Any threat of retaliation by the Public School administration against students, teachers and principals for exercising and allowing the exercise of first amendment rights should be met with massive protests at the next school board meeting (which generally happen on the 2nd and last Tuesday of the month at 807 NE Broadway in the 3rd floor board room).
I expect walkouts at many of the public schools in Minneapolis today. The new Gulf war is unquestionably opposed by a huge majority of the city's residents. It has been noted that a big majority of the Democratic Party voters opposed the war without UN approval, according to a recent opinion poll. And in the last Presidential election, the total vote for Nader in Minneapolis wasn't much lower and in many precincts was higher than Bush's. Pro-war lawn signs and counterprotesters have been pretty scarce. There appeared to be about 2000 antiwar protesters yesterday around 5:00 pm at the Lake Street Bridge. Total participation from 4:30 to 6:00 PM was certainly much greater than 2000. There was a density of about one person per meter along the guard rail on each side of the bridge, for the entire span of the bridge, and a lower-density stream of people walking back and forth across the bridge. There also appeared to be protesters lining the street for about 2 blocks east of the bridge (as seen from the Minneapolis side). -Doug Mann, King Field Mann for School Board web site http://educationright.tripod.com TEMPORARY REMINDER: 1. Send all posts in plain-text format. 2. Cut as much of the post you're responding to as possible. ________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A City-focused Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
