I like that tagline.  Should we ignore injustice with our silence?  How do we participate and make a difference?  I plan on being there (partly just to see the renovated John Hay School--the adjacent Cleveland School of the Arts is slated to be demolished....).

I recently saw the movie MILK, which is also a must-see.  How does one person mobilize enough people to make effective change? Cesar Chavez was able to do it and he lived to see his message carried on.

I am glad that CWRU is sponsoring this event.  I hope to see a lot of young faces there.  We need young energy in this town.

  I be attending this tomorrow...perhaps, REALNEOphytes and REALNEOphiles can meet-up afterwards at Mi Pueblo?  Margaritas :)

After tonight's presentation by Julie Chavez Rodriguez, we adjourned to Mi Pueblo where Mexico challenged the USA at soccer.  Unbelieveably, the USA was up by two, before access to the game mysteriously disappeared.  See what you missed?!!

Benjamin Franklin School
John Marshall
Charles Mooney....any one else care to chime in? 

Here's a thought--why not pay teachers to help spruce up their schools this summer?  Paint classrooms...hire some with light rehab experience to repair ceilings...or better yet, give some of the kids, hands on training....demolishing the School of the Arts is just an excuse to give some mediocre architecture firms and contractors business in this town. 

Around West 65th/Walworth Run somewhere...Old Max Hayes will be a "swing site" for housing students whose schools are being rebuilt. They are making this up as they go along.

We need to show outrage for all of the District's building plans to demolish and rebuild.

paul dunbar elementary is on the demo slate. its this cool 60s building with a circular design. their reason for demo and not rehab, as i understand it (from cmsd official last may) is that it has no handicap access to 2nd floor...

100 people RSVP'd, but only about 40-50 people showed up tonight to hear Julie Chavez Rodriguez speak tonight at John Hays High School.  I was heartened to see that the audience was mostly made up of folks under 25 and predominantly African-American, but still it had to hurt.  The audience maybe included 4-5 Latinos.  One young lady spoke up after Julie Chavez Rodriguez's speech, but there needs to be more of a groundswell from the Latin/Spanish-speaking community in the United States.  Not a lot of folks know that Cesar Chavez coined the phrase "Si se puede," now the anthem of the Obama generation.  Yes we can, is more like..yes, it can happen, but not unless we try harder to engage and collectively realize social justice.