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Students Denounce Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Activities
by UCSC Students Against War (from SC-IMC)
Thursday, Dec. 15, 2005 at 1:42 AM
SANTA CRUZ, CA – According to a document obtained by NBC News, the Pentagon has been spying on 1,500 “suspicious incidents,” including anti-war and counter-recruitment meetings and actions throughout the nation over the past 10-month period. Among the first pages of more than 400 released, 10 college anti-war protests were listed, including UC Santa Cruz Students Against War (SAW)’s counter-recruitment protest of April 5, 2005, which was the only one to be labeled both credible and a “threat.”
[ Original MSNBC story ] [ DoD Database of domestic 'threats' (.pdf) ]
see also: Wanted - information about under-cop || Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG) returns to Oakland Recruiting Station || Rally, Queer Kiss-in Greet Military Recruiters at UCSC || UCSC Students Kick Military Recruiters Off Campus
Students Denounce Pentagon Surveillance of Counter-Recruitment Activities
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
DECEMBER 14, 2005
CONTACT: Students Against War’s ad-hoc press team:
Jen Low – jlow (at) ucsc.edu - 415-772-2907
Josh Sonnenfeld – josh_lizard (at) yahoo.com - 831-295-2139
Kot Hordynski - khordyns (at) ucsc.edu - 510-292-5001
STUDENTS DENOUNCE PENTAGON SURVEILLANCE OF COUNTER-RECRUITMENT ACTIVITIES
DoD ACTIONS PART OF A WAVE OF CAMPUS REPRESSION
SANTA CRUZ, CA – According to a document obtained by NBC News, the Pentagon has been spying on 1,500 “suspicious incidents,” including anti-war and counter-recruitment meetings and actions throughout the nation over the past 10-month period. Among the first pages of more than 400 released, 10 college anti-war protests were listed, including UC Santa Cruz Students Against War (SAW)’s counter-recruitment protest of April 5, 2005, which was the only one to be labeled both credible and a “threat.”
This repression does not end with the surveillance from the Federal government. In fact, local officials and college campuses have also been monitoring and repressing anti-war and counter-recruitment activities. In August, community members of the Pennsylvania Organizing Group (POG) peacefully protesting at a military recruiting center near the University of Pittsburg were violently attacked by police. Most recently, at Hampton University in Virginia, students disseminating information against military recruiters on campus were threatened with expulsion. Other schools that have witnessed incidents of extreme repression against student activists include the University of Wisconsin – Madison, Kent State, Harold Washington College, Holyoke Community College, George Mason University, San Francisco State University, City College of New York, and Seattle Central Community College.
UC Santa Cruz is widely known to have one of the largest antiwar and counter-recruitment movements in the country. On April 5, 2005 over 300 students marched into a campus job fair, occupying the building and holding a teach-in until all military recruiters left. On October 18, 2005, over 200 students rallied outside of another job fair, while two dozen UCSC students blocked recruiters on the inside by engaging in a ‘Queer Kiss-In’ to protest discriminatory military recruitment.
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Sources:
12/13/05 - Is the Pentagon spying on Americans?
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10454316/
12/13/05 – Department of Defense database listing domestic ‘threats’
http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/i/msnbc/sections/news/DODAntiWarProtestDatabaseTracker.pdf
12/10/05—Hampton University Students Punished for Protesting War
http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_2318.shtml
12/03/05 - Students Not Expelled! …But Fight Not Over
http://www.campusantiwar.net/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=134
11/18/05 – POG Returns to Oakland Recruiting Station
http://pittsburgh.indymedia.org/news/2005/11/21658.php
11/18/05 - Rally, Queer Kiss-in Greet Military Recruiters at UCSC
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17213/index.php
04/05/05 - UCSC Students Kick Military Recruiters Off Campus
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/feature/display/17073/index.php
Read more here:
http://santacruz.indymedia.org/newswire/display/19173/index.php
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