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Locke High School Students in Watts Rally for Justice for Oscar Grant: photos
Shortly after the first hearing in downtown Los Angeles in the trial of BART police officer Johannes Mehserle for the murder of Oscar Grant, students at Locke High School in Watts held an on-campus rally for justice for Oscar Grant and other victims of police violence.
The campus is walled off on all sides with a ten-foot-high iron fence lined with impassable steel mesh, and the entire demonstration took place within that space. To gain access to the school to witness the rally, non-student supporters had to sign in with an armed security guard and be escorted by the Vice Principal who was in support of the students becoming active in the struggle for civil rights and against police violence.
Locke High School, once a single Los Angeles public school, is now a collection of charter schools, the buildings and facilities within the fenced area having been divided into several separate high schools, each focusing on different specialties for students who must apply for admission.
Having arrived at about 11:30am just as students were leaving the class room where they had been preparing banners and signs, students pictured above are heading for the senior quad where the rally would be held.
Locke High School, once a single Los Angeles public school, is now a collection of charter schools, the buildings and facilities within the fenced area having been divided into several separate high schools, each focusing on different specialties for students who must apply for admission.
Having arrived at about 11:30am just as students were leaving the class room where they had been preparing banners and signs, students pictured above are heading for the senior quad where the rally would be held.
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I'm glad it happened. But I won't go googoo over it because I see where the signs, and likely much more, came from. From the outside. And don't give me that dialectical drivel about inside-outside relationships. It looks imposed jut like the ones in Oakland did.
Come On, you didn't even bother to rebrand he signs for Los Angeles. It says "Revolution Club *Bay Area*" at the bottom of the largest one. In fact I think I layed out that same banner in Oakland during (a less than inspiring session of) leafleting.
I can't judge the character of this protest from here. But this furthers my concern that that LA will repeat our mistakes.
If you haven't already, check out "Justice For Oscar Grant: A Lost Opportunity?". Specifically section IV relating to this news.
http://advancethestruggle.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/justice-for-oscar-grant-a-lost-opportunity/
Come On, you didn't even bother to rebrand he signs for Los Angeles. It says "Revolution Club *Bay Area*" at the bottom of the largest one. In fact I think I layed out that same banner in Oakland during (a less than inspiring session of) leafleting.
I can't judge the character of this protest from here. But this furthers my concern that that LA will repeat our mistakes.
If you haven't already, check out "Justice For Oscar Grant: A Lost Opportunity?". Specifically section IV relating to this news.
http://advancethestruggle.wordpress.com/2009/07/15/justice-for-oscar-grant-a-lost-opportunity/
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