If the army recruiters thought before that we would go away and never come back…they were dead wrong.
Tomorrow is set to be one of the largest demonstrations against the army’s pilot program to gain new recruits – particularly young people –to join the military by utilizing a wide variety of first-person shooter video games and real-life scenarios to demonstrate the “enjoyment” that can be had fighting in wars. Unlike video games, however, life does not come with a restart button nor is it structured around a system of re-spawning.
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On August 30, teachers and university workers represented by both AFSCME Local 1723 and the Temple Association of University Professionals Local 4531 will stage a demonstration picket outside the convocation ceremony in protest of the refusal of the university administration to negotiate a new labor contract. The actions of the school administration can be summarized thusly: the deprecation of education through the diversion of funds away from actual education and into the pockets of the already wealthy school bureaucrats.
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On Wednesday the 12th of August, REVOLUTION groups in Austria, Germany and Sweden took action against police violence after the murdering of 14 year old Florian. Read about the protests here.
If you thought that the Army could do no “better” than America’s Army (the popular first-person shooter designed by the military itself and used to recruit impressionable young people who enjoy playing video games), than think again!
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by Christopher Müller, student representative of the “AHS Kleine
Sperlgasse (Vienna)” and spokesman of REVOLUTION
Our second school strike was a great success. According to the ORF(television station in Austria), 2,500 students marched in Vienna to the Ministry of Education and about 10,000 were protesting nationwide against the deprivation of education by the SPÖVP government. The youth organization REVOLUTION had already organized a first school strike in Vienna on April 2nd and also took the initiative to organize this second school strike. Today we were able to mobilize students from a large number of schools. An important force in the mobilization process was the action committees which formed in a number of schools to organize the resistance against the deprivation of education.
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Beginning at noon on Saturday March 21st, several thousand protesters gather in downtown Washington D.C. in remonstration of the 6th anniversary of America’s invasion and subsequent occupation of Iraq. Other issues, however, found prominence as well. They included: the expansion of the war in Afghanistan, the plight of workers and all the oppressed in the United States with regard to the current economic calamity, the scrapping of all U.S plans to militarily intervene in Iran or Pakistan, and the particular struggles of African-Americans and other minority groups who face continued and intensified economic and social oppression.
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After being forcibly evicted from the barricaded cafeteria in the Kimmel Center for University Life and later served with indefinite suspensions, the occupying students from New York University [NYU] were granted their right to return to classes this coming Monday. This can be attributed to massive support from the public, teachers and professors at NYU, and students from other New York-based universities who participated in occupations at the New School and the University of Rochester. The tireless efforts of the NYU students who kept up the fight even after being removed from campus housing and threatened with expulsion by the administration, provide invaluable lessons for future militant action across American university campuses. The thirty-six hour occupation formally ended at 2 P.M. on February 20th, but, as Take Back NYU! notes, the struggle to democratize student life and break NYU from investing in corporations that enable the Zionist regime in Israel to murder Palestinians in Gaza is far from over.
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originally a circular by Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP)
Hampshire College in Amherst, MA, has become the first of any college or
university in the U.S. to divest from companies on the grounds of their involvement
in the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
This landmark move is a direct result of a two-year intensive campaign by the
campus group, Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The group pressured
Hampshire College’s Board of Trustees to divest from six specific companies due to
Human rights concerns in occupied Palestine. Over 800 students, professors, and
alumni have signed SJP’s “institutional statement” calling for the divestment.
The proposal put forth by SJP was approved on Saturday, 7 Feb 2009 by the Board.
By divesting from these companies, SJP believes that Hampshire has distanced
itself from complicity in the illegal occupation and war crimes of Israel
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Drawing inspiration from the widespread student occupations across Britain and last year’s New School takeover in New York City, students, activists, and community members converged at the University of Rochester to protest against the university’s economic ties with the Zionist government in Israel and its murderous occupation in the Gaza Strip more generally. While organized primarily by Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), many other groups, including the Campus Antiwar Network (CAN), the International Socialist Organization (ISO), and Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) were all active fighting contingents.
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