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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 20. April 2006 / Time Line April 20, 2006
Version 3.019. April 2006, 21. April 2006
04/20/2006
Success for free speech and the counter-recruitment/antiwar movement!!! :)
The ten SFSU students cited on Friday have been allowed back onto campus, thanks to all of your phone calls and e-mails to San Francisco State University's president Corrigan and our Administration. Thank you all so much for your support, for defending free speech on college campuses and everywhere!
On Friday afternoon, I joined many other students in protesting military recruiters at our career fair. The Administration had set up a maze of barricades in between the recruiters and the rest of the career fair, and so we stood about 25 feet away, clapping and chanting. We were not given any warning whatsoever before police stormed in and lined up next to us, then rapidly began grabbing us by the arms and pulling us out of the career fair.
At the point at which two large police officers came up behind me, one on each arm, I was not chanting or clapping. I was leaning over the barricades and talking to the unfortunate guy who was the next one in line to talk to the recruiters. He was a young man in his early twenties who was wondering what he would do after college, and he was listening to me as I told him, "Please, please, don't sign!" and listed all the reasons that he should not join the military. Then suddenly I felt people grabbing me by the arms, and I was hoisted out. (I weigh just under 110 pounds.) I was never asked to walk voluntarily. Instead I was dragged at a rapid pace as I shouted, "We are the antiwar majority! Why are we being repressed like this?" Nine other students and I were then cited and told we could not come back on campus for fourteen days, even to attend classes. (PRESS RELEASE WITH MORE INFO IS BELOW.)
I wonder about that guy I was talking to, who was on his way to talk to the recruiters... Did he sign or not? Did he make an appointment to have further conversations about a "career" in the military? And could I have talked him out of it all if we had been allowed to stay???
On Monday afternoon, after we had spent the weekend contacting all of you wonderful people about this obvious act of campus repression, and after our press conference (on the sidewalk just off of campus), the ten students received e-mails letting us know that we were allowed back on campus (BELOW). We are relieved to be attending our classes again, and the three students who live in the dorms are glad that they are no longer homeless. Thanks to everyone who called and e-mailed our university to say, "Defend the SFSU Ten!"
We are not sure the Administration is finished, however. We are not sure whether they will try to disband Students Against War (SAW), a student group of socialists, anarchists, progressives, Democrats, and others who oppose the war. If we do fall under further acts of campus repression, we will let all of you know, and we hope that you will find a few minutes to say, "Defend free speech on college campuses, and defend students' right to protest!"
Thanks again for all of your support. We couldn't have done it without all of you! :)
Lacy
Lacy MacAuley
Students Against War SFSU
Campus Antiwar Network
SUCCESS!!! LETTER FROM THE ADMINISTRATION!!!
Dear Ms MacAuley :
I write to inform you that after
administrative review of your admonishment under
Section 626.4 of the California Penal Code, the
terminus of the order has been modified. You are now
allowed to return to campus on Monday, April 17, 2006.
Sincerely yours,
J.E. (Penny) Saffold
Vice President for Student Affairs/Dean of Students
OUR PRESS RELEASE!!!
FRIDAY, April 14, 2006
Contact: Karen Knoller, (818) 554-5382, kknoller@sfsu.edu
Students at San Francisco State University detained by police for chanting
“Military Recruiters Go Home!”
Press Conference: Monday, April 17, 2006, 11:00 AM
SFSU, 19th Ave & Holloway Ave, San Francisco
Ten students were forcibly removed today from the gymnasium at San Francisco
State University for protesting military recruiters on campus. The students were
cited by University Police for disrupting campus activities. Their activities
included distributing anti-military-recruitment leaflets, talking to recruiters
and potential recruits, and chanting phrases such as, “Killing Iraqis is no
career! Recruiters are not welcome here!”
The chants were loud but students were peaceful and committed to nonviolence.
The police aggression came as a shock to the students, who hadn’t planned to get
arrested or cited, and were not given any warning prior to detainment. Police
rapidly lined up in front of the students, intimidated them and began physically
pulling students out of the career fair, in an apparent breach of police policy
against manhandling. This is typical of campus police who have had a recent
history of assaulting members of the SFSU campus community.
