Bad-ass women of the day: High school scholars call Bush out on torture
Mari Oye and Leah Anthony Libresco presented a letter to President Bush signed by 50 presidential scholars who were visiting the White House urging him to "stop violations of the human rights of detainees, to cease illegal renditions, and to apply the Geneva Convention to all detainees, including those designated enemy combatants."
Amazing.
Via Alternet. (Thanks to Melissa for the link!)
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Wow, that's great. It really gives me hope!
pretty inspirational...leaves me a little less apprehensive about our future as a nation...
These women knock my socks off. In a good way, of course!
Why can't we have people like this running the country??
Those two young women are smarter and more well-spoken than 90% of the people in the government and the media, and they are only 18 years old! I hope they and the other students involved in the writing and signing of the letter do well in college and go far in life.
Yah for having the mother's last name!
In fifteen years these people WILL be running the country, if I have anything to say about it.
As an educator I am very proud of these two young women. It's good to know they had teachers who encouraged them to voice their beliefs.
As an educator myself I am very proud of these two young women. It is good to know that they had great teachers who encouraged them to voice their beliefs.
I saw this on Keith Olbermann. He gave them an ovation.
What these kids had the guts to do made me tear up.
this is really awesome...i love that bush's only apparent response was to deny it...even when faced with the specifics. though im not surprised.
but on a positive note this gives me hope!
Its sad - at this point its weird for me to see a news story treating a young person who did something bold as anything less than a criminal. I guess I need to start watching more alternative media.
These girls seriously rock; they took a superficial function of the presidency and made it a platform for actual debate, and for that they really deserve to go to Yale. :)
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