belmont high school los angeles lockdown

Belmont high school los angeles lockdown pdf#

'That which you will not resist and mobilize to stop, you will learn-or be forced-to accept.'įrom The World Can’t Wait–Drive Out the Bush Regime Call

Reverse the direction that the Bush Regime is leading us. Support students and others in opposition to a grim and brutal future. We are at a critical juncture in history. It is imperative that Superintendent Roy Romer and the LAUSD Board of Education understand that their role in these matters is of historical importance and it is time to step forward. Others joined her, because they knew she was right. There were those who arrested her and jailed her. Reflect on Rosa Parks, who through her brave act of defiance inspired others to unite with her in mass resistance against an unjust society with unjust laws. We applaud them for their heroic, spirited and defiant actions, and their example must and will be followed by others. Students understand the urgency of the situation and feel the weight of the future hanging in the balance. School lockdowns chillingly reflect a lockdown of our society that the Bush regime pushes: waging illegitimate war, legalizing torture, justifying institutionalized racism (illustrated in the monstrous criminalization and callous treatment of Katrina victims), replacing science with religious creationism in public school science curriculums, indefinite imprisonment of anyone without charges or benefit of legal recourse under the singular authority of the President. It has been reported that non-student Christian Fundamentalists have preached and passed out their literature on campuses without a hint of an administrative challengeīut, this goes beyond matters of constitutional law, or selective enforcement of policy or law, which is already cause enough for grave concern. Military recruiters appear regularly on campuses, signing young people up to become soldiers in what has been described by Dick Cheney as a war that will last for a generation. All this in spite of guidelines issued to principals by LAUSD Chief Operating Officer Dan Isaacs in an Octomemo, which include: 'Do not attempt to prevent students from leaving the campus.' (bullet point 2) Students have been ticketed, fined, suspended, or transferred out of their schools as punishment. Some school officials locked students inside to prevent their leaving. Other students were physically restrained by school officials as they attempted to leave campus to participate in the walkout on November 2nd. Student Geovany Serrano was pepper-sprayed, arrested, has had criminal charges filed against him, and is under house arrest because he was passing out anti -Bush political literature and stickers at Belmont High School prior to November 2. They have been forbidden to have anti-Bush political literature in their possession. Students have been threatened with fines, expulsion and suspension for passing out flyers pertaining to the Novemwork and school walkout. This is deadly serious business we bring before the LAUSD Board of Education and Superintendent Romer. This was a spirited and determined first step in a rapidly growing mass movement, The World Can't Wait!–Drive Out the Bush Regime, that now demands that Bush Step Down. This petition demands that the LAUSD Board of Education and Superintendent Roy Romer use their authority to immediately stop the harassment, repression, and punitive measures used against high school students who heroically stepped up and resisted authority to walk out of school on November 2nd, and united with church leaders, war veterans, educators, workers, intellectuals, politicians, and many others in over seventy cities across the nation.

Belmont high school los angeles lockdown pdf#

A PDF version of the petition is online at Stop the Harassment of Los Angeles High School Students Who are Against the Bush Regime! The following is the text of a petition being circulated by World Can't Wait. Revolution #027, December 19, 2005, posted at Stop the Harassment of Los Angeles High School Students Who are Against the Bush Regime!