[slwc] Fwd: Fw: Your help is needed...email UC BERKELEY
From: Faisal Chaudhry (fchaudhry70@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Apr 25 2002 - 15:23:11 EDT
Though people likely have different views of the underlying issue, this definitely seems important to all student activists...
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I CAN'T BELIEVE MY ALMA MATER IS DOING THIS!
Subject: Your help is needed...email UC BERKELEY
> >> *** PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ***
> >>
> >> Dear friends:
> >>
> >> As you may have heard, Students for Justice in
> Palestine at UC Berkeley
> >> helped to plan and organize a demonstration on
> April 9th, 2002 in solidarity
> >> with the Palestinian people and to demand that
> the University of California
> >> divest from all of its assets connected to Israel
> and the Israeli military.
> >> More than 1200 students participated in this
> rally and demonstration EUR" one
> >> of the most exciting events on Berkeley this
> semester.
> >>
> >> During the course of the demonstration, students
> and community members also
> >> took part in a non-violent sit-in in Wheeler
> Hall. Seventy-nine people were
> >> arrested for sitting-in. All face criminal
> charges; students will face
> >> student conduct charges. A few of the students
> may also face suspension for
> >> up to one year, according to the Office of
> Student Life at Berkeley.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, as a consequence of organizing the
> demonstration and sit-in,
> >> the University of California at Berkeley has
> decided to suspend Students for
> >> Justice in Palestine (SJP) as an organization on
> campus pending an
> >> investigation. This means, that as long as the
> investigation continues, SJP
> >> is functionally barred from holding events on
> campus, tabling, distributing
> >> literature, and organizing. It could also
> potentially mean that SJP may be
> >> banned as a student organization at Berkeley.
> Please note, that while the
> >> University of California is EURoeinvestigatingEUR
> and EURoeonly consideringEUR
> >> suspension, these measures are a prelude to worse
> sanctions, not to mention
> >> only applied to SJP (even though many student
> groups have participated in
> >> and conducted civil disobedience on campus).
> >>
> >> These actions against SJP are unique and
> unjustified. No other student
> >> group that has participated in non-violent civil
> disobedience has been
> >> suspended and no students have faced charges of
> this severity in the past
> >> several years at UC Berkeley. We believe that
> this is a systematic attempt
> >> to silence pro-Palestinian voices on campus and
> to intimidate students from
> >> being activists.
> >>
> >> In fact, the policy that makes SJP subject to
> these charges (the
> >> ChancellorEUR(tm)s so-called EURzero toleranceEUR
> policy) was implemented only a
> >> few
> >> days before the protest, specifically to make SJP
> subject to higher
> >> standards and harsher consequences.
> >>
> >> It is also an attempt to attack one of the
> strongest pro-Palestinian student
> >> organizations in the country in order to make it
> easier to attack other
> >> pro-Palestinian students organizations across the
> country.
> >>
> >> We need your help.
> >>
> >> Please take a few moments and write to the
> Chancellor and the Student
> >> Judicial Affairs Office (addresses and phone
> information below) and tell
> >> them that you believe that these penalties are
> unwarranted and unjust.
> >> Especially at Berkeley, where there are memorials
> to Free Speech movement of
> >> the 1960s all over campus (the Mario Savio steps
> and the Free Speech
> >> Movement Café), these kinds of attacks on free
> speech and civil
> >> disobedience
> >> are not only an attempt to roll-back the activist
> gains won on this campus,
> >> but also in defiance of the universityEUR(tm)s
> mission to promote free speech
> >> and
> >> debate.
> >>
> >> We have included some talking points below that
> you may want to include in
> >> your conversation or correspondence with the
> administration at UC Berkeley.
> >> Please do email us at
> justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com with any
> correspondence
> >> that you send so that we can keep a record of the
> letters that the
> >> administration receives.
