Progressive+History

=Tufts Progressive History Timeline=

Welcome to the Tufts Progressive History Project (TPHP), a project of the [|Tufts Progressive Alumni Network]. We operate based on a wiki system where users can add and edit information as they wish. The purpose is to facilitate the institutional memory of the progressive movement at Tufts.

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 * Organize navigation by issue(?)
 * Add more activism from Culture groups (Asian, Africana, Latino, LGBT, etc.) and feminist organizations
 * Add Hate Crime Watch section and/or activism related to creating safe spaces.
 * Take Back the Night
 * Environmental Activism
 * //The Angry Tenant// (2001-03?)
 * Tufts Green Party
 * Race Relations at Tufts

1960s and 1970s 1980s
 * History of Activism at Tufts - Basic Framework:**

1999-2000
 * Coalition for Social Justice & Non-violence organizes trip to protest the IMF in Washington DC on April 16, 2000.
 * The Coalition organizes a trip to protest the School of Americas
 * The Coalition organizes a trip to a conference on social activism at Penn State in State College, Pennsylvania. Many members become vegan from the notmilk guy's speech.
 * Julie Catalano is barred from joining the Tufts Christian Fellowship (TCF) Senior Leadership because she is queer. Julie files a complaint of discrimination against TCF. The Tufts Community Union Judiciary (TCUJ) rules against TCF and revokes their status as a campus organization.

2000-2001
 * Over the summer, Tufts overturned the TCUJ decision under pressure from conservative groups such as the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE); TCF is reinstated. A campus-wide coalition called [|Tufts Students Against Discrimination (TSAD)] is founded to lobby for queer rights on campus. They collect over 500 signatures from undergraduates, hold large rallies with hundreds of students, and conduct banner hangs on the academic quad.
 * On the morning of November 27, 2001, twenty-two TSAD members occupy Bendetson Hall. They leave the following evening after President John DiBiaggio interprets the nondiscrimination policy in a way that would prevent this from happening again. An account of this sit-in [|was published on the Campus Activism website], authored by four participants in the sit-in: Adam Carlis, Louis Esparza, Elizabeth Monnin, and Roger Winn. Also see [|Tufts Queer History Project].
 * Students disrupt Colin Powell's Fares Lecture by chanting and hanging a banner.
 * Students protest the installation of Cable Television Network (CTN) television sets in Dewick Dining Hall. Hundreds of students hand spuds to CTN Vice-President John DiMarco, proclaiming, "I am not a couch potato!" All but four sets are removed.
 * Students pass a TCU referendum amending the Constitution to interpret the non-discrimination policy as President DiBiaggio did, to prevent a similar case of discrimination from arising again.

2001-2002
 * SLAM
 * Peaceful Justice - started after Sept. 11th events.
 * went around to local businesses to get them to display "Honor Them With Peace" signs in their windows, I don't think things went very far with this, but I did get a free slice of pizza from a place run by Middle Eastern immigrants.
 * Anti-war protest in DC 4/18-4/20/02
 * what else did we do that year?
 * //Primary Source// Editor, Sam Dangremond, assaults three members of the Coalition for Social Justice and Non-Violence for trying to paint post-9/11 messages of peace on the cannon.
 * //The Primary Source// prints a sexist cartoon against a leader of the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM). Students mobilize to protest.
 * Michael Moore speaks to a packed room of hundreds of students at Tufts.
 * //Radix//, The Journal of Liberal and Radical Thought, is founded by Louis Esparza, Meena Jagannath, and Jesse Alderman.
 * Members of TFA (Tufts Feminist Alliance) rush DTD in protest of sexist pledge posters.
 * Asian American Curriculum Transformation Project formed

2002-2004
 * TCOWI - yet another acronym starting with T, Tufts Coalition to Oppose War on Iraq
 * Online petition reaches over 600 signatures by the time war was declared
 * Teach-in at Pearson 11/6/02
 * Moratorium from classes/rally/teach-in on the Monday after war was declared - 3/24/03
 * Make Art Not War event at Aidekman: music, art, poetry... 4/23/03
 * Anti-war rallies: 10/26/02 - DC; 11/3/02 - Boston; 12/2/02 - Campus Center; 2/15/03 - New York; 3/29/03 - Boston
 * Howard Zinn speaks at Tufts
 * Bush Sr. Fares Lecture
 * protest begins in Davis, doesn't make it to event
 * Aaron wears a "Ba-Cow" suit
 * Dozens of students turn their backs to President Bush
 * Erin, Liz, Ariana, and Lou get kicked out for chanting and disrupting the speech.
 * Liz has senior award taken away because of Bush event
 * students sign pledge to never give money to the TUAA. The members of Guster, all Tufts alumni, also sign the pledge.
 * seeds sown for the [|Tufts Progressive Alumni Network (TPAN)].
 * [|TPAN] founded in January, 2004 by Louis Esparza, Cindy Chang and Rachel Jones.

2006-2007
 * Concerned members of TCOWI begin to push the administration for more endowment trasnparency and oversight, stemming from concerns that Tufts may have been invested in weapons manufacturers or other corporations that may have been profiting from the Iraq war.
 * After meeting with students, the Administration agrees to the formation of the ACSR (Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility.)

2008-2009
 * STIR (Students at Tufts for Investment Responsibility) is formed.