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29 de Abril, 2008
Home of the Brave, Sweatshop of the Free
Categorized under Derechos Humanos , Historia , Parenting , Política Estados Unidos , Resistencia | Tags: hypocrisy, Kahlil Gibran, Power to the People, Protest, RNC, University of Montana, Youth
TAKE the power back.
This is unacceptable.
The eight University of Montana students who stormed Main Hall earlier this month, staged a sit-in protest in the campus president's office, and were arrested for disorderly conduct and trespassing will get a lesson in consequences from UM administrators on Tuesday.Charles Couture, UM dean of students, is scheduled to meet privately with each of the students who were protesting the university's refusal to sign an anti-sweatshop policy that would enforce certain codes of conduct and monitor factories that are being paid to manufacture university apparel.
Over the weekend, each of the eight protesters - who belong to UM's Students for Economic and Social Justice - received a letter from Couture summoning them to the mandatory meeting and warning they may be suspended for allegedly violating several sections of UM's Student Conduct Code.
The band of patriots in the stories I was told in high school—those ones who so bravely threw the Boston tea party and supposedly imbued all that came after with a proud and defiant and people-centered agenda based on standing up for rights and against tyranny—are emulated today only in shades, and when you and I do so, we are usually ridiculed, punished, and/or locked up—if not shot with electrified barbs first.
Just as our presence as it is in the Middle East will only spawn new America-hating missions and mindsets from that very area, so does such unfair repression of the youth's consciences and voices only engender disillusioned and disenchanted minds in tomorrow's adults. Because...perhaps the students have a point?
Kahlil Gibran spoke of us learning about tomorrow through the young, and their take on the world we have made.
This is not how to do that.
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Comentarios (1)
traci k dijo:
Did a lot of demonstrating and marching in my day. Marched with Chavez, and worked in the fields of N Ohio, side by side. Helped start Stonewall union here and did all the things we all did then.
Now - it is scary - disagreement with the government is basically illegal. Have you seen Grannies for Peace?
We must march on!
Palabras por traci k spat forth on el 1 de Mayo, 2008 at 04:51 AM