In times of combatting fascism:

Teresa sent me the coolest quote applicaple to everything going on right now: when it comes to the malfeasance and disregard for Katrina victims and the Ground Zero ill; to the fascism that’s creeping into our country with astonishing confidence: rigged elections; the vote challenges of black soldiers off fighting their war, the fact that war veterans who’ve returned home OWE the government money for fighting in the Iraqi war as well as coming home with Uranium poisoning passed on to their unborn children; the fact that the house just passed a bill allowing any teenager in a public highschool suspected of anything to be strip searched,
a bill that, in it’s current form, is opposed by the Drug Policy Alliance, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Parent Teacher Association, the American Association of School Administrators, and the National School Boards Association (not to mention the students themselves).
Also, the U.S. military IS allowed to come into public high schools for recruiting purposes and has access to childrens personal info unless a form is signed YEARLY to block that.

Here’s the quote Teresa sent and henceforth officially declared is a fight against fascism and govt. malfeasance and disregard for people with my own astonishing confidence. Matched with yours, and yours, and yours, we WILL get things turned around!
Otherwise nobody will ever have any right to complain about anything because we’ve brought it all upon ourselves in suffering from the bystander effect.
xoxoxo
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from Margeret Mead:
“NEVER DOUBT THAT A SMALL, GROUP OF THOUGHTFUL, COMMITTED CITIZENS CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. INDEED, IT IS THE ONLY THING THAT EVER HAS.”

reposting for PO BAY-BEEE A.K.A. ENDANGERED SPECIES

Wednesday, September 20, 2006

A bill approved by the U.S. House yesterday would require school districts around the country to establish policies making it easier for teachers and school officials to conduct wide scale searches of students. These searches could take the form of pat-downs, bag searches, or strip searches depending on how administrators interpret the law.

The Student Teacher Safety Act of 2006 (HR 5295) would require any school receiving federal funding–essentially every public school–to adopt policies allowing teachers and school officials to conduct random, warrantless searches of every student, at any time, on the flimsiest of pretexts. Saying they suspect that one student might have drugs could give officials the authority to search every student in the building.

DPA supporters and others who opposed this outrageous bill called their members of Congress this week to express their disapproval. However, House leaders circumvented the usual legislative procedure to bring the bill to a quick vote. It did not pass through the committee process, but went straight to the House floor. There, it was passed by a simple voice vote, so constituents cannot even find out how their Representative voted.

The bill moves next to the Senate, but it is unlikely to be considered there this session.

Bill Piper, DPA’s director of national affairs, said, “It looks like this bill was rushed to the House floor to help out the sponsor, Rep. Geoff Davis (R-KY/4th), who is in a tight re-election race. This vote lets him say he’s getting things done in Washington. But I would be surprised to see a similar push in the Senate.”

HR 5295 is opposed in its current form by several groups, including the Drug Policy Alliance, Students for Sensible Drug Policy, the ACLU, the American Federation of Teachers, the National Parent Teacher Association, the American Association of School Administrators, and the National School Boards Association.