#LetOurVoicesBeHeard | Western International High School | Southwest Detroit

Western International High School & Clark Park, Southwest Detroit Michigan, 10:55am!


Contact us if you want to help and/or attend.
E-mail: ourvoicesouthwestdetroit@gmail.com,
Twitter: @_OurVoice, #LetOurVoicesBeHeard
Tumblr: ourvoicesouthwestdetroit.tumblr.com
Facebook Group: Southwest Detroit Freedom School


Southwest Detroit Freedom School
School Starts: Friday April 27, 2012 @ 10:55 a.m.

On Friday, April 27, 2012 at 10:55 a.m., we students of Western International High School will be starting our first day of class at Southwest Detroit Freedom School at Clark Park, across from our beloved school which we were suspended from. After over 300 of us staged a student walkout on Wednesday April 25, 2012, over 150 of us were given 5-day suspensions. One of our fellow students, targeted as the "ring-leader" is being threatened with formal charges for helping organize the walkout. We were walking out in solidarity with our fellow students at Southwestern High School to save their school from closing. More importantly, we were also fighting for quality education for us at Western, and at ALL DPS schools. We do not understand why we are being punished with a loss of educational opportunity when that is exactly what we were fighting for. To further demonstrate our commitment to education, we will be attending our own school taught by ourselves and community educators for the duration of our suspension. We are still looking for more teachers and students.

Contact us if you want to help and/or attend.
E-mail: ourvoicesouthwestdetroit@gmail.com,
Twitter: @_OurVoice, #LetOurVoicesBeHeard
Tumblr: ourvoicesouthwestdetroit.tumblr.com
Facebook Group: Southwest Detroit Freedom School

EVERYONE IS WELCOME....JOIN US!!!!

Classes will be about:
the history of Southwest Detroit
the Civil Rights Movement
Bboy/BGirl classes (Breakdancing)
the specifics of the Detroit Public School system
the Student Code of Conduct
your civil rights
Lino-cut prints
woodprints
screenprinting
social justice
Hip-Hop
poetry workshops
You will also have a space to do make up work for the days you are suspended.
and much more!

Our Demands to the Detroit Public School System are the following:
1. Don't close Southwestern High School.
2. Don't close Maybury Elementary.
3. Remove suspensions for students involved in the walkout.
4. Don't keep students away from school for walking out to stand up for what they believe.
5. Don't want suspensions to go on our student records.
6. Don't press criminal charges against students' involved in the walkout.
7. Don't violate students' rights.
8. Don't take students' phones and search through & delete their content.
9. Don't lay hands on students. No more physical attacks on students by security guards.
10. No more favoritism in who is & is not being targeted for suspension.
11. No more favoritism to certain students, student groups, or sports teams.
12. Honor the DPS Code of Conduct.
13. School Supplies: toilet paper, hand soap, etc.
14. Clean bathrooms, facilities.
15. Stop making students feel like we're in prison.
16. Higher expectations for students.
17. Better college prep.
18. Stability-- teachers who will actually be there for us, who are qualified.
19. Protection of teachers & their union.
20. We want equal opportunity to education.
21. Stop selling away community assets.
22. We're students, not money signs or criminals. Stop running school like a business or a prison.
23. Give students an equal say in what goes on in all DPS schools. Give students a place in decision-making process. We want a Voice.
24. We need to invest more into our education than what our test scores are gonna be.
25. We need a better education-- not students' fault that money isn't being used correctly.
26. We need teachers that teach, adequate books and supplies.
27. Remove the Emergency Financial Manager. Give control of schools back to community by reinstating the School Board.
28. Stop closing DPS schools. Go with what we have, stop closing everything down. Fix what we have. Stop closing DPS schools and allowing the chartering of so many schools. Stop turning schools into for profit businesses.
29. WE DEMAND RESPECT!!!!



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filmed & edited by Knocks
sacramentoknoxx@gmail.com
3138784005

music by
www.sKnoxx.bandcamp.com
www.youtube.com/PoeticDPress

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[lagonks]

Can you include credits of the music at the end of the video? Were either local artists?

[Sacramento Knoxx]

yes were local artists bron & raised from this neighborhood.

I composed all the original instrumentals in this production, and dpress wrote the final song in the ending over one of the instrumentals as well.

sacramentoknoxx(at)gmail(dot)c­om

[Mzroudy09]

WE ARE PEOPLE NOT NOT NOT DOLLAR SIGNS !!!!!!!!!

[Julian Rodríguez-Drix]

Revolutionary love and solidarity from Providence RI!

[MotorCityPlayer]

Went to Detroit Chadsey High...all i remember was it being shitty. Teachers were paid BIG while most students didn't come to school or even graduate. Truancy was rampant and drugs flowed thru the halls. I would NEVER send my children to DPS. They are closing schools due to all the stealing going on in the districts. Millions of dollars unaccounted for. What a mess. Detroit is in big trouble.

[6mileteej]

This sh!t was weak as hell Im glad I aint come this day.

[SuperSat17]

a buncha kids i talked to joined the march just to get out of school

[CrazyStyles313]

Glad to see when I graduated from Western in 2011 that my friends and other students are still smart and great people. :)

[FRANKIEFRESH9]

Bad enough had to fight the gangs too :(

[Dinaxel]

HELL YEAHHHH!!!!!!!!! THATS WHATS UP!!!!!!!

LOTS OF LOVE FROM AZ AND UNIDOS!!! KEEP THE MOVEMENT MOVING!!! LET YOUR VOICES BE HEARD!!!!!

[communicashun]

my school was under attended so i walked out? the majority in the public education/indoctrination system will grow up to be democrat voters

[eqivideos]

Good for you guys.... I encourage you to hang in there and make your Freedom School a lasting reality I tried to email you, but dont know if it went thru.

I wanted to show you this page on respect to help you see that you are not being treated with respect. Teachers usually try to demand thru fear, but respect must be earned.

They confuse respect with obedience.

GOOD LUCK

STAY STRONG!

Steve Hein

eqi dot org / respect.htm

[billr40229]

try her facebook /maddowfans

Youtube won't let you posy links :-(

[sandybbyful]

Awesome...any tips on how we can get in touch?