ABSTRACT
On 19 March 2003, a campus peace organization (CPO) at a public university of approximately 13,000 students located in the mid-western US posted the following email announcement:
CPO, a university-recognized organization, announces the intentions of its members to join the National Strike called for tomorrow, March 20, the day after the war on Iraq began.
We will not go to work. We will not go to class.
All are welcome to join us on the quad, in front of the library, in a vigil for peace and justice.
This email was posted on the university’s faculty and staff listservs. It inspired a sometimes contentious electronic discussion comprised of approximately 120 separate messages posted by 67 different individuals over the course of 16 days.