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Title
Boycott Class
Date
24 February 1969
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Flier, with note indicating that it was handed out at 19th and Holloway on 24 February 1969, addressed to San Francisco State College students stating that the strike is continuing on campus, and urging students not to attend class. Includes a handwritten note at the bottom of the page for a meeting of the Third World Liberation Front on February 24th, 1969. Transcribed: BOYCOTT CLASS The State students have maintained the strike against racism through one semester and into another. This is the first time in the history of the student movement in the Bay Area that semester break has not killed a specific student action. THE STRIKE IS NEARLY FOUR MONTHS OLD AND IS CONTINUING. The TWLF and white striking students have been attacking the racist and class nature of the university as it is manifested in 1) who gets in 2)what gets taught 3) whose interests the University serves. This unity among students against racism is a tremendous threat to the corporations who benefit from an education system that trains students to fit into their particular future slot and devides TW and white students so they will not unite later on the job. Faced with this threat, the school administration, trustees and govern­ment officials have used any means they thought necessary to break the strike; liberal rhetoric (two convocations), administration front groups such as the CAE and SMART, deviding students by racism (offering concessions on BSU and not all demands and other offers if the TWLF would repudiate radical white students), massive police terror, court jailings and injunctions. Most recently George Murray and eight other student strikers had their probations revoked for participating in the strike. THESE TACTICS AND MANY OTHERS HAVE FAILED TO BREAK THE STRIKE. Now that the trustees are faced with the threat of continued mass student action, they have sent out "feelers" to the TWLF to discuss a meeting about the implementation of the demands. They are carefully evaluating the strength of the student strike.so NOW IS THE TIME TO ONCE AGAIN MAKE THE MASS NATURE OF THE STRIKE VISABLE. Eor the previous week, students have seized the oppertunity to reenter the classrooms for the purpose of strike education. This week the mass picket lines are being reestablished. It is only united mass action(such as last May's sit-in, last semesters strike actions, and working peoples strikes such as the recent one at Kaiser Hospital) that will win the demands. ATTENTION STUDENTS GOING TO CLASS. The strike is continuing the boycott of all classes and urging students to join the picket lines. Before Chris- mas Hayakawa said that - my students are voting with their fannys. They are going to class.- Sitting in class is a vote against the Ethnic Studies programs, and aginst open admissions. It is a vote for the use of cops on campus to perpetuate racism at State. There is no neutral position on racism. Prof. Gamble of the Anthro. Dept, claims he is neutral. However, when striking students attempted to discuss the strike in his class, he called the cops to enforce his "neutrality." The only position to take in support of the 15 demands is to strike. white student strike support comm. 546 Filmore (Fell & Filmore) at 7:30pm 2/24/69 labor donated
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