Harvard students disrupt Betsy DeVos speech with banners, raised fists

[turbinetree]

Students silently protested Secretary Betsy DeVos while she was speaking at a conference at Harvard University Thursday evening, unrolling cloth banners that read “white supremacist” and “educational justice is racial justice,” among others.

DeVos was at Harvard as the headline speaker at a conference on school choice, one of her pet issues, backed by the Koch brothers. (The conference featured no critics of school choice.) The conference runs Thursday and Friday at Harvard’s Program on Education Policy and Governance.

When DeVos began to speak, some students stood and raised their fists, and others held up banners. “Our students are not for sale,” one banner said. The student holding the banner and another student near him who stood and raised his fist were removed from the talk.

https://thinkprogress.org/harvard-students-protest-devos-fbc60fee5d67/

Devos, is a vile person, who has no concept of empathy, none.................

[sharedvalues]

1. Here's DeVos's husband saying he wants to destroy public education

Because he's got a problem. Young kids from conservative families get brainwashed, then they go to public schools or real colleges and learn about the world and reject conservatism.

The DeVos solution: destroy public schools to keep their kids indoctrinated.

[GReedDiamond]

2. That's great, but I'd go for a more "guerilla theater" form of protest...

...such as members of the protesting group suddenly revealing their neo-nazi style costumes, chanting shit like "Heil Twitler."

The "media" would love that shit.

yippie!

DeVo$=Devolution.

[MichMan]

3. Private school students protesting against charter schools............ nm