100s of school girls protest in NOLA-Can't all live in a yellow submarine

[kpete]

Hundreds of school girls protest city's lack of storm defenses
1/12/2006, 2:01 p.m. CT
By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
The Associated Press

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — In the spot where four months ago President Bush declared that this city's passionate soul would return, hundreds of Catholic school girls donned life jackets, goggles and inner tubes Thursday to symbolize their flooded homes and protest the city's lack of defense against future storms.

Chanting cheerleader-style slogans, the girls, ages 13 to 18, pumped fists in the air and held up signs that warned if the city's levees are not fixed and the Gulf Coast's wetlands not restored, the city would flood once more — like it did after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New Orleans on Aug. 29.

The event, which drew about 300 people, coincided with Bush's ninth visit to the city since the storm.
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Jennings wore a cutout of a yellow submarine around her neck and held up a sign that read: "We can't all live in a yellow submarine."

http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-22/113709654938730.xml&storylist=louisiana

[htuttle]

1. Did some very tall Bush security goons show up...

...and try to drop huge apples on their heads?

[Sydnie]

2. Just as we spread support for terrorism in the ME,

he spreads support for dissent where ever he goes these days. These girls will never be silent on issues again. They will form an opinion and they will state it, out loud.

Thanks blivet**. You are our best advertizement yet!

I love living civics lessons!

[speedoo]

3. Rachel Maddow was talking about this. Bad news for *.

Rachel was saying this Sacred Heart school is THE school in NOLA for girls from wealthy, ultra-conservative families.

The fact that the school gave the girls the day off for the protest, and that the girls had such a well organozed protest, speaks volumes.