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Memo to:
Cindy Braly, Student Affairs Administrator, cbraly@mail.utexas.edu
Annemarie Seifert, Dean of Students office, aseifert@mail.utexas.edu
Margaritta Arrellano, Associate Dean of Students, arellano@mail.utexas.edu
From:
Bonnie Weinstein, Bay Area United Against War
www.bauaw.org
P.O. Box 318021
San Francisco, CA 94131-8021
Subject:
Freedom of speech and assembly and association.
Dear all,
I am distressed to hear that you are contemplating disciplinary charges
against a student group, Campus Antiwar Movement to End the Occupation
(CAMEO) for exercising their right to assemble and express opposition to the
war and to the injustices permeating our society.
Freedom of speech does not mean jumping through hoops in order to exercise
it. Freedom of speech does not require permission!
And, for God’s sake, chalk on the sidewalk is completely and totally
harmless. Should we go around the country punishing or arresting
six-year-olds?
No school administration has the right to limit free speech or assembly in
any way. You do, however, have an obligation to see that the truth is
exposed about the war, military recruitment on campus and the No Child Left
Behind Act which requires the militarization of our schools in order to get
much-needed federal funds–a sacrifice of the lives of the poor to benefit
the profits of U.S. Business interests! The children of the wealthy are not
called upon to fight and die for their education!
You should be standing up with these students and demand an end to the
occupation of Iraq; military recruiting in the schools; and the end to the
so-called “war on terror” that the U.S. Government is using to terrorize and
torture the world!
The world is watching what you do! Keep your hands off student rights to
free speech and assembly and, yes, chalking on the sidewalk!
Who’s side are you on? The students’ or the war-mongers’?
Sincerely,
Bonnie Weinstein
415-824-8738