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

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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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