From Round Up October 28 2002

With growing anticipation of a U.S. war with Iraq, several organizations at New Mexico State University are taking matters into their own hands.

A "Teach-In, Speak-Out for Peace" event will be held today from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. in the Corbett Center Auditorium. The teach-in will feature speakers, music, poetry and theater followed by a public lecture at 7 p.m. A candlelight vigil will be held afterward. The lecture will feature engineer and activist Bert Sacks, who was fined $10,000 by the U.S. government for violating economic sanctions against Iraq by providing medicine in the country in 1997.
"The teach-in is a forum to express commitment to seeking peaceful solutions in Iraq," Neil Harvey, one of the event organizers said in a press release. Movies pertaining to peace in Iraq will be featured in the Corbett Indoor Auditorium from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. 

Speakers at the teach-in will discuss the economic and political reasons for the threat of war, the role of the United Nations and the connections between social and structural violence.