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Student gathering focuses on anti-war message
Hundreds of college students from all over the west gathered in Berkeley this weekend for the California Schools Against War conference. The conference combined informational talks with meetings focused on strategies for organizing students against the U.S.-led bombing of Afghanistan.
“The attacks on Sept. 11 have nothing to do with the bombing in Afghanistan,” said Brenda-n Behan.
Behan, a student at Claremont McKenna College in southern California, traveled north to the conference to exchange ideas with other students and to challenge his assumptions about the war in Afghanistan.
“The movement has to show people the way in which U.S. foreign policy has led us to the situation we’re in now,” said Behan.
The Berkeley Stop the War Coalition organized the conference. Similar conferences were planned in Chicago, New York and Boston. Conference organizers said that 550 students from 60 different colleges in the West had registered for the conference. They believed that between 700 and 800 people actually attended some part of the two-day conference.
