High School Students Fight Back-from Montreal To Mexico

High School Students Fight Back-from Montreal To Mexico

Black & White Students fought over a water fountain at Canarsie HS in Brooklyn. The administration called in the cops. The school was close down. Nothing was  accomplished. There are 300,000 high school students in New York City. When students fight among themselves, no one wins.. when we get together we can't lose. The students at Eastern District HS-Puerto Rican, black and white, know what I'm talking about.

A few Tuesdays ago, Dean Didian Goldberg decided students shouldn't be allowed to hang around the hall and rap with their friends. By Friday Goldberg had challenged too many students and the word had been spread. 10:30 - "thats when most of the shit happens"-the lid blew. A black kid had been give a JD card for telling Goldberg he would bust his ass if he get suspended for loitering. Enough. Time to show the Man what happens when he busts our brothers. Running through the halls smashing window after window that separates them from the outside, desk after desk that holds them in classes, dumping file after file in Goldberg's office - strike a match burn the shit! Out the Windows, into the street-dean's lists, delany cards, textbooks, toilet seats. $4,500 worth.

The principals and the Bd of Ed and the PTA & the cops think that the use of brute force is going to bring "law & order" into the schools. Guntoting, billy club swinging pigs and senile bureaucrats aren't going to change anything. We're getting angrier everyday. As Lindsay was listening to big pig Leary's report on his riot control, a student from Tech was busted for a Molotov cocktail, gas went off at Christopher Columbus, and the students of Taft were protest in the suspension of a brother. WE WANT AN END TO VIOLENCE! But who is violent? The system that wrecks our lives, stunts our growth, forces us to fight! WE WILL DEFEND OURSELVES AND EACH OTHER!

this was part of an article that appeared in New York HIGH SCHOOL FREE PRESS.

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