Discuss “Protesters wage war on CMU military contracting”

Last Friday, approximately 50 anti-war protesters gathered in front of Carnegie Mellon’s National Robotics Engineering Center (NREC) in Lawrenceville at 5 a.m. to protest the development of federal goverment-commissioned military technology.

The protest was organized primarily by the Pittsburgh Organizing Group (POG). The organization describes itself as a “radical group based in Pittsburgh working to affect systemic progressive change in society,” according to its website. Protesters stationed themselves outside the building’s two entrances, chanting “Unplug the war machine!” and “Shut down the killer robots!”

Fourteen protesters chained themselves together using lockboxes, or what Carnegie Mellon police sergeant William...