Photos: Oakland High students speak out against repression

Oakland High School students led a lunchtime speak out today to protest repression on campus. Student leaders took the microphone to blast Principle Monk’s responses to student organizing, including: suspending students who passed out fliers about student anti-war walkouts, installing barbed wire on fences to prevent students from climbing them during walkouts, silencing dissent in classroom discussions, and eagerly cooperating with the Secret Service to come into the school and interrogate two students without even notify their parents. A few parents of Oakland High students and progressive teachers joined the speak out to support freedom of speech on campus.