April
17, 2003 - Spring Break Fast: Teach-in for Peace and Education
As I recall from my younger
years I used to spend spring break eating Dorritos and watching
TV. Some of the students at Gateway, Miramonte, and Mission High
(all in San Francisco), decided to do something with more meaning.
They organized the 2003 Spring
Break Fast: Teach-in for Peace and Education.
For four days they have
fasted in front of the San Francisco Federal Building to protest
the US invasion of Iraq, interventions in Colombia and the Philippines,
and the fact that oppressed people don't get a spring break.
While on my way to photograph
the group I noticed a defaced Coke vending machine. The cool guy
asking if you are thirsty now says "No War" and seems
to be missing a tooth.
Perhaps the cool dude
and his crew will join the Spring Break Fast protesters after he
realizes that he is contributing to the general callowness of youth
today as well as to tooth decay.
I arrived just as the
group of students (and Gateway High Math teacher Andrew Rose) were
ending their fast. I sincerely hope that they are indicative of
the younger generation. If they are perhaps the future will be better
than the recent past.
There were also a group
of people participating in a continuous vigil that began at the
start of the Iraq invasion. Apparently, three members of the Margerin
family have been at the vigil in front of the Federal Building for
the last five days.
The dedication both groups
are showing, in the face of the media's claims that we have won
the war, is inspiring.
Rumsfeld
the Valley Girl
Like, that bad
you know
guy Sadman, or whatever, like he is totally ewww,
and like that mustache
like
double ewww! And like
stuff and things
they, like happen
totally.
--Donald Rumsfeld on
Bringing Democracy to Iraq
Links
War
blogger watch
The
new Anti-imperialist League
Protests,
stones, and killings
The
Democratic Underground
German web magazine
using
one
of my photos.
Media
Workers Against War
Disinfopedia
Yellow
Times
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