No Honorary Degree for Andy Card - Part 2

Petition to Revoke Offer of Honorary Degree to Andrew H. Card, Jr. at http://www.petitiononline.com/no4card

On May 15, 2007, students, faculty and staff protested the decision by the University of Massachusetts to give an honorary degree to Andy Card, and former head of the Bush Administration's White House Iraq Group. Students held a rally outside the Whitmore administration building. When they went to enter the building, they found that the university had closed it. They then marched to the graduate school administration building and held a sitin. They marched across campus to the Whitmore building, and heard from a university spokesperson - standing outside - that the university had not changed its mind. Students then marched around the administration building, symbolically knocked on the locked doors, and held a rally, with students taking turns speaking out.

This is Part 2 of the video coverage, from the statement of the university spokesperson to the end rally. We will also upload a higher quality single video of the protest to Google.

Last Thursday more than 300 faculty, graduate and undergraduate students marched to Chancellor Lombardi's office and demanded that University of Massachusetts administrators revoke the offer of the honorary degree.

Students are planning followup protests.

Video recorded and edited by Charles Jenks. © 2007 Traprock Peace Center; all rights reserved.

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[Jeit]

They should have boycotted the ceremony and continued to protest outside. Accepting a degree along side card shows that personal gain means more than principal.

[TraprockPeaceCtr]

It's easy to say what other people should have done. The fact is that they made a very effective protest. The video of the protest inside the hall was the #1 ranked video worldwide on YouTube in news and politics and a clip was played on Democracy Now (TV and radio). Over 112,000 have seen the video (see this TraprockPeaceTV channel). Everyone made their own choice about what to do re: a degree.

[OsamaBinForgotten2]

This is a very good sign. Before we get our country back, it might take one half the people in the USA on the steps of the white house. We have lost our voice. Protests in the street, are similar to Don Quiyote fighting windmills, it might bother them a little bit, but the ruling elite just ignore the people.