Posted on 03/31/2006 12:00:40 PM PST by BurbankKarl
Walkouts now be reported across South LA......group of 200 students walking toward Jordan HS.
453.800 School Police 453.400 School Police
School police are citing students leaving campus
CNN was saying that they are flashing "GANG" signs and clogging traffic.
Does the um, student in the second picture look a tad old?
He is the coyote that led them out the locked gates....
A yearning for a sequel?
The irony is that Caesar Chavez used to call the INS on employers who hired illegal aliens. Unfortunately they don't respond to those calls anymore.
Protesters march down Logan Ave. toward Cesar Chavez Pkwy. during a march in San Diego, Friday, March 31, 2006, to voice their opposition to congressional bill HR 4437, a bill designed to strengthen the ability of the government to enforce immigration law in the United States.
Counter-rally planned for today at Hemet high school
A Hemet student plans a rally today about noon at West Valley High School.
Brittany Janes, a West Valley ninth grader, has said she supports stronger border security and wants her fellow students to know how much is spent on educating undocumented immigrants.
Brittany plans a demonstration in front of the school after the end of the minimum-day schedule. It would follow two days of walkouts earlier this week by San Jacinto Valley students protesting against pending federal immigration legislation being debated in Washington D.C.
A group of about 30 students at Arroyo Grande High School walked out of class this morning to protest proposed federal legislation related to illegal immigrants.
Another 50 students from San Luis Obispo and Morro Bay high schools protested outside San Luis Obispo High School this morning.
The students at Arroyo Grande gathered in front of the Clark Center, flying Mexican flags, and speaking out against the proposed legislation. Principal Ryan Pinkerton advised the students that he would not let them stand on school property while they skipped class. Pinkerton encouraged the students to return to class and join a planned protest on Monday during lunch time. Sixteen of the students returned to class, another 14 walked off of campus, said Pinkerton. Those students are now considered truant and will be required to attend Saturday school, he said.
A planned protest is currently scheduled for lunchtime Monday. Earlier this week Pinkerton worked with several students interested in staging a protest to coordinate the event.
"We are trying to teach kids how to do it and how to do it right," said Pinkerton. "I encouraged the interested students to do it at a time that they wouldn’t be missing class and to help educate students who aren’t familiar with the issue."
can we start using the term "intifada" yet?
If they REALLY want to stick it to us racist bastards, they should just drop out altogether! YEAH! THAT'll show US!
KCAL 9 showed a pro USA rally at Mira Loma HS earlier. Kid got suspended for starting it. Illegals across the street with their Mexican flags
How big did the pro USA rally seem to be?
Just posted the San Diego article as a thread..
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1607035/posts
This little nugget was in there..
“These people aren't technically walking out of school. They are leaving before the classes start.”
If they are not in school and it's not an excusable absence, then they are truant. Truancy has a fine.
Way to go, Brittany, you patriot, you!!
Los Angeles Unified School District
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NEWS RELEASE
March 27, 2006
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March 27, 2006 – Students continued protests today that began last Friday and extended through the weekend with organized marches in Los Angeles. More than 24,000 students walked out of schools in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) starting in the morning and continuing sporadically throughout the day, many of them converging on the steps of City Hall in downtown Los Angeles to hold a rally. They are protesting a federal bill that would make it a felony to illegally enter the United States and allow barriers to be erected along one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Students walked out of 52 schools, most of them high schools and a few middle schools to stage their protests. In some cases, they marched from their home school to other schools. At one point, about 100 students marched onto the northbound lanes of the 110 freeway between 5th Street and the Hollywood freeway before they were escorted back to the sidewalk by California Highway Patrol (CHP) officers. One student was momentarily detained when he jumped on the hood of a police car but was released shortly thereafter."
An estimated 24,000 kids in the LAUSD are engaged and want to have their voices heard by Congress, but it’s important that this dialogue continue in the schools where we can be sure kids are safe and learning, not in the streets," said Marlene Canter, President of the Los Angeles Board of Education.
"Tomorrow we want to see kids participating in teach-ins, not walk-outs. We want to harness this energy and passion in a constructive and safe manner that really teaches our kids something about the democratic process."
Three police agencies worked to maintain safety for the students, under the direction of the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). The Los Angeles Unified School Police and the California Highway Patrol joined the LAPD in making sure the demonstrations remained peaceful and to protect the students. Some of today’s protests were encouraged by a website popular with students and a radio disc jockey.
Parents/guardians were sent a letter today asking them to speak with their children about the protests and encouraging them to limit their activities to their school campus. The school district has made it a policy to request that students stage protests and exercise freedom of speech on school campuses. However, there have been instances when they have left their campus to march and protest.
Administrators often accompany them for their safety and to request buses to pick them up if necessary. Thirty school buses were dispatched today to shuttle students back to their home schools, many of them making repeated trips because of the large number of students needing transportation. There were also students participating from other schools districts in the county.
Superintendent Roy Romer has instructed all middle and high schools to enforce lockdown tomorrow morning to keep students from marching through the streets again. Disciplinary action can be taken for truancy and missing school work. Each principal will determine what procedures to be followed.
Curriculum will be included in school discussions tomorrow to engage students in issues of freedom of speech, civil protests, and events in United States history that have involved public protests.
Students will be asked to engage in discussion of the current issues that are prompting these marches as well as an overview of objectives and results of demonstrations. Discussion will also cover how a bill becomes legislation.
Again tomorrow, there will be a beefed up police presence at schools and law enforcement agencies will work together to maintain safety and security, hopeful that with parental support the discussions will remain on campus.
Student Walkouts Large and Peaceful
They showed what looked to be a street corner across from the HS. I'd say the pro US had more, it was tough to tell with the tight shot the cameraman had. Maybe 75 -100 peeps for pro USA. They interviewed the kid who organized it and he seemed to have his head screwed on straight. He nailed it when he pointed out the anti illegals could protest ON campus and he wasn't allowed a protest OFF campus.
What a country
Just found this,
Protesters face off near Mira Loma school
01:29 PM PST on Friday, March 31, 2006
The Press-Enterprise
Anti- and pro-immigrant protestors faced off this morning across the street from Jurupa Valley High School in Mira Loma but there was no physical confrontation.
About 12 deputies watched as an estimated 60 supporters of Save Our State an equal number of pro-immigrant activists waved flags and signs and shouted at each other form opposite corners of Bellegrave Avenue and Martin Street..
The Save Our State protestors carried U.S. flags and signs reading "Deport illegal aliens" and "No guest worker plan." The pro-immigrant protestors carried Mexican flags.
The protests began at about 11 a.m. and was over by 1 p.m.
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