UIC March 4 Education not Empire day of action
half-page flyer: www.hulla-balloo.com/m4flyer.pdf

10am-12pm: Video showing of "Hidden in Plain Sight"
Documentary looking at the nature of U.S. policy in Latin America through the prism of the School of the Americas - the controversial military school that trains Latin American soldiers in Fort Benning, Georgia. DISCUSSION: Lead by Sister Dorothy Pagosa from the 8th Day Center for Justice who has recently returned from Federal Prison for engaging in non-violent civil-disobedience on the grounds of the School of the Americas as part of an international campaign to shut it down.
Location: Latino Cultural Center, lecture center B2

12-1:45pm: Speakout / demonstration against the tuition hikes and cuts in services
Students will gather to voice their opposition to the tuition hikes, cuts in
required classes, allocation of funds into needless expenses, hassling bureaucracy, the militarization of the state budget and demanding student rights so that education can remain available to everyone. This is a open forum for students and faculty to freely express their concerns about how the university is being run: all are invited to demand representation of student need, not bureaucratic greed. Bring noise makers and other festive items.
Location: the quad

2-3:45pm Forum on Iraq, Civil Liberties, "War on Terrorism", and where UIC fits into the picture
SPEAKERS: Someone from Voices in the Wildnerness that has recently returned from a humanitarian aid mission to Iraq; Barry Romo from Vietnam Veterans Against War; Pearlie Stuckey whose son is currently on active duty in the U.S. armed forces and faces the possiblity of being re-deployed to Iraq for a second time; UIC Professor Louise Cainkar who is doing research on racism and discrimination against Arabs and Muslims in the post-9/11 political and social climate in the U.S., a speaker from the UIC Political Discussion Group who will address some of the links between U.S. domestic and foreign policy and in particular the role in which UIC has emerged over the past several years.
Location: Latino Cultural Center, lecture center B2

3:45-4pm: Students will meet in the quad at 3:45-4pm to go downtown to join up with the "Education not Empire" demonstrations downtown as a UIC contingent.

March 1-March 5: Week of resistance at UIC. Tabling every day in the CCC to discuss the issues with students, gather signatures for the petition, and to build for the March 4 actions. We are calling out to other organizations and individuals to help with this campaign.

Organizers: Free Society, Students for Social Justice, Campus Antiwar, the UIC Political Discussion Group, Youth and Students for a Democratic Foreign Policy, the International Socialist Organization