[free-sklyarov] Quick Query for Campus Campaign

[Alex Fabrikant]

As per email address, I'm at UC Berkeley. With some help, I covered the
EE/CS buildings with the original flyers by Tabinda back in late July, and
most are still up. Quite a few people in my dept (EECS), especially grad
students and faculty, seem to be aware of the issue and are quite
adamantly on our side. Of course, many more aren't. I can probably gather
a sizeable group (upwards of a dozen, maybe two, many of whom were at the
SJ/SF protests in the summer) to do more propaganda on-campus, especially
once finals and winter break are over and the new semester starts
(mid-January).

Main question is, as usual, what are we broadcasting, and what's the best
answer to "so what can I do?" Somehow it feels like those need to be
rethought considering the developments of the past few months.

-- 
-alexf

On Sat, 1 Dec 2001, Xcott Craver wrote:
> 	How many universities are represented by people on this list?
> 	I.e., if we print up flyers specifically oriented to students
> 	or otherwise plan to raise awareness on college campuses, how
> 	many campuses would we be talking about?
> 
> 	People here at Princeton seem a bit surprised when they hear
> 	about Sklyarov's arrest; sounds like that DeCSS thing, they think.
> 	But they are positively shocked when told that Sklyarov is a grad
> 	student, doing his dissertation on the stuff that got him nicked.
> 	When you point out he's one of them, it gets their attention.
> 
> 	I've handed out a lot of those flyers from the San Jose protest,
> 	but I notice that it makes little mention of the fact that he's
> 	a student.  And, that this mess is about research he's doing as
> 	a student.  If we want an on-campus Free Dmitry campaign, we
> 	need to emphasize this.
> 							-S
> 
> 	[Also, several people are asking me where they can get one of
> 	these Boycott Adobe shirts.]
> 
> 
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