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University of Iowa anti-war protests, 1965-1967
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ISL NEWSLETTER no.21 March 13, 1967 Publication of the Iowa Socialist League P.O. Box 55, Iowa City, Iowa Volume III LET US ESCALATE! Prof. Barnett's decision to submit "F" grades for all of his fall semester students is part of his continuing protest against America's genocidal war in Vietnam and the University's collaboration with it. It was made in response to steps taken by the administration which tried to nullify and to silence his opposition. The University undercut his original act of refusing to submit any grades by giving his students a "Pass" grade. This was an attempt on their part to perpetuate students' privileged exclusion from the war and assuring their silence about it. They further attempted, under pressure from the State Legislature, immediately to eliminate him and his protest from the campus. Along with his submitting of "F" grades, Barnett has called upon those of us who oppose the war seriously to reconsider and re-evaluate our commitment to ending this war. The question he has raised is whether stopping this mass murder means enough to us that we might risk our safe positions within the protective walls of the University. His position is based on a fact which all of us involved in the peace movement are sadly aware of - that for the past three years we've marched, prayed, spoken, debated, petitioned, organized and screamed and yet the war continues. The bombs still fall, the napalm still flows, and the people still die. Not only does it continue it escalates daily to new thresholds of madness. We've accomplished virtu petuate the myth that America tolerate oppositio where we either escalate our own commitment or we fective role of loyal opposition. Barnett is advocating neither martyrdom nor th he prescribing a specific success formula. What he of us who oppose the war search for new tactics, in Concerns for careers, perpetuation of life styles, s must become secondary to ending the war. Freedom and our goal and we must be willing to take any risk nece might seem to some to be a large demand. It is. But without sacrifice. And in terms of the daily struggle people in their fight against American imperialism, it i Dare we compare our commitment to that of Vietnamese pe SPANISH FASCISM IN TROUBLE Characteristically, the American press ( with the excepti Feb. 25, 1967 from which much of the following is nt demonstrations against the power of the F had always been resistance here and t activities of the last few According to on ascist take agg
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ISL NEWSLETTER no.21 March 13, 1967 Publication of the Iowa Socialist League P.O. Box 55, Iowa City, Iowa Volume III LET US ESCALATE! Prof. Barnett's decision to submit "F" grades for all of his fall semester students is part of his continuing protest against America's genocidal war in Vietnam and the University's collaboration with it. It was made in response to steps taken by the administration which tried to nullify and to silence his opposition. The University undercut his original act of refusing to submit any grades by giving his students a "Pass" grade. This was an attempt on their part to perpetuate students' privileged exclusion from the war and assuring their silence about it. They further attempted, under pressure from the State Legislature, immediately to eliminate him and his protest from the campus. Along with his submitting of "F" grades, Barnett has called upon those of us who oppose the war seriously to reconsider and re-evaluate our commitment to ending this war. The question he has raised is whether stopping this mass murder means enough to us that we might risk our safe positions within the protective walls of the University. His position is based on a fact which all of us involved in the peace movement are sadly aware of - that for the past three years we've marched, prayed, spoken, debated, petitioned, organized and screamed and yet the war continues. The bombs still fall, the napalm still flows, and the people still die. Not only does it continue it escalates daily to new thresholds of madness. We've accomplished virtu petuate the myth that America tolerate oppositio where we either escalate our own commitment or we fective role of loyal opposition. Barnett is advocating neither martyrdom nor th he prescribing a specific success formula. What he of us who oppose the war search for new tactics, in Concerns for careers, perpetuation of life styles, s must become secondary to ending the war. Freedom and our goal and we must be willing to take any risk nece might seem to some to be a large demand. It is. But without sacrifice. And in terms of the daily struggle people in their fight against American imperialism, it i Dare we compare our commitment to that of Vietnamese pe SPANISH FASCISM IN TROUBLE Characteristically, the American press ( with the excepti Feb. 25, 1967 from which much of the following is nt demonstrations against the power of the F had always been resistance here and t activities of the last few According to on ascist take agg
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