Gawker: rebellions

Prep Schoolers Kick Karl Rove's GOP Tail

Maggie — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:30:13 EST

If only MoveOn.org knew that all it took to push Karl Rove around was a bunch of pissed-off tony prep-schoolers. After student protests (and a Drudge link) the Bush advisor has backed out of his commitment as this year's graduation speaker at Connecticut boarding school Choate Rosemary Hall. You know, where Ivanka went? Aww, whassamatter, Karl? Can't take a little high-class heckling? [AP]

Bronx Science Kids Organize For Something Other Than MIT College Fair

Maggie — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 17:50:55 EST

Kids these days, thinking they can facilitate change. 200 students at Bronx Science staged a walkout yesterday to demand their meanie principal be fired. Apparently she's sort of a dragon lady and insists on being called "Dr." without a medical license nor a doctorate. "She was fucking insistent on it,"an alum told us, despite the woman's denials to papers today. Oh and she wants to take away prom! "We don't even have a senior trip," this one kid whines on a video put together by the crack video team at the New York Post. Poor kinderlings! Actually, the Post's video, after the jump, is really the best part of this little drama. Education reporter Yoav Gonen looks (and sounds) like he'd rather die than be on film.

MTV Permalance Troops To Attack Holiday Party (With T-Shirts)

Maggie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 16:40:35 EST

The MTVN freelancers' petition we'd found its way to us just now and these downtrodden drudges have a plan! It includes subterfuge and silk-screening. "Wear your custom permalance T-shirt Thursday night at the Holiday Party," the petition suggests. "In addition to getting drunk and making out with co-workers Thursday night, let's make a statement!" Rioting contractors are encouraged to conceal their fightwear under whatever proper party attire they can afford. The full outrage is after the jump.

To all of you PERMALANCERS out-there in the MTVN family, To all of you staffers with a permalancer-heart or a permalancer friend, To all of your friends/peers and their friends/peers, (you know the drill pass this along to anyone you know who needs to take a stand)
WHAT IS HAPPENING TO US IS OUTRAGEOUS AND YOU KNOW IT.
We all want our benefits, we all work hard, we all want security.

In addition to getting drunk and making out with co-workers Thursday night, let's make a statement! We don't have to be all "aggro" to make a point. Take the attachments of your preference and iron it on a white t-shirt. Let this uniform make our message resonate! Staples, Utrecht and Blick all sell iron-on transfer sheets cheap. They can be printed right from your inkjet.

If you can't get an iron on:
STENCIL IT
SHARPIE-MARKER IT
COLLAGE IT
PIN THE PAPER TO YOUR CHEST
STAPLE IT
WRITE IT IN BLOOD
WHAT EVER WORKS FOR YOU.

Wear your custom permalance T-shirt Thursday night at the Holiday Party. We advise you also wear a top layer to cover this shirt and take it off once you get inside. Hope to see you ALL in white tomorrow night! If you don't want to participate we also ask to keep it shush from anyone who doesn't need to know this before the party!

Dude Slapped By Girls On Subway; 'Post' Sounds The Race Alarm

Maggