5/6/05: Complete with costumes and characters such as UC President Dynes and "Hans" of SNL fame, the march through Science Hill, organized by Students Against War (SAW)'s Demilitarization working group, highlighted UC's management of Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore Labs, as well as the large amount of weapons research currently underway on UCSC's campus. Student 'weapons inspectors' stopped outside the new Baskin Engineering building before a die-in outside the Science and Engineering Library. The inspectors also marched silently through the library and passed out information about UCSC's connection to the war machine.

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On May 6, I joined the Demilitarize faction of Students Against War (SAW) for a weapons inspection tour of UC Santa Cruz. This was the third week of the ongoing weapons inspection tour which meets every Friday, 12:30pm, at the Baytree Plaza.

Students Against War (SAW) meets every Friday in Conference Room #C above the Baytree Plaza at 5pm. SAW's demilitarization working group meets every Sunday in Cowell's fireside lounge at 7pm.

There has been a venue change for the support events in San Diego, the original venue fell through.

We hope that people from Santa Cruz will organize caravans and come down to support Pablo!

05-04-05 -- Photos by MATT FITT -- On Wednesday evening, war resister Camilo Mejia spoke to a full house at the Santa Cruz Veterans' Hall.

The lie that the United States invaded Iraq to bring freedom and democracy not just to Iraq but, as it turns out, to the whole world, is tremendously useful—because we can first expose it as a lie and then we can join with Iraqis to try to make it true. So it disturbs me that a lot of progressives are afraid to use the language of democracy now that George W. Bush is using it. We are somehow giving up on the most powerful emancipatory ideas ever created, of self-determination, liberation and democracy.