[lbo-talk] Defend SDS From Attack

[Joseph Catron]

This morning, Students for a Democratic Society organizers at the
College of William and Mary were told by university administrators
that their permit for the Mideast Convention, which begins today, had
been revoked.

Please call (757-221-1693) and e-mail (gnichol at wm.edu) College
President Gene Nichol to demand that he denounce this attack on civil
liberties, reinstate the permit, and support students' rights to
assemble, speak and organize.

If he or anyone else in his office mentions the Virginia Tech
shooting, tell them that exploiting an attack on students' lives to
enable an attack on their freedoms is despicable, and that they should
be ashamed of themselves.

Please forward and post this notice in all appropriate venues.  For
more information on the Mideast Conference, see the SDS Organizer
(http://tinyurl.com/2sq5lq) or Facebook (registration required:
http://tinyurl.com/2sp8zr).

Joseph Catron, '05

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Thomas Silverstein <thom.silverstein at gmail.com>
Date: Apr 20, 2007 11:47 AM
Subject: [tlsc-l] Urgent: An Attack on Students' Civil Liberties -
Protest in the Campus Center 1:30 P.M. Today
To: ssdp at wm.edu, tlsc-l at wm.edu, meridian_l at wm.edu

Hello,

Apparently, Mark Constantine has issued some sort of a reversal that
will effectively prohibit SDS from building Free Town on the Sunken
Garden today.  There will be a protest at 1:30 P.M. today outside of
his office on the second floor of the Campus Center to confront him
over this shift.  No matter what y'all think of SDS or of Free Town,
this is an unwarranted abdridgement of our civil liberties.  The
Sunken Garden is ours, and the right to peaceful assembly is ours,
too.  If you have the time (which, unfortunately, I do not, as I will
be in class at the time.), please make an effort to come out.

Thanks,

Thom