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Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« on: August 17, 2008, 07:50:57 PM »
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Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day   Updated at 3:45 PM
   
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Published on Sunday, August 17, 2008 by The Boston Globe
Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
by Christine Legere



At Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School, back-to-school preparations include a debate over whether antiwar activists will be allowed at the school’s annual career day, just as military recruiters are.

The effort is led by a Bridgewater-based group called Citizens for an Informed Community. Spokesman Vernon Domingo, a Bridgewater resident and Bridgewater State College geography professor, said the group simply wants to promote thought-provoking discussion.

“We’re local, we live here and work here, and we support this country,” said Domingo. “We’re patriotic in the sense that we want this country to be as good as it can be.”

Domingo, along with Bridgewater resident and former Massasoit Community College adjunct professor Raymond Ajemian, helped form Citizens for an In formed Community shortly before the invasion of Iraq. Since then, it has enjoyed some local success, for example, prompting Bridgewater Town Meeting to formally protest the federal Patriot Act in 2004, and, more recently, to call on Congress to get out of Iraq.

Citizens for an Informed Community is now looking to make some policy changes in the School Department that would allow the group to deliver its message at Bridgewater-Raynham Regional High School. At least two other towns - Cohasset and Milton - have allowed antiwar representatives to attend career days.

Ajemian said the group has three goals: to secure the right to set up a table at the high school’s career days; and to get school administrators to better inform students of their right to opt out of the armed services vocational aptitude tests given at high schools, and of their right to block the military from getting personal information for recruitment purposes. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/08/17/11038 /



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6. My only bit of confusion: What career would they be advocating?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3812615
That would be my question too. :confused:
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #1 on: August 17, 2008, 07:53:43 PM »
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6. My only bit of confusion: What career would they be advocating?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3812615
That would be my question too.
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #2 on: August 17, 2008, 07:57:15 PM »
You know, this is one of the things that really pisses me off, about the primitives.

Where the Hell is this "Bilgewater"?

It's really rude, to not give the reader clues about where an obscure place is.

We all know New York City, Boston, Buffalo, whatnot, but any city of less than 1,000,000 in its metropolitan area should be identified by state, too; it's simple good manners.
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #3 on: August 17, 2008, 08:05:34 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 17, 2008, 07:57:15 PM
You know, this is one of the things that really pisses me off, about the primitives.

Where the Hell is this "Bilgewater"?

It's really rude, to not give the reader clues about where an obscure place is.

We all know New York City, Boston, Buffalo, whatnot, but any city of less than 1,000,000 in its metropolitan area should be identified by state, too; it's simple good manners.

Bridgewater, MA, of course.  Bridgewater, Massachusetts
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #4 on: August 17, 2008, 08:11:48 PM »
Quote from: Lord Undies on August 17, 2008, 08:05:34 PM
Bridgewater, MA, of course.  Bridgewater, Massachusetts.

It's just one more Freudian indication of the small-worldedness of the primitives.

The places they mention are the only places in the world, in the minds of primitives, and everybody knows these places.

I can say "Omaha" with impunity, because generally most people know what, and where, Omaha is.

But if I were to say "Ainsworth" with no other identifying words, well, I would well deserve to be hanged, drawn, and quartered for displaying grotesque bad manners and a sorry-ass attitude.
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #5 on: August 17, 2008, 08:14:08 PM »
What career, exactly, does the "anti-war" table promise to introduce you to?  :whatever:
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #6 on: August 17, 2008, 08:15:09 PM »
Oh, by the way, Demonic Underwear--I just found out only yesterday that Dallas is the closest "big city" from where I live.  I had always thought Chicago, but no, Dallas is closer to here than Chicago.  It blew me away.
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Re: Antiwar Activists Want Table at School Career Day
« Reply #7 on: August 17, 2008, 08:23:48 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on August 17, 2008, 08:15:09 PM
Oh, by the way, Demonic Underwear--I just found out only yesterday that Dallas is the closest "big city" from where I live.  I had always thought Chicago, but no, Dallas is closer to here than Chicago.  It blew me away.

It's a small world.  Dallas is the closest big city to me too.  (smile)

I would have thought perhaps Denver would be your closest "big city" metropolitan area.  Of course, Denver isn't half the size of Dallas.  OK City has over a million now.  That's close by too.
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