Hundreds of Students Walk Out of Classrooms to Support Immigrant Rights

by Democracy Now (reposted)

Wed, May 2, 2007 7:53AM

Students once again played a key role in the May Day protests. In Los Angeles, city officials reported around six hundred students walked out of class to join the march for immigrant rights. Meanwhile in Detroit, dozens of students were arrested for taking part in a walkout that also protested the planned closure of dozens of schools. We speak with two student organizers:

* Issamar Comacho, Junior at Roosevelt High School in Los Angeles.
* Jevon Cochran, Junior at Lewis Cass Technical High School in Detroit and an organizer with the Coalition to Defend Affirmative Action, Integration, and Immigrant Rights, & Fight for Equality By Any Means Necessary, known as BAMN.

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