Sad and Bad news…

Some bad and sad news from Detroit – the Catherine Ferguson Academy which enables the majority of its teenage mothers(-to-be) students to aim for college education and a life after teen-motherhood, is threatened with closure.

There’s a video piece on the Rachel Maddow blog which goes further into the reasons why this closure (and others like it) is synonymous with the way in which basic tenets of democracy are being side-stepped when they prove a stumbling block for efficient power misuse (particularly in poor neighbourhoods), thus why Michigan is ground-zero for the politics of the USA today.

Also a report from the school at the time of the student sit-in in the Voice of Detroit independent news.
Direct support is difficult from this side of the Atlantic, but here’s a petition to sign, and those in possession of a credit card can donate to By-Any-Means-Necessary who are, among other things, providing the arrested teenaged girls with legal support.

This entry was posted on Sunday, May 29th, 2011 at 2:57 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. The entry is tagged under You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.