Wonderland or Not

Buses of peo­ple, the majo­rity stu­dents, are on their way to Jena.

Please read and note the inap­pro­pria­te­ness of the charges.

You will hear the word “cri­ti­cally inju­red” ban­died about regar­ding to the stu­dent who ended up in the hos­pi­tal. My unders­tan­ding is that he was admit­ted to the ER, was dischar­ged and atten­ded a school event that very eve­ning? So in what country is this a call to charge peo­ple, tee­na­gers, with attemp­ted second degree mur­der and cons­pi­racy to com­mit mur­der? Something smells bad down there.

The peo­ple of Jena of course protest…they say they live in a nice town…

Maybe they are no more blind, or smelly, than the rest of us. We all like to think we live in a nice town, a nice state, a fair and just country. Jena is just a more obvious symp­tom of a chro­nic, and hid­den, ill­ness. Katrina sho­wed us that once, and we seem to have let it slide. Jena is sho­wing it to us again.

Jena allows us to look, open our eyes wider and look again. Jena allows us to pro­test against the inap­pro­priate treat­ment given the Jena 6 by the judi­cial sys­tem and for the first time in a very long time start loo­king at this country as a whole in terms of race and jus­tice. All these years after Mar­tin Luther King’s famous speech it may be time we wake up from our collec­tive dream, because for some it is still more like a nightmare.

Please con­tact your media and ask them to cover this and keep up to date.
Tell them you don’t care that OJ has left Las Vegas, you’ve read the book.

Roc­ker Dona­tes to Jena 6 Defense Fund

Join the vir­tual march.

Jena 6 Day of Action: Sep­tem­ber 20th, 2007

Tip­ping the Sca­les of Jus­tice in Jena.