youranonnews:

We arrived late Saturday, into news that some of our allies had been already harassed by the police. We took it in stride and decided that it was best if we save our strength for the next day, Sunday, where the major protests of the weekend were to happen.

We arrived at Grant Park around…

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letterstomycountry:

Money quote:

The school dean found the inhaler in its original packaging with the student’s name and directions for its use. He seized the inhaler because of the absence of a form. When the boy began to have trouble breathing the mother was called to come into school. It is not clear why, if they could reach the mother, they could not get telephonic approval. More importantly, with the boy having breathing problems, the school insisted that it was still more important to get a form signed than help the child.

By the time the mother arrived at school, her son was passed out on the floor.  The nurse stood by and watched the boy collapse in front of her.

This one hits close to home.  I have asthma.  Throughout my life, I have owned various inhalers, and at one point, needed a nebulizer to help me breathe.  Strangely enough, I count myself lucky: my asthma is actually pretty mild in the broader scope of things because it only flares up when I’m sick.

But that’s precisely why this case is so disturbing: the school literally put a child’s life at risk out of concern that he was in possession of a drug.  This sort of insanity  that the War on Drugs creates.  It’s makes people more concerned about keeping drugs out of peoples’ hands than saving their life, even when that person is a child who is literally suffocating in front of them.

This is typical of all schools, the educators are brain dead.

jtotheizzoe:

So just click here instead.

I guess today is “Big Numbers Day”.