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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message -----
<DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A
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<DIV><B>To:</B> <A title=davidjohnson1451@comcast.net
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<DIV><B>Sent:</B> Monday, December 23, 2013 3:03 AM</DIV>
<DIV><B>Subject:</B> Popular Resistance Newsletter - Youth can Handle the
Truth</DIV></DIV>
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style="LINE-HEIGHT: 1.5em">This week we highlight some of
the issues that are spurring youth to get active in their
communities and what they are doing about
them. </SPAN>Young people are yearning to understand the
world, even when the truth is horrible, so that they can
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<P
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width=266 height=200>This week we highlight some of the
issues that are spurring youth to get active in their
communities and what they are doing about
them.</SPAN></P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">Young
people are yearning to understand the world, even when
the truth is horrible, so that they can change it for
the better. <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=dfe997ac58&e=32c556cb2b">Mary
Elizabeth Williams writes in Salon</A>: “They’re
questioning and curious and skeptical and intensely
philosophical. They want to make sense of the world and
reasons people do the things they do. They have amazing
ideas, ideas that are too often wrung out of them by a
school culture increasingly devoted to filling in little
circles and insisting there’s only one correct answer to
any problem that comes along, and only one way of
arriving at that.”</P>
<P
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style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
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class="alignright size-medium wp-image-24761"
alt="Zachary Golob-Drake (Credit WFLA)"
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Zachary-Golob-Drake-Credit-WFLA-300x199.jpg"
width=300 height=199></A>She wrote about a <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8b43f15ad3&e=32c556cb2b">fifth
grade student</A> in Florida who won an award for
his essay called “In the Name of Religion” in which he
described the use of religion to justify war and mass
murder. His school tried to take away his award and
prevent him from reading his essay to his
classmates.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">Instead
of creating an environment for honest discussion of the
past and present which would facilitate reconciliation,
school text books and programs perpetuate the status
quo. For example, high school textbooks often gloss over
injustices such as the fact that <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=218f9004e3&e=32c556cb2b">racial
segregation</A> was caused by explicit policies and
not by societal norms.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">And
rather than discussing the US as the world’s largest
empire, that imperialist mentality is cultivated at a
young age in the guise of a ‘youth development program,’
otherwise called the Junior Reserve Officers Training
Corp (JROTC). <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=78297a6b54&e=32c556cb2b">Ann
Jones</A> writes that this program is “pushed by
multiple high-powered, highly paid public relations and
advertising firms under contract to the Department of
Defense….” She calls it the world’s most effective child
soldier recruitment program.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">Despite
this, students are questioning the injustice that they
can’t help but see around them. We marched this week
with <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=e2754c2798&e=32c556cb2b">high
school students in Baltimore</A> who are organizing
their community to stop the country’s largest trash
incinerator from being built in their
community.” Another impressive group of students in
Baltimore, the Algebra Project, is working for better
conditions in their schools and to stop the school to
prison pipeline. So far they have <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=4601674086&e=32c556cb2b">kept
a juvenile detention center</A> from being built,
and are pushing for recreation and other youth programs.
