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report on midwest anti-war conference
Dear brothers and sisters,
A regional conference of student anti-war groups was
held this weekend in Chicago. There were an estimated
200 students in attendance and over 27 campuses from
eight states were represented. Four members of
Duluth-Superior SAW attended (Steffanie, Adam, Rose
and myself) as well as six from the Ashland group
(Carl, Annie, Fiona, Mark, Kyle and Christine).
On Saturday, many informative workshops on issues
relating to the current conflict were held.
On Sunday, we voted on a number of different
propositions and here is what was decided:
A network of Midwestern campus anti-war groups was
formed under the name of the Midwest Campus Anti-war
Network (MCAN) with three points of unity:
1. Stop the war.
2. Stop racist attacks on Arabs, Muslims and all
other groups.
3. Defend civil liberties.
It was decided to form a coordinating committee
consisting of eight representatives, one from each
state that participated (except for two from Illinois
until Missouri can decide on a representative). I was
chosen to be the representative for Minnesota. For
those of you from Wisconsin, your representative is
Sarah Bodine and her e-mail address is
Sbodi511@uwsp.edu.
It was resolved to have action to protect students'
privacy. Campus groups will be pressuring student
government and school adminstrations to put in writing
an agreement not to release student records to the FBI
or any other governmental investigative agencies.
This was decided in light of the fact that the INS may
try to deport student activists from abroad even if
they have legal visas and to protect all student
activists from police harassment.
It was also resolved to defend faculty who support
this movement as they may come under much harassment
and intimidation as well.
It was resolved to have a day of united action on the
10th of December and to have a united day of teach-ins
on the 23rd of January.
MCAN approved of having a national conference in
either February or March.
Any comments or suggestions from Minnesota students on
where we want MCAN to go are very welcome!
Your brother,
Matkeane
