Recap from Last Year

Hope everyone had a great summer. Welcome Back to EC. SDS's intro meeting (people can decide when to meet regularly after that) will be on 9/8 Monday 7pm at the Frick Center. At the meeting we'll talk about the Funk the War party on 9/12 (Friday night).

Recap from last year:

From partying to protesting, EC SDS helped transform the politics on Elmhurst College's campus last year. Beginning in the year we stood in solidarity with the Jena 6, a group of high school students who were charged with attempted murder after a schoolyard fight after a series of racially motivated attacks and intimidations hurled on the black students of Jena, LA. We rallied a student group coalition, holding one of the only marches in Elmhurst's history downtown, in addition we organized a wide student coalition to sell tshirts supporting the Jena 6 *However the police must have thought our plan was to rob Chipotle or something since they sent over a dozen police to "protect" the protest.

Around the issue of the war, we both attended an anti-war demonstration, showed the video Sir, No Sir! on campus documenting GI resistance to the military brass, and held a free concert in support of the Morton West High School students who were expelled for a peaceful sit in during their lunch hour, which helped create enough of a controversy where they were reinstated after about two weeks of protests infront of the school.

We ended the year with one of our better party's, Freedom Festival. We brought a number of awesome bands to Freedom Festival, a three day event that included guest speakers, free food and spoken word. The final day of the Freedom Festival, we got in the local news for taking around a dozen students downtown to participate in the Immigrant's Rights May Day march. This year's Freedom Festival promises to be twice as big as we have a week reserved and now have the experience of organizing a festival behind us.

Come out to our first meeting on 9/8 7pm and keep in touch to find out where we are gonna hold our party on 9/12.