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Upcoming Events - SDS Calls for a National Day of Action, October 7

This list of actions was posted to the SDS website

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October 7 Protest
Participating/Endorsing organizations:

• University of Minnesota SDS - Minneapolis, MN
• Animas SDS – Durango, CO – Meet at 3 pm at Buckley Park, 12th Street & Main Avenue in Durango
• UNC-Chapel Hill SDS – Chapel Hill, NC
• UNC-Asheville SDS – Asheville, NC
• Tuscaloosa SDS – Tuscaloosa, AL
• Milwaukee SDS - Milwaukee, WI
• UCLA SDS – Los Angeles, CA
• Rochester SDS – Rochester, NY - ”Funk the War 2: Revenge of the Funk”, 4:30pm – 7:00pm at Washington Square Park
• Connecticut Students Against the War – CT
• University of Cincinnati SDS – Cincinnati, OH – October 8, 12:30-2pm, On the lawn of TUC at University of Cincinnati
• DC SDS – Washington, DC – Funk the War
• University of Rochester SDS – Rochester, NY – Funk the War action with Rochester SDS
• College Park SDS – College Park, Maryland – Oct. 8th: War resisters will speak on campus
• Tacoma SDS – Olympia, WA – Rally and march
• UNC Charlotte SDS – Charlotte, NC
• University of Illinois at Chicago SDS – Chicago, IL
• University of Florida at Gainesville SDS – Gainesville, FL
• University of Central Florida – Orlando, FL
• Durham SDS – Durham, NH – Making shirts with statistics about the cost of war ($ and casualties and other stats) to wear on the 7th, and we’ll be showing Rethink Afghanistan with a speaker, Will Hopkins, who is an Iraq Vet against the war.
• Columbus State University – Columbus, GA – Anti-War Picnic on campus, literature and information will be distributed.
• Roberts Wesleyan College – Rochester, NY
• Houston SDS – Houston, TX – Teach in against the war

Upcoming Events - October 7, Afghan War Teach-in [University of Houston]

October 7th at 7pm in Room 212 S of the Honors College (on the second floor of Anderson Library) Students for a Democratic Society at UH will be hosting a teach in about Afghanistan to mark the 8th anniversary of the war. We will be screening excerpts of the film Rethinking Afghanistan and presenting speeches by History Professor Bob Buzzanco and Afghanistan War Veteran Matt Dobbs. The event is free and there will be snacks.
October 7th will mark the eighth year that the U.S. has been at war with Afghanistan, under the auspice of fighting “the war on terror.” In eight years under occupation, tens of thousands of Afghans have been killed by U.S. air strikes, bombs, and bullets, and the Afghani infrastructure has been devastated.In just one day of this war, May 4, 2009, U.S. air strikes killed over 150 Afghan children, women, men in a village in Farah province.
The war affects us here at home as well. The number of U.S. troop casualties increases more and more each year that the war continues. By next year the cost of the Afghanistan war will be more than the cost of the Iraq war, with the U.S. government requesting $65 billion dollars for the war in 2010. So far the government has spent almost a trillion dollars in the wars against Afghanistan and Iraq. With that money, we could have paid for 35,068,800 four year university scholarships.
University of Houston SDS is stoked to be joining more than 20 other SDS chapters across the country who are taking action on October 7th to educate, agitate and organize for an end to the war in Afghanistan