Oregon
DAILY EMERALD
Wednesday. January 16. 1991
Eugene. Oregon
Volume 92, Issue HO
2,000 gather at Federal Building to protest war
Protests continue into evening on 1-5.
By Don Peters
Emerald Associate Editor
Police arrested 51 protesters,
including 15 juveniles, at an
anti-war march and rally that
attracted more than 2.000 peo
ple to the Federal Building on
Tuesday.
Tuesday night protesters
blocked Interstate 5 at an exit
near the Eugene Springfield
border at about 10:30 p.m.
Tuesday. State, Eugene and
haw County police in riot gear
forced the protesters off the
highway after 11 p.m., using
tear gas. according to KE/.l-TV.
Authorities arrested some peo
ple. while most retreated to the
University of Oregon campus,
the television station reported
I'he incident was preceded
by an anti-war protest at the
county courthouse, attended by
about 800 people. An unknown
number of people then left to
march through the city, wind
ing up at Interstate 5
Listening to the blare of an
air raid siren, the drone of a
helicopter, the sound of ma
chine gun and mortar fire while
standing amid protesters
dressed as blood-stained sol
diers, one could almost imag
ine a war zone at the morning
protest.
“It had the desired effect."
said rally organizer Willow
kjellherg "I'm heartened and
amazed by the turnout.”
The protest started with a po
lice-escorted march from Alton
Baker Park early Tuesday
morning. At 7:.t()a in , organiz
ers set off an air raid siren, dur
ing which lit) “soldiers”
wearing bandages soaked with
theatrical blood froze in
place
When the siren stopped, the
actors fell to the ground, vvrilli
ing in mock agony. Taped
sounds of warfare blared over a
loudspeaker
After tin- actors “died,” pro
test organizers using loud
speakers urged partii ipants to
block entrances to the Federal
Building, but advised them re
peatedly that to do so would be
against the law
The Eugene Police Depart
ment moved in about 11:30
a m. and asked the protesters to
leave When they refused, they
were arrested under Section
101-20.305 a federal distur
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Eugene Police officers make one of 51 arrests at Tuesday's anti-war protest. The United Nations
resolution deadline passied at 9:05 PST Tuesday night.
I winces statute.
The arrested juveniles were
sent to the Skipworth luvenile
Home in Hugene where they
were booked and released The
rest were taken to Lane County
Adult Corrections facility
where they. too. were booked
and released. All participants
in the sit-in were removed by
3:30 p in
kjelllierK said in an interview
before the rally that relations
tie tween the protesters and the
KPD had been friendly. S>{t
llei.ky Hanson, field public in
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MLK day offers time to leam
By Tammy Batey
Frneiald Reporter
Some University students tnay use Mon
day’s holiday in honor of Martin I.uther King
Jr. as an extension of their weekends. Howev
er. many University officials and students
hope more will be gained than an extra day
away from classes.
University President Myles Brand hopes stu
dents take advantage of the special programs
planned Monday to celebrate the life of a
founder of the civil rights movement in the
United States.
Ironically, Brand said, the celebration of
King — a man who stressed the importance of
solving conflicts peacefully and civilly —
comes at a time when the world is preparing
for war
"I hope students will take a minute from
their busy schedules and reflect on Martin Lu
ther King's life and loss of life and reflect on
his sentiment of bringing about peaceful
change.” Brand said.
Members of the University's Martin Luther
King )r. Celebration Committee hope students
‘‘will be tuned in to some of the ideas that
King lived for,” including civil rights, cultural
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Marie /ones, director of the Black Student
Union, begins the Martin Luther King cele
bration by slicing the first piece of a birth
day cake honoring King.
student groups push for
campus Coke boycott
By Paula A. Green
Emeiaid Associate Editor
The ASUO Executive, the
Black Student Union and Stu
dents Against Apartheid have
called for a boycott today of all
EMU food services facilities to
protest the state's contract with
Coca-Cola, Inc.
The protest will continue for
subsequent Wednesdays "until
Coke is removed from this cam
pus." said Killjan Anderson,
ASUO programs coordinator.
Portland State University.
Western Oregon State College
and the Oregon Institute of
Technology have already estab
lished campus boycotts.
A flyer distributed by the stu
dent groups opposed to Coca
Cola says that "in 1986. (Coca
Cola claims) it divested from
South Africa because of inter
national pressure over South
Africa's policy of apartheid.
Yet today Coca-Cola controls 69
percent of the soft drink market
in South Africa."
Another memorandum re
leased by the ASUO reads that
"Coca-Cola is involved in
South Africa and ... are (sic:)
profiting from a system that es
tablishes Black South Africans
as second-class citizens
through apartheid."
Anderson said today's pro
test is the "first major thing
we've done in terms of a pro
test," and he doesn't know yet
what other action may follow,
lie did say that he hopes to
raise the issue before the state
legislature, and is working to
initiate a protest at Oregon
Slate University.
Dennis Carr, KMU food ser
vice manager, was not aware
that a boycott had been
planned saying that "Contract
ing with Coke is beyond our
control because it is a stale con
tract. No one has ever come to
us to ask us how to handle this
in the most effective way."
Carr said when the state
Turn to COKE. Page 4
Quiff Crisis
(AP) - The midnighl
deadline for Iraqi Pn wideut
Saddam Hussein to pull his
forces out of Kuwait passed
Wednesday and more than
680.000 U S. and allied
troops began a new count
down to war.
Barring an attack by Iraq,
the start of a Persian Gulf
war lay in the hands of Pres
ident Bush and allied lead
ers. Bush, armed with con
gressional authorization to
drive Iraq from Kuwait, was
described Tuesday as reso
lute and "at peace with him
self."
Iraq declared a "furnace
of hell" awaits anyone try
ing to dislodge its 345.000
troops from Kuwait, taken
over in an Iraqi blitz on Aug
2. What Saddam faced was
thousands of combat air
craft, scorns of warships and
some of the world's most so
phisticated weapons, spear
headed by 415.000 U S.
troops
Baghdad's shouts of defi
ance combined with a
worldwide clamor of last
minute appeals to Saddam
and anti-war protests.
The deadline expired at 8
a.m. Wednesday local time
in Baghdad.
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