Tacoma SDS

November 15th: Protest Prop 8 in Seattle!

This is a call for solidarity for all people who are OUTRAGED by the passing of the Anti-Gay prop 8 in California. This is a time for all of us to unify, Gay , Straight, Black , white, to fight against inequality!

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 15, 2008 -- Volunteer Park / Capitol Hill
--> 10:30 AM: Festivities
--> 12:00 PM: Rally and Key Note Speakers
--> March to Westlake after rally

Show how utterly disappointed and outraged we are at the inequality America keeps handing down to the LGBTQ community.

While others protested the war in Iraq, students locked down to the UCSF building to block the UC Regents meeting held at the University. They locked down with u-locks as the police bent several bolt cutters and the fire department damaged a 'jaws of life' before giving up. The Regents were ushered into a fire exit and later a few lock downs were broken through. Later the police dismantled the doors and arrested the students with locks still around their necks. The students also had a press conference, a students meeting and went into the regents meeting.

Anti-war protesters celebrated on February 13th after having forced the US Army's Institute for Collaborative Biotechnologies (ICB) to cancel the second day of its annual conference at UC Santa Barbara. The day prior, over 500 UCSB students and Santa Barbara community members disrupted the conference to demand an end to UC complicity in weapons research designed to kill Iraqis in an illegal war.

According to an e-mail received by facilitator@tacomasds.org, this direct action was inspired by recent actions in Olympia by many activists, including Tacoma and Olympia SDS chapters.

The CIA was scheduled to hold an “infosession” for students interested in jobs with the agency. Right as the session began, four activists entered the room and began to demonstrate waterboarding, a torture technique used by the CIA. After only one minute of the waterboarding demonstration the room was plunged into chaos by a group calling itself the Clandestine Insurgent Rebel Clown Army. The Rebel Clowns, joined by several dozen antiwar organizers took over the meeting room and began passing out information on the CIA’s use of illegal torture techniques and literature related to the agency’s long history of subverting foreign governments, assassinating foreign leaders and subverting democracy.

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