[Occupymendocino] OM Facebook protest planned

[Richard Karch]

Jasper N Henderson	8:16pm Dec 27
Dear Occupy Folks --

I'm a Mendocino resident (just moved down from Fort Bragg) who has long admired what you guys are doing here. I was fairly heavily involved with Occupy Boston, spent some time at Occupy Wall St., and helped start Occupy Harvard back in 2011. I'm also a graduate of Fort Bragg High, so I'm furious about Becky Walker and Bruce Triplett banning "Black Lives Matter" t-shirts at their basketball tournament. So I'm calling for a protest this coming Monday (the first day of the tournament) at 5PM. Can you share this with your many supporters? Here's the text I wrote. Feel free to edit/change it. 


Calling a protest for free speech and #BlackLivesMatter at the basketball tournament at Fort Bragg High School, Monday the 29th, 5PM. Making national news, the tournament organizers disinvited the Mendocino High School boys and girls basketball teams out fear that they might wear #ICantBreathe t-shirts during their warm-up. 

Come stand in solidarity with the Mendocino basketball teams and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Let's show the world that Fort Bragg and Mendocino County support the protests across the country and the right of free speech.

Meet on the front steps of Fort Bragg High School, 300 Dana Street at 5PM and marching to the tournament entrance. Bring t-shirts, signs, banners, and candles.

Articles published all across the internet about the ban:

http://l.facebook.com/l/ZAQFxbB9uAQHgM7U-TUxYbxySlaZxA3L6RyeshA8Us_4Ibw/www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/i-cant-breathe-t-shirts-high-school-basketball

http://l.facebook.com/l/cAQFOnNrGAQFBfqoAlNmPb_HqHVDt4BhEM0jqgxqYx78kyQ/www.ibtimes.com/fort-bragg-high-school-bans-i-cant-breathe-t-shirts-1768106

http://l.facebook.com/l/hAQGbQL7xAQErNAVTvcTdvsfQ7SWxnbG6uujhECgdZuOJ5g/www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/high-school-bans-i-cant-breathe-shirts-basketball-tournament%23.qwaG498Lk
	'I Can't Breathe' T-shirts see high-school basketball team disinvited from event
www.theguardian.com
Mendocino High School teams out of Fort Bragg tournament after too few members of girls team promise...

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