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March 20 - Our Future is Not in Empire - Student strike against investment in war, repression and ecological destruction
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- Students for Justice in Palestine
Date Created
- 15 Feb 2007
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- 15 Feb 2007 07:08:20 PM
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Auckland University Students for Justice in Palestine, an autonomous chapter of Students for a Democratic Society, is calling for all students, youth and citizens to attend a rally and march from the Auckland University Quad, at 12pm on Tuesday, March 20, to call for the New Zealand Superannuation Fund to divest from 12 companies that are either producing nuclear weapons, producing cluster bombs, causing massive ecological destruction or committing systematic human rights and labour violations.
The superannuation fund currently holds NZ$64 million worth of shares in these 12 companies.
Three of the twelve companies are involved in the manufacture of Cluster bombs: Communications Holdings Inc., Raytheon Company, Lockeed Martin Corporation.
Another four are involved in the production of nuclear weapons. They are BAE Systems Plc, Finmeccanica Sp.A, EADS (European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company), Northrop Grumman Corp., and United Technologies Corp.
Two companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart de Mexico SA, consistently and systematically violate labour and human rights in developing nations.
Thye final company, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. owns and operates one of the world’s largest copper mines in Papua, Indonesia where it uses a natural river system for tailings disposal. Freeport disposes close to 230,000 tonnes of tailings each day, releasing large amounts of sediments and heavy metals such as copper, cadmium and mercury into the watercourse.
We as students and youth believe that not only is it unethical for the government to invest in these 12 companies but also that we have a responsibility to take direct action against staking our future in nuclear war, cluster bombs, child labour and ecological catstrophe until the government divests from these threats to civilisation. March 20 is our chance to show the world that youth and students in Aotearoa/New Zealand are in solidarity with all those who struggle against the US Empire. We send greetings of love and solidarity to the students in West Papua who continue to resist the Freeport mine; to the students in the United States who are organising resistance to the brutal occupation of Iraq; to the workers in Wal-Mart's suppliers who fight against their exploitation; and to the people of Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan who deal with the consequences of the Cluster bombs which our government invests in.
Our future is not in war, repression and ecological destruction. Our future is in justice, liberation and democracy.
Students for Justice in Palestine
(SDS AUCKLAND)
Three of the twelve companies are involved in the manufacture of Cluster bombs: Communications Holdings Inc., Raytheon Company, Lockeed Martin Corporation.
Another four are involved in the production of nuclear weapons. They are BAE Systems Plc, Finmeccanica Sp.A, EADS (European Aeronautic Defence & Space Company), Northrop Grumman Corp., and United Technologies Corp.
Two companies, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Wal-Mart de Mexico SA, consistently and systematically violate labour and human rights in developing nations.
Thye final company, Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. owns and operates one of the world’s largest copper mines in Papua, Indonesia where it uses a natural river system for tailings disposal. Freeport disposes close to 230,000 tonnes of tailings each day, releasing large amounts of sediments and heavy metals such as copper, cadmium and mercury into the watercourse.
We as students and youth believe that not only is it unethical for the government to invest in these 12 companies but also that we have a responsibility to take direct action against staking our future in nuclear war, cluster bombs, child labour and ecological catstrophe until the government divests from these threats to civilisation. March 20 is our chance to show the world that youth and students in Aotearoa/New Zealand are in solidarity with all those who struggle against the US Empire. We send greetings of love and solidarity to the students in West Papua who continue to resist the Freeport mine; to the students in the United States who are organising resistance to the brutal occupation of Iraq; to the workers in Wal-Mart's suppliers who fight against their exploitation; and to the people of Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan who deal with the consequences of the Cluster bombs which our government invests in.
Our future is not in war, repression and ecological destruction. Our future is in justice, liberation and democracy.
Students for Justice in Palestine
(SDS AUCKLAND)
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Re: March 20 - Our Future is Not in Empire - Student strike against investment in war, repression and ecological destruction
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Re: March 20 - Our Future is Not in Empire - Student strike against investment in war, repression and ecological destruction
Glad to see the SJP is hitting the quad running in 2007.
Some of the best actions in 2006 came from students and youth. Notably the defence of the University in Oaxaca City from federal police and participation of students from the Oruro Technical University in the miners struggles at Huanuni in Bolivia. I am sure there are plenty more examples of youth to the fore in the vanguard of workers and peasants struggles everywhere.
All power to young workers and students!
Love and solidarity
Dave Brown
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California uni students block highway
By Drew Mackie, February 15, 2007
Ignoring the restrictions imposed by the mere geometry of UCSB's
curbs and sidewalks, students marching today in protest of the
University of California's involvement with military efforts stepped
across the newly installed roundabout at the campus's east entrance
and walked down Highway 217 toward a cluster of California Highway
Patrol vehicles. The crowd—nearly one thousand, according to event
planners, though more conservative estimates place the number closer
to 500—had convened initially in Isla Vista at Pardall Road, in front
of a tunnel underpass through which many UCSB students ride their
bikes to get to class. Part of the protest included a strike that
discouraged students from attending class in symbolism of a decisive
break from "business as usual." Thus, the spot was integral for the
protestors to hail passers-by to drop their daily activities in favor
of joining the rally. However, the class walkout—which some students
disobeyed, even if they purported to support the protest—paled in
comparison to the literal walk down the principal highway leading
into campus, which stopped traffic.
As UC Police Department officers redirected cars trying to exit
campus, the mob of protestors stood before the CHP [California
Highway Patrol], who told students not to step past their line of
cars. The presence of the officers prevented the protest from
reaching the 101, which some in the crowd alleged was their plan, but
the barricade also resulted in an hour-long confrontation between the
two entities. Despite the size of the student protest group and the
riot gear CHP officers sported, the worst of the interaction was
limited to two arrests. Former UCSB student Jesse Carrieri was taken
into custody for disobeying a peace officer, as was a women's studies
department professor, Mireille Miller-Young. . . .
Walking Before Running and Gathering Before Marching
Indeed, the spirit of the afternoon carried on for hours . . .
Read the whole story at:
www.independent.com/online_onlys/2007/02/ucsb_protest_war_block_highwa
y.html
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