CAN member on Democracy Now Today

[Campus Anti-War Network]

Dear CAN members and friends,
            The story below appeared on Today's Democracy Now and featured CAN member Stephanie Schwartz from Hunter College in NY, NY.  You can watch the interview by visiting www.democracynow.org

Best of luck to all of you involved in Today's Protest at the Staten Island Ferry!

                                     Thank you for your efforts to end this madness,
                                                           Chris Schwartz
                                                           Campus Anti-War network Coordinating Committee
                                                           University of Northern Iowa


Does Tee Stand For Terrorist? NYC Student Stopped on Staten Island Ferry For Wearing T-Shirt Saying "We Will Not Be Silent" in Arabic

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Hunter College student Stephanie Schwartz says Coast Guard officials stopped her two weeks ago aboard the ferry. During the summer, Iraqi blogger Raed Jarrar was stopped by security officials for wearing the same t-shirt at JFK Airport. He was forced to change the shirt before boarding a JetBlue flight. Later today a protest will take place at the Staten Island Ferry in New York city. Recently, a woman riding the ferry was stopped, surrounded and questioned by U.S. Coast Guard officials. She was wearing a T-shirt that had Arabic print on it. It read "We Will Not Be Silent."

The student was Stephanie Schwartz -- and she joins me now here in our Firehouse studio.

Raed Jarrar is still with us from Washington DC. A few months ago Raed was wearing a similar t-shirt as he was boarding a JetBlue airways flight at Kennedy airport in New York. Airport officials forced him to change his T-Shirt before getting on the plane.

We left a message with the Coast Guard public affairs office but did not hear back from them.

• Stephanie Schwartz, Hunter College Student who was recently stopped by Coast Guard officials for wearing T-shirt with Arabic writing
• Raed Jarrar, an Iraqi blogger and architect. His blog "Raed in the Middle" is at raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com. Raed is Iraq Project Director for Global Exchange.

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"There is a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part; you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it, that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all!"
-Mario Savio Berkeley Free Speech Movement                December 3rd 1964