STANFORD ALUMNI NAIL "CONDI" WAR CRIMES PETITION TO THE DOOR OF STANFORD PRESIDENTS OFFICE
SUNDAY, MAY 3, 12:00 NOON
STANFORD UNIVERSITY INNER QUAD
PRESIDENT'S OFFICE - BUILDING 10This Sunday, May 3 at noon Stanford Alumni returning to the campus for a reunion marking the 40th anniversary of the anti-war April Third Movement joined current students in nailing a petition to the door of the University President's Office (Building 10) in Stanford's Inner Quad. The petition asks that Condoleezza Rice and other high government officials be held accountable for serious violations of law.
The petition, being circulated by Stanford Says No to War, states:
"We the undersigned students, faculty, staff, alumni, and other concerned members of the Stanford community, believe that high officials of the U.S. Government, including our former Provost, current Political Science Professor, and Hoover Institution Senior Fellow, Condoleezza Rice, should be held accountable for any serious violations of the Law (including ratified treaties, statutes, and/or the U.S. Constitution) through investigation and, if the facts warrant, prosecution, by appropriate legal authorities."
meanwhile, Rice Teaches Torture's Necessity To Fourth Grades
(continuation of CONDI WAR CRIMES PETITION):
Marjorie Cohn, a leader of the April Third Movement and now President of the National Lawyers' Guild, explained, "By nailing this petition to the door of the President's office, we are telling Stanford that the university should not have war criminals on its faculty. There is prima facie evidence that Rice approved torture and misled the country into the Iraq War. Stanford has an obligation to investigate those charges."
Forty years ago last October, many reunion participants nailed a document on the Stanford Trustees' Inner Quad office door demanding that Stanford "halt all military and economic projects and operations concerned with Southeast Asia," launching a campaign that led to the formation of April Third Movement in Spring, 1969. The A3M's nine-day sit-in at the Applied Electronics Laboratory brought an end to secret military research on campus.
For more information about the petition, see http://antiwar.stanford.edu
For information about the reunion, see http://www.a3m2009.org
