Comments on: Harass the Brass

by: eric

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 03:07:49 +0000

The Eugene chapter is going to participate in harassing the brass. We have a recommended target that relates directly to campuses across the country. Each year millions of dollars of funding from the Department of Defense goes towards science related research. This is not new news, the UofO has been funded in this way for forty years. However, this is a status quo that SDS cannot stand down to. In Oregon, the Oregon Nano and Microtechnology Institute (ONAMI) is in the process of building an $80 million project on campuses across the state. At the UofO, $8 million of our share is funded by the DoD. This cannot happen. As student intersted in peace and CHANGE, we must combat the status quo of military funding on Universities. Any groups in the Oregon area, we need your help to get this program stopped in our state, and the solidarity of the national group in general is equally needed. Perhaps we should begin discussion of what a national movement to stop military funding of public universities, sponsored by SDS, would look like. Thank you: war on the surplus reapers!

by: jeff thomson

Tue, 23 May 2006 20:43:51 +0000

Wow…I’ve never seen so many spam comments on a blog. That is lame.

Anyways, I want to introduce you to some of the work that the National Lawyers Guild is doing and how it can benefit the Harass the Brass campaign. nlg.org

(1)The NLG Mass defense committee. If you are going to a protest and are likely to get arrested then you should first contact the NLG Mass Defense committee. If you have gone to any major protest you are probably familiar with the work of the mass defense committee. They are the organizers of the legal observers at protests - the ones who are video tape police activity and take down the names and numbers of those arrested in order to put them in contact with pro bono legal assistance from progressive lawyers.

http://www.nlg.org/programs/mass_defense.htm

(2) It regards to the earlier discussion on reaching out to active military. If you are interested in this, you may want to talk to the NLG Military Law task force. The military law task force represents conscientious objectors and moral deserters. They also set up several “know your rights” hotlines for military personal who are considering disserting on moral grounds. It is an amazing project and I encourage you to contact the NLG if you would like more info on it.

http://www.nlg.org/mltf/

by: Patty

Sat, 20 May 2006 04:30:20 +0000

I was in the SDS in the early 70’s. Wondered if anyone was still out there trying to make changes and came upon your site. Great work and keep it up but please get out there and sit in and harass the brass

by: Denny V

Thu, 11 May 2006 02:34:02 +0000

The Glenbrook SDS would like to officially endorse the Harass the Brass campaign, but we do not have the resources to participate at this point in time.

Denny Vaccaro
-Organized Glenbrook SDS

by: greencolt

Thu, 11 May 2006 00:10:28 +0000

yes i think the harrass the brass campaign is and amazing thing but i am in northeastern pennsylvania and we have no SdS/MdS chapters and honestly i really think i am one of a handfull of people who know about this org and i would like a way to inform people so if any one has an info pamplet or text that sums up the SdS/MdS and their campaigns and goals i would like to get it so i can hand it out… also direct action is better done in a weathermen style or even in the methods of ELF/ALF personally me i do not have enough comrades in my region to carry out the suggested methods so maybe you could just say in the harrass the brass campaign flyer “by any means necissary to bring down the machine” since well in my opinon certain actions are way more affective then others but hey this is all just my thinking thoughts on the campaign and i am no armchair activist ….my email is greenblackcolt@yahoo.com if any one wants it..

by: Phil Primeau

Fri, 05 May 2006 20:39:48 +0000

This weekend, Kent County SDS (RI) voted unanimously to support the Harass the Brass campaign this summer.

by: revolutionary

Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:11:29 +0000

The American Heritage dictionary (and other dictionaries) give the definition of the word, but not the concept.

In terms of politics, “the state” and a “nation” are two seperate concepts.

A nation is a group of people sharing a common identity in a common geographic region. ie: “The Arab Nation” was divided by the French and British into the mandates (and later states minus Palestine) of Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Transjordan.

The two-cents of a Sociology-Political Science kid

by: P.C.

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 13:43:05 +0000

I am glad to see what I fight for is upheld in freedom of speech. I don’t agree with your actions or speech but agree you have the right to voice your opinion although very misguided….

by: Kyle Taylor

Fri, 14 Apr 2006 16:34:09 +0000

I don’t see a difference between “the state” and “the nation”. They both reflect the same thing. Consult a dictionary, such as “American Heritage” :

na·tion, n. - The government of a sovereign state.

state, n. - A body politic, especially one constituting a nation.

Below the surface, it sounds like your suggesting their is some ethic or moral that is “American”, that its not the state that is American, its the people and their values that are American. I disagree with that on the premise that its tantamount to nationalism. Their is no cultural norm or value that is uniquely american (not one that I’d like to celebrate, anyway), and those values that I do identify with I don’t recognize as specifically “American”.

A nation is nothing but a flag waving in the wind and some invisible lines drawn in the sand.

by: Kevin S. Van Horn

Thu, 13 Apr 2006 04:18:06 +0000

It’s both a strategic error and and error of fact to speak of the U.S. military as “the American War Machine”. The United States is not America; the state is not the nation. By confusing the two you play into the hands of the warmongers, who use this linguistic confusion to denounce every criticism of U.S. military action as “anti-American” or a case of “blame America first”. (Myself, I consider the U.S. to be the most anti-American organization on the planet.)