Posted on 05/03/2007 11:19:27 AM PDT by Thunder90
Recently, we read an opinion piece by Steve Lawrence, a UW freshman. This article, published on April 24, was entitled “War protest errs from focus.” In this article Mr. Lawrence takes what has been called a “myopic view” of the situation but is, in reality, a scathing attack on a movement he supposedly wants to be a part of.
First, the anti-war movement on this campus must include anyone and everyone who is dedicated to stopping this horrific and disastrous war on the Iraqi people, but it can not exclude all other ideas.
Many people in Campus Anti-war Network see connections between the Palestinian/Israeli conflict in the same way Baghdad residents see the connection. Last week the Associated Press reported that construction of walls around Baghdad to separate Sunni and Shiites neighborhoods would stop because of protests by Baghdad residents who felt the city was becoming an apartheid-state qua Palestine.
The critiques of Israel concern the government that occupies Palestinian land and treats Palestinians like second-class citizens. Indeed, many (including the authors of the Iraq Study Group Report) feel that the discontent felt over Israeli aggression, tactics and injustice fuels the flames of insurgency in Iraq and a general anti-American sentiment throughout the region.
Next, to say the rally was lacking in soldiers speaking their minds is completely false. We had two members of the Iraq Veterans Against the War (IVAW) speaking at our rally. These soldiers brought to the UW-Madison campus the issues of the squalor conditions of those soldiers with injuries—physical and mental.
We wanted the rally and walkout to be instructional but also a reflection of the many ideas and issues surrounding the war in Iraq. The message should be clear—injustice does not end and begin with the war in Iraq. As for the supposed convolution of this message, we can say only that seemingly disparate points make a semblance of the whole.
Finally, at Kohl’s office we were invited by Darcy Luoma, who is five months pregnant, to stay in the office for the night. She informed us that she would be happy to stay with us during the night to hear our concerns and relay them to the Senator.
Shortly thereafter the staff was speaking through a rent-a-cop force and attempting to silence our message by uninviting all but five of us to stay, then requiring we all give our names to the office staff.
While 25 of us were forced into a small room without access to our bags with sweatshirts and medication, Ms. Luoma did, indeed, find her bed that evening. Perhaps Mr. Lawrence would not have had the misconceptions he had had he stayed the night with us or if he had simply found a CAN member to discuss his concerns with.
We invite all (like Mr. Lawrence, who attended our meeting last week) who are reading this exchange to come to the next meeting of the Campus Anti-war Network, Friday at 4 p.m. (TITU) to exchange your ideas and help build a stronger anti-war movement.
Kate Losey
Wildlife Ecology and French Fifth Year
Ryan Olander
Philosophy, Fifth Year
Campus Anti-War Network
Well, it’s nice to know that fifth year college students have something to do.
How sweet.
Must be studying on somebody else's dime and spending too much time at protests rather than studying.
I’m calling the “hate speech” police on these people! I’m suing! They’re offending me!
More madison nutiness PING!!!
I remember hearing Red on That 70's Show once saying something about how such a degree was useless because the "philosophy factory" not hiring any new people.
As for this guy being a fifth year Philosophy student... ugh... that is sad.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1801932/posts
Campus radical group rises again [Students for a Democratic Society]
Members of Students for a Democratic Society at Reed College stand among flags placed on the Reed campus to represent casualties in Iraq. (Photo by Motoya Nakamura)
>>>The hippies expose themselves in this rant here. They attach the antiwar cause to socialism and the anti-Israel movement.
Did you get to see the broadcast of the anti war marches this past March in DC? The anti war speaker from the Philippines, Celso Tolman, actually opened her speech with “Hello Militants!”.
That “female” in the foreground looks as though she’s never smiled in her short, naive life.
I do see a ‘Wednesday Adams’ look in her.
Wildlife ecology and philosophy majors. Wow, deep thinkers both. (smirk) Typical regurgitation of ultra-left talking points.
Does UW-Madison have a chapter of Future Telemarketers of America?
They should be so lucky. Telemarketers may be despised, but they actually have a job. Not these dopes. They'll most likely end up, like most DummyU posters, in their parents basements smoking dope and railing against the "evils" of capitalism and the free market.
“...and (denied) medication...”
Every, and I mean EVERY report I’ve read about the “sleep-in” at Kohl’s office mentions their need for meds, LOL!
I can’t wait ‘til you’re out of there, Thunder. Don’t know how you stand it. The smell of ‘Loser Hippy’ wafting from Madistan is bad enough from ten miles down the road...and I live across from a pig farm, LOL!
I saw that too. If their ‘meds’ were so important, they would have them in a little bottle in their pockets to carry with them. What a pathetic bunch they are.
PLUS, did you see they had to ALL give their names?! What is this country coming too?
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