Student protest

[mercuryblues]

Happening now in OK

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/11/24/3596159/oklahoma-high-schoolers-protest/


Oklahoma High Schoolers Will Walk Out Of Class Today To Protest The Bullying Of Rape Victims

A group of high schoolers in Norman, Oklahoma plan to silently walk out of class this morning to protest the way that three rape victims have been treated in their community. They will also deliver a list of demands to the Norman High School president — including the implementation of bullying prevention education and the recruitment of a victims’ rights advocate — to pressure the administration to offer more protection to survivors of sexual assault.


Student organizers are standing in solidarity with three rape victims who say they were assaulted by the same male student. Although school administrators did suspend the alleged assailant, activists are concerned about the fact that the teen girls have faced bullying and harassment from other students since coming forward with their stories.

After a video of one of the assaults was posted online and passed around the high school, students labeled one of the victims as a “slut” and a “whore.” She was herself suspended after she punched a student who came up to her and said, “I hear you love being raped in the ass.” Another victim claims a school administrator told her it would be better for her to stay home until tensions “blow over.”

At this point, according to the family members and friends of the three victims, the teens have all left Norman High School because the hostile environment there became too difficult for them to face. “They’re struggling, they’re having a really tough time,” student organizer Danielle Brown said at a recent press conference. “They want to come to school and they can’t.”

#yesalldaughters

https://www.facebook.com/events/1482897881990042/

Who still questions why Women and girls do not come forward at the time of their rape?

[CBGLuthier]

1. They make this Oklahoman very proud

The local news refuses to cover the bullshit around the case and instead focuses on the walkout as being perpetrated by unruly students who are coercing others to get their way.

[mercuryblues]

2. when

you consider that a chief of police told women that the way to avoid getting raped by a cop is to obey the law, that does not surprise me. This was after 3 cops were arrested for rape.

This is an attitude that comes from the power structure on down. It has to be fought from the most vulnerable on up.

The kid was kicked out of school, but his buddies remain and are given free reign to bully and taunt the victims. When one fought back, she was told to stay home until this "blows over" FFS. The power structure is denying a victim their right to an education while sending the message that what the bullies are doing is condoned. It is OK in OK to taunt rape survivors. If you combat it, no education for you, you and you. If you protest, you are a bunch of unruly spoiled kids forcing others...

I say not only YES, but HELL YES. Force the school to combat their rape and bullying problem.