When former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales steps onto the campus of Washington University tonight, he will be met with a the familiar scene of hooded figures wearing bright orange prison jumpsuits—the kind made famous infamous by the photos of prisoner mistreatment at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
A coalition of student and community protesters will be staging the demonstration as part of a protest of the the Student Union’s decision to pay the controversial former Attorney General $30,000 to speak on the campus.
Adam Shriver, leader of the Wash. U. Peace Coalition, hopes the protests will show that many Wash U. students do not support Gonzales or the war and tactics he defended while in the Bush administration.
February 19th, 2008 at 10:57 am
why the *&#^ did WashU invite that idiotic criminal to their campus?
February 19th, 2008 at 11:07 am
Protests are open to the St. Louis community!
Details here: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/2/19/93342/4394/86/459600
February 20th, 2008 at 11:00 pm
I am so glad I never attended Washington University as a student. They won’t let Barack Obama speak on campus, but they will PAY $30,000 to allow Alberto Gonzales to show up?
Secondly, where are the ethinic people at this protest? That’s right. Washington University DISCRIMINATES minorities.
As much as I am a big fan of this blog, it helps to interview everyone and not the uberliberal white kids who’s parents have a second home in Frontenac.