FROM:              Leo Parascondola

TO:                    Workplace

DATE:               April 22, 2005

RE:                    Escalation of the attacks on Free Speech at San Francisco State

 Rhetoricians for Peace.

Escalation of the attacks on Free Speech at San Francisco State

Students at San Francisco State still need your help. The attack against students activists for the March 9th counter recruitment protest has escalated. On April 1, 2005, the six student organizations that endorsed the
demonstration (Students Against War (SAW), LA Raza, Voices for Sexual  Freedom (VOX), Pilipino American Collegiate Endeavour (PACE), M.E.C.h.A. and the International Socialist Organization (ISO)) received letters stating that the administration is beginning formal Disciplinary Proceedings against
them. This is on top of the 3 individual students who received letter from judicial affairs on March 22nd. The groups involved may be facing formal hearings as soon as Monday, April 25, 2005.

WHAT YOU CAN DO


We ask the public to continue speaking-out against the administration's plans to limit free speech rights, and demand that no sanctions be placed on students organizations that helped to plan the March 9th protest.
 

Please contact:
Robert A. Corrigan, SFSU President
Phone: (415) 338-1381, Fax: (415) 338-6210
Email: corrigan@sfsu.edu

Please CC your email to: cansfsu@hotmail.com
Penny Saffold, SFSU Vice President/Dean of Students
Phone: (415) 338-2032, Fax: (415) 338-0900
Email: psaffold@sfsu.edu

Also, please sign our online petition at

http://www.petitiononline.com/556/petition.html
 

For more information about the March 9th protest:
http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/breaking/003099.html
http://www.insidebayarea.com/localnews/ci_2603424
http://kpix.dayport.com/launcher/4122/?tf=video_player.tpl

Watch a video of the protest at
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/collegenotcombat.mov.

We urgently need your help. Please lend your support to anti-war student activists and activists who are fighting the militarization of our schools by letting the administration know that their actions are not supported by members of the community, students, alumni, faculty, and staff. 

Sincerely,
Students Against War
cansfsu@hotmail.com