At the college this morning |
In a coordinated protest, students across the country left their classrooms and marched in the streets a month after 17 people were killed in a Florida high school.
A month ago, hundreds of teenagers ran for their lives from the hallways and classrooms of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and staff had been shot to death.
On Wednesday, driven by the conviction that they should never have to run from guns again, they walked. So did their peers. In New York City, in Chicago, in Atlanta and Santa Monica; at Columbine High School and in Newtown, Conn.; and in many more cities and towns, students left school by the hundreds and the thousands at 10 a.m., sometimes in defiance of school authorities, who seemed divided and even flummoxed about how to handle their emptying classrooms.... (National School Walkout: Thousands Protest Against Gun Violence Across the U.S. - New York Times)IRVINE - Don't know about anywhere else, but here at IVC, today's 17-minute school shooting "walkout" was a hit. At 10:00 a.m, about 200 students found their way to a presentation, led by writing instructor Lisa "the Reb" Alvarez (and dozens of students), in front of the Student Services Building. They took turns reading, school by school, a litany of persons killed or injured by gun incidents on campuses across the country. Hundreds of 'em. They had not finished when, at the 17-minute mark, the event came to a decorous close.
Students immediately dispersed and returned to their classrooms.
Several policemen were present.
President Roquemore hovered in the background. He wasn't wearing his "Make America Great Again" cap. Must've left it at home.
I surfed around a bit and found that similar events occurred all across the county.
Saddleback College plans to participate in the Women's March Youth Empower's country-wide demonstration on Wednesday, March 14 at 10 a.m.
Got these pics from Rebel Girl, who got 'em from friends |
Don't know what the chairs were for. They looked sharp though. |
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Meet Matti. She's cute. She shoots jackrabbits. Not to eat 'em, just to kill 'em. Yeah.
She even shoots at 'em in the dark. They haven't got a chance. That's called "sport."
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Cat Power: Lived In Bars
Hank Williamss & Anita Carter (1952)
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#Enough students and instructors speak out against gun violence (Saddleback College Lariat)
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Very proud of and moved by these, our students. Did you hear anything about Saddleback's show of support?
So proud of our students! And proud of us for caring about them and teaching them about life beyond the classroom. A great day at IVC. Thanks for all the work that went into this. It was not simple or easy to do, i am sure. Thank you.
Saddleback still has a newspaper because its college president isn't threatened by free speech and a free press like our president-for-life is so you can find their coverage of their walkout there - online and in print.
http://lariatnews.com/
Saddleback College has also posted photos from their walkout on their college Facebook Page but IVC does not - why not?
https://www.facebook.com/SaddlebackCollege/
Seems like lots of the community colleges posted about their walkouts:
Golden West:
https://www.facebook.com/goldenwestcollege/
Fullerton College:
https://www.facebook.com/FullertonCollege/
What's up IVC?
I am sure they will post something as I saw people taking photos and videotaping. It just takes time.
I am sure they will not post anything ever or send out any acknowledgments. They are not proud of actions like these; they are embarrassed, uncomfortable. They had a choice of what to post about life on campus on March 14 and they posted a not very good photo of the workers installing the new entry signs. That's what they chose. That is what is important to them. That is what they want the community to see. Not 200+ students staff and teachers paying respect for lives lost at an American school and calling for change.
They also posted about the college's Nowruz celebration. Just not the memorial for the Parkland students. WHO manages the college's social media stream (FB, Instagram, Twitter)? Who decides what goes up and what does not? It certainly could be better in lots of ways. Why not more rather than less?
Dianne Oaks controls all the social media. If she doesn't like what you've done, you're DOOMED. That's why it looks like it does. Have you ever checked out other colleges' social media feeds. It actually looks exciting instead of curated juvenalia.
poor management
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