Friday, April 22nd 2005
Protest/CounterProtest
IndyBay has coverage of the campus protests on Wednesday.
Around one hundred protesters gathered on the UC Berkeley campus to protest US military recruitment at the UCB career fair. The ASUC (which manages the student union where the career fair took place) had voted to not allow military recuitment due to the military’s bigotted policies towards gays and lesbians, but the university invited the military to the fair anyways investing in a large police presence and screening of all students trying to attend the career fair. Many anti-war activists went in to the career fair and lined up at the military recruiter’s table to take up their time and prevent them from talking to any potential recruits.
I’m sure we’ll have some more commentary or an article later. But before you go: “Support the troops! Bring them home! Support the troops! Bring them home! “ Reminds me of this.
Protest of Anti-Military Recruitment leads to Counter-protest
Both the Cal Patroit Blog and Res Ipsa Loquitur have coverage of an anti-military recruitment protest held yesterday being quickly met with a counter-protest by Berkeley College Republicans. Quite surprising that we don’t have more of these, isn’t it…
Trackback by Calstuff: News. Observations — 4/22/2005 @ 12:26 pm
Heres a great picture!
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/object/article?f=/c/a/2005/04/22/BAG1NCD5O81.DTL&o=0
Comment by Tiffany — 4/22/2005 @ 2:19 pm