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Anti-War Activists Trying for Another Huge Demonstration
Aired March 05, 2003 - 06:23 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Anti-war activists are trying for another huge demonstration. This time they're taking their fight to universities and to high schools across the country.
Our Maria Hinojosa is at the airport in New York. She's ready to fly to Philadelphia. So we have placed a wake up call -- good morning.
MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Actually, I'm not at the airport. We're driving to Philadelphia this morning through the rain.
Carol, the plan is being called by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, which is an organization of 15 student groups that came together after the attacks of September 11. They're calling today's activity Books Not Bombs and they're calling for campuses across the country, colleges, universities and high schools, to take part in a student walkout, a student strike.
We're going to be down at the University of Pennsylvania, where there's going to be a daylong teach-in and in the afternoon they're going to be marching to the city hall to have a demonstration.
Here in New York City, similar activities, as well. There will be a rally at Union Square and later in the afternoon a demonstration, marching from Senator Hillary Clinton to Senator Chuck Schumer's offices on the East Side of Manhattan.
What the students say that they want to do is to draw similarities between their concerns as young people and students, the fact that they are now concerned about fear and possible reprisals, that they feel that their educations will be stumped and interrupted if there's a war, and that there will be no money for education. So they're trying to draw allegiances between young people here in the United States and those in Iraq and they're also calling for international protests. So we have heard that there are groups in Australia, Spain, Canada, France, Brazil and Scotland that are having...
COSTELLO: Wow. You know the thing that interests me, though, Maria, is that these demonstrations are taking place in high schools. And you have to believe that some parents won't be so happy about that.
HINOJOSA: Well, the organizers are saying that it's about 35 to 40 percent high schools. And I have seen some information here that students who are taking part in the high school rallies are actually getting notes from their parents to take part in this. Of course, there will be those who won't get any notes from their parents. So it's an interesting thing to look at how young people will be interacting with their parents, do they agree, do they not agree.
But certainly this will open up the discussion at home, if it hasn't been opened already.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Maria Hinojosa, you be careful driving to Philadelphia.
Thanks for waking up early with DAYBREAK.
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Aired March 5, 2003 - 06:23 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Anti-war activists are trying for another huge demonstration. This time they're taking their fight to universities and to high schools across the country.
Our Maria Hinojosa is at the airport in New York. She's ready to fly to Philadelphia. So we have placed a wake up call -- good morning.
MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
Actually, I'm not at the airport. We're driving to Philadelphia this morning through the rain.
Carol, the plan is being called by the National Youth and Student Peace Coalition, which is an organization of 15 student groups that came together after the attacks of September 11. They're calling today's activity Books Not Bombs and they're calling for campuses across the country, colleges, universities and high schools, to take part in a student walkout, a student strike.
We're going to be down at the University of Pennsylvania, where there's going to be a daylong teach-in and in the afternoon they're going to be marching to the city hall to have a demonstration.
Here in New York City, similar activities, as well. There will be a rally at Union Square and later in the afternoon a demonstration, marching from Senator Hillary Clinton to Senator Chuck Schumer's offices on the East Side of Manhattan.
What the students say that they want to do is to draw similarities between their concerns as young people and students, the fact that they are now concerned about fear and possible reprisals, that they feel that their educations will be stumped and interrupted if there's a war, and that there will be no money for education. So they're trying to draw allegiances between young people here in the United States and those in Iraq and they're also calling for international protests. So we have heard that there are groups in Australia, Spain, Canada, France, Brazil and Scotland that are having...
COSTELLO: Wow. You know the thing that interests me, though, Maria, is that these demonstrations are taking place in high schools. And you have to believe that some parents won't be so happy about that.
HINOJOSA: Well, the organizers are saying that it's about 35 to 40 percent high schools. And I have seen some information here that students who are taking part in the high school rallies are actually getting notes from their parents to take part in this. Of course, there will be those who won't get any notes from their parents. So it's an interesting thing to look at how young people will be interacting with their parents, do they agree, do they not agree.
But certainly this will open up the discussion at home, if it hasn't been opened already.
COSTELLO: Exactly.
Maria Hinojosa, you be careful driving to Philadelphia.
Thanks for waking up early with DAYBREAK.
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