Students Against War issue a press release, for immediate release, and Michelle Malkin released it. Now the people who issued it are pissed at her for releasing it. Why? Because she released their contact information, which was clearly printed in the same press release.
My recommendation? Next time issue it with the following line:
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE, unless you run a website that disagrees with us that may generate more negative publicity than we are willing to deal with.
Students Kick Military Recruiters Off UC Santa Cruz
Submitted by studentsagainstwar on Tue, 04/11/2006 – 1:37pm.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 11, 2006CONTACT: Students Against War’s ad-hoc press team:
Sam Aranke – 714-458-2471 – saranke@ucsc.edu
David Zlutnick – 805-698-6228 – dzlutnic@ucsc.edu
Janine Carmona – 707-496-3530 – jgcarmon@ucsc.edu [1]Students Kick Military Recruiters Off UC Santa Cruz
Military Prevented from Recruiting for Third Straight Job FairSANTA CRUZ, CA – It’s been over a year and a half since the military has been able to effectively recruit on this UC campus as all their attempts have been met by mass student actions. Today, in spite of the pouring rain and administrative attempts to stifle students’ free speech, Students Against War (SAW) organized over 150 students to march from the center of campus to the job fair, where they nonviolently prevented access to military recruiters through sit-ins and other measures. After about an hour and a half of negotiations and students’ refusal to back down, military recruiters left the job fair.
The students’ first victory appeared early in the day, as administrators separated military recruiters from other employers, allowing the protesters to block access to the military, while the remainder of the job fair continued. This separation was the only one of SAW’s proposals for protecting free speech to be adopted by administrators, who still banned media from the event.
The successful protest was also significant in light of the fact that University administrators hired, at great cost to the school, a number of police from other UC campuses. These police, local officers, and a top local official, physically assaulted multiple students without provocation and repeatedly refused to provide identification when requested. Students were pushed, punched, choked, and a student’s hand was slammed in a door. One student, acting as a legal observer, was pushed and arrested for documenting police surveillance, but was released after an immediate display of student support. The student may face charges in the future, which SAW intends to vehemently resist. In the face of administrative and police repression the students remained remarkably peaceful.
The action stressed the importance of connecting the complexities of the “War on Terror,” continued military occupations, and government neglect of communities at home. Students also emphasized solidarity with labor struggles, immigrants’ rights, the fight against the privatization of education, and numerous other movements. In order to directly highlight the sexism inherent in the military, a group of female students directly confronted the recruiters. This was a result of consistent student-initiated negotiations with administrators. The action proved to be a key moment, as military recruiters left quickly after the women entered.
In response to the victory, SAW member Sam Aranke responded, “Our demonstration today is a clear example of how tangible success can be when we take strategic actions against the war at a local level. It’s not just about the action today, it’s about creating sustained movements that directly resist the militarization of our communities.”
I find the attacks on Michelle Malkin totally disgusting. What did she do wrong? She RELEASED the press release that was marked for IMMEDIATE RELEASE. Wow.
They are even threatening to sue Michelle for releasing the information. Grow up people.
If you issue a press release, with contact information, that contact information becomes public information. it’s not anyone’s fault, except your own. You made the error. Big time.
The next time you want to play in the big leagues, make sure you wear your cup.
Others discussing this press release:
Insignificant Thoughts
Junkyard Blog
Flopping Aces
Crazy Politico’s Rantings
California Conservative
Other links to the press release:
Sydney IndyMedia
Perth Inedpendent Media Centre
The anti-racist One People’s The anti-racist One People’s Project website has released her details which the say are publically available on the Internet. Someone took it a step further and used live.windows.com and yahoo maps to do a Graphic.
Payback’s a bitch eh’ Malkin?
Her refusal to remove these kids contact information was not from conviction, but from revenue. Every journalist in the world knows that contact information on a press release is for journalists to call for more information or interviews, not to be published (or even pointed out) in the publication itself. If she were any kind of ethical person she would have pulled the information when asked.
If she were something resembling a human being with “feelings”, she would not have republished the information once the students themselves removed it. Michelle is a vicious, vindictive, venomous egoist with no discernible ethics nor even a shred of human decency. If she wants to be The Minority Woman Who Believes Minorities and Women Suck, that’s her right. But she should at least have the integrity to acknowledge that she has done wrong and to stop compounding the wrong. And she should not give us that disingenuous crap about how she doesn’t condone death threats and nobody should misuse her posting and reposting of personal information.
Comment by themole on Dec 3rd, 2006 @ 02:07