Money For Jobs and Education, Not For War And Occupation! Student Strikes Sweep Across Country

[BayCityProgressive]

http://www.workers.org/2007/us/walkout-0405/

The fourth anniversary of the beginning of the criminal war on Iraq was not observed quietly on many of this country’s university and high school campuses. More than 80 universities and high schools across the U.S. participated in a National Day of Student Action Against the War, initiated by the newly re-founded Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).



Student walkout at UNC-Chapel Hill, March 20.
Photo: Adam Graetz
At a youth and student caucus called for by SDS at this past year’s School of the Americas (SOA) demonstration, more than 100 youth and student organizers from more than 20 universities and high schools came together to discuss how the youth movement would organize around the fourth anniversary of the war. It was unanimously decided by those in the room that SDS would call for a national day of student walkouts on March 20, the fourth anniversary of the war.

many other links:
3/9/2007 - The Students Are Stirring: A Campus Antiwar Movement Begins to Make Its Mark by Ron Jacobs - MR Zine - Interview with Kati Ketz of UNC-Asheville SDS about March 20 (also on Znet and Dissident Voice)

UNC-Chapel Hill

3/21/2007 - ‘Whose Streets? Our Streets!’ Students protest war by hundreds on anniversary - Daily Tarheel

3/21/2007 - Students mark war’s anniversary - News & Observer

3/20/2007 - Locals, students call for troops to be sent home - Daily Tarheel

3/20/2007 - War protesters leave classes, flood streets - Herald Sun.com

3/20/2007 - Students plan anti-war protest today - News & Observer

3/20/2007 - SDS members at UNC plan walkout today over Iraq - Herald Sun

Maria Carillo High School (Santa Rosa, CA)

3/21/2007 - Maria Carrillo students protest war - The Press Democrat

University of Alabama-Tuscaloosa

3/21/2007 - Protesters: ‘Get out of Iraq now’ - The Crimson White

Rutgers University (New Jersey)

3/21/2007 - Rutgers students walk out of class to protest war - Star Ledger

3/21/2007 - A Walkout against the war - Star Ledger

3/21/2007 - Protesters hit the road - Asbury Park Press

3/21/2007 - Protest halts traffic - Hundreds rally at Rutgers, on Route 18 against war - Home News Tribune

3/21/2007 - Student walkout spills onto Route 18 - Daily Targum

3/21/2007 - Mother speaks in memory of soldier - Daily Targum

3/21/2007 - Rally elicits concerns from some at ROTC - Daily Targum

3/21/2007 - 300 Rutgers students skip class, protest war - NorthJersey.com

3/21/2007 - Anti-war org is back - Rutgers Observer

3/20/2007 - Rutgers: Anti-War Protest Disrupts Route 18 Traffic - Courier News Online

3/20/2007 - Anti-war protest impacts traffic in New Brunswick - Home News Tribune

3/20/2007 - 400 protesters swarm downtown New Brunswick, NJ, shut down highway, block recruiting center - Infoshop News

3/19/2007 - U Students Ready Legs, Opinions for War Protest - Daily Targum

3/19/2007 - Show That You Care - Commentary in the Daily Targum

3/19/2007 - Getting Real - Commentary in the Daily Targum

[rman]

1. Good echos from the past

So far in US history there has been only one day of complete student strike; that was after the army shot and killed students at Kent State University, and at another university the next day. It's interesting to see that violent oppression by the government did embolden rather than suppress people (well, students at least...).