How to Make an Activist
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madrobinsTake Activist Powder and add water or...
If you're Fred Phelps and the minions of the Westboro Baptist Church, stage an anti-gay, anti-Jew rally at San Francisco's Lowell High School. I got this from a Parents for Public Schools listserve I'm on:
Kids who probably never worried about much except for their GPAs and what's on their iPods have now tasted the delights of responding peacefully and actively to someone's hateful behavior. I remember that feeling; it is one of the best parts of growing up.
If you're Fred Phelps and the minions of the Westboro Baptist Church, stage an anti-gay, anti-Jew rally at San Francisco's Lowell High School. I got this from a Parents for Public Schools listserve I'm on:
As a few members of Fred Phelps' Westboro Baptist Church carried anti-gay and anti-Semitic signs on the other side of San Francisco's Eucalyptus Drive this afternoon, Lowell High School students wore yarmulkes to school and held an Israeli folk dance party in the school's front courtyard.
Groups of students from other high schools arrived, carrying signs and wearing T-shirts with peace slogans, as their schools ended for the day. (And I and my friend Jean, a fellow middle-aged PTSA mom, played Jewish music on our accordions on the sidewalk.)
And the Phelps-a-thon, which allows donors to pledge for every minute the demonstration goes on, reportedly raised more than $900 for Lowell's Gay-Straight Alliance.
A peaceful time was had by all, except probably for the sad, disturbed Phelps clan.
Kids who probably never worried about much except for their GPAs and what's on their iPods have now tasted the delights of responding peacefully and actively to someone's hateful behavior. I remember that feeling; it is one of the best parts of growing up.