They need to <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=2f4101e5fd&e=32c556cb2b">raise
a few thousand more dollars</A> to keep their
program going.</P>
<P
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and Over-Policing of Schools</B></P>
<P
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class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-24426" alt=1pol
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1pol1-300x200.jpg"
width=300 height=200></A>The militarization of public
schools and our culture generally, is dramatic,
particularly in communities of color where police are
intervening in increasingly aggressive ways. As
Chase Madar <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=973edf1e22&e=32c556cb2b">writes</A>,
“What not long ago would have been seen as normal
childhood misbehavior – <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=ee66f4c10c&e=32c556cb2b">doodling</A> on
a desk, <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8399eb5a64&e=32c556cb2b">farting</A> in
class, a kindergartener’s <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=1488696ad2&e=32c556cb2b">tantrum</A> –
can leave a kid in handcuffs, removed from school, or
even booked at the local precinct.”</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">In
Rochester recently, a police officer <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=03a24f1836&e=32c556cb2b">arrested
three teen athletes</A> who were merely waiting for
a school bus to take them to practice. The officer
insisted on completing the arrest even after the coach
arrived to explain. It seems the only ‘crime’ they
committed was being African American.</P>
<P
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class="alignright size-medium wp-image-25008" alt=1cca
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1cca1-300x164.jpg"
width=300 height=164></A>Racism in the US is obvious
when one looks at mass incarceration and ‘stop and
frisk’ statistics. In fact, in the US, there are 2.4
million people behind bars, which represent 25% of the
world’s prisoners, even though the U.S. is only 5% of
the world’s population. The U.S. prison population is
enough to comprise a small nation. Rosa Brooks describes
this ‘<A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=b416a3df9f&e=32c556cb2b">Incarceration
Nation</A>’ – which is larger than 50 nations and would
be one of the most densely populated nations in the
world. The private prison-industrial complex encourages
policies that increase the prison population so
that <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=61706dae58&e=32c556cb2b">a
few can enrich themselves</A>.</P>
<P
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Hedges brings us the <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=53f4142bae&e=32c556cb2b">stories
of 28 prisoners</A> whom he teaches at a maximum
security prison in New Jersey. They started writing
about life in prison in his class and their essays were
made into a powerful play called “Caged.” Their stories
reveal their talents and their sacrifice, courage and
dedication to their loved ones. Hedges writes that: “The
mass incarceration of men and women like my students
impoverishes not just them, their families and their
communities, but the rest of us as well.</P>
<P
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class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-24684" alt=1bratt
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1bratt-300x171.jpg"
width=300 height=171></A>In New York City, voters hoped
that there would be an end to racist ‘stop and frisk’
policies with the election of Bill de Blasio who ran on
a platform against ‘stop and frisk.’ Instead deBlasio’s
first political appointment was the <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=06a2c05136&e=32c556cb2b"> police
commissioner, William Bratton</A>, who was quoted in the
LA Times calling youth a disease. Amnesty International
“found a ‘serious problem of police brutality and
excessive force’ in the NYPD under Bratton” during the
1990’s.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">Imagine
what these aggressive police actions are doing to
students. Recently, almost two dozen high school
students were <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=6b909c2915&e=32c556cb2b">arrested
in California</A> after undercover police
infiltrated their school and coaxed them into purchasing
small amounts of marijuana. Some students say that it
makes them not know who to trust. Contrast this with the
state of Colorado which legalized marijuana last year.
They have <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=9572a8a30c&e=32c556cb2b">saved
an estimated $60 million</A> and have prevented
tens of thousands of arrests so far.</P>
<P
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Fight Back Against Militarization, Corporatization,
Poverty Jobs and Tuition Hikes</B></P>
<P
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class="alignright size-medium wp-image-25010" alt=1blue
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1blue-300x202.jpg"
width=300 height=202></A>Fortunately, such obvious
injustices serve to unite communities to fight back. The
growing corporatization and defunding of public schools
is fueling a nationwide movement. On <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=30390c17ff&e=32c556cb2b">December
9</A>, teachers and students wore blue and rallied from
coast to coast in the nation’s largest day of mass
action to “reclaim public education.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">Sometimes
students are fighting to correct historic
injustices. <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=6b3b2882bb&e=32c556cb2b">In
Jacksonville, Florida high school
students</A> joined with the Jacksonville
Progressive Coalition to change the name of their high
school. It will no longer be named after Nathan B.
Forrest, a vicious slave trader who committed war crimes
as a confederate general and was the first Grand Wizard
of the Ku Klux Klan.</P>
<P
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at the college level are organizing and escalating their
tactics on a variety of fronts despite police aggression
towards them. College students have many reasons to
protest: the corporatization and decline in quality of
their education, record student debt, a poor job
environment and an uncertain future due to climate
change, globalization and increasing austerity.</P>
<P
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class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-24727" alt=1cap
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1cap-300x200.jpg"
width=300 height=200></A>The mainstream media portray
the millennial generation as sheltered, content and lazy
without considering, as <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a8bc01e9fc&e=32c556cb2b">Michael
Corcoran writes</A> in TruthOut, “the context in
which young people are struggling to find decent jobs,
including the <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=1847611e44&e=32c556cb2b"
target=_blank>long-term economic impacts of
deregulation</A> and neoliberalism pushed by state
managers and wealthy elites for some three decades now,
which have kept wages stagnant for people of all ages,
including young people….”</P>
<P
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is these greedy and abusive policies that have created a
systemic failure, policies that were created by the
wealthy elite and that steal the millennials’ futures.
