“As educators, we feel an obligation to respond, and so we have chosen to respond with education,” noted UC Santa Cruz politics professor Michael Urban, who spoke on behalf of Faculty Against War.
The idea for the event grew out of outrage at the Pentagon’s spying on antiwar activities by students and a recent report in which UC Santa Cruz was characterized as being a “credible threat” to national security. Chancellor Denton challenged that designation with members of Congress, and it was subsequently removed from the Pentagon’s database.
“This event is an effort to spark a national movement similar to the kind of effective teach-ins that were mounted in the 1960s and 1970s about the war in Vietnam,” said feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker. The organizers aim to “provide a forum for those who want to consider what is being done in their names, and to inform the judgment and discretion of both the academic and civic communities,” she added.
The list of speakers slated for the event includes:
• Richard Abel, Professor, UCLA School of Law
• Bettina Aptheker, UCSC Professor, Feminist Studies and History
• Maria Blanco, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area
• Judith Butler, Professor, UC Berkeley Departments of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Gender & Women's Studies
• David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
• Sam Farr, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
• Safaa J. Ibrahim, Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Cynthia Mathews, Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
• Eben Moglen, Professor, Columbia University School of Law
• Alan Richards, UCSC Professor, Economics and Environmental Studies
• Miguel Tinker-Salas, Professor, Pomona College, Latin American History
• Neferti Tadiar, UCSC Associate Professor, History of Consciousness
• Daniel Wirls, UCSC Professor, Politics
Major funding for the teach-in has been provided by the Offices of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, and Student Affairs, with additional contributions from the Anthropology Department, Center for Cultural Studies, Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community (CJTC), College Nine, College Ten, Cowell College, Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office, Feminist Studies Department, History Department, Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR), Institute for Humanities Research, Literature Department, Women’s Center, the Santa Cruz Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and other campus and community organizations. For more information, go to: http://www.thewaronterror.org, or call (831) 459-2663.
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=843
Contact: Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp [at] ucsc.edu
Husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame to headline teach-in at UC Santa Cruz
Former U.S. ambassador to Iraq Joseph Wilson—the husband of outed CIA operative Valerie Plame—will be among the featured speakers at “The War on Terror: A Credible Threat,” a daylong teach-in that will take place on Monday, April 24, at UC Santa Cruz in the Quarry Amphitheater.
The 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. public event will feature nationally known speakers for a day of reflection on U.S. international politics and university life. Guest speakers will include U.S. Representative Sam Farr; prominent law professors from UCLA, UC Berkeley, Columbia, and Georgetown University; Santa Cruz mayor Cynthia Mathews; and senior UC Santa Cruz faculty members. Chancellor Denton is also expected to attend and speak briefly. Admission is free.
Wilson is now at the center of a controversy involving the White House, the CIA, and the Iraq war. His wife’s identity was disclosed after he asserted in a New York Times op-ed column that the administration twisted prewar intelligence to exaggerate the Iraqi threat from a nuclear weapons program.
The teach-in is designed to address growing concern over warrantless searches of U.S. citizens, confirmed reports of torture in U.S.-controlled prisons, alleged violations of constitutional and international law in the war on terror, and the deteriorating situations in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Middle East. It was initiated by Faculty Against War—a group of 25 senior UC Santa Cruz faculty members—and a coalition of student organizations, including Students Against War (SAW).
“As educators, we feel an obligation to respond, and so we have chosen to respond with education,” noted UC Santa Cruz politics professor Michael Urban, who spoke on behalf of Faculty Against War.
The idea for the event grew out of outrage at the Pentagon’s spying on antiwar activities by students and a recent report in which UC Santa Cruz was characterized as being a “credible threat” to national security. Chancellor Denton challenged that designation with members of Congress, and it was subsequently removed from the Pentagon’s database.
“This event is an effort to spark a national movement similar to the kind of effective teach-ins that were mounted in the 1960s and 1970s about the war in Vietnam,” said feminist studies professor Bettina Aptheker. The organizers aim to “provide a forum for those who want to consider what is being done in their names, and to inform the judgment and discretion of both the academic and civic communities,” she added.
The list of speakers slated for the event includes:
• Richard Abel, Professor, UCLA School of Law
• Bettina Aptheker, UCSC Professor, Feminist Studies and History
• Maria Blanco, Executive Director, Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of San Francisco Bay Area
• Judith Butler, Professor, UC Berkeley Departments of Rhetoric, Comparative Literature, and Gender & Women's Studies
• David Cole, Professor, Georgetown University School of Law
• Sam Farr, Member, U.S. House of Representatives
• Safaa J. Ibrahim, Council on American-Islamic Relations
• Cynthia Mathews, Mayor, City of Santa Cruz
• Eben Moglen, Professor, Columbia University School of Law
• Alan Richards, UCSC Professor, Economics and Environmental Studies
• Miguel Tinker-Salas, Professor, Pomona College, Latin American History
• Neferti Tadiar, UCSC Associate Professor, History of Consciousness
• Daniel Wirls, UCSC Professor, Politics
Major funding for the teach-in has been provided by the Offices of the Chancellor, Executive Vice Chancellor, and Student Affairs, with additional contributions from the Anthropology Department, Center for Cultural Studies, Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community (CJTC), College Nine, College Ten, Cowell College, Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Office, Feminist Studies Department, History Department, Institute for Advanced Feminist Research (IAFR), Institute for Humanities Research, Literature Department, Women’s Center, the Santa Cruz Chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, and other campus and community organizations. For more information, go to: http://www.thewaronterror.org, or call (831) 459-2663.
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=843
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