Students were cited with violation of CA Penal Code 626.4, which restricts
students from coming onto campus for fourteen days. They have fourteen days to
appeal the citation, but the University is blocking students from entering the
appeals process by claiming they are booked until mid-May. This comes at a time
when students nationwide are undergoing oppression for protesting, including
students at University of California Santa Cruz, whose protest Tuesday forced
recruiters to pack up early and leave their campus.
Students Against War, an antiwar student group not rooted in any political
ideology, organized the pre-rally and speakers and faces possible disbandment
depending on today’s events. This is because they are under preexisting
sanctions for the protest that occurred March 9, 2005, in which students
effectively chased recruiters off campus.
“I feel completely repressed and violated because I was forcibly removed for
expressing my right to free speech and protest,” said Karen Knoller, SFSU
freshman who was cited. “In addition to being barred from my classes, I have
also effectively been made homeless, as I currently live in campus housing.”
Knoller and two other students cited at SFSU, largely a commuter school, also
live on campus.
“What am I going to do? I have a paid apartment on campus and I can’t go to it.
Am I paying them so I can just sit on 19th and Holloway?” asked Chris Velasco,
student at San Francisco State University. “I have a right to protest. My
brother is in Iraq fighting.”
SFSU is a university with a legacy of protests, starting with the student strike
of 1968. The students demand that they be allowed to practice their rights to
free speech and their right to protest, and that they be allowed back on campus
to attend classes, visit their dorms and attend their antiwar meetings.
The students will be holding a press conference at the intersection of 19th
Avenue and Holloway, just outside the university, 11:00 AM on Monday, April 17.
At this event, students will discuss their legal defense and the appeals process
to the university.
04/20/2006
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
BTAS Inc., Business Technology and Solutions, Inc., Beavercreek,
Ohio, CENTEC Group Inc., Arlington, Va., HMR Tech/HJ Ford, Small Business
Administration, Joint Venture, Limited Liability Corporation, Arlington, Va.,
Innovative Logistics Techniques Inc., INNOLOG, McLean, Va., Innovative
Technologies Corp., Dayton, Ohio LOGTEC, Inc., Fairborn, Ohio, Madison
Research Corp. Huntsville, Ala., PE Systems, Inc., Fairfax Va., Sumaria
System, Inc., Danvers, Mass., Tybrin Corp., Fort Walton Beach, Fla., is being
awarded an $850,000,000 firm-fixed-price, time and materials and
cost-reimbursement contract. The consolidated acquisition of professional
services indefinite delivery and indefinite quantity contracts will provide
for advisory and assistance services for customers at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio. Each contract provides for the following range of
technical/management support at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio:
acquisition logistics, financial management, cost estimating, schedule
analysis, earned value management, contracting support, engineering,
manufacturing, configuration/data management, administrative support, security
management, acquisition management, test and evaluation, government furnished
property management, and litigation support required in the capabilities
planning/pre-acquisition, acquisition, development, production and sustainment
of various equipment and weapon systems. Task orders will identify specific
contract effort. Contractors will provide qualified personnel with these
specialties on short notice. The Air Force can issue delivery orders totaling
up to the maximum amount indicated above, although the actual requirement may
be less than the amount above. At this time, $50,000 has been obligated.
Solicitations began May 2005 and negotiations were complete in December 2005.
This work will be complete April 2012. PA POC is Mr Christopher McGee, (937)
255-2350. Headquarters Aeronautical Systems Center, Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio, is the contracting activity. (FA8622-06-D-8500 through
FA8622-06-D-8509)
Clark Construction Group L.L.C., Tampa, Fla., was awarded on April
17, 2006, a $116,429,000 firm-fixed-price contract for construction of a new
sensitive compartmental information facility. Work will be performed at
MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., and is expected to be completed by May 2008.
Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current fiscal year. There
were 425 bids solicited on Jan. 10, 2006, and four bids were received. The
Army Engineer District, Mobile, Ala., is the contracting activity
(W91278-06-C-0028).
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