Student's anti-war protest

[Larissa]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/2003/...ent_demo3.shtml (http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/2003/03/19/student_demo3.shtml)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2865657.stm

[KRAZYKILLA]

yup. 12 kids got suspended at my highschool for leaving school early today.. I was not one of them.

[Larissa]

The point is that the guy in the pic:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/2003/.../student_13.jpg (http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/2003/03/19/student_13.jpg)
(on the left, holding a flag, white T shirt and sunglasses) is our comrade James.

[Dr. Rosenpenis]

There was an anti-war walk-out at my school today. Not very succesful, only about 30 kids walked out and they all got suspended, I didn't because I didn't hear about it until lunch later on, but I would have. My school is very right-wing, concervative, narrow-minded, children-of-soldiers, let's blindly follow Dybaya, kind of school. Wrong place for me.

[truthaddict11]

There are anti-warers at my school I have thought about organizing a walk-out but I am worried that the people partcipating would be small and disorganized

[truthaddict11]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/manchester/news/2003/03/19/student_13.jpg

(Edited by truthaddict11 at 9:04 am on Mar. 22, 2003)

[Larissa]

I've posted James's letter at the topic called "James".

[Conghaileach]

There was one in Belfast. Suffice it to say there were clashes with the police.

[Kez]

Bah, me and james went to the same demo, ive written a dedetailed report if anyone can be arsed to read it (note my bitter tone)

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...um=11&topic=320 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=11&topic=320)

please read ang give comments

[Caroline]

to protest is always a good way to show you´re oppinon, even if it doesn´t seem to have a direct effect

[Valkyrie]

is that you holding the sign Kamo? :) hehe.

I am looking forward to reading your account of the demo. going to read it now.

[Valkyrie]

I think that is the wrong link to your article, Kamo.

[Monks Aflame]

I have an activist club at my school, Student Activist Coalition, or the SAC. The administration gave us a bit of trouble at first, saying that it was not allowed because we wanted to initiate the coalition in the middle of the year. How about that when there's a club of Christian athletes that assimilate in front of the flag every morning to pray in front of it??

[Larissa]

Quote: from TavareeshKamo on 4:42 pm on Mar. 23, 2003
Bah, me and james went to the same demo, ive written a dedetailed report if anyone can be arsed to read it (note my bitter tone)

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...um=11&topic=320 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=11&topic=320)

please read ang give comments
That link goes to this topic: Will americans kick Afghans?

I wasn't able to find your report on the demonstartion.

[Conghaileach]

Kamo's report:

http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/top...m=11&topic=3208 (http://www.che-lives.com/cgi/community/topic.pl?forum=11&topic=3208)

[The Sniper]

I went to the walk-out on both wednesday and Thursday at Parliament Square and i have to say the police behaved in a disgusting way towards peace protestors, myself included. We stage a sit down in the middle of the road that survived for 3 and a half hours. During this time police punched, kicked,elbowed protestors in the face and talked of ways to molested and "touch up" the girls in the sit down (most of whom where between 15-18). Them when we felt the protest had gone on long enough we decided to get up and go back into the sqaure we asked officers and they said they would open the barricades to the Sqaure and let us in. As we walked back serveral police officers started punching and booting protestors in the back, when i turned round to ask them to stop, one of them grabbed me by the neck and tried to arrest me. Luckily i managed to escape at the loss of my hoodie and in the following chaos i saw a protestor kicked in the head by a copper, a students eyebrow ring ripped out and a 7-year old kid picked up and slammed against the metal barricades.

Over the next few days the police where simlerly as brutal towards peaceful protestors and managed to creat violent situations from nothing. Yet the media mentioned none of this and the reports of the protests where extermly sohrt and showed nothing of the massive levels of brutality towards innocent students, with officers using batons and nightsticks "Keep order". This massive media blackout is a travisty and shows how the government doesnt want some things making the news.

Come comrades rise up and smash the oppressive state!

NO JUSTICE!! NO PEACE!! USA IN THE MIDDLE EAST!!