The media are sending the wrong message to our youth,
that the problem is their failure to choose the ‘right’
major or to work hard enough. <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=3f4389cbe9&e=32c556cb2b">Sarah
Kendzior</A> describes the current situation well,
saying “Individuals internalise the economy’s failure,
as a media chorus excoriates them over what they should
have done differently. They jump to meet shifting
goalposts; they express gratitude for their own
mistreatment: their unpaid labor, their debt-backed
devotion, their investment in a future that never
arrives.”</P>
<P
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class="alignright size-medium wp-image-25012" alt=1ufe
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1ufe-300x224.jpg"
width=300 height=224></A>The result, for those who are
fighting back against the system, is solidarity between
students, faculty and campus service workers. This
solidarity has been building for years from coast to
coast and is now escalating to sympathy strikes such as
this one at <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=fb6fac87a1&e=32c556cb2b">UC
Santa Cruz</A>.</P>
<P
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the UK, students are also protesting and in response,
campus administration is clamping down. In <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=4d2a34a77c&e=32c556cb2b">central
London</A>, students were beaten and arrested during a
peaceful demonstration and then the school <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=e12f517a5f&e=32c556cb2b">banned
further protests</A>. Students say that these extreme
tactics are a <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d9d7afdfe0&e=32c556cb2b">powerful
recruitment tool</A> and they expect their movement
to grow. In fact, this new documentary, “<A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=800a1bf876&e=32c556cb2b">Street
Politics 101</A>,”which tells the story of the student
protests in Montreal, shows that “every time the cops
struck, the student movement got bigger and
angrier.”</P>
<P
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<DIV
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id=attachment_24692 class="wp-caption alignleft"><A
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class="size-medium wp-image-24692"
alt="Protest against David Patraeus at CUNY"
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Patraeus-protest-CUNY-300x225.jpg"
width=300 height=225></A>
<P
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class=wp-caption-text>Protest against David Patraeus at
CUNY</P></DIV>
<P
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a518a1475d&e=32c556cb2b">Students
at CUNY</A> are also fighting the creeping
militarization of their college. The student body is
primarily made-up of working-class youth and they see
the campus administration preying upon them for military
recruitment. Last year the ROTC was brought back to
campus after having been banned for forty years. This
year, General Petraeus was hired to teach. Students have
faced retaliation for their protests – police violence,
arrests and the closing of a popular student center used
for organizing. Their lawyer, Ron McGuire, characterizes
this struggle as determining “the intellectual landscape
of the United States … whether that landscape is going
to be a militarized society, with a wealthy ruling class
sitting on top and black and Latino working-class youth
fighting wars all over the world.”</P>
<P
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the battle continues at Cooper Union over the move to
start charging tuition although it was founded as a free
university. Students marked the one year anniversary of
their occupation of Foundation Hall with what they
called the ‘<A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d9d3055399&e=32c556cb2b">ping-pong-pocalypse</A>.’
They dropped 1,500 ping pong balls with dollars signs on
them down a four-story open stairway.<A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=d1c93690ef&e=32c556cb2b">This
video</A> lists their numerous grievances.</P>
<P
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style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
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class="alignright size-medium wp-image-24479"
alt=1divest
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/1divest-300x199.jpg"
width=300 height=199></A>Millenials are also concerned
about climate change. The <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=7a15fdd178&e=32c556cb2b">most
recent data</A>show that climate change is accelerating
and we must take action quickly to both mitigate it and
prepare for its consequences. Students at <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=ce03bdf170&e=32c556cb2b">more
than 300 universities</A> are working in solidarity
to pressure their schools to divest from fossil fuels.
