Loyola Phoenix: Antiwar group convenes (photo)
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Loyola Phoenix: Antiwar group convenes (photo)
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A photo taken by The Phoenix's John Burnham appears in an article titled "Antiwar group convenes" by April Otterberg. The photo shows students sitting in an auditorium raising paper slips into the air. The caption reads: "Student activists from across the country met at Loyola for a weekend conference to discuss issues surrounding a war in Iraq and to organize the structure of their new national student organization, Campus Antiwar Network." The Loyola Anti-War Network (LAWN) hosted a conference of over 300 students from CSAWN, the Chicago Student Anti-War Network. CSAWN was part of CAN, the Campus Antiwar Network, which the article describes as having been formed on January 17, 2003 at regional conferences at George Washington University and San Francisco State University "to find ways to strengthen the antiwar movement" as a war in Iraq seemed more and more likely. At those two conferences, delegates from over 70 colleges "voted to oppose the war on Iraq and educate and activate [their] classmates and campus communities." LAWN reserved the Galvin Auditorium and members looked forward to being part of such a large movement, which the article says was the largest of its kind since the anti-Vietnam War movement.
At the conference at Loyola, nearly 200 delegates from 100 universities and colleges (and five high schools) voted on issues concerning the structure and mission statement of the movement and future antiwar actions. About 150 guests also attended. The group agreed to also call for an end to racism, especially racial profiling and ethnic scapegoating, to protect civil liberties, and to push for the funding of education and jobs instead of war. They voted to divide the country into five regions with two delegates each and include a delegate for high school representation to act as the national leadership. The group planned National Days of Action and hoped to organize campus actions across the country. At Loyola, LAWN met at 3pm on Mondays in the Commuter Lounge on the second floor of the Centennial Forum Student Union.
At the conference at Loyola, nearly 200 delegates from 100 universities and colleges (and five high schools) voted on issues concerning the structure and mission statement of the movement and future antiwar actions. About 150 guests also attended. The group agreed to also call for an end to racism, especially racial profiling and ethnic scapegoating, to protect civil liberties, and to push for the funding of education and jobs instead of war. They voted to divide the country into five regions with two delegates each and include a delegate for high school representation to act as the national leadership. The group planned National Days of Action and hoped to organize campus actions across the country. At Loyola, LAWN met at 3pm on Mondays in the Commuter Lounge on the second floor of the Centennial Forum Student Union.
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
2003-02-26 (published)
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Loyola Phoenix, 2003-02-26, page 6, Antiwar group convenes (photo)
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University Archives and Special Collections
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University Archives and Special Collections, Loyola Phoenix, 2003-02-26, page 6, Antiwar group convenes (photo)
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Loyola University Chicago
Student life activism
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