November 2007
CCSU Bookstore sells products made in sweatshops | by Fran Morales
NEW BRITAIN - Think again before you buy that $11 sweater at Wal-Mart. Charles Kernaghan, executive director for the National Labor Committee, said it might just have blood on it and a story behind it. "This garment could have been made by men and women who have been taken as indentured servants, beaten, starved, cheated out of wages and sexually abused," said Kernaghan as he pointed at a Beach Cabana sweat shirt from Wal-Mart on Thursday in front of Central Connecticut State University students in Torp Theatre. Check out the rest here: WRC Now!

February 2007-CCSU Recorder Advocates Rape

I am sure many of you are aware of the recent aggregious and offensive publishings in the Recorder. In a way to save space I am going to post all the links to articles below along with thier article titles and where they were published. Please feel free to Contact us about this at our Email. Below is a bit taken from the Courant Article on the situation:

"The editors of the Recorder, in another statement released Thursday, said they regretted the harm the article caused, adding they would not have published it if they had realized how people would react to it. Yet at they same time, the statement defended Petroski as a gifted satirist whose intended message 'fell on deaf ears'."

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October 2004
How To Steal From Women | by Kerri Provost
"Karen Houppert, in her book The Curse: Confronting the Last Unmentionable Taboo: Menstruation, writes that the average menstruating woman uses, "five tampons a day, five days a month, for 38 menstruating years. That's 11,400 tampons in a lifetime" (22). More accurately, the average woman is the victim of a legal scam..."

October 2004 The Recorder
PSA, College Republicans Spread their Messages | by Andrew Bieszad
"For the past year, the Republican and Democratic Presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry have been spending their time campaigning for .the upcoming elections this November 2. Both men have been investing extraordinary amounts of time, money, and energy into getting their individual political messages out to the American people..."

Sept. 28, 2004 The Recorder
Marine Officer Condemns Iraq Policy | by Andrew Bieszad
"On Friday, September 24, the CCSU Progressive Students Alliance invited former US Marine Corps Staff Sgt. James Massey to come and speak at the university about his experience in Iraq. Massey, a 12 year veteran of the USMC who spent three years training recruits and three more years' actively recruiting new Marines in Waynesboro, NC, was discharged from his duties Iraq nine months ago. Since then, he has emerged as a strong force speaking out against the war..."

August 2004 Danbury IMC
Radical Menstruation | by Kerri Provost
"The average menstruating person will toss around three hundred pounds of disposable pads, tampons, and applicators in her lifetime—an amount which is roughly the equivalent of ten thousand of these items. While mothers openly debate the merits and drawbacks of disposable versus cloth diapers, few women recognize that reusable menstrual products exist...."

May 2004 Danbury IMC | Unformatted
Glocal Justice | by Paul Karolczyk
"Bloodshed and chaos are the name of the game run by the United States and Israel. Billions around the world must live in misery due to the exploits of these warmongering nations. To bring attention to this issue, the CCSU Progressive Students Alliance sponsored Glocal Justice, an event featuring speakers, poetry, and music at CCSU's Semesters meeting hall on April 21, 2004. The Wheels of Justice tour, Sankofa Institute, Patrick Lincoln, and Peter Gelderloos gave presentations..."

April 2004 Hartford Undercurrent
Environmental Oppression in Honduras | By Laura Rozza
"On a rainy Wednesday night, about fifty people gathered to hear a presentation at CCSU given by Katherine Golub of the Progressive Student Alliance and Gilberto Flores, a Honduran minister and movement leader, regarding the privatization of natural resources in Honduras. Katherine became involved in the struggle as she spent time in Honduras last fall and plans to return for a longer stay this summer. Katherine clarified the issues Hondurans are facing and acted as a translator for Gilberto Flores..."

April 7, 2004 The Recorder
F.U.D.E. Visits Greater Hartford Area | by Paul Karolczyk
"Frente Universitario por la Desmilitarizacion y la Educacion (University Front for Demilitarization and Education), also known as F.U.D.E. visited the region as guests of the CCSU Progressive Students Alliance and Latin American Student Organization. F.U.D.E. (pronounced FOO-Day) is an anti-war student group from the University of Puerto Rico that is struggling for demilitarization of the islands of Vieques and Puerto Rico..."

Feb 2004 Hartford Undercuurent (.pdf) | Unformatted
CCSU Anti-War Rally Draws Support | by Paul Karolczyk
"The “Rally to Stop the War Against Working People at Home and Abroad” took place in Central Connecticut State University’s Semesters meeting hall on the evening of Wednesday February 4. Over one hundred supporters filled the hall in a great show of solidarity. A nine-member panel discussed a variety of problems challenging the international working class... "

Feb 05, 2004 New Britain Herald
Declaring A Different Kind Of War | By Nick Anthony
"About 100 students, faculty members and families of military personnel, along with anti-war groups, gathered at Central Connecticut State University Wednesday for a rally to stop what they say is "the war against working people..."

April 21, 2003 New Britain Herald
Art, labor joined at CCSU | by Bill Larkin
"Throughout the 20th century, American artists have united with members of the country’s labor movement to promote liberally oriented social change through maudlin and highly visible works of art..."

March 21, 2003 New Britain Herald
Anti-war protest meets opposition on Central campus | by Bill Larkin
"A group of students holding a "die-in" protest Thursday afternoon at Central Connecticut State University against the war in Iraq illustrated how international hostilities can divide college students living in the Northeast..."

March 6, 2003 New Britain Herald
Pushing for peace on the Net | by Brendan McKenna
"From protesters who cut their teeth protesting the Vietnam conflict to high school students embracing their first cause or women’s issue activists acting on behalf of the women and children of Iraq, they come from different backgrounds with a multitude of protest methods and ideologies, united only..."

March 6, 2003 Middletown Press
Vigil calls for ‘brains not bombs’ | by Amy L. Zitka
"Holding up signs reading "No War on Iraq," "Brains Not Bombs" and "Iraqis Didn’t Raise My Tuition," students from area colleges, high schools and communities gathered Wednesday night against the impending war..."

March 5, 2003 The Recorder
Iraq debate builds up on campus | by Lee Sawyer
"As U.S. military upsurge in the Middle East continues, the subject of the seemingly immi- nent war with Iraq has spurred intense discussions among fac- ulty and students concerning the wisdom ofU. S.-Iraq policy and the appropriate relationship between politics and academics..."

Feb 2, 2003 The Recorder
CCSU students protest in Washington | by Jason Engelhardt
"For seven hours in twenty-two degrees amidst five hundred thousand people, a group of CCSU students marched in Washington, D.C. on January 18 to oppose war with Iraq...."

Oct 16, 2002 The Recorder
by Dana Roccapriore
"Just as socio-politically concerned CCSU professors have organized the Coalition for Social Justice, Central students with similar concerns have organized the Progressive Student’s Alliance...."