A memory today. In May of 1970, I helped lead a strike of students at the University of Colorado in protest of the killing of four Kent state students against the war (on May 4th) and the killing of Black students at Jackson State .

There were no final exams that year. We opened up a new university using popular education – and educating that 50 percent dying on the front lines disproportionately were Black and Chicano (while being denied access in that proportion into Higher Education). As Vice-President of the student government (shown here in a recent NY Times article), I took the vote of 10,000 students to shut down the university- and we funded billboards showing a young dead soldier with the caption: “Dear Mom and Dad Your Silence Is Killing me in Viet Nam.” Students and their actions, like today, have played – (and more than ever are needed to play) a major role in bringing an end to unjust wars that only serve the profit interests of capital and multi-national corporations.