-------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 09:23:07 -0500 To: •••@••.••• From: "Raging Grannie (Wanda B)" <•••@••.•••> Subject: There's this too - Support Boston Anti0War Students Suspended! Please call in your solidarity! Defend free speech in Boston high schools November 2, 2005 --- please distribute this appeal widely --- .From Jennifer Hoerres, sophomore at Academy of the Pacific Rim (Boston, MA) and activist with Youth Against War and Racism Today, Nov 2, we organized a walkout and protest against Bush's war in Iraq and military recruiters. However, my principal, Mr. Anselme, and my dean of students, Jonathan Diamond, informed us at lunch that if we participated in this protest we would be suspended for 3 days (much longer than if we simply skipped out of school for no good reason on another day). This is a violation of our free speech rights and is effectively denying dozens of students interested in participating in the democratic issues the right to organize. Well a lot of us decided to walk out anyway. 3/4s of our high-school walked out. I can say I walked out with my head held high knowing I was doing this for a good cause. I primarily walked out to learn more about history and the facts but not what is taught in history books. I can say I learned about something my school doesn't offer and it was a learning experience of a lifetime. I am asking you to call and/or e-mail my principal and dean of students, and urge them to respect our free speech rights and take back all their threats of suspensions. Their contact information is listed below. Also students from other high-schools in Boston have gotten even worse threats from their principals. Both Cambridge Rindge and Latin and Boston Latin Academy threatened suspensions. They are really trying to intimidate the students at Boston Latin Academy. We got an e-mail from a student there saying, "I go to Boston Latin Academy, I'm in the 8th grade and i walked out of school today... I went to the commons with 3 friends and my girlfriend. All of which have been threatened with up to THREE WEEKS OF SUSPENSION AND NO CREDIT FOR THE TERM. I need help, we all do." Please help us make these threats only threats by calling and/or e-mailing the principals of those schools too. PLEASE CALL TODAY Boston Latin Academy: Headmaster Garcia-Aaronson -- 617-635-9957 Cambridge Rindge and Latin: Principal Knight -- 617-349-6630 Academy of the Pacific Rim: Principal Anselme -- 617-361-0050 x157 Dean Diamond -- 617-361-0050 x142 Thank you so much for your support. Jennifer Hoerres, sophomore at Academy of the Pacific Rim, Boston MA Youth Against War and Racism •••@••.••• -- -------------------------------------------------------- http://cyberjournal.org "Apocalypse Now and the Brave New World" http://www.cyberjournal.org/cj/rkm/Apocalypse_and_NWO.html Posting archives: http://cyberjournal.org/cj/show_archives/?date=01Jan2006&batch=25&lists=newslog Subscribe to low-traffic list: •••@••.••• ___________________________________________ In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, this material is distributed without profit to those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes.
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