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The kids at my school all walked out to protest ICE! I've never seen 1000 12y/o's so well coordinated, it was unbelievable! (hexbear.net)

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Oh my god IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED LIKE ALL OF THEM LEFT! turns out they adjusted their plan between yesterday and today to synchronize with the local high-school, I am SHOCKED

Ive never ever EVER seen coordination like this before from them. It was almost complete unity basically everyone walked out and they did it all at the same time all coordinated only by themselves I am feeling ecstatic right now holy fuck

I am do proud of them right now holy fuck I'm CRYING

Even the ones who I thought would just be doing this to get out of school had signs and stuff and marched off with everyone else instead of just bailing! I'm so proud of them...

~~I thought I had already given up but hearing the kids talk about this gave me the slightest bit of hope I guess, cause at the appointed time has come and gone and nothing happened I just feel absolutely fucking gutted~~

~~There is no hope, not even the bullshit liberal nonviolent protest kind, this country is a desolation~~

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[-] purpleworm@hexbear.net 32 points 15 hours ago

That's awesome. I've hardly ever heard of kids that young doing organized protest at that scale.

[-] oscardejarjayes@hexbear.net 25 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago)

There were those massive climate walkouts back in 2019, a lot of Middle Schoolers participated just like the High Schoolers

[-] ElChapoDeChapo@hexbear.net 21 points 14 hours ago

That was after my time

Us millenials who grew up under Bush remember how dark things were before doomer

[-] BanMeFromPosting@hexbear.net 10 points 13 hours ago

"Why isn't there a flag on your backpack? What are you, gay?" - I assume this was what it was like + 0 tolerance policy + see-through backpacks

[-] sewer_rat_420@hexbear.net 22 points 14 hours ago

When I was in high school we did it to protest the rule that underclassmen couldn't leave campus during the lunch hour, because there was a taco truck that would park across the street and freshman and sophomores would get detention for going.