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Four Dead in Ohio: May 4 - 31 Years Later |
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by Mike Lehman
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03 May 2001
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Mayday, just celebrated locally on the U of I Quad, is a memorial day for slain workers and the cause they represented. May 4 brings us to a memorial day for slain students and the cause they represented, ending US involvement in the Vietnam War after Nixon had just expanded the war by invading Cambodia in 1970. |
Four white students were killed and nine wounded at Kent State University in Ohio on that day by the National Guard. Days later, on May 14-15, two black students were killed and at least a dozen were wounded at Jackson State College in Jackson, Mississippi when police shot up their dorm while protesting the expanded war and the deaths of the students in Ohio.
All of us, but particularly students, should remember these events and the lives laid down for a better world in the face of a government that often times had as little regard for the lives of its own citizens as it did for the citizens of other countries.
Below you will find a link to the May Fourth Task Force memorial website. It is well worth a look to remember the lives of these young people, especially for those which are too young to remember what happened. It was a time that radicalized many people who are still active today.
If death be the price of progress, we must risk living.
You can find link to the Jackson State memorial website of the May 4 site or go to:
http://ccaix.jsums.edu/~www/gg02.htm |
See also:
http://dept.kent.edu/may4/
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kent columbia juxtaposed |
by Fred P
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04 May 2001
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I attended the candelight vigil for the students, held near the memorial on Kent State campus. Hundreds of people were there.
Across the street in a local church, a woman showed photographs of death squads in Columbia, which she thinks are funded by U.S. money - the 1.3 billion dollars we sent to the Columbian military last year. She says the Fort Bragg commission sent to Columbia proposed the use of paramilitary groups to provide deniability.
Vietnam meant death for millions of American boys. Now we pay for war, but fight by proxy. Will anyone protest this unholy war against drugs and for U.S. oil interests? |
