CAN WIDE CALL SUNDAY JUNE 3RD, VOTE ON NATIONAL CONFERENCE HOST
Campus Antiwar Network
Dear CAN members,
This coming Sunday we will have a very important CAN wide call on which we will select the host for our Fall CAN National Conference. The Call will be at 9pm EST on Sunday June 3rd , the call log-in information is posted below. We have had two proposals turned in by yesterdays deadline, they are from Rutgers and the University of Wisconsin Madison. The proposal from Rutgers can be seen below, to view the proposal from UW Madison please follow the link also posted below, there is a pdf, power point and a you-tube video. Please make sure that your school is represented by at least on or more people, the strength of this conference will depend on your input and participation in this whole process.
Thanks so much!
Chris Schwartz
Campus Antiwar Network
CAN WIDE CALL
Sunday June 3rd, 9p.m
EST
Conference Dial-in Number: (605) 990-0200
Participant
Access Code: 304269#
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSON MADISON PROPOSAL LINK:
http://www.revoltingstudents.com/can/
Rutgers Proposal to Host the National
Campus Antiwar Network Conference
By: Rutgers Against the
War
--FUNDING:
Money is a key in gauging the capability to
hold a large national conference:
Rutgers Against the War received
a SIX THOUSAND DOLLAR GRANT from the
university for the purpose of
"holding an antiwar conference."
External fundraising for
transportation would be the only thing we would
need to do, all
the ground costs could be covered.
--LOCATION: New Brunswick,
NJ
New Brunswick is an urban central location in the Mid-Atlantic
Region and
easily accessible:
-NYC: one hour by train (NJ
Transit)
-Philadelphia: one hour by car or train
-Newark
International Airport: located in Newark, NJ – 40 minutes by
train
(NJ transit)
Nearby CAN groups located an hour away
or less:
The College of NJ
Columbia U.
NYU
Hunter
College
City College of NY
UPenn
Other groups such as
the Vermont, Massachusetts, Upstate NY, Maryland, DC,
and PA
schools are all within driving distance as
well.
--FACILITIES:
Everything needed at the conference is
within walking distance.
Rutgers University has 30 thousand
students on campus and has some very
large lecture halls. It also
has "smart classrooms" to play multimedia
and to host
workshops. We have used this space in the past and we could
arrange
to get whatever space we need for the conference
--HOUSING:
There are several groups on campus in addition to Rutgers
Against
the War that are willing to house people in their dorms and
houses.
In addition if necessary, people in the Central Jersey
Coalition
Against Endless War are willing to host other
students.
--FOOD: There is a vast array of restaurants,
convenience stores, and
other necessities within walking distance
of the facilities (though we
have enough money to cover most if
not all of the food if the conference
is done at Rutgers)
Food
includes:
Chinese, Middle Eastern, Pizza, Delis, Thai, Indian,
Japanese, Mongolian,
Ethiopian… etc.
Many of the
restaurants are open until 4am and some are open 24 hours a
day
Medical: The University has two hospitals within walking
distance if a
medical emergency should occur
--RUTGERS
ACTIVISM TODAY:
Size and strength of Group: We have a fairly large
group of committed people.
-We organized a 4-500 person
walkout on March 20th to protest the
anniversary of the Iraq War,
holding a rally with speakers, blocked the
Marines recruiting
station, and then shut down a major interstate highway
(Route 18).
We are definitely capable of organizing a large conference.
-We
are currently invested in disrupting homeland security programs
and
kicking them off campus
-There is a strong Iraq
Veterans Against the War (IVAW) presence in the
Tri-state
Area
--CAN ACTION AT CONFERENCE:
Potential targets for a
demonstration during the conference:
1) ROTC Building
2)
Discrete Mathematics building (conducting intrusive homeland
security
research)
3) Marine Recruiting station
Conference
is two weeks before the 40th anniversary of the storming of
the
Rutgers ROTC building:
Excerpt of ultimatum given to
university by antiwar students:
"We are protesting the presence
of R.O.T.C. on this campus: We are
preventing it from functioning
by blocking its building for we feel that
it is the only way to
induce the Administration into recognizing its
obligation to keep
our university autonomous and independent of any
external control.
Dean Flynn has issued summonses to all those
participating in the
protest charging interference with the freedom of
other members of
the academic community ("disrupting a university
department").
We think that this charge carries implicit in it the
assumption
that R.O.T.C. has the right to be considered a member of the
academic
community. We believe that it has no such right, and since
the
Administration has declared itself to be legally bound and
powerless
toalter its policy, (see the R.O.T.C. Policy
Committee.), this
demonstration represents the assumption on the
part of the students of the
responsibilities which the
administration has abdicated."
Mimeo flyer from R.O.T.C.
Policy Committee. November 6, 1967. Rutgers
Special Collections
and University Archives
PENALTY IMPOSED BY RUTGERS COLLEGE
JUDICIAL COUNCIL ON STUDENTS FOUND
GUILTY OF CHARGE:
Disrupting
a University Department and preventing the entrance of
faculty,
staff, and students to the University building at 157
College Avenue on
Monday, November 6, 1967.