NCSU SPAN

2005-04-01T20:14:00.000-08:00

Day of Action to Stop CAT: April 13th, 2005 Stop Caterpillar From Selling Home-Crushing Bulldozers to Israel On April 13, join groups all over the world in opposing Caterpillar sales of home-crushing bulldozers to Israel. That day, Caterpillar shareholders will meet in Chicago and will discuss a resolution on sales of bulldozers to Israel. We, NCSU SPAN, are still planning our action for

2005-02-10T15:54:00.000-08:00

End the Occupation of Palestine!Campaign to Urge NCSU to Divest from Israel"I am a black South African, and if I were to change the names, a description of what is happening in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank could describe events in [apartheid] South Africa."~Archbishop Desmond TutuEvery day the US government gives $17Million to the state of Israel. If there is ever going to be a just peace and

2005-01-09T14:16:00.000-08:00

JANUARY 20th -- WORLDWIDE DEMONSTRATIONS AGAINST OCCUPATION AND WAR IN IRAQ, ON THE DAY OF BUSH'S INAUGURATION In two weeks SPAN members will be going up to Washington, DC to participate in the demonstrations. This will an opportunity to mobilize large numbersof people for a visible show of opposition to the war and to the other anti-people policies of the Bush administration. There will

2004-11-19T09:41:00.000-08:00

DEFEND LOCAL ACTIVISM In the past week, members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force (JTTF) have waged a campaign of intimidation against anti-war activists in Raleigh, North Carolina. Agents of the JTTF have been visiting local youth activists at their homes and dorm rooms and interrogating them about their anti-war activities. Those harassed are all members of at least one of the

2004-11-01T09:22:00.000-08:00

No Matter Who Wins, The Election has been stolen… And the war continues! JOIN US! Wed. Nov. 3 Moore Square, Raleigh 12:00 Noon We have a seriously scary situation on our hands with this election. Latino voters in rural districts of NC have been intimidated from the polls because of certain last names and blacks in charlotte had the poles closed on them today. There are systemic problems with

2004-10-11T13:59:00.000-07:00

MILLION WORKER MARCH, this weekend! Million Worker March - Busesleave at 5:00am Sunday 17 October from MLK Memorial Park (Corner of Rock Quarry Rd. and MLK Blvd.) Come join other working people, peace activists, and progressives to takepart in the Million Worker March in Washington D.C. Bus tickets are $30 or$20 for students and low income individuals. To

2004-09-28T11:53:00.000-07:00

at the last meeting we worked on finalizing our two actions for this upcoming week: 1. Wednesday, 29 Sept. - ROTC sit-in 3:30-6:30pm in brickyard 2. Thursday, 30 Sept.(international refugee day) - Palestine MockApartheid Wall, all day Brickyard. Please come help us with these events. 1. We cannot sit idle while the War Machine recruits openly on our campus, in public. For the sit-in, so far

2004-08-20T13:21:00.000-07:00

JOIN US TO RESIST THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL CONVENTION! The Republican National Committee has, for the first time in its 150 year history, selected New York for their Convention from August 29-September 2, 2004. In a shallow attempt at exploiting the lives lost at the World Trade Center, the RNC has pushed the Convention date to September. We have witnessed two unjust wars, at least one American

2004-02-29T20:36:00.000-08:00

Campaign to Stop War Profiteering How is NCSU tied to the War in Iraq..... Our Chancellor is on the board of Directors at RTI... RTI was awarded a contract of $167million to reconstruct Iraq....there is much more. We protested in the bricyard Tuesday, 24 February 2004. Then we carpooled to durham to meet with Duke, UNC and community activists. WE DEMAND TRANSPARENCY ABOUT NCSU's TIES TO

2004-01-24T13:41:00.000-08:00

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 :

2003-12-09T15:05:00.000-08:00

Pickets support imprisoned Marine resister By Minnie Bruce Pratt Camp Lejeune, N.C. A group of activists held up anti-war signs on a busy street corner on Nov. 15--an increasingly common sight as more and more people oppose the U.S. war on Iraq. But this street corner was in Jack sonville, N.C., home to Camp Lejeune, the largest Marine Corps base in the world. Marines have trained here to fight

2003-09-30T07:47:00.000-07:00

With the overwhelming amount of change to be influenced, SPAN has decided to focus on two campaigns for this year, again, these are open for dispute. Come to the meetings and help us decided how to tackle these institutionalized problems: Meetings are held every Thursday at 5pm in the SOURCE office of the Talley Student Center. OCTOBER 7th is a National Day of action against Militarized Schools