This put a smile on my face…….

A 1967 visit to the University of Wisconsin-Madison by a recruiter from Dow Chemical Co., which made napalm, sparked a bloody clash between police and protesting students and galvanized anti-war sentiment on campus.

A new generation of student activists are summoning memories of the 40-year-old demonstration with their vows to demonstrate Thursday against Halliburton, another company they see as profiteering from war.

Organizers expected anywhere from dozens to hundreds of students to turn out to protest the company’s visit to an engineering career fair. They hope to discourage students from talking to Halliburton representatives.

U.S. oil firm pulls out of Sudan
Some planned to carry signs saying, “Curly, off campus!,” a reference to the Dow Chemical representative who visited the school, William “Curly” Hendershot.

“We’ve decided that any war-profiteering recruiter stands in the tradition of Curly,” said Chris Dols, a student and member of the Campus Antiwar Network, which is organizing the protest. “We’re explicitly drawing the connection between the two.”

More at CNN

1 CommentToggle Meta