Liza
> From: Liza Featherstone <lfeather32 at erols.com>
> Reply-To: lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org
> Date: Mon, 07 Apr 2003 16:37:20 -0400
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Subject: [lbo-talk] times letter
>
> Below is the letter I wrote to the Times in response to that ridiculous
> campus piece. It's running tomorrow, in a significantly compacted form. The
> reason for the shortening, though, is a cheering one: they received a LOT of
> letters on this and they're running many of them.
>
> Liza
>
>
> Kate Zernike's "Professors Protest as Students Debate" was misleading in its
> implication that college students are not protesting President Bush's war on
> Iraq. On March 5th, tens of thousands of students on more than 400 campuses
> -- from Hunter College to the University of Arkansas to Seattle Central
> Community College -- participated in "Books Not Bombs" protests. Some held
> sit-ins, some walked out of class, some held rallies that drew thousands.
> The day the war began, students on hundreds of campuses engaged in similar
> actions, and they have continued to do so ever since.
>
> As a point of contrast to today's supposed apathy, Zernike mentions a 1972
> sit-in at the Westover Air Force Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, not far
> from Amherst College, which drew 1,000 people. Funny she should bring that
> up: on March 22 of this year, 1,000 people protested at that base, including
> students from area colleges.
>
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