In direct opposition to the bombing of Afghanistan and the belligerent nationalism sweeping the U.S., student organizers are fighting back.
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Undertaking a “nationally coordinated, non-violent political statement to the world against violence, greed, and suffering”, Occidental College’s Students United For Peace, supported by over 40 professors, organized a Hunger Fast in opposition to the bombing of Afghanistan that quickly spread to 17 other campuses and high schools across the U.S., including Princeton, Oberlin, Boston College, Cornell, SUNY-Oneonta, U. of Oklahoma, Pitzer, Pomona, Claremont McKenna, Scripps, MIT, UC-Santa Cruz, UCLA, Humboldt State, Bates, U. of Texas, U. of
Arizona, the Boston Campus Anti-War Coalition, the LA Coalition for World Peace", and Oxford University in the UK.
“When will we demand a more humane, honest, and ethical government? How
will we make our voices heard when the mainstream American media strives
to belittle and undermine any signs of dissent? How do we let the people
in Europe, South and Central America, Afghanistan, and the rest of the
world know not all Americans support our country's foreign policy? The
young people of America are fed up with its country's hollow words and
repulsive actions. We are symbolic of a generation fed up with the racist
bullshit it has been fed.” - Students United For Peace
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