UNT Walkout! Against War and Campus Military Recruitment

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UNT Walkout!
by Jason C. Waite - |UA| United Aid Friday, Mar 21 2008
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Against War and Campus Military Recruitment

The Denton TX activist group |UA|, along with other student groups, are organizing a student walkout and rally at the campus of University of North Texas Denton, TX beginning at 9:11 am on April 7th and continuing every first Monday of the month thereafter. The rally is meant to call attention to the war in Iraqi/Afghanistan, the responsibility of UNT for letting the Armed Forces actively recruit on campus, and a call for students to organize counter-recruitment groups. Several on and off campus organizations will be on hand for this historic event.

Please repost this message and come out to show your support.

UNT Walkout! Against War and Campus Military Recruitment

Monday April 7Th @ 9:11AM Go to the front of the University Union Building

University of North Texas Students, Faculty, Staff, Alumni, & Denton, TX Citizens
Mon April 7Th Walkout 9:11AM, 12:00PM Rally, 1:30PM March/Direct Action
Mon May 5Th Walkout 9:11AM, 12:00PM Rally  1:30PM March/Direct Action

*** Unite for peace in front of the University Union Building.
***  Students will be walking out EVERY first Monday of each month until the war/s are over and students are allowed real free speech.

Why We're Walking Out

The walkout and rally is meant to call attention to the war in Iraqi/Afghanistan, the responsibility of UNT for letting the Armed Forces actively recruit on campus, and a call for students to organize counter-recruitment groups.

Primary Demands

• Counter Recruitment Organization An on and off campus organization must be allowed to hold meetings and activities on and off campus.

• NT Daily We ask NT Daily to stop posting adds from the military.

• Military History Department We ask that the UNT Military History Department add a wing within its department that teaches a military historical perspective from the peoples point of view- i.e like nonviolent military historians and strategists like Gene Sharp, Peter Ackerman, and Jack Duvall.

• Free Speech UNT must allow picketing & peaceful protests in all  public places on campus- this includes holding signs, passing fliers, passing petitions, and holding groups meetings or forums- as long as these gatherings are not blocking public walkways of course.

• Full Troop Withdraw & Stoppage of Military Spending In Iraq/Afghanastan We will continue organizing until the war/s end, and our war profiteering companies stop their campaigns for putting profit before the people.

• We Demand Support of Students, Staff, Faculty, Alumni We ask UNT to respect peaceful nonviolent students, staff, faculty, alumni, and citizens in speaking out at the University of North Texas via this walkout and other protests in regards to war/s and campus military recruitment.

*** If these demands are not carried out in their complete compliance, students, staff, faculty, alumni, and Denton citizens will continue the the walkouts. Saying you will fix the problem is not enough.

*** Saying that you are fixing the problem is NOT enough. These demands must be carried out completely and or the nonviolent peaceful protests will continue EVERY first Monday of each month.

***Until the war/s end and a full withdraw of troops is completed.

How you can help promoting the walkout:

• Most importantly, keep this walkout message on the chalkboards of all classes in all buildings at ALL times. Make sure to also keep chalk in front of busy buildings on the concrete. This has a HUGE impact. A tub of colored chalk at Voertmans is approximately 3$'s- very cheap- very effective.

• Take this attached information and make a flier- copy, and distribute EVERYWHERE! Many have access to computers and people who make fliers- if you make a flier, make sure to send us one: unitedlove_all1@yahoo.com

• Tell people to do the same as what we're all doing via this message.

Supporters of the voluntary walkout:

|UA| United Aid ***SUPPORT
Peace Action Denton ***SUPPORT
Camp Casey Peace Institute ***SUPPORT
Jobs for Justice Denton ***SUPPORT
Fridays @ The Bridge & Andrew Teeter ***SUPPORT
Students for a Democratic Society Denton  S.D.S ***SUPPORT
UNT Anti-Empire League ***SUPPORT
Denton Radical Writes/Rights! ***SUPPORT
IVAW Iraqi Veterans Against the War Ft. Hood, TX
Voyagers Dream Denton, TX ***SUPPORT
UNT Weapons for Change ***SUPPORT
Ink Shop Tattoos Denton, TX ***SUPPORT
Students for Individual Liberty Group ***SUPPORT                                      
UNT Democrats *** SUPPORT
Grassroots America Tina Richards ***SUPPORT
Waco Friends for Peace Alan Northcutt ***SUPPORT
Ward Reilly...SE Contact, Vietnam Veterans Against the War....Baton Rouge, Louisiana ***SUPPORT 
UNT NAACP
The Denton Catalogue ***SUPPORT
Melissa Garner, Veterans For Peace/Instruments For Peace ***SUPPORT
UNT MAV- Men Against Violence 
Melissa Garner, Veterans For Peace/Instruments For Peace  ***SUPPORT      
Jason Jordan For State Rep            
Lobo, member of CCPI, Veterans For Peace, Vietnam Vets Against War ***SUPPORT
"The Alley" FREE Movie Night Wednesdays Denton, TX ***SUPPORT
Christopher Largen, Director  of Bohemian Rising
Dallas Peace Center
Code Pink Ft. Worth
IVAW Iraqi Veterans Against the War Lawton, Oklahoma ***SUPPORT
Ward Reilly...SE Contact, Vietnam Veterans Against the War....Baton Rouge, Louisiana ***SUPPORT
Dallas Foods Not Bombs
Ft. Worth Peace Vocations    
North Texas for Justice and Peace 
Jeri L. Reed Mother of Iraq Veteran ***SUPPORT              
Sean Shurbet Paris, TX Youth Minister
Pastor Larry Willis of the Morse Street Baptist Church
UNT NARAL
Geoff Schwartz  Denton Vietnam Veteran ***SUPPORT
Doug Zachary Vietnam Veteran
ACLU Texas     

***Please repost this message and come out to show your support.

                                                   
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Email: united_  loveall1@yahoo.com

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