Just quickly,
I walked past the AUJS stall on Thursday and shouted, "stop the Genocide.
Free Palestine!" then kept walking. A Zionist said, "we are not for
Genocide", so I turned around, began walking towards them and pointing out
why what is currently occuring in Gaza can be considered nothing less than
Genocide. at this point the plain clothes, aswell as uniformed security
goons lurking around the stall ran up and started PUSHING me away from the
stall saying "get out of here". I was really pissed off, told them to get
their hands off me and I had every right to expressing my political
opinion, but they kept PUSHING me back away from the stall. It was fucked
up. The zionists kept arguing from behind the thugs but I wasn't allowed
to respond. They then demanded my ID or I'd be ejected from campus.
Anyway I made a complaint, but we should be clear about what is going on
here.
In the context of the expanding war on terror, the University is coming
under pressure from the Federal Government (and willing conceding to this
pressure) to crack down on anti-war activity. Stopping "anti-Semitism" is
disgracefully being used as a political cover to slam dissent to the war.
The recent letter from the Federal Minister for Immigration instructing
the AVCC to move against "anti-semitism" on the campus (printed in this
weeks honi) is clear evidence of this. It comes in a long line of recent
pushes from the Government to get University administrations to ramp up
repression: monitor post-grad students, allow ASIO access to student
activity, cut back critical courses, shift research towards "Securing
Australia".
Any opposition to this needs to come in a wider student fightback against
the War
in Solidarity
Paddy
ps Building electoral alliances with forces such as AUJS to get yourself
votes, ie "Wham for AUJS", encourages this kind of thing. Shame Angus
Shame.
Quoting kfla2477@...:
>
>
> ATTN all activists;
>
> Two things that have really pissed me off about university security this
> week - and i want to do something about it (still working out that
> action
> point)
>
> 1) Searching Students for ID
>
> Some activists were kicked off campus this week after not being able to
> show student id. When Nick and I intevened (we jsut happended to be
> standing on eastern ave) and asked what was going on the security got
> all
> heavy handed asking me "who are you" and demanding to see my ID!
> I will note that an AJUS stall was only metres from this fiasco and
> these
> young people were not frisked or escorted off campus. I want the
> universtiy to specify
> i) exactly what is happending with this student ID thing- who is and who
> is
> not allowed on campus?
> ii) why are partiuclar stereotypes being targeted on campus?
>
>
> 2) WHY ARE THERE PLAIN CLOTHES SECURITY ON CAMPUS?
>
> I became aware of two large men in plain clothes acting as security when
> they helped uniformed security escort the non usyd students from
> campus(yesterday) They were standing today for several hours on eastern
> ave, lurking very close to the student power stall. I just find their
> presence intimidating and want to know the protocol of these plain
> clothed
> dudes. In all my time at uni i've not encounted this thuggery.
>
>
> Hopefully the SRC exec will bring these issues to the attention of the
> university after we meet tomorrow. ANyone with simiar concerns please
> post
> them to the list. This heavy-handed behaviour will not be tolerated.