> >>
> >> We urgently need your help. Please lend your
> support to pro-Palestinian
> >> student activists and activists who are fighting
> for social justice by
> >> letting the administration know that their
> actions are not supported by
> >> members of the community, students, alumni,
> faculty, and staff.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley
> >> justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please contact:
> >>
> >> Chancellor Robert Berdahl
> >> MAIL: 200 California Hall #1500
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
> >> TEL: (510) 642-7464
> >> FAX: (510) 643-5499
> >>
> >> Assistant Chancellor John Cummins
> >> EMAIL: jcummins@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> MAIL: Office of the Chancellor
> >> 200 California Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
> >> TEL: (510) 642-7516
> >> FAX: (510) 643-5499
> >>
> >> Vice Chancellor Genaro Padilla
> >> EMAIL: gpadilla@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> MAIL: Undergraduate Affairs
> >> 130 California Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1504
> >> TEL: (510) 642-6727
> >>
> >> Student Judicial Affairs Officer Rajmaira
> >> EMAIL: osc@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> 326 Sproul Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720
> >> TEL:(510) 643-9069
> >> FAX:(510) 643-3133
> >>
> >> TALKING POINTS
> >> 1) Students should not face charges or suspension
> for participating in
> >> non-violent civil disobedience.
> >> 2) Activists should be allowed, freely, to speak
> and protest on campus
> >> without harassment from the University or its
> officers.
> >> 3) Pro-Palestinian groups are unfairly targeted
> for higher sanctions, a
> >> reflection of the bias in the way that the
> administration hands out
> >> sanctions.
> >> 4) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a
> non-violent organization
> >> that promotes education and activism and should
> be allowed to organize on
> >> campus.
> >> 5) Student activists fought for the right to
> organize on this campus in the
> >> 1960s and should be allowed to continue to
> organize.
> >> 6) The University of California should divest
> from all its holdings in
> >> Israel and the Israeli military.
> >> 7) Sit-ins and protests are not opposed to
> the academic mission of the
> >> University of California, in fact, they enhance
> the education received at
> >> Berkeley.
> >
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>From: fchaudhr@law.harvard.edu
>To: fchaudhry70@hotmail.com, fchaudhry70@yahoo.com
>Subject: Fwd: Fw: Your help is needed...email UC BERKELEY
>Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2002 11:37:44 -0400
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I CAN'T BELIEVE MY ALMA MATER IS DOING THIS!
Subject: Your help is needed...email UC BERKELEY
> >> *** PLEASE FORWARD WIDELY ***
> >>
> >> Dear friends:
> >>
> >> As you may have heard, Students for Justice in
> Palestine at UC Berkeley
> >> helped to plan and organize a demonstration on
> April 9th, 2002 in solidarity
> >> with the Palestinian people and to demand that
> the University of California
> >> divest from all of its assets connected to Israel
> and the Israeli military.
> >> More than 1200 students participated in this
> rally and demonstration EUR" one
> >> of the most exciting events on Berkeley this
> semester.
> >>
> >> During the course of the demonstration, students
> and community members also
> >> took part in a non-violent sit-in in Wheeler
> Hall. Seventy-nine people were
> >> arrested for sitting-in. All face criminal
> charges; students will face
> >> student conduct charges. A few of the students
> may also face suspension for
> >> up to one year, according to the Office of
> Student Life at Berkeley.
> >>
> >> Furthermore, as a consequence of organizing the
> demonstration and sit-in,
> >> the University of California at Berkeley has
> decided to suspend Students for
> >> Justice in Palestine (SJP) as an organization on
> campus pending an
> >> investigation. This means, that as long as the
> investigation continues, SJP
> >> is functionally barred from holding events on
> campus, tabling, distributing
> >> literature, and organizing. It could also
> potentially mean that SJP may be
> >> banned as a student organization at Berkeley.
> Please note, that while the
> >> University of California is EURoeinvestigatingEUR
> and EURoeonly consideringEUR
> >> suspension, these measures are a prelude to worse
> sanctions, not to mention
> >> only applied to SJP (even though many student
> groups have participated in
> >> and conducted civil disobedience on campus).
> >>
> >> These actions against SJP are unique and
> unjustified. No other student
> >> group that has participated in non-violent civil
> disobedience has been
> >> suspended and no students have faced charges of
> this severity in the past
> >> several years at UC Berkeley. We believe that
> this is a systematic attempt
> >> to silence pro-Palestinian voices on campus and
> to intimidate students from
> >> being activists.
> >>
> >> In fact, the policy that makes SJP subject to
> these charges (the
> >> ChancellorEUR(tm)s so-called EURzero toleranceEUR
> policy) was implemented only a
> >> few
> >> days before the protest, specifically to make SJP
> subject to higher
> >> standards and harsher consequences.
> >>
> >> It is also an attempt to attack one of the
> strongest pro-Palestinian student
> >> organizations in the country in order to make it
> easier to attack other
> >> pro-Palestinian students organizations across the
> country.
> >>
> >> We need your help.
> >>
> >> Please take a few moments and write to the
> Chancellor and the Student
> >> Judicial Affairs Office (addresses and phone
> information below) and tell
> >> them that you believe that these penalties are
> unwarranted and unjust.
> >> Especially at Berkeley, where there are memorials
> to Free Speech movement of
> >> the 1960s all over campus (the Mario Savio steps
> and the Free Speech
> >> Movement Café), these kinds of attacks on free
> speech and civil
> >> disobedience
> >> are not only an attempt to roll-back the activist
> gains won on this campus,
> >> but also in defiance of the universityEUR(tm)s
> mission to promote free speech
> >> and
> >> debate.
> >>
> >> We have included some talking points below that
> you may want to include in
> >> your conversation or correspondence with the
> administration at UC Berkeley.
> >> Please do email us at
> justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com with any
> correspondence
> >> that you send so that we can keep a record of the
> letters that the
> >> administration receives.
> >>
> >> We urgently need your help. Please lend your
> support to pro-Palestinian
> >> student activists and activists who are fighting
> for social justice by
> >> letting the administration know that their
> actions are not supported by
> >> members of the community, students, alumni,
> faculty, and staff.
> >>
> >> Sincerely,
> >> Students for Justice in Palestine at UC Berkeley
> >> justiceinpalestine@hotmail.com
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Please contact:
> >>
> >> Chancellor Robert Berdahl
> >> MAIL: 200 California Hall #1500
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
> >> TEL: (510) 642-7464
> >> FAX: (510) 643-5499
> >>
> >> Assistant Chancellor John Cummins
> >> EMAIL: jcummins@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> MAIL: Office of the Chancellor
> >> 200 California Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1500
> >> TEL: (510) 642-7516
> >> FAX: (510) 643-5499
> >>
> >> Vice Chancellor Genaro Padilla
> >> EMAIL: gpadilla@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> MAIL: Undergraduate Affairs
> >> 130 California Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720-1504
> >> TEL: (510) 642-6727
> >>
> >> Student Judicial Affairs Officer Rajmaira
> >> EMAIL: osc@uclink4.berkeley.edu
> >> 326 Sproul Hall
> >> Berkeley, CA 94720
> >> TEL:(510) 643-9069
> >> FAX:(510) 643-3133
> >>
> >> TALKING POINTS
> >> 1) Students should not face charges or suspension
> for participating in
> >> non-violent civil disobedience.
> >> 2) Activists should be allowed, freely, to speak
> and protest on campus
> >> without harassment from the University or its
> officers.
> >> 3) Pro-Palestinian groups are unfairly targeted
> for higher sanctions, a
> >> reflection of the bias in the way that the
> administration hands out
> >> sanctions.
> >> 4) Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) is a
> non-violent organization
> >> that promotes education and activism and should
> be allowed to organize on
> >> campus.
> >> 5) Student activists fought for the right to
> organize on this campus in the
> >> 1960s and should be allowed to continue to
> organize.
> >> 6) The University of California should divest
> from all its holdings in
> >> Israel and the Israeli military.
> >> 7) Sit-ins and protests are not opposed to
> the academic mission of the
> >> University of California, in fact, they enhance
> the education received at
> >> Berkeley.
> >
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