[Peace-discuss] high school walk out

Thu Mar 6 11:58:39 CST 2003

We are hearing such great news these days!  Make sure you absorb this good 
news and not just the bad!  Also, check out today's Chicago Tribune - good 
photos from the protest.

Danielle

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Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 23:24:12 EST
From: MarilynMKC at aol.com

Chicago activities were a great success.

THere were student walk-outs at dozens of highschools and universities, 
includingParticipating Schools:  University of Chicago, University of Chicago 
Lab School, University of Illinois at Chicago, Oak Park River Forest HS, 
Evanston Township HS, Lincoln Park HS, Francis Parker HS, Latin School of 
Chicago, Aurora North HS, Von Stuben HS, Naperville North & Central HS, 
Columbia College, DePaul University, College of DuPage, Northwestern 
University, Harold Washington College, St. Xavier HS, Whitney Young HS, Elgin 
Community College, Roosevelt University, Wabansee Community College, Northern 
IL University, Aurora East & West, West Chicago, Wheaton Central & North, 
Chicago Academy of Performing Arts, Juarez HS, Taft HS, Naperville HS, and 
others. 

The rally at the Federal Plaza was great.....with reports from various 
student groups, the always moving words of Jesse Jackson and Bishop 
Sprague....and a crowd estimated at 5,000.

Below is a report from AP about other actions around the nation

U.S. National - AP  

U.S. Students Protest Possible Iraq War 
Wed Mar 5, 7:23 PM ET
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Thousands of students around the country walked out of class Wednesday to 
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Manon Terrell, a 19-year-old sophomore, missed three classes to take part in 
a rally at Stanford University attended by about 300 people carrying signs 
bearing slogans such as, "It's the Middle East, not the Wild West." 

"This is a personal thing for me because my friends are going to fight this 
war," said Terrell, a civil engineering major. "It's not going to be Bush and 
his cronies in business suits on the front lines. They're going to take 
people of color and poor people." 

It could not be determined Wednesday night how many students participated 
across the nation, and the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition had no 
immediate estimate. The group said earlier that tens of thousands of students 
at more than 350 high schools, colleges and universities had pledged to join. 

"If we don't come out, then our opinion isn't heard by the White House, by 
anyone," said tenth-grader Bernard Mantel, 16, who gathered with classmates 
at Union Square in New York City. 

Thousands of students also rallied for peace in Britain, Sweden, Spain, 
Australia and other countries. The U.S. protests were also geared to call 
attention to the effects of a war on education, health care and the economy. 

Students attended by the hundreds at some campuses around the nation; at 
others, attendance was light. Some were met by groups calling for support of 
the Bush administration. 

In Madison, Wis., organizers estimated 5,000 students rallied, though police 
put that figure at 2,000. In Milwaukee, 40 students lined the sidewalk in 
front of the Marquette University student union during an hour-long protest. 

"It's good to let people know students have a say in what happens in the 
world," said Abir Chaudhry, 19, who carried a sign at Marquette that read 
"God Does Not Bless America Only." 

Dozens of Stanford professors endorsed the rally there, either by telling 
students there would be no penalties for leaving class or by canceling class. 
Nearby in Oakland, at least three people were arrested at a demonstration 
held downtown. 

In Los Angeles, 18 demonstrators were arrested for blocking an intersection 
during an interfaith protest as several hundred people cheered. Hundreds of 
students at Santa Monica City College rallied and about 500 Venice High 
School students left class for a protest on the school's front lawn, waving 
signs and chanting "No more war, no more war." 

"As a 16-year-old student, I have little license to do anything but I reserve 
my right to be idealistic, to see the good in the future and to see the evil 
of war," said Margot Goldberg at a rally in Pittsburgh. High schoolers there 
cheered when one protester said they likely would be suspended for cutting 
class. 

At the University at Buffalo in Amherst, N.Y., a group calling itself the 
Radical Cheerleaders led raucous anti-war chants. In Washington, peace 
activists clad in pink and bearing flowers held quiet rallies at the 
embassies of France, Russia, Turkey, Mexico and Chile to thank them for 
opposing a U.S. war with Iraq. 

At San Antonio College, Melissa St. John, who favors an Iraq invasion, got 
into a nose-to-nose shouting match with a young man who argued no positive 
link has been made between Saddam Hussein (<A HREF="http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_us/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.news.yahoo.com/search/news?p=%22Saddam%20Hussein%22&c=&n=20&yn=c&c=news&cs=nw">news</A> - <A HREF="http://rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/ap/ap_on_re_us/inlinks/*http://rd.yahoo.com/DailyNews/manual/*http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?cs=nw&p=Saddam%20Hussein">web sites</A>) and Osama bin 
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St. John later said she doesn't like the idea of war, but diplomatic efforts 
to rein in Saddam have failed. "None of us like it, but it's time," she said. 
"Our country is under attack." 

Sporadic rain fell hundreds of protesters â€” and a small number of Bush 
administration supporters holding a counter demonstration â€” gathered at Penn 
State University. The protesters later presented the mayor with petitions 
asking the borough council to oppose war with Iraq and resist elements of the 
USA Patriot and the Homeland Security acts. 

Two sisters, Kate and Allie Dunn, traveled to a New York City anti-war rally 
from suburban Westchester County to express their support of the Bush 
administration. "Remember 9-11?" asked a sign carried by 18-year-old Kate. 

Farther north, around 100 people rallied at an Albany, N.Y., shopping mall to 
protest the arrest of 61-year-old man who wore a T-shirt that read "Peace on 
Earth" and "Give Peace a Chance" while he shopped two days earlier. 

Another anti-war group, Not in Our Name, called on workers to call out sick 
and business owners to close up shop Wednesday to protest a war with Iraq. It 
could not immediately be determined whether any widespread sick-outs had 
occurred. 

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