SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - The protest was carefully orchestrated, planned for weeks by Students Against War during Friday evening meetings in a small classroom on the University of California campus here.
Students at Santa Cruz protested military recruiters last April; the demonstration was said to be listed in a Pentagon database.
Josh Sonnenfeld and Jennifer Low, members of the group that planned the protest.
So when the military recruiters arrived for the job fair, held in an old dining hall last April 5 - a now fateful day for a scandalized university - the students had their two-way radios in position, their cyclists checking the traffic as hundreds of demonstrators marched up the hilly roads of this campus on the Central Coast and a dozen moles stationed inside the building, reporting by cellphone to the growing crowd outside.
......"Fast forward: The students had left campus for their winter vacation in mid-December when a report by MSNBC said the April protest had appeared on what the network said was a database from a Pentagon surveillance program. The protest was listed as a "credible threat" - to what is not clear to people around here - and was the only campus action among scores of other antimilitary demonstrations to receive the designation.
Over the winter break, Josh Sonnenfeld, 20, a member of Students Against War, or SAW, put out the alert. "Urgent: Pentagon's been spying on SAW, and thousands of other groups," said his e-mail message to the 50 or so students in the group."..........
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This is particularly bothersome as my son attends this school. The community has always been against the war, being spied on for political activism against Bush's policies is as unAmerican as one can be. Don't know how I'm going to get through 3 years more of that nitwit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/14/national/14santacruz.html
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