[mobglob-discuss] Fw: [NDYC_JNDC] URGENT! SOLIDARITY REQUIRED - YOUK STUDENTS ARRESTED

[Paul Browning]

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From: tannis_bujaczek 
To: NDYC_JNDC at yahoogroups.ca 
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 11:18 AM
Subject: [NDYC_JNDC] URGENT! SOLIDARITY REQUIRED - YOUK STUDENTS ARRESTED


Please everyone - lets make the call, and send fax or emails.  The 
contact information is in the CFS press release below.

For up to date information, including about student reaction on 
campus (there was a sit in in the admin offices, and I think more 
actions are planned), contact Pablo at the York Federation of 
Students 416-736-2100 ext. 77675 or e-mail the York Federation of 
Students via the York web site www.yorku.ca 

Be sure to also check this link:

http://www.rabble.ca/babble/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=29&t=000119

People are posting information as it happens.  POst if you have some!

Tannis

>From the Canadian Federation of Students:
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:22 PM
Subject: Urgent: Solidarity Required - York Students Arrested
IT IS CRITICAL THAT AS MANY PEOPLE AS POSSIBLE ATTEND THE RALLY TODAY 
AT 4:00 PM TO EXPRESS SOLIDARITY WITH THE STUDENTS WHO WERE ARRESTED.

Please express your outrage at the actions of York University by 
calling, faxing and emailing York University President Lorna Marsden 
at the
following addresses:

PHONE: 416-736-5200
EMAIL: presidnt at yorku.ca
FAX: 416-736-5641

Please send messages of solidarity to students at:
campaigns at cfsontario.ca

In solidarity,
Pam Frache,
Ontario Campaigns and Government Relations Coordinator, Canadian 
Federation of Students

-----------------------------------------
STUDENTS OCCUPY YORK UNIVERSITY PRESIDENTS OFFICE: CONDEMN STUDENT 
ARRESTS

Toronto - Students are currently occupying York University President 
Lorna Marsden's office to protest against the universities decision 
to use
police force to shut down peaceful protest at York University. As a 
result of this decision, two organizers of the student anti-war 
protest at York University have been arrested by Toronto Police.

The organizers are members of Now End War and Sanctions On Iraq [NEWS 
On Iraq], a member of a coalition of student groups that came 
together here at York University to take part in an
international protest against the war. The University Administration 
ordered the roads cleared of blockages, and subsequently arrested two 
organizers and a picketing student when they didn't clear out fast 
enough.

Police have ordered pickets to be taken down at the Sentinel gate, 
but students are still holding picket lines at the Main Gate at York 
Boulevard
and Keele St.

Students have been holding information pickets at three of the main 
entrances to the university, asking them to wait for several minutes 
while handing out leaflets and talking to drivers and passengers, 
since 7:30am.

Despite some of the worst weather in Southern Ontario all winter, 
picket lines have been exuberant and positive, as students 
demonstrate that they are opposed to the sanctions and bombing of 
Iraq that has caused the deaths of approximately 1.5 million people.

The action is part of a worldwide coordinated effort by students to 
intensify the protests against war on Iraq. Hundreds of campuses 
across
the U.S., Canada, Australia, Spain, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Brazil 
and Scotland (among others) are holding information pickets or 
strikes today.

For more information, please contact endsanctionsnow at yahoo.ca. or 
call:
416-202-2026 or 647-885-8257 




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