Antiwar Activist Harassed by Police and Security at East High School

Yesterday four members of RAW (Rochester Against War) went to East High School to hand out flyers and talk to students about the lies they are being told by the military recruiters at their school. When a recruiter in full dress uniform, who was outside strutting around the students, saw them on the sidewalk handing out flyers he told the highschool security guards to go out and remove them.

East High security then preceded to manhandle a RAW member who is also a wounded Vietnam Vet and pushed him off the campus. These guards then called the police who further harassed the counter recruitment activists and even frisked and temporarily detained the man who was manhandled by the guards. At no time did RAW members retaliate against this mistreatment. Instead they stood firm against this abuse and continued to hand out flyers and talk with the kids.

As a result a small group of East High students (among a larger crowd of students that watched this entire event) are now interested in building a counter recruitment campaign at the highschool.