Comments on: Facing Expulsion for Speaking Out http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/ a radical newsletter in the struggle for peace and social justice Thu, 04 Dec 2008 03:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: John Hatch http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9142 John Hatch Fri, 16 Nov 2007 23:10:23 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9142 Maybe the school administration was cleverly trying to teach the students a bit of a foreign language: 'Seig Heil!' I guess the kids should be grateful they weren't tasered, gassed, or beaten. Yet. Imagine being for peace in America! The horror! Maybe the school administration was cleverly trying to teach the students a bit of a foreign language: ‘Seig Heil!’ I guess the kids should be grateful they weren’t tasered, gassed, or beaten. Yet. Imagine being for peace in America! The horror!

]]> By: Lloyd Rowsey http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9134 Lloyd Rowsey Fri, 16 Nov 2007 20:29:38 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9134 From Arthur Silber's website: "November 08, 2007 When Awareness Is a Crime, and Other Lessons From Morton West [An Update about the latest developments added at the conclusion. It may be a good sign that the school board has postponed the vote on possible expulsion for these students. They may be feeling the pressure -- so if you haven't yet, sign the petition. Let's increase the pressure still more.]...." the phrase 'sign the petition' is linked to: http://www.petitiononline.com/mortonw/ - In struggle, Lloyd Rowsey From Arthur Silber’s website:

“November 08, 2007

When Awareness Is a Crime, and Other Lessons From Morton West
[An Update about the latest developments added at the conclusion. It may be a good sign that the school board has postponed the vote on possible expulsion for these students. They may be feeling the pressure -- so if you haven't yet, sign the petition. Let's increase the pressure still more.]….”

the phrase ’sign the petition’ is linked to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/mortonw/

- In struggle,
Lloyd Rowsey

]]> By: sk http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9123 sk Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:44:12 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9123 School administrators would have no problem with protests that are about issues that have been basically co-opted into mainstream discourse i.e. there is a parallel track on which discontent on these issues--Sexual Liberation, Identity Politics, Ecology and Human Rights--can be shunted and then ignored or used, perversely, to shore up the same centers of power. As Thomas Pynchon said (in Gravity’s Rainbow), "If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers." School administrators would have no problem with protests that are about issues that have been basically co-opted into mainstream discourse i.e. there is a parallel track on which discontent on these issues–Sexual Liberation, Identity Politics, Ecology and Human Rights–can be shunted and then ignored or used, perversely, to shore up the same centers of power. As Thomas Pynchon said (in Gravity’s Rainbow), “If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers.”

]]> By: HR http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9090 HR Fri, 16 Nov 2007 01:51:38 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9090 Neither critical thinking nor expressing opinions contrary to the government line are tolerated these days in this always-fasicst country which is rapidly becoming a police-state fascsist country ... as the U.S. herd chews its yuppie cud and bleats contentedly for the most part. Neither critical thinking nor expressing opinions contrary to the government line are tolerated these days in this always-fasicst country which is rapidly becoming a police-state fascsist country … as the U.S. herd chews its yuppie cud and bleats contentedly for the most part.

]]> By: JBPM http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9081 JBPM Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:54:11 +0000 http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/11/facing-expulsion-for-speaking-out/#comment-9081 “I thought the school would support us. They teach us civil rights, but then they pummel us down.” That's because studying "civil rights" is safe; just dead words printed on dead trees; whereas living "civil rights" actually threatens to shake things up. School, like everything else in this forsaken culture, is a factory for cranking out more shitheads. No more, no less. Are we surprised? “I thought the school would support us. They teach us civil rights, but then they pummel us down.”

That’s because studying “civil rights” is safe; just dead words printed on dead trees; whereas living “civil rights” actually threatens to shake things up. School, like everything else in this forsaken culture, is a factory for cranking out more shitheads. No more, no less. Are we surprised?

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