Evergreen State College Staff Opposes War

“We, the undersigned, offer the following resolution:

1. We condemn the mass murder of thousands of people on September 11....

2. We support the use of the World Court or other international tribunals such as the International Criminal Court to bring to justice all of those who were complicit in the... violent attack. Any use of force should be a multilateral approach that follows international law....

3. We urge that the US break the cycle of violence, bringing... the war to a halt.

4. We urge that the US collaborate with governments throughout the world to address and overcome conditions such as poverty, malnutrition, disease, oppression, and subjugation that make acts of terrorism more likely. We also request that the US donate significant resources to international relief agencies, in order to prevent massive starvation in Afghanistan.

5. We commend the Evergreen State College administration for respecting... academic freedom....

6. We urge all educational institutions to support the academic freedom... and to publicly discuss the current crisis.

7. We support a national campaign to lessen our dependence on oil and to commit to a nationwide conversion to renewable energy sources within ten years.

8. We support federal spending that will directly benefit those who have lost jobs since September 11th, such as continued health and unemployment insurance, and request that the federal government provide revenues to the States so that they do not cut social programs and public education. We support spending for health care, energy conversion, education and mass transit, and we support tax cuts for low-income people. We oppose federal tax cuts that provide... huge tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy.

9. We urge the repeal of the USA PATRIOT ACT, the so-called anti-terrorism act which is an attack on all of our civil liberties and rights, particularly those of non-citizens, immigrants, and Muslims.... We also strongly oppose the establishment of military tribunals to try noncitizens the government accuses of terrorism.”

[Signed by 64 faculty and staff at The Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA.]