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Student Strike at CMU
by Quinten Wednesday, Mar. 05, 2003 at 9:01 PM
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The "Student Strike" was quiet at CMU. Personal account follows.

Students at Carnegie Mellon were busy taking mid-term examinations this week, and others were leaving for the brief mid-semester break. But a few did manage to participate in the Student Strike.

A last minute decision was made by some of us involved with the Progressive Student Alliance to hold something in solidarity with the Student Strike. But we're lame, so our event was scheduled for a time when no classes take place. We decided to hold a reading of Dr. Seuss's "The Butter Battle Book", which is an allegory to the Cold War and Dr. Seuss's best known anti-war book. We held the reading in the middle of campus and amplified it with our primitive PA (actually a bullhorn).

About 5 students gathered around at various points to participate in the reading. We took turns reading from the book. Other people who passed by enjoyed the reading as well. We may schedule another reading soon, or perhaps a viewing of the excellent video.

Bread and butter was had by all, with most of us choosing to have our bread butter side down. No violent confrontations with the police ocurred.

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Highschool rally
by repost Friday, Mar. 07, 2003 at 2:32 AM

Since global indymedia is linking to this story, here is a link to the Post-Gazette's coverage of the much more impressive highschool student rally.

Unfortunate that nobody chose to write up a summary of it for the newswire. Are students at area highschools not reading Indymedia, or are they not feeling empowered to post?

http://postgazette.com/neigh_city/20030307suspendcity4p4.asp

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Yes, please post
by Rovin' Workman Friday, Mar. 07, 2003 at 9:21 AM

Yes, please do post stories on the walk-out. I'd also like to hear what the session on the was was like at one of the high schools. I remember fondly the walk-out at my HS to protest US war. We had rocks thrown at us by passersby, but more honking in solidarity. No discipline was meeted out. Just remember, most school rules are in place to keep us docile sheep. Same thing in the workplace. It's a beautiful thing to see rebellion.

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