They say that the schools cannot claim to be ‘green’ if
they invest in dirty energy.</P>
<DIV
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id=attachment_24543 class="wp-caption alignleft"><A
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class="size-medium wp-image-24543"
alt="Shut down ICE protest in Washington, DC. Protesters block ICE wearing lock boxes."
src="http://www.popularresistance.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Shutdown-ICE-protest-in-DC-6-300x233.jpg"
width=300 height=233></A>
<P
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class=wp-caption-text>Shut down ICE protest in
Washington, DC. Protesters block ICE wearing lock
boxes.</P></DIV>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px">And
young people are escalating their tactics to stop
Obama’s deportations under the #Not1More campaign.<A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=f8c71beddc&e=32c556cb2b">Statistics</A> were
recently released showing that Obama has deported a
record 2 million people during his presidency so far.
#Not1More reminds us that every one of those 2 million
has a family that is torn apart by their detention and
deportation. On <A
style="COLOR: rgb(80,146,149); FONT-WEIGHT: normal; TEXT-DECORATION: none"
href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=5852c3a3c8&e=32c556cb2b">December
16</A>, protesters on both coasts shut down immigration
facilities as part of the growing movement to literally
stop deportations.</P>
<P
style="PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 18px; MARGIN: 0px 0px 1em; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; COLOR: rgb(85,85,85); PADDING-TOP: 0px"><B>Students
and Youth Have The Power To Transform The Nation</B></P>
<P
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and youth do have the power to create the kind of future
they want to live in. This is demonstrated most clearly
in Chile where four <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8829471b68&e=32c556cb2b">ex-student
leaders were elected</A> to Congress. And now the
re-election of Michelle Bachelet means that the country
has the real potential to move back onto the path
that <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=8730926190&e=32c556cb2b">President
Salvador Allende</A>, also a physician, began in the
1970s before a <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=95f64ee8c4&e=32c556cb2b">U.S.
supported coup</A>. Bachelet promotes an overhaul of the
economy and education. <A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=eafaad1ec2&e=32c556cb2b">She
says</A>, “Profits can’t be the motor behind education
because education isn’t merchandise and because dreams
aren’t a consumer good.”</P>
<P
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may take a while before we see similar changes at the
same electoral level in the US, but the landscape is
already changing at the local level. This year we saw
hopeful signs with the<A
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href="http://popularresistance.us2.list-manage.com/track/click?u=33602bebba8fb7dd6e71fb413&id=a1176ec807&e=32c556cb2b">election
of Kshama Sawant</A> in Seattle and a
number <A
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independent labor candidates in Ohio</A>. We will have
to continue to educate ourselves, organize and work
together strategically to shift power away from the
wealthy elite in order to make electoral gains in our
mirage democracy.</P>
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<P
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education is not only available to those in colleges.
Our newest writer at PopularResistance.org, Stephen
Wallace, made his debut with a <A
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to Noam Chomsky</A> for his
85<SUP>th</SUP> birthday. Wallace has been mentored
by Chomsky and is largely self-taught. He describes
Chomsky as ‘revolutionary’ and defines that as “radical
social change: The flow of daily life free from
authoritarian attitudes, the abolition of oppressive
institutions, and the deepest reaches of our humanity in
choosing to live decent and ethical lives.”</P>
<P
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feel hopeful for the future when we look at the many
young people around us who are taking on the monumental
task of transforming the world. We think back to the
Civil Rights Movement when the Student Non-violent
Coordinating Committee (SNCC) led the way on many fronts
because the more traditional organizations led by older
adults were <A
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timid</A> and willing to compromise.</P>
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width=300 height=168></A>SNCC field organizers showed
tremendous commitment, energy and courage as they went
into violent areas and refused to be intimidated in
their mission for equality and voting rights. They
organized using a grass roots model that empowered those
who are most affected by the issues to speak out and
become leaders. They were literally fighting for their
future and they knew it. We see the same type of
approach, gravity, commitment and courage in many youth
today all around the country.</P>
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