Students for a Democratic Society

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OLYMPIA, Washington – Peace activists have revealed that a U.S. military informant had been posing as an anarchist to infiltrate their groups. Members of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS) and Port Militarization Resistance (PMR) discovered from documents received through a public records request that John Towery, who used the name “John Jacob”, was spying on their groups while working for the military. He relayed information to local and state law enforcement officials, as well as numerous federal agencies and the military. Under the Posse Comitatus Act it is illegal for the U.S. military to engage in law enforcement inside the U.S. The infiltrated groups were involved in antiwar activities including blocking military shipments bound for Iraq and Afghanistan.

The SDS Anti-War Working Group is calling on students nation-wide to protest and demonstrate in opposition to President Obama's Feb. 17 approval to send an additional 17,000 troops into Afghanistan.

In this time of economic despair, we students will not sit idly by as our country deepens itself into a war that is taking place merely to rob the Afghan people of their resources and their sovereignty and to further line the pockets of the super-rich here in the United States. We stand with the Afghan people against this brutal war and occupation. We believe the money being used to fund this war is desperately needed here at home. Over the next two weeks, SDS chapters nation-wide will organize protests, sit-ins, walk-outs, discussions, and whatever else they can to denounce the latest surge in Afghanistan.

The SDS Anti-War Working Group exists to help coordinate national SDS anti-war activity, and has also called for nation-wide demonstrations against the war in Iraq for the week of March 16.

U.S. Out of Afghanistan Now!
Fund Education, Not Occupation!

SDS Anti-War Working Group

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The SDS Anti-War working group is calling for protests against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the occupation of Palestine on the week of March 16th-21st, during the 6th anniversary of the invasion and occupation of Iraq. We are demanding troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, and an end to U.S. aid to Israel. Organize sit-ins, walk-outs, teach-ins, banner drops, die-ins, building occupations, film screenings - whatever your campus can do to protest U.S. foreign policy. Or join the March 19th Funk the War and the national protest marches in Washington DC, where on March 21st we will have a SDS meet-up. Together we will build a mass movement to end the occupations now and put the people’s needs first.