This Seems Interesting

To bad Bemidji is too conservative to ever get involved in something like this. I'd like to challenge the students and faculty at BSU to have a day like this or at least start a chapter of our own. I guess right now I'm giving ideas but not really doing much about it. However, I would be more than willing to walk out with any other students that would like to do it and proudly hold up a banner demanding an end to the war in Iraq.

COLLEGE NOT COMBAT!
Solidarity Against War and Anti-Immigrant Racism

TWIN CITIES STUDENT
** W A L K O U T **
Friday April 28

** NOON RALLY at University of Minnesota, Northrop Plaza
(map: http://yawr.org/april28/map.html)
** High schoolers: leave class 10:30am. Bus, carpool, or march to U of M rally
* * Free Concert featuring Desdamona, Kanser, I Self Divine, The Elementals, A New Day, Two Wurds, more. Bring a bag lunch.

We are walking out to demand:
* END the occupation of Iraq NOW! to fund education and social needs
* NO! to military recruitment in our schools
* YES! to equal access to higher education
* YES! to living wage jobs for youth
* STOP racist attacks on immigrants and civil liberties

Last November 2nd, thousands of Twin Cities students - from over 40 schools in 16 districts - walked out to protest the war. Up to 2000 rallied and marched at the U of M, and a new youth movement was born.
But the war has dragged on and the violence in Iraq has increased dramatically. More and more young soldiers are coming home dead or maimed. Conservative estimates suggest over 100,000 Iraqis have been killed in the three years of occupation. Over 70 percent of U.S. troops in Iraq think the occupation should be ended, reflecting the opinion of U.S. workers and youth at home. Yet Congress keeps giving Bush hundreds of billions more for this corrupt war for oil and empire. Meanwhile our schools crumble, tuition rises out of reach, living wage jobs are disappearing, and the politicians are whipping up anti-immigrant racism to deflect the blame for these problems from themselves!