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Student Walkouts at Pajaro Valley and Watsonville High Schools Against HR 4437

by word of mouth
On Monday March 27th, word spread fast around high schools in the Pajaro Valley School District that students would be walking out of their classes at 11:00am in protest of anti-immigrant legislation known as HR 4437. The message of the students was that the United States is nothing without Mexicans and HR 4437 is nothing short of racist.
Word also has it that the Watsonville Police Department responded by deploying officers prepared to use chemical weapons against the students.

I am not sure how things turned out.

If anyone has more information, please publish an article here on Santa Cruz IMC or add a comment to this post.
§FRSC: Jenn and Ramiro of the Brown Berets discuss Student Walkouts, HR 4437 and more
by from the Global Local show, 101.1FM
FRSC: Jenn and Ramiro of the Brown Berets discuss Student Walkouts, HR 4437 and more
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1811529.php

Jenn talks to Sandino
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/jenn-sandino_3-27-06.mp3

Ramiro talks to Sandino
http://www.indybay.org/uploads/ramiro-sandino_3-27-06.mp3
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by stop HR 4437
24,680 Los Angeles Students Walk Out to Protest H.R. 4437
http://la.indymedia.org/archives/archive_by_id.php?id=1074&category_id=3

Over 500 Students Walk Out in Fresno
http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/03/1811395.php
by repost
In reference to the LA walkouts:

"A few schools chose to bar their doors to prevent walkouts. Officials at Huntington Park High School locked the gates after classes started, but the students climbed over a chain-link fence and joined marchers in their heavily immigrant community."
by from KSBW
Apparently, hundreds of students from Alisal High School and Alvarez High walked out too!

The Aptos HS and Watsonville HS #s were put at around 1,000 by KSBW. Apparently at least 2 students were arrested by the cops.
by from ABC7
Students reportedly walked out from high schools in Hayward, S. San Francisco, and all over Oakland today for immigrant rights.
by from LA-IMC
Orange County high school students take over Riverside Freeway
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151935.php
photos:
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151940.php

and, later that night.....

Santa Ana police deploy armored cars and horses to squelch protest
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2006/03/151994.php

by YLF
Met with a bunch of students marching through the Beach Flats, who said they were from various Santa Cruz schools. I later heard that several hundred students had convened at the County Building. It's time to leave school forever...
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