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35 YELLOW SPRINGS NEWS The GUIDE to YELLOW SPRINGS 2019 – 20 Not-for-profit Technology Services for Education and Local Governments www.mveca.org school at noon on Wednesday, March 5, to participate in a nationwide student strike known as “Books Not Bombs.” Students straggled out the school’s front door car- rying antiwar signs along East Enon Road to the corner of Dayton Street, where they chanted for peace to passersby. “The protest cemented our beliefs about the war, that it’s not the correct answer to what we’re facing in the Middle East,” high school student Lilith Claire said. McKinney School language arts teacher Aurelia Blake joined student ranks to march on Wednesday, contributing signs from a peace rally in Washington. School officials gave permission to students who had parental consent to leave school property and continue the protest march downtown, Principal John Gudgel said. A splinter group of 30–40 students, some with permission and some without, continued down Dayton Street to Limestone Street, across Mills Lawn and into town chanting spontaneous call-and- answer rounds such as, “Who are we? YSHS. What do we stand for? No war!” Meanwhile, at 12:30 p.m. that same day on the Antioch College campus, 30 to 40 Antioch students gathered in front of Main Building for a moment of silence in solidar- ity with the March 5 antiwar efforts, said senior Robert Neifert, who organized the action on campus. “We stood in solidarity with everybody who’s struggling to stop violence and everybody who’s going to be affected by it,” Neifert said. “We had a moment of silence to think about our soldiers and the Iraqi people.” Later that day, some of the same students led an hour-long protest march through classrooms and administrative offices, picking up one to two people from every room who joined the group. Even a few faculty members walked out of meetings and fell in step with the student demonstrators, Neifert said. Antioch College teach-in While some classes at Antioch College went on as usual on Friday, March 14, 2003, many more were canceled or refor- matted to include guest speakers or work - shops discussing a possible war between the U.S. and Iraq. The teach-in, which was open to villagers, included the following events: • 9–10 a.m., Dharma Center, Robert Pryor, director of Buddhist Studies: “Tonglen and Meta Meditation” • 9:30–11 a.m., College library, Amy Killoran, librarian, and Scott Sanders, university archivist: “Intellectual Freedom in times of crisis: A look at historical perspectives, current threats and available resources for further research” • 10:30–11:30 a.m., South Hall, Room 311, Don Wallis and Kristin Famula, Antioch faculty: “Peace Journalism and creating a IraqWar PHOTO COURTESY OF ANTIOCHIANA, ANTIOCH COLLEGE Antioch College students and villagers protested the Vietnam War during a demonstration in Cincinnati in December 1967. Villagers and Antioch College students joined forced to push for peace more than 40 years before the Iraq invasion in another foreign conflict — the Vietnam War. On Nov. 23, 1967, Yellow Springs resi- dents began holding a “Weekly Vigil for Peace” at the corner of Xenia Avenue and Limestone Street. Revived in 2002 in the run up to the Iraq War, the weekly peace vigil still takes place. Eighty members of the Yellow Springs and Antioch communities returned their draft cards in October 1967, as part of the national Draft Resistance Week. In its Oct. 23, 1967 issue, the Cincinnati Enquirer Protesting the War in Vietnam referred to the students as “sissified anemic-looking hippies.” Then, on Oct. 18, a group of villagers, students and faculty barricaded and locked the Behavior Research Laboratory at Antioch to protest the lab’s contract with the U.S. Department of Defense. In addition to traveling elsewhere in the country to protest, a group of Yellow Springs residents and Antioch students and workers staged a demonstration at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on April 20, 1972, where 154 people were arrested. — YS News Staff spontaneous ’zine” • 10:20 a.m.–noon, Science Building, Jill Yager, science professor, and class: “Eco- logical and environmental impact of war” • 1–2 p.m., South Hall, Room 311, Robert Pryor: “Socially engaged Buddhism: being peace” • 1:15–2:30 p.m., Library, video documen - tary, “Jerusalem, an occupation set in stone” • 2:30–3:30 p.m., Library, video documen - tary, “Occupation Journal” • 3–4 p.m., Student Union, student Helen Harris: “Art as a form of resistance” • 4–5 p.m.. McGregor Hall, Room 113, Cheryl Keen, professor and director of community learning: “The impact of war on children” • 6–8 p.m., McGregor Hall, Room 113, Mary Kalyna, activist: “Women say no to war: invest in caring not killing” • 8–10 p.m., McGregor Hall, Room 113, Panel discussion with Hassan Rahmanian, Pat Mische and Maurice Mueller, Social and Global Studies faculty • 10 p.m.–midnight, Antioch Coffee Shop, open mike poetry readings Workshops with times and locations TBA: –Peace activist Hazel Tulecke: “Civil dis - obedience as a response to war prepara- tion: the consequence of going to prison for one’s convictions” –Peace activist Bill Houston: “Conscien - tious objection: are you ready for a draft?” –Bhuto Japanese modern dance perfor- mance  ♦