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Speech: Alexander encourages audience to 'become fluent' Continued from page 1 to say that by emasculating the ene my and placing suspicion on immi grants and foreign students, “the state" has created the “hetero-mascu line patriot.” “Every decade since the second world war has been marked by U.S. intervention in other countries,” said Alexander. She also mentioned that the American flags everyone was waving around following the Sept. 11 attacks were made by immigrant la bor while we were being encouraged to believe they were the enemy. Alexander suggested her audi ence read both The PATRIOT Act and the national security act to get a better understanding of what is really going on. In conclusion, Alexander said ig noring the empire-building and the imperialism is a “dangerous privi lege,” and encouraged “becoming fluent in the struggles of the person next to you.” Alexander’s visit was supported by the Rethinking Security: Gender, Race, and Militarization Program, the Ethnic Studies Program, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, the ASUO Women’s Center, the Mul ticultural Center and the departments of anthropology and sociology, Direc tor of Women’s Gender Studies Julie Novkov said. emilysmith@ daily emerald, com Silence: Mayor and student leaders among rally speakers Continued from page 1 “Today has been intense,” said Sheldon High School junior Kenda Pitetti. “There was a little bit of oppo sition from teachers but we had a re ally good reception from students.” “No matter where you are in the school system you are still fighting the same oppression,” said Jet, a Lane Community College student, who uses only one name. “They are fighting similar oppression that I fight on a daily basis in my college class room. I am going to show solidarity. ” The Day of Silence is a nine-year old project that started with more than 150 students on the University of Virginia campus in 1996. The proj ect has grown since then and has be come a Gay, Lesbian and Straight Ed ucation Network project in collaboration with the United States Student Association. The event is student-led. The si lence represents the suppression that lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgen der people and their allies experience on a daily basis from discrimination, prejudice and harassment. Students participating in the Day of Silence gave out fliers that explained why they weren’t speaking. “Please understand my reasons for not speaking today... My deliberate silence echoes that silence, which is caused by harassment, prejudice, and discrimination,” the flier read. “It lets people stop to think about what it means that people are being silent,” University senior Maceo Perrson said. Speakers at the rally included Eu gene Mayor Kitty Piercy, Elise Self, co-chairwoman of Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays, and various student leaders. There was an open mic at the event to give participants an opportunity to dis cuss their experiences. “It was a good walk,” University senior Ryan Minor said of the march to the high school. “Some people honked; I didn’t hear anything negative really.” abolsinger@ daily emerald, com IN BRIEF Afghan leader seeks U.S. military partnership KABUL — Catching U.S. officials slightly off guard, Afghan President Hamid Karzai is seeking a long-term security partnership that could keep U.S. troops there indefinitely and make permanent the military rela tionship that began when American forces invaded his country in 2001. Karzai made the statement Wednesday at a news conference with Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld, who was reluctant to discuss the Bush administration’s level of interest in giving Afghanistan security guarantees. Pressed several times on this point, Rumsfeld said it was a matter for President Bush to decide. He noted that the United States had pledged to remain a friend to Afghanistan and help rebuild the country. However, when it came to the question of a permanent military presence here, “We think more in terms of what we’re doing rather than the question of military bases and that type of thing,” he said. In Washington, White House press secretary Scott McClellan said “discussions are ongoing” with Karzai on future security arrange ments. “I don’t want to speculate about anything beyond that,” he said. It is not clear whether Rumsfeld would favor a long-term military presence in Afghanistan. Some be lieve he would prefer a more flexible arrangement for U.S. aircraft over flight rights and possibly access to an Afghan air base for occasional train ing, refueling and other activities. The Pentagon has already made such arrangements with other Cen tral Asian nations. Rumsfeld gener ally favors that approach because it is less rigid and less expensive. At the news conference with Rumsfeld, Karzai appeared eager to talk about his hopes for a permanent relationship with the United States, which he said would be built on eco nomic as well as military pillars. Karzai said he had consulted many of his country’s citizens about “a strategic security relationship,” with the United States that could help Afghanistan defend itself and deter foreign aggression. “The conclusion we have drawn is that the Afghan people want a long-term relationship with the United States,” Karzai said. “They want this relationship to be a sus tained economic and political rela tionship and most importantly of all, a strategic security relationship to enable Afghanistan to defend it self, to continue to prosper.” Karzai said he has discussed this with Bush, but now plans to formal ize the request. 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