UARC protesters end six-day sit-in (HI)

[struggle4progress]

The Save UH/Stop UARC Coalition vacated Bachman Hall last Wednesday, returning it to University of Hawai'i interim President David McClain. But protesters vowed to return if the administration fails to fulfill their demands.

The Coalition ended a six-day sit-in protest of a proposed University Affiliated Research Center at UH Manoa campus in collaboration with the Navy. <snip>

McClain agreed to a majority of the Coalition's four demands, including a request that the UARC proposal not be brought back to the Board of Regents before Oct. 1. <snip>

"We've collected a little over $800. What we're thinking of doing is putting it into a Save UH/Stop UARC account and let it sit there for next time," Collier said. "If interim President McClain doesn't stop the UARC, which is still our demand, we'll have to come back and occupy the building."

http://www.kaleo.org/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/05/09/427ff19b46cbd

[KamaAina]

1. Yeah! Now what we need is a good counterproposal

something that would be better for UH, not only financially, but all the way around.

Here's a start: The UARC proposal would swear UH professors to secrecy, so that they (and the community) would be unable to profite from any discoveries made under the UARC aegis.

Let's go, DU! The winner(s) get a trip to you-know-where to check up on their brainstorm!

[yorkiemommie1]

2. good work!

i'm proud of you.

( witness to 1968 Bachman Sit-in )