CAMP U.S.

Nationwide Strike for Peace Campaign
University of Oregon
PO Box 3150, Eugene, OR 97403

September 21, 2005

University's only Peace Studies student strikes against war

Brian Bogart worked in the defense industry for 15 years, turning down security clearance opportunities three times before leaving Silicon Valley. In 1997, he earned a B.A. in Japanese History from the University of Oregon, and is now entering his final year as its first graduate student in Peace Studies.

At noon on Monday, September 26, at University of Oregon's EMU Amphitheater, Brian Bogart will launch the nationwide Camp U.S. Strike for Peace Campaign to coincide with the efforts of Cindy Sheehan, and will have the support of Noam Chomsky, Robert Jensen, and thousands of others at schools across the country. The campaign will publicize the surprising extent of the war industry in our communities, our schools, and our lives, and call for a reasonable defense.

Making even one part of a weapon 10,000 miles from conflict contradicts the core meaning of education. Beginning at noon on the first day of the new academic year, I will refuse to study inside the classroom of any school that sells itself to war, and I will deliver my Petition for Peaceful Priorities to University of Oregon's President Frohnmayer at the same time it is being delivered to the White House by Medea Benjamin, co-founder of Code Pink and Global Exchange. Then I will speak against war all year from noon to dusk, to focus public attention on statistics that reveal America's obscene war-for-profit economy and my university's participation in the development of the most horrific weapons imaginable.

CampU.S. Strike for Peace Campaign
September 26, 2005 to June 10, 2006
310,000 companies, including more than 350 universities, work for the Pentagon.
How will we ever learn peace while making war in our schools?
US military, $1000 billion a year. US education, $59 billion a year.
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