Sunday, June 15, 2008

PARENTS ANGERED OVER DEATH OF SCHOOL CHILDREN IN CHINA

These are the eloquent voices of survivors of school collapse, more compelling than our reams of reports and rants...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2008/may/22/braniganschool?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews

Please watch this video.
Please share this.
Please play this at gatherings of school officials and educators.
Please reach out to parents, teachers, and students in China to express your solidarity, and support the mobilization of these new and potentially powerful school safety advocates.

The smartest thing that the Chinese government could do now is to help turn the grief and anger of surviving parents into a school safety movement that will assure that it never happens again. Parent survivors could become partners to government - advocates, monitors and ombudsmen for disaster resilient construction, ensuring that from now onwards, every new school is a safe school, and every unsafe school is replaced.

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