Evoking Vietnam clash, Wis. students to protest Halliburton visit

[sabra]

Source: AP

September 19, 2007 (MADISON, Wis.) - U-W-Madison students plan to protest tomorrow's recruiting visit by Halliburton.

Protesters say they plan to disrupt the company's visit to an engineering career fair by discouraging students from talking to its representatives.

They say they are inspired by a similar protest against recruiters for Dow Chemical Company in 1967. That company made napalm used by U.S. troops in Vietnam. The protest turned violent when police beat students.

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A Halliburton spokeswoman says its former subsidiary KBR is the military contractor and the two became separate companies earlier this year. She says the criticism of the company's practices is uninformed.

Read more: http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=5665318

[angrycarpenter]

1. the only reason it is uninformed

is that they operate in secret disclosing little. If the company is on the up and up then why is it run like an organized crime family.

[saigon68]

9. It is "Gangster" Cheney's company run by a coterie

of Thugs, Hoodlums and War Criminals.

The people who run it are no better than the murderers at Blackwater.

[daninthemoon]

2. Rock on students! Wish it would get some msm coverage.

[Borchkins]

3. Go Badgers!

The students at my alma mater make me so proud!!!!!

[BeHereNow]

4. Welcome to DU-

And GO any one who isn't taking this shit
anymore!

BHN:hi: :thumbsup:

[stillcool]

5. so Halliburton doesn't....

have any military contracts? Is that what she's saying?

[Xithras]

10. Truthfully? No they don't.

Since selling off KBR, Halliburton has pretty much relegated themselves to oil field development (very little of which is in Iraq). They bled their profits from Iraq while they could, and then divested KBR to rid themselves of any long term legal liability for what happens there. They took the money and ran...all the way to Dubai.

But no, Halliburton isn't involved with Iraq today.

[stillcool]

11. wow...I missed that...

it's interesting that Ray Hunt is listed as a board member of Halliburton.
http://www.nndb.com/company/167/000049020/
I wish I understood how they do this...merging, then spinning off, then selling-off and re-naming etc., I need a family tree.

[Peace Patriot]

12. Diebold just did the same thing--separated off the elections division and

also gave it a new name (Premier). Smelling lawsuits, are they?

[rodeodance]

6. hey thats my alumni!

[rodeodance]

7. good deal--it is an AP story

[otherlander]

8. "The protest turned violent

when police beat students."
So did the protest actually turn violent, or did police just beat students? :shrug:

[ShortnFiery]

13. "The police" in the 1960s. It is as written. The protest turned violent WHEN POLICE BEAT STUDENTS.

Yes Virginia, good people get BEATEN, and perhaps TASED too. :eyes:

OR are we so paralyzed by the fear-mongering that we choose to sit on our asses as Halliburton, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Blackwater, et. al., war profiteering corporations - SUCK all of our hard earned tax dollars from the Governmental teats?!? All in the name of *blessed security.*

[otherlander]

15. Okay.

I was asking because I know the media doesn't always seem to know the difference between a violent protest, and police being violent at a protest.







Wait... Virginia?

[murielm99]

14. Yay!

Madison rocked in the sixties. They were an epicenter for anti-war protests.

Keep up the good work, students.