school students against war

it's been a terribly long long time since i've posted on the hipforums. i can't imagine that any of you cyber chaps will remember any part of me but i hope that you are all in good condition!

just thought i'd plug an amazing organisation which i'm involved with called school students against war. it sais it all in the name really. you may remember the mass school student walk outs during the lead up to the attack on iraq whether you were a school student or not back in 03. since then a very stong network of school students has been maintained ( and grown). were made up of school aged people (so that's under 19), were completely self organised, and we campaign against war, while trying to inspire even more of our peers to join us.

you may like to have a look at our new site... the address is www.ssaw.co.uk

we also have a forum that schoolies and non schoolies alike can post on.

that's it really.

peacefully yours
sunflowers

 

Couldn't they have taken action after they left school instead of walking out during lessons, which is in fact illegal as they are playing truant. All they had to do was arange to meet up at the school gates at leaving time which is quite early in schools at just after 3:30pm then take part in a march to central London.

 

I totally agree

 

war is illegal too

 

i don't think walking out of school for half a day is gunna hurt anyboby really but war just might.

 

yeah but whats a bunch of school kids walking out of school gonna change?
In my opinion, nothing.

 

did anyone see the edinburgh school students agaisnt the war film? it won awards all over, and i got my 15 seconds of fame :H


it was called old enough to know better

 

the point was civil disobediance, not lets all be nice and play

 

oh what a bunch of defeatists! "what is a bunch of school kids going to change" so what do you propose. we sit at schools, at our desks, swallowing all the sanitised crap the government forces down our throats, while a WAR was impending, where our peers were going to get KILLED by the power of a barrel. school students in the uk are already one of the most marginalised groups of people - and why do you suppose that is? students and young people have been at the heart of every radical revolutionary movement, we are the passionate, the colourful, the energetic, we are the ones who refuse to accept that its inevitable, part of natures course, that a child should be killed maimed by a bomb or shrapnel.

you think that we should listen to the yeses and nos of some legislation? but who imposes these laws - the same legislators who think its ok to go bomb a few hundred thousan people. i wont listen to the brain wash. i wont listen to people who tell me that this is ok. that its ok to kill children, because some kind of distorted piece of paper says so or not.

from the moment we are born we know how to protest - were hungry, we protest, we cry.
civil disobedience, which indeed our walk outs were about, is only second nature.
no we didnt stop the war, but thats maybe because all you slightly wobblier types didnt follow our example and strike! ....but maybe a child's life isnt worth it? que someone telling me the pros of the invasion of iraq - you want a debate i'll give you debate but really maybe you should just take your shoes off, shake your hair out, slip on a pair of groovy flared jeans, and dont worry your little hearts. cowards.

 

I like your attitude! You should come over to our new UK Hippy forum and stir up the shit

 

The latest Iraqi parliamentary elections were an overwhelming success with mass participation on the part of the Sunnis as well. As the Sunnis are mostly behind the insurgency hopefully this will mean the ending of the insurgency as the Sunni minority take the political route. Which will mean allied troops returning home soon over the next few months and lasting peace in Iraq.

 

Since i last posted in this thread, i've joined and become scottish convenor for this liot


odd, eh...