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April 10, 2002
Michael Neumann
Israelis and Indians
April 9, 2002
Bernard
Weiner
Colin
Powell's Table Talk
Matt Vidal
Thomas Friedman,
Another Wasted Pulitzer
Ron Jacobs
Buyer
Beware
Robert Jensen
I Helped Kill a Palestinian
Vijay
Prashad
Memories
of Barbarity:
Sharonism and September
Wayne Madsen
Anthrax and the Agency:
Thinking the Unthinkable
April 8, 2002
David
Vest
From
Birmingham to Nashville:
The Making of Tammy Wynette
Rick Giombetti
Paxil, Suicide and Science
Dr. Neve
Gordon
Letter
to an IDF Colonel:
How Did You Become
a War Criminal?
Dave Marsh
DeskScan:
This Week's Top 10 CDs
Jordy
Cummings
Not
in My Name Anymore
Gavin Keeney
Bush and the Middle East:
Mouth Wide Shut
Edward
Said
The
Future of Palestine
April 7, 2002
Beth Daoud
Accompanying Ambulances
in Bethlehem
Nancy
Stohlman
After
the Invasion:
The Search for Bread
Among the Ruins
Thomas Mountain
"Yellow Peril" In Hawai'i:
Judge Orders Chains and Shackles for Chinese Witnesses
Tariq
Ali
Who
Killed Daniel Pearl?
April 6, 2002
Philip Farruggio
War, Snake Oil and Circuses
Viktor
Litovkin
Russian
Generals Raise Questions About Pentagon Victories in Afghanistan
Patrick Cockburn
CIA Survey of Iraqi Airfields
May Herald Attack
Walt Brasch
Oil
Slick George:
Bush-whacking the Environment
Ralph Nader
Campaign Finance Sham
Sam Bahour
The
Blind Leading the Criminal
Bill Christison:
A Former CIA Official on
Oil and the Middle East
April 5, 2002
Charmaine
Seitz
In
Ramallah: The Grueling Reoccupation Grinds On
Nancy Stohlman
The Invasion of Bethlehem
and Our Tax Dollars at Work
Beth Daoud
The
Siege of Bethlehem:
"What Do You Mean God Is Punishing Me?"
Fareed Marjaee:
Demonizing Iran
Mokhiber
/ Weissman
Philip
Morris to Canada:
"Drop Dead"
Alex Lynch
Tampa Campus Mirrors
Middle East Strife
Alexander
Cockburn
Sharon's
Wars: How the
News Gets Through
April 4, 2002
Ray Hanania
Sharon's Latest Lie About the Church
of the Nativity
Mike Leon
Rightwing
Assault on Madison Progressives Misfires
Tom Turnipseed
Stop the Killing Now!
Nancy
Stohlman
An
American Under Siege in a West Bank Refugee Camp
Christopher Reilly
Kissinger, Chile and Justice
at Long Last?
M. Shahid
Alam
The
Lies of Thomas Friedman
April 3, 2002
Don Henley
Dear Loathsome Trade Hacks
Bernard
Weiner
An
American Jew Talks
About His Shame
David Vest
Sting of Stings
Gabriel Ash
America's Bravest
John Chuckman
Of
War, Islam and Israel
Robert Fisk
The Siege of Bethlehem
Alexander
Cockburn
The
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April 10, 2002
Florida State's Radical Students:
The Berkeley
of the South Rises Again!
By Jack McCarthy
On the evening of Monday March 12th the issues
of free speech and all but free labor for the piggish corporations
who manufacture sportswear for major campuses and retail outlets
around the country, became joined at the hip on the campus of
Florida State University in Tallahassee.
In a sad parody of Alice's Restaurant,
12 student activists were arrested that night and charged with
first degree trespassing after they tried to erect a tent city
in front of the Westcott building, which houses FSU President
Talbot "Sandy" D'Alemberte.
The FSU 12 are members of the campus
"Students Against Sweatshops" (SAS).
For two long years, SAS, along with the
FSU Faculty senate and the university's own human rights office,
has urged, and finally demanded, that Florida State join the
Workers Rights Consortium, which monitors human rights in the
factories where the apparel is made.
According to D'Alemberte, pitching tents
and protesting in front of the Westcott building would be innately
disruptive. Hence the arrests.
D'Alemberte and the university police
informed the stunned students that at FSU free speech only occurs
in a designated "free speech zone" located in the middle
of the campus--Landis Green where the tent city sits today.
After some negotiations with campus police
chief Carey Drayton--who told the local media he liked these
students and would even testify on their behalf--12 students
volunteered to get arrested.
D'Alemberte, a former president of the
American Bar Association, praised the students in a guest editorial
in the Tallahassee Democrat and says he will ask the court to
allow the students to do community service and have their records
cleared.
D'Alembertes' lame lawyerly excuse for
resisting the call by the faculty and students to join the WRC
was that FSU doesn't pay dues to "advocacy" organziations.
In the 1960s FSU was known as the "Berkeley
of the South" and for good reason. The campus was, to use
a mainstream press cliche, a "hotbed" of activism on
the major issues of the day: race, feminism, Vietnam and of course
FREE SPEECH.
Radicalism at FSU has been institutionalized
ever since. FSU houses the SDS founded "Free School,"
the Center for Participation Education, the last of its kind
still in existence.
CPE offers free classes, radical speakers
and films and is the meeting place for most campus activism.
Over the years the university and the
state legislature has tried to limit free speech at FSU and even
eliminate CPE. But to no avail.
Thanks to that great, if not greatest,
generation of campus activists, radicalism at FSU keeps on ticking
like the energizer bunny.
First amendment attorney D'Alemberte
has stayed away from CPE. But he has run an eccentric campaign
to limit free speech on the campus. He's even restricted the
locations where activists and others can hang posters on the
campus under the guise of "Keep the campus beautiful"
campaign.
Just this week it was announced that
the campus radio, WVFS would no longer be allowed to inform students
what bands were playing at a popular bar called "The Cow
Haus" because they were in violation of liberal D'Alembertes
anti-free speech edict on hanging posters.
Thanks to couragegous students like SAS
and CPE and the FSU Women's Center, the Berkley of the South
has risen again. They are what makes the FSU campus truly beautiful.
Those who want to help assist the SAS
protesters can do so by emailing them at FSU/USAS, calling their
cell phone at 850-228-1694 or call the CPE office, 850-644-6577.
Jack McCarthy
lives in Tallahassee. He can be reached at: jackm32301@yahoo.com
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