April 3, 1999 - April 3, 2009 Happy April 3rd

to :A3M Reunion <Reunion@lists.a3m2009.org>
from: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>

The fourth decennial reunion of Stanford Movement activists is less than a monthaway. We already have about 40 confirmed registrants, but we're expecting more than100 people. PLEASE REGISTER NOW, because we need an accurate count to plan the foodand logistics for the events.

You can view the program at http://www.a3m2009.org/reunion_program-1.html, and youcan register at http://a3m2009.org/index.php?page=rsvp. If the registration pageformatting does not work on your browser, please download the PDF registration page.

We are not just organizing the reunion to see old friends and share anti-warstories. We see this as an chance to meet with today's Stanford students and supportcontinuing peace and social justice activism on campus. The reunion will also be aforum for us to discuss to what degree the election of Barack Obama and the globalfinancial crisis have created opportunities for more fundamental political, social,and economic change.

SPREAD THE WORD!

Happy April Third!
Forty years ago this evening, more than 800 people met in Stanford University'sDinkelspiel Auditorium to form what soon became known as the April Third Movement(A3M). We called upon Stanford and its wholly owned Stanford Research Institute tohalt chemical and biological warfare research, secret research, and programs relatedto the War in Southeast Asia. See the attached scanned version of our original flier.

Over the next several weeks, the A3M organized two sit-ins, numerous other ralliesand protests, teach-ins, a carnival, and the blockading of SRI's Counterinsurgencyoffice in the Stanford Industrial Park. We distributed thousands of buttons andhundreds of thousands of sheets of paper. Polls and petitions repeatedlydemonstrated overwhelming support for our demands. Our successes included theelimination of classified research on the Stanford campus.
The April Third Movement was a high point in several years of activism at Stanford,not just against the Vietnam War, but for human rights and liberation, as well aseconomic and social justice, locally and around the globe. The Cambodia Strike thefollowing Spring, building from the Off ROTC campaign, actually drew broader andmore militant participation from the campus community.

We believe that our Movement not only hastened the end of the War in Southeast Asia,but that it laid the groundwork for decades of activism. We look back at A3M and theother campaigns we conducted at Stanford, not as the ephemeral eruption of youthfulidealism, but as a formative period in our lives.

Many of us have carried on the ideals of the Stanford Movement, and the reunion willprovide us with an opportunity to touch bases with old comrades, as well as currentStanford activists, as we consider strategies for progressive change in a new era.
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Lenny SiegelExecutive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversighta project of the Pacific Studies Center278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545Fax: 650/961-8918<lsiegel@cpeo.org>http://www.cpeo.org

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Save May 1-3, 2009 for the "A3M Reunion"

From: Lenny Siegel lsiegel@cpeo.org
Date: Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 7:31 PM
Subject: Save May 1-3, 2009 for the "A3M Reunion"


Spring 2009 is the 40th Anniversary of the April Third Movement (A3M), one of the high points of the student Movement at Stanford University.

Please save the dates of Friday, May 1- Sunday, May 3 2009 for a reunion marking that date. This will be an opportunity to remember the old days, discuss current campaigns and struggles, rekindle old flames, and appreciate the statute of limitations. We will be meeting on the Stanford campus.

Though once again we use A3M as the time to mark the reunion, we also invite activists (students, faculty, staff, and outside agitators) who were at Stanford earlier and later, people who were active in the local community and nearby campuses, and people who were active in similar movements elsewhere at the time. We will also be inviting current members of the Stanford community.

Please forward this announcement to others who may be interested, and if you receive this indirectly, please send me your e-mail address. We will make additional announcements as we plan the reunion week-end.

We will not be circulating anyone's e-mail address without permission. If you wish to be listed in the public list of potential participants, please send me <lsiegel@cpeo.org> your name, any aliases, and preferred e-mail address.

Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversighta project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>http://www.cpeo.org

1999 A3M 30 Year Reunion Schedule

SCHEDULE OF THE 30 YEAR A3M REUNION,
FRIDAY, MAY 7 - SUNDAY, MAY 9, 1999

FRIDAY NIGHT 6PM

Registration and Reception at Oak Lounge, Tresidder Union

Keynote Speakers
Dan Hamburg (Dan ran for Governor of California on the Green Party
See http://judi.greens.org/green-cal98/canstatedan.html
Marjorie Cohn - Law Professor, Thomas Jefferson School of Law

Gary Breitbard (music)

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SATURDAY, May 8, 1999

BREAKFAST 9 - 10AM

I. PANEL OF CURRENT STANFORD STUDENT ACTIVISTS: 10-11:30am
(Jill Shenker, Cathy Rion)
Students to cover the following areas:
East Palo Alto
Gay/Lesbian issues
SEAS (Students for Environmental Action at Stanford)
Stanford Labor Action Coalition
Disorientation Guide
Black Students Union
Diversity of Faculty and Ethnic Studies
Students Against Genocide

LUNCH (11:30 - 1PM)
War in Yugoslavia: Should We Respond As a Group?
Talk by Rachelle Marshall, followed by discussion

II. PANEL: 1-2:30pm
What We're Doing Now (Yale Braunstein)

Ted Smith - Impacts of high-tech development in Silicon Valley and around the world
Andrew Moss - Urban Epidemiology
Katerina Davis - Labor Movement: current changes and challenges
Marc Weiss - Urban Affairs

III. PANEL: 3 - 4:30
History and Political Analysis (Jeanne Friedman)
What we did right; What we did wrong.

Chris Katzenbach -- anti-war movement and individual rights/responsibilities
Leslie Rabine -- the rise of the women's movement
John Markoff -- the movement and the roots of personal computers
Sandra Drake -- the relationship of campus movements to civil rights
and social/economic/environmental justice.

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SATURDAY NIGHT

Dinner 7pm

Program: Vic Lovell to introduce Ed McClanahan who will read from his book
My VITA, If you Will

Music: Acme Blues Band 9-11:30
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SUNDAY (MOTHER'S DAY), May 9, 1999, 10:30 - 12:30
BRUNCH AND FAREWELL

Mother's Day Brunch and Farewell - 10:30 am-Noon

Afternoon 12:30 - 2pm
Informal gathering of career activists and current students

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2008.06.22 Initial Plans

Plans are underway for our 40 year reunion of the A3M Movement at Stanford University