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From: lkk@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Larry Kolodney)
Newsgroups: net.politics,net.college
Subject: Re: Eight MIT students arrested in Apartheid protest
Message-ID: <1379@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 25-Mar-86 00:31:30 EST
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Posted: Tue Mar 25 00:31:30 1986
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In article <662@sigma.UUCP> bill@sigma.UUCP (William Swan) writes:
> [lkk@mit-eddie writes]
>>[...] MIT launched this attack without prior warning and with little
>>concern for the safety of the students involved. [...]
>
>Without prior warning? How did the "other Coalition members" know to
>show up to resist? And why were you there to photograph the event if
>there was "no prior warning"? Could it be that this event was staged?
>
>Do you not consider 5 minutes warning sufficient? By your own testimony
>it was "approximately five minutes later" that they arrested the students.
>Is your complaint that they issued "no final warning" before beginning
>their arrests? Or is it that they arrested people on the ground as well
>as those on the roofs, even though your statement implies that all the
>students were asked to leave?


By "no prior warning" I mean that no attempt was made by the
administration to contact the coalition to discuss the future of the
shanties before the decision was made to destroy them.

I was there to take pictures because I was sleeping in one of shanties
when the police arrived (at 6:30 am), and was awoken by the commotion.
Other coalition members were sleeping there as well, and others arrived
from nearby dorms after some quick phone calls.

We are not claiming that those who were arrested (myself excluded)
were suprised by the arrests after the warning.  We are claiming that
arriving by suprise at 6:30 am to destroy something which had
significant support in the community, which caused no immediate
threat, and which served an important political and educational
purpose, was an uncalled for action by the MIT administration.
-- 
larry kolodney (The Devil's Advocate)

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