Student Strikes Against The War Today

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This article is from yesterday, from the San Francisco Chronicle, but I haven't seen anything else about this on DU:

It hasn't reached the level of the campus peace movement during the 1960s, but students at more than a dozen colleges from San Francisco State University to Columbia University in New York will stage strikes and rallies Thursday to protest the war in Iraq.

The anti-war demonstrations come as President Bush prepares to send more troops to Iraq and are timed to coincide with the fourth anniversary of the massive protests staged in the weeks before Operation Iraqi Freedom began on March 20, 2003.

"Me and my roommate were hearing all these stories about the war, and we said we can't just sit around anymore. We really need to bring it back to the protests of the '60s," said Alysha Higgins, 19, a freshman at UC Berkeley, where a rally is planned on Sproul Plaza at noon. "We just need to target this war and start this movement."

The national effort came after students at Columbia heard of plans by anti-war activists at UC Santa Barbara to stage a strike against the war on Thursday and decided to have their own. From there, a national campaign was launched with the help of the World Can't Wait, a political group that opposes the Bush presidency and urges resistance to his policies.

"There are a lot of students who are really looking for a vehicle for this. ... World Can't Wait saw that and was really inspired," said Ben Rosen, an organizer for the World Can't Wait. "These groups of passionate kids are ready to make a difference."

The campus movement has attracted the attention of schools across the country from Sarah Lawrence College and Fordham University in New York to the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and in the Bay Area at UC Berkeley, San Francisco State, Mills College, Sonoma State University and UC Santa Cruz. Students at several high schools in the Bay Area, including Lowell High in San Francisco, Fremont High in Oakland and Berkeley High, are getting involved, too. The actions will vary from strikes where students skip class and refuse to patronize any stores or restaurants to informational rallies and marches.

More at http://www.worldcantwait.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3898&Itemid=12

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1. Trust me - there are great young people out there

I work with them daily. They're bright and caring. I'm so proud of them, and I have great hope for our future.

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