Right on!

Next bring more able body men and really get into. Make it impossible for the ruling class to rule.

More people must come out and support/join the counter-recruiters.

start the revolution and take them head on, unity and power, fuck you bush, war criminal

"sounds really fishy. Why would the two students who were assaulted now being charged with felony assault. IF they are being charged with felony assault, they probably did the assaulting"

Sounds to me like you aren't familiar with the police and getting arrested. Whenever the cops beat the shit out of you enough that there are bruises/cuts they charge you with assualt. It's a standard unwritten rule that both the cops and most "criminals" understand. It makes it so you can't bring in photos of your scraped and battered face and get any kind of sympathy from a judge or jury.

The good thing is some film students got the whole thing on video, so the pigs are going to fry.

duh is correct.
story is a protest warrior or cop.

The CUNY pigs stomped on their heads, gauged their eyes, and pulled out their hair.


"Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious"

-- Oscar Wilde

This sort of action is to be expected from those who hold coercive power in any society. As long as you DO NOT interfere with the recruiters, you should petition to have your own table there with your own leaflets. It is a public building, yours as much as the military's.

Yeah f-in a! Arrest them all and let G-d sort them out! Onward to the glorious right-wing revolution! When your country is on the line, nobody should be allowed to stop it in its crusade against terror.

"Whenever the cops beat the shit out of you enough that there are bruises/cuts they charge you with assault."

Yep. Happened to me two years ago when I was arrested at the Times Square demo. Cop whacked me with his club and later arrested me and charged me with assault. I was unaware of this tactic at the time but I sure as shit am aware of it now. I beat the charges.

"duh is correct.
story is a protest warrior or cop."

What is this McCarythism bullshit? Why must everyone who disagrees with you be a cop?

If they are going to beat the crap out of one and charge one with assault anyway, why not "be guilty of it." Most pigs are pimps(cowards), they are depending on ones fear to keep control of the situation. If they know one can, and will, hurt them if they act in a certain way they will think twice before they start any shit.

Forget, the BS about Ghandi, the only way change ever occurred in the past was through forceful action. There has never been such a thing as a bloodless revolution.

To the "non-violent" types out there, who are appalled by these words, I sympathize with you.
Of course don't drop out, focus your efforts on "non-violent" actions and strategies. Try not to be condescending to those who see things differently than you. You are not so high and mighty.

However, before this is over, this going to get very bloody, folks; plan accordingly.

they took the camera?

Igor: so judges are gods to u...interesting.

Will: bummer they fucked with u, but what an awesome ending!

its very easy to say that if you were charged with assault, you must have committed it.
Many people who've been to a protest targeted by police (yes they do pick and choose which ones they will be agressive at) may have had the experience of being "baited" by the police i.e. being whacked in the knees by bike cops with their bikes or being pushed, kicked, elbowed and having signs or banners ripped from their hands by "the man" in the hopes of getting any kind of reaction from a protestor no matter how small. I one time said, after getting my shins bruised, "Hey man, would'ja quit that? I'm not breakin' any laws and I'm walking on the sidewalk like you asked" only to be met with "Say another word and you'll be charged with assault".
This is such a weak example from an incredibly peaceful anti-war protest but shows something even the mass of trolling righties who visit this site might start to recognize as police initmidation and trampling upon the right to express ideas peacefully.
it's not unpatriotic to question your leaders and when you are threatened with arrest for having an opinion then I strongly question whether you can honestly say that north america is truly a democratic place.

Colin writes: "This sort of action is to be expected from those who hold coercive power in any society. As long as you DO NOT interfere with the recruiters, you should petition to have your own table there with your own leaflets. It is a public building, yours as much as the military's."

No, it is not the military's building at all. They should be harassed because they are liars seeking to turn students into killers. if the popular will exists, they should be driven off campus.

I also think you don't quite get the degree to which "freedom of speech" is a joke at CUNY. They have an entire sub-police department dedicated to controllin dissent. I personally was hospitalized by an NYPD riot squad almost ten years ago to today at a peaceful rally against budget cuts and tuition hikes.

Attacking recruiters physically is stupid. I think there is absolutely no chance that occured. When I was beaten, they attempted to charge me with assault. Lucky for me, there was video footage of the entire event and all charges were dropped. Miguel Malo, a student at Hostos Community College has been in and out of court DOZENS of times for charges resulting from HOLDING A SIGN. He was brutally arrested and then charged with violent offenses despite many witnesses who have testified that this was a lie.

CUNY is not Columbia. The students are treated with no respect and have no rights the police are bound to respect.

I received this note from Ron McGuire, an attorney who has done tireless work on behalf of CUNY and in defense of student activists and academic freedom.

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This is an urgent request for individual faculty, the PSC and the UFS to contact City College President Gregory Williams **THIS MORNING**to avert what could be a major confrontation when students demonstrate in the NAC Plaza at NOON today to protest Pataki's tuition increase.

The students are determined to exercise their historic right to demonstrate in NAC Plaza **WITHOUT BARRICADES OR PENS**. For over 20 years NAC Plaza has been the site of student rallies, demonstrations and concerts with crowds of demonstrators peacefully mingling with their fellow students, faculty and staff who pass through the plaza. I have attended rallies with thousands of students in the plaza. Security has **NEVER** erected barriers and there has never been a problem.

Newly appointed CCNY security director George Crinnion has told the students that he will errect "pens" like those used at the Republican convention to confine demonstrators this afternoon. This could result in many unneccessary student arrests in a few hours because the students are determined to demonstrate without barriers.

As at Hostos four years ago the college administration has abdicated the administration's responsibility to supervise security and regulate free speech on the campus. Presdient Williams has relegated the administration's role to a security director who has been escalating restraints on student and faculty demonstrators for several weeks.

There could be tragic consequences if Crinnion attempts to confine the demonstrators to "pens" this afternoon.

I therefore urge faculty governance leaders and individual faculty to contact President Williams immediately **THIS MORNING** to impress on him the need to take control over the situation and to direct security to permit the students to demonstrate peacefully in the NAC Plaza without the pens.

There is still time to avoid a confrontation. The students only want to have a peaceful rally without barriers or pens.

President Williams' contact information is:
212-650-7285 (phone); 212-650-7680(FAX)

Ronald B. McGuire

"It's not unpatriotic to question your leaders and when you are threatened with arrest for having an opinion then I strongly question whether you can honestly say that north america is truly a democratic place."

I've said it a million times. If you think we live in a truly democratic society, you're either dumb, blind or both.

So it begins...

Counter-recruitment is so powerful a weapon agianst this war that the Enemy is going apeshit! These bullshit charges are prooof of it, and an attempt to deter us from engaging in the most powerful antiwar work by threats.

People need to consider options for immediate reprisals for this. Last Spring, Huntingdon Life Sciences targets managed on the West Coast to get an injunction limiting SHAC's ability to strike them, and 7 SHAC activists were arrested on bogus charges. The result? A tenfold increase in ALF strikes aimed at HLS targets. THIS is what prosecutors and bosses understand-power!

As for the "assault", I guess they are charged with hitting a cop on the club with their heads. See you outside a recruiting center, motherfuckers...

You are correct, if a draft is not reinstituted these recruitment efforts will become deathly serious business. And in the past your opponents have been rather brutal and efficient in dealing with those who have attempted to hamper or interfere in their noxious efforts.

So it is strongly recommended that you pick and choose your actions, as well as your agents, very carefully. Do not go into a situation with anything less than a 100 people. In the meantime a good way of getting them is through general education efforts.

These days, it never hurts to keep a video camera onhand should you be doing outreach. If there are a few people and it looks like trouble is coming, let the one with the camera step away quietly and keep the camera low-key.

Imagine if there was footage of this! Footage has kept me from getting charged for assaulting a cop. They tried and then found out there was footage and backed away because I was innocent.

Cameras are expensive, but out of any ten people, chances are somebody has one.

Hey, I thought they would get trampled by all the right wingnuts fighting to get in on Perpetual War and who worship and who Luv Dubya!!

Where are the red blooded American Republicans and why the problems with recruitment for the US Army-since when would a few protestors stop the war supporting virile Republican Youth from Enlisting and spreading Dubya's God given gift of liberty to the heathen hordes?

Luke from DC sounds so tough.

He's an internet thug.

Indy tends to attrack lots internet thugs calling for class war and bloodshed.

Class war! Bloodshed! Whooo!

Do away with classes.

I stand in solidarity with the City College Three
and their opposition to this war for capital and property.

Dwayne Chandler.

I agree with the person who said to bring a camera, but the third protesters was arrested for taking pictures of the other two being assaulted by the cops --> "obstruction of justice."

Update on this story:

PICKET the City College of New York administration in defense of free speech!
Thursday, March 17, 12:30 p.m.
Meet in front of the administration building, 138th and Convent Avenue

SIGN a letter of support (see below)


DEFEND FREE SPEECH AT CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK (CCNY)

The three CCNY students arrested and brutalized Wednesday, March 9, for peacefully protesting the presence of military recruiters at City College’s “career fair†were arraigned and released Thursday. They were charged with
misdemeanor counts of assaulting an officer, resisting arrest, and disturbing the peace, among other things. Hospital records from Mt. Sinai confirm that Nick Bergreen and Justino Rodriguez suffered multiple contusions and postconcussion syndrome. Their court date is set for April 5.

CITY COLLEGE HITS BACK WITH SUSPENSION AND ANOTHER ARREST

Friday, March 11, Hadas Thier, an undergraduate student at CCNY, was informed that she had been suspended from the University for “posing a
continuing danger,†and was banned from even setting foot on campus, pending a hearing to take place sometime in the next seven days. Meanwhile, Carol Lang, a CCNY staff member, was arrested in connection with Wednesday’s
protest and also charged with assault.

Gregory H. Williams, the president of the College, sent an email to the entire faculty and student body repeating allegations against the students as if they were facts. “The confrontation escalated and several of the
demonstrators grabbed and hit the officer. At this point, the three students involved in the attack on the officer were arrested,†he wrote.

It is a disgrace that the administration has so clearly sided with campus security without any evidence or due process, rather than looking out for the rights and safety of its students, faculty, and staff. Together, the actions of the security guards, the City of New York, and the CCNY administration have served to stifle dissent and create a climate of intimidation.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

1. Let them know what you think:
(and copy  cityfreespeech@earthlink.net on your emails)

Gregory Williams, President Maureen Powers, VP for Student Affairs
212-650-7285/7286, 212-650-7680 (fax) 212-650-5426, 212-650-7080 (fax)
c/o Chief of Staff Michael Rogovin c/o Assistant to the VP George Rhinehart
 mrogovin@ccny.cuny.edu  grhinehart@ccny.cuny.edu

George Crinnion, Director of Public Safety Danny Vasquez, Security
Specialist
212-650-7992, 212-650-7991 (fax) 212-650-7988, 212-650-7991 (fax)
 gcrinnion@ccny.cuny.edu  dvasquez@ccny.cuny.edu

2. Sign on to the letter supporting free speech on campus

Please find the letter attached. To sign onto the letter, send an email to:
 cityfreespeech@earthlink.net

3. Picket the administration (and deliver your letter in person)

Meet in front of the administration building, 138th and Convent Avenue
THURSDAY, March 17, at 12:30 p.m.

Bring signs and placards in support of free speech on campus!


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Dear President Williams,

We, the undersigned, are outraged that freedom of speech for faculty, staff, and students of the City College of New York (CCNY) was so blatantly attacked last week.

We were dismayed to learn that three students were attacked and arrested by campus security guards for exercising their constitutionally protected right to assemble and to protest.

We were further outraged to learn that you swiftly moved -- without evidence, due process, or a discussion with the arrested students -- to
suspend one of the students and to arrest another protester after the fact. This guilty-until-proven-innocent approach sends a chilling message: security forces have free reign on campus.

We demand that you defend the CCNY students, drop all disciplinary proceedings against the students involved in the protest, and launch an
investigation into the actions of campus security.

Signed,


Hadas Thier, CCNY Class of 2005
Justino Rodriguez, CCNY Class of 2007
Nicholas Bergreen, CCNY Class of 2007

My mother is Carol Lang, the staff member arrested two days after the incident. She as well as the other three students were completely right for every action they took. Hadas saw her friends being stomped and knew she couldnt do anything physically so she started taking pictures. When the pigs went after her, my mother came to her defense. The police dept. is sayin that two women (both under 5 ft tall) assaulted this peace officer and it is completely fabricated. Any of you out there like "duh" who is ignorant enough to make the comment that he did, should go to the rally on thursday to learn a thing or two, I will be there!

Shame on these demonstrators for dragging my college's name thru the mud. Carol Lang is a borderline anti-semite. She blamed the Zionists for planning the Holocaust.
How are job recruiters supposed to take my college's name seriously when proters are running around punching officers and throwing leaflets?

I'm not related to Carol. I starred in "King Kong."

Here's a Counterpunch article on this case and one that happened the same day at San Francisco State. It's cowritten by Hadas Thier, the suspended CCNY student, and one of the SFSU protest organizers.

"Counter-recruitment is gaining strength; Military recruiters target campus activists"
 http://www.counterpunch.org/their03152005.html

Checkout yesterday's interview on DN!:

 http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/03/18/1450222

I totally support the protestors. As a CCNY sophmore I know that campus police are bullies and highy unprofessional. There is no question about it. President Williams needs to connect with the college community more when things like this happens. He should use this as an opportunity to find out the truth about how students feel about the administration and security, instead he takes this time to release a statement supporting security's actions. The recruiters ,the "rent-a-cops" and the NYPD don't need to be on campus. Williams needs to make sure that each and every person involved is reinstated to their prior status. Williams needs to develop a relationship with the student body because he currently doesn't. Maybe none of this would have happened if he was in tune with how the students feel about the recruiters and the war in Iraq.

Defend Free Speech at The City College of New York!
 alucas00@ccny.cuny.edu