(en) US, Macalester SDS shuts down recruitment centers in Minneapolis
 
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 09:12:24 -0500 (CDT)


Macalester Students for a Democratic Society shut down two recruitment centers 
on March 27th with a lock down. We declared Mission Accomplished because the 
centers were shut down all day, from 9 AM to 4 PM. We promoted our demands of 
immediate troop withdrawal and self-determination for the Iraqis without foreign 
influence.---- This is our press release:---- FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE --- Thursday 
March 27, 2008 ---- Statement on Macalester Students for a Democratic Societys 
Participation in Civil Disobedience to Stop the War: ---- We at Macalester 
Students for a Democratic Society are certain we are not the only ones who 
believe that five years of war has been five years too many. We know that our 
community not only disapproves of the perpetual aggression on and occupation of 
the Iraqi nation, but that we want to register our dissent in a way that will be 
heard. As the presidential elections approach, and we weigh which candidate 
might be the one to finally respond to this desperate and devastating situation, 
to deliver the justice and peace that we envision for all who struggle under 
this needless war, Macalester Students for a Democratic Society believe that 
waiting for a single person to pull us out of a systematically sustained 
conflict is not acceptable. We have marked anniversary after anniversary, 
silently hoping that someone in charge will realize our belief that the people 
of Iraq, and all people have a basic right to self-determination and autonomy. 
Yet all that our silence has proven to do is allow for the maintenance of normal 
life in the United States, and normal violence in Iraq. Those of us who have 
worked to build a resistance movement to the war have come up against apathy and 
disillusionment time and time again.

So on this dreaded 5th year anniversary, Macalester Students for a Democratic 
Society are rising up and locking downtaking part in stopping the business of 
war at military recruitment stations in the cities because we will not tolerate 
a system which only allows for dissent to be registered through infrequent 
elections and party politics. We will not tolerate a system that puts the 
provision of American luxury ahead of human justice, and the service of private 
interest ahead of collective peace. We will not tolerate a system that styles 
ethical objection as a childish complaint, and we will not tolerate a life of 
possibility that does not allot others the same. We are calling on all people to 
start taking direct action to stop business as usual. We know better than to 
wait for others to fight for usit is past time to demand our right to direct 
democratic engagement as a means of bringing about an end to this illegal, 
unethical, and disgraceful war on the Iraqi people, once and for all.

-Macalester Students for a Democratic Society (MPJC-SDS)
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