Foundress and Co-President of the National Tequila Party Movement which is a female-led political movement that pushes for immigrant friendly policies and is a national Latino Get Out the Vote Effort motivating Latinos to vote for pro-immigrant politicians in 2012. Shirl Mora James is the LEAD CO-President and practices Civil Rights and Immigration Law.
Tucson School Board: Don’t lock up knowledge, return books to students now!
by Dee Dee Garcia Blase on Feb. 11, 2012, under 2012 Presidential elections, female-led political movement, Hispanic Latino Vote, Joaquin Luna DREAM ActPlease sign this petition now!
Don’t lock up knowledge, return books to students now!
Greetings,
I just signed the following petition addressed to: Tuscon School Board.
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Don’t lock up knowledge, return books to students now!This month the Tucson Unified School District voted to comply with the state’s misguided ban on Mexican American Studies (MAS). They then decided to box up and cart away students’ books to a “district storage facility.”
Now, teachers are being censored in class and can’t teach anything that the district believes has to deal with “race or oppression” — even Shakespeare! This, despite the fact that the vilified MAS program was demonstrably closing the achievement gap for students in Tuscon.
With all of the bad publicity, district spokespeople are going out of their way to say that these acts do not equal censorship and that they support free speech. If board members truly support free speech, however, the least they should do is immediately remove these books from the “district storage facility” and make them available in each school’s library.
I call on the Tucson school board to immediately return these books — placing them in the libraries of the schools they were taken from. Knowledge cannot be boxed off and carried away from students who want to learn!
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Sincerely,
[Your name]
