DEFEND FREE SPEECH and the RIGHT TO DISSENT on the UW Madison campus!
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Given that: 1) Stop The War! has never collectively participated in or advocated for violence of any kind, or destruction of property, in any circumstance; 2) The Dean of Students Office is investigating STW members with the threat of probation, suspension, or expulsion without cause; 3) STW members stand falsely accused of conduct constituting the kind of serious danger to personal safety to members of our campus community, which military recruiters engage in every time the facilitate the deployment of students to the illegal and immoral war in Iraq, using their well-documented manipulative practices; 4) By Chancellor Wileys own admission, the UW is in violation of its own anti-discrimination policy by allowing military recruiters (and their "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" employment policy) access to campus; 5) And that these aforementioned truths add up to hypocritical, irresponsible, and intimidating conduct by the campus administration, which threatens the fundamental right to freedom of speech and conscientious dissent due all UW students.
We the undersigned, demand that the investigation against Paul Pryse and the campus organization known as Stop The War! be dropped immediately, and followed by an apology to both the individual and the group for this vicious and baseless attack on STW members' character and constitutional rights.
We the undersigned, demand that the investigation against Paul Pryse and the campus organization known as Stop The War! be dropped immediately, and followed by an apology to both the individual and the group for this vicious and baseless attack on STW members' character and constitutional rights.
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2 November 2015
24 July 2015
99.
Graham F
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The right to demonstrate against an illegal and immoral war, also the right to consciously object to any participation in it, is a hall mark of human dignity. To peacefully demonstrate and refuse to murder on behalf of an immoral government is human digni
9 July 2015
20 April 2015
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Elizabeth G
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This is ridiculous and the administration should be ashamed. As a former member of Stop the War, I am aware of its purely pacifist ideology and complete unwillingness to use violence to achieve its goals on this campus. The right to protest should be some
1 November 2014
30 September 2014
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Derek W
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As a member of the UW-Madison academic staff, I'm outraged that our administration would attempt to silence dissent like this. These students should be winning awards for trying to stop an illegal, immoral war, not facing possible expulsion!
19 August 2014
16 August 2014
23 January 2014
19 July 2013
17 June 2013
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Mark C
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Without free speech and the right to vigorous dissent, academic life loses its raison d'etre and embarks upon the trahison des clercs. It is a pity that UW Madison seems to have forgotten the lessons counter-recruiters taught there a generation ago in the
14 June 2013
8 June 2013
24 April 2013
22 March 2013
11 March 2013
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Spike A
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The attack on free speech is a real one. Will our administration prove to fall in line with the trend of intimidation or will it voice the progressive ideals of the campus and refuse and resist the repressive tactics of the Military Science Department and
28 December 2012
24 December 2012
8 November 2012
29 July 2012
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Stephanie J
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The fact that the military as an institution is given free speech and individuals are not its absolutely ridicuous! Free speech is a right!
27 June 2012
10 June 2012
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Allison H
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The rights to free speech and peaceful assembly make up the foundation upon which this country stands!
9 June 2012
9 April 2012
18 March 2012
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