Scool Protest

Saturday March 15, 2003 13:11

by Fatima - School students against war/ revolutionary youth

near to 400 sudents + teachers, principle and vice-principle protest against war in Donnybrook secondary school, Muckross Park.

Yesterday, Friday 14th me and two other 6th years in my school (muckross park) organised an anti-war protest @lunch time in our school grounds. we wanted it to be organised and peaceful so we asked the principle for permission on thursday.she was quite reluctant @ 1st and was only happy to allow 5th and 6th yr to protest.i called richard boyd barrett to come and speak @the protest and he was very willing to.the next day i asked if it was ok to have a speaker and our principle was all for it. up till 12:20 we were running around between classes urging evry1 to join us.we made a simple poster with all the details and got loads of copies which are now all over the school!i asked the art class to make banners and by the end of their double they made around 70!@12:20 we all assembled on the field and we started up some chants aided by the megaphone richard brought.i spoke for a little while and then richard spoke, which was quite exciting for the 1st years who all lined up afterwards to ask him if he really was the guy from the late late show!the protest was a great success, we realised that most of the girls are anti-war and just needed something like this to push them to become invloved. the teachers were also very supportive, many of them joined the protest and the principle even went as far as congratulating us on the intercom!i know that recently there have been similar protests in scools throughout the country but hopefully we'll start seeing alot more. we didnt think it could happen in our school and it did so if you want to do 1 but dont think it will work just go for it anyway.