monday, febroary 25, 1980
page 6
daily nebraskan
Protestors speuk out mgmimt dmftP imperMism
By Rose Fitzpatrick
Students and others gathered outside the Nebraska
Union Friday to hear speakers opposing registration
for the draft, the draft itself and U.S. involvement
in other countries.
Cynthia Trainor, speaking for the Progressive Student
Union which sponsored the rally, said that a draft to pro
tect U.S. vital interests is not protecting democracy but
protecting the rights of multi-national corporations.
Militarism means bad news for the poor and minorities,
who will be over-represented, gives more power to gener
als and industrial leaders and means bad news for youth in
general, Trainor said.
Bruce Erlich, associate professor of English, modern
languages and literature, called for full public debate of
the draft rather than passive acceptance.
Personal politics
Erlich said that politics must be personal and that
people need not agree on all the issues. Instead, he said,
they could form a broad-based coalition against the draft.
He said that if there is a new draft, the United States
won't be fighting Russians because a conventional (non
nuclear) war is extremely improbable. '
In Iran, CIA Station Chief Kermit. Roosevelt was in
volved in overthrowing the elected government of
Mossadegh to install the shah's government, which nego
tiated with Gulf Oil Co. to give Gulf the right to 40 per
cent of Iran's known oil reserves, according to Erlich.
In 1965. President Johnson sent 20,000 U.S. Marines Speaker Moira Ferguson associate P.
to the Dominican Republic where Juan Bosch won the - said that neither equal rights nor the competence of
national election over incumbent Belaguer, Erlich said. women to fight was the issue.
Belaguer had gone to the Organization of American
States to ask for assistance and the supposedly neutral
Marines fought against Bosch and the peasants, Erlich
said.
Corporate deals
During the Vietnam War, the Texan construction com
pany, Brown and Root, started receiving major govern
ment contracts for building military installations after
Johnson became president, Erlich said. Brown and Root is
now Brown-Root-Knudson-Morrison, one of the largest
contractors in the world.
Referring to land now occupied by U.S. corporations
that could be used to grow food by poverty stricken
people of third world countries, Erlich said that U.S.
draftees would be fighting Guatemalan peasants, the
urban unemployed in the Philippines and Black miners in
South Africa.
Democracy at home
Another speaker, student Carmela Sanchez, said that
poverty and discrimination have limited full participation
in American society for Americans of Mexican descent,
yet President Carter is proposing that young Chicanas and
Chicanos fight to protect U.S. interests.
Citing past participation of Americans of Mexican de
scent in the military, Sanchez said "the practice of de
mocracy as full class citizens must be obtained at home
before we can again feel comfortable sacrificing our lives
and our children's lives in foreign lands."
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Women haven't won equal rights in this country, yet
women won the right to fight in an unjust war without
asking for it, Ferguson said.
Pro-draft
At the fringe of the crowd were five men in fatigue
jackets, two of whom silently held up an American flag.
Kirk Erlich, one of the flag bearers, said that he didnt
agree with draft protestors.
He said he didn't see any U.S. corporate interests in
Africa nor how foreign markets were increased by going
to war in Vietnam.
Erlich said the five men in fatigue jackets had all been
in the service, two of them in Vietnam.
After speeches were done, a group of about 60 people
opposed to a draft walked to the ROTC building and back
to the Union chanting "No draft, not now, never again,"
and "We won't drive a tank for Chase Manhattan Bank."
Upon their return, some people who didn't agree with
the protestors expressed their opinions.
"Why do you live here?" one student yelled at protes
tors. "If you don't like it get the hell out," another shouted.
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The purchase of a biological station near Ogallala is
"the most exciting thing that has happened to this univer
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sciences professor.
. Janovy said the Cedar Point Biological Station has been
leased by the university for five years. The NU Board of
Regents approved the purchase of the site for $95,000 at
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The School of Life Sciences has used the station for
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need is at their fingertips," Janovy said.
Students who participate in the summer program
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summer school sessions, Janovy said.
Janovy's book, Keith County Journal, is an account
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said.
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