Violence and Nonviolence as Strategies for Social Justice
Thursday, April 10, 2008 12:00 PM
Noted anti-war activist Mark Rudd will give a free public lecture at Oregon State University on April 10, 2008 that will examine the need for nonviolence in overcoming injustice and ending war. His
free public talk, "Violence and Nonviolence as Strategies for Social Justice: An Open Discussion with Mark Rudd" begins at 7:30 p.m. in Gilfillian Auditorium on the OSU campus. Mark Rudd was a leader
of the April 1968 Columbia University strike against the Vietnam War and racism, the last National Secretary of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), the largest radical student organization in
the country in 1969, and a founder of the Weather Underground, a revolutionary guerilla group in the 1970s. Because of Rudd's alleged involvement in the bombings of government buildings during the
1970s, he became a federal fugitive for seven and a half years, until 1977. Sponsors of Rudd's appearance include the OSU Peace Studies Program, the Departments of History and Philosophy, and the
Office of Student Affairs. For more information, please contact Dr. Joseph Orosco, Director of the OSU Peace Studies Program, at (541) 908-9050.
