Re: [sixties-l] teeny tiny protests on Sproul Steps

From: Ron Jacobs (rjacobs@zoo.uvm.edu)
Date: 10/06/00

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    Here at the University of Vermont, there has been more political activity
in the past year and a half than the previous five years--actions around
Iraq, the bombing of Yugo, anti-corporate stuff....not massive numbers, but
the core of activists seems to grow with each action....
-ron jacobs

At 02:51 AM 10/06/2000 EDT, you wrote:
>I too find it disheartening to hear of so few persons demonstrating on the
UC 
>campus.  I am not sure the rally's being re Israel accounts for the lack of 
>response, especially, though.  In spite of the--very, very 
>hopeful--activities the past year re WTO and re various ecological issues,
in 
>fact other than an occasional expressions of "Oh those dot.coms!" or "Hey, 
>cool," very LITTLE political expression has come out of campuses, at least 
>from what I've heard, recently.
>  But I'm not in the academic world.  What is the sense of you on this list 
>who are, on student political consciousness or activity now?
>   Paula
>

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