Anti-war activity.The National Youth and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC NYSPC National Youth and Student Peace Coalition ) and the Campus Anti-War Network (CAN) have become the leaders of a diverse new generation of campus organizers. From 21-23 February 2003, CAN brought together 300 students from 100 universities and high schools to discuss the future of the anti-war campus movement. NYSPC called for a national day of strikes on March 5 and created a coalition of national campus groups (In These Times, 31 March 2003). ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) (14 April 2003) pictures a student handcuffed and chained to an armed forces recruitment center on 5 March 2003 in Philadelphia as part of NYSPC's "Books Not Bombs" campaign. Approximately 40,000 high school and college students protested that day against military action in Iraq by walking out of class. Green Left Weekly writer Bill Nevins was suspended from his teaching job at a New Mexico New Mexico, state in the SW United States. At its northwestern corner are the so-called Four Corners, where Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah meet at right angles; New Mexico is also bordered by Oklahoma (NE), Texas (E, S), and Mexico (S). public high school after a student from the Poetry Slam poetry slam n. A spoken-word poetry competition. Team/Write Club, which Nevins organizes and sponsors, read an anti-war poem over the in-school, closed circuit TV system. All student members of the poetry team were interrogated by the school administration. Nevins is fighting the suspension with the strong support of the New Mexico teachers' union. To read the offending poem, go to www.greenleft.org.au/. New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. Teachers Against the War held a forum on 5 April 2003 to educate teachers, students and parents about the war at home. The crowd of around fifty discussed subjects like military recruitment Military recruitment is the act of requesting people, usually male, to join a military voluntarily. Involuntary military recruitment is conscription. Recruitment is necessary to maintain an effective standing army in countries that have abolished conscription or which operate a in schools, the destruction of civil liberties, and the potential to build opposition inside the United Federation of Teachers and pass an anti-war resolution (Socialist Worker, April 2003). A growing number of American historians are becoming so concerned that the Bush administration is ignoring the lessons that explain the destruction of world empires that they have mobilized into a national organization called Historians Against War. They wrote a petition condemning the recent curtailment of civil liberties and organized teach-ins at Temple University, Rutgers, Rowan, Pennsylvania State, and Franklin & Marshall (Philadelphia Inquirer Philadelphia Inquirer Morning newspaper, long one of the most influential dailies in the eastern U.S. Founded in 1847 as the Pennsylvania Inquirer, it took its present name c. 1860. It was a strong supporter of the Union in the American Civil War. , 10 April 2003). |
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