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Student Peace Action Network is a grassroots peace and justice organization working from campuses across the US.. We organize for an end to physical, social, and economic violence caused by militarism at home and abroad. We campaign for nuclear abolition. We support a foreign policy based on human rights and international cooperation, and a domestic agenda that supports human and environmental concerns, not Pentagon excess. War is not inevitable. We push for practical alternatives..
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Meetings are every other Wednesday at 5pm in the SOURCE office of Talley Student Center.
next Meeting at 5pm Wednesday, 6 April 2005 to discuss the Palestine Campaign and April 13th CAT actionwork
Ongoing Events:
Honk for Peace every friday at 5pm at the Bell Tower
Critical Mass last friday of every month, Next Ride April 29, at 4:30pm at Bell Tower. Bike Flier.Saturday, January 24, 2004
Call to Action Calendar:
Wednesday January 28th: Civil Disobedience at Chancellor Fox's office to protest directing NCSU research towards the Department of Homeland Security
February 24th : International day of Action to Resist the Corporatization of Iraq, Protest against RTI's involvement in contracts
March 5th:Books Not Bombs Walkout
March 13th(tentatively): Think Outside the Shell : Boycott Taco Bell
More information on each action is posted below.
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On Wednesday January 28th come join us as we protest Chancellor Fox from taking a trip to DC next week to attend a seminar about how NCSU's research can better aid
Homeland Security. We are planning a blockade of here office at 3pm on next
wednesday, the last day that she will be in her office befor taking the
trip. Even if you and your friends do not want to participate in the civil
disobedience, we need people there to support us. Also urge staff members to write letters to the Chancellor and request her to step down from this council. More info
here
Then on February 24th come Resist the Corporatization of Iraq by protesting the multi-million dollar contracts that were awarded to Research Triangle Institute to beef up the civic services in Iraq(water, sewage treatment, courts, etc). This is a racist contract that undermines the self determination of the Iraqi people who were capable of carrying out these tasks prior to our ten year bombing campaign and sanctions. This will be held at 4pm. To help make signs meet us in the brickyard at 1115pm on Friday February 20th. The goal of this action is not to effect legislative change, that is being taken up by Institute for Southern Studies and other more professional groups. This event is merely to raise awareness,agitate and it will be considered a success. More information posted at
NC indmedia
other groups across the country will be carrying out similar events at Halliburton, Bechtel and other headquarters. We must be in solidarity with these actions to make a strong declaration.
Then on March 5th come join us with other groups across the country to resist military-industrial-complex from taking over our institution in the Books Not Bomnbs walkout. More information posted at United For Peace and Justice
We are all participating in an on-going boycott of Taco Bell for the way that they mistreat farm workers on tomato plantations in Florida. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and Student / Farmworker Alliance would like to invite you to consider the exploitation of Farmworkers in the United States and Taco Bellæ„€ direct connection to this struggle. Taco Bell is one of the largest buyers of tomatoes from farms in South Florida. Migrant workers pick these tomatoes at a rate of 40 cents per 32 pound bucket of tomatoes. This makes it so that a worker would have to pick two tons of tomatoes to earn $50 in one day and about $7,500/year. This is the same wage paid to workers in 1978 (= 25 years with no raise). The CIW is asking for 1 penny more per pound of tomatoes (Which translates into a fraction of a penny increase in price per taco to the consumer).
So far, Taco Bell has not changed a thing and is unwilling to even open a discussion with the workers. In turn, the CIW has announced a boycott on Taco Bell and a campaign to remove Taco Bell from university campuses in order to force them to negotiate. You join one of the fastest growing student movements by raising awareness on your campus about this injustice and endorsing the boycott.
-18 Universities and High schools have either removed Taco Bell or prevented them from opening a restaurant on their campus
- 30 campuses are actively organizing to remove Taco Bell
- 3 members of the coalition recently one the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for their efforts to expose modern-day slavery in the U.S.
- National Geographic and the New Yorker have recently published articles reporting the existence of slave camps in South Florida
- The University of Chicago has been recognized by Mother Jones magazine as one of the top 10 activist campuses for removing Taco Bell
For more info on the struggle go to www.ciw-online.org
Wednesday January 28th: Civil Disobedience at Chancellor Fox's office to protest directing NCSU research towards the Department of Homeland Security
February 24th : International day of Action to Resist the Corporatization of Iraq, Protest against RTI's involvement in contracts
March 5th:Books Not Bombs Walkout
March 13th(tentatively): Think Outside the Shell : Boycott Taco Bell
More information on each action is posted below.
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On Wednesday January 28th come join us as we protest Chancellor Fox from taking a trip to DC next week to attend a seminar about how NCSU's research can better aid
Homeland Security. We are planning a blockade of here office at 3pm on next
wednesday, the last day that she will be in her office befor taking the
trip. Even if you and your friends do not want to participate in the civil
disobedience, we need people there to support us. Also urge staff members to write letters to the Chancellor and request her to step down from this council. More info
here
Then on February 24th come Resist the Corporatization of Iraq by protesting the multi-million dollar contracts that were awarded to Research Triangle Institute to beef up the civic services in Iraq(water, sewage treatment, courts, etc). This is a racist contract that undermines the self determination of the Iraqi people who were capable of carrying out these tasks prior to our ten year bombing campaign and sanctions. This will be held at 4pm. To help make signs meet us in the brickyard at 1115pm on Friday February 20th. The goal of this action is not to effect legislative change, that is being taken up by Institute for Southern Studies and other more professional groups. This event is merely to raise awareness,agitate and it will be considered a success. More information posted at
NC indmedia
other groups across the country will be carrying out similar events at Halliburton, Bechtel and other headquarters. We must be in solidarity with these actions to make a strong declaration.
Then on March 5th come join us with other groups across the country to resist military-industrial-complex from taking over our institution in the Books Not Bomnbs walkout. More information posted at United For Peace and Justice
We are all participating in an on-going boycott of Taco Bell for the way that they mistreat farm workers on tomato plantations in Florida. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) and Student / Farmworker Alliance would like to invite you to consider the exploitation of Farmworkers in the United States and Taco Bellæ„€ direct connection to this struggle. Taco Bell is one of the largest buyers of tomatoes from farms in South Florida. Migrant workers pick these tomatoes at a rate of 40 cents per 32 pound bucket of tomatoes. This makes it so that a worker would have to pick two tons of tomatoes to earn $50 in one day and about $7,500/year. This is the same wage paid to workers in 1978 (= 25 years with no raise). The CIW is asking for 1 penny more per pound of tomatoes (Which translates into a fraction of a penny increase in price per taco to the consumer).
So far, Taco Bell has not changed a thing and is unwilling to even open a discussion with the workers. In turn, the CIW has announced a boycott on Taco Bell and a campaign to remove Taco Bell from university campuses in order to force them to negotiate. You join one of the fastest growing student movements by raising awareness on your campus about this injustice and endorsing the boycott.
-18 Universities and High schools have either removed Taco Bell or prevented them from opening a restaurant on their campus
- 30 campuses are actively organizing to remove Taco Bell
- 3 members of the coalition recently one the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award for their efforts to expose modern-day slavery in the U.S.
- National Geographic and the New Yorker have recently published articles reporting the existence of slave camps in South Florida
- The University of Chicago has been recognized by Mother Jones magazine as one of the top 10 activist campuses for removing Taco Bell
For more info on the struggle go to www.ciw-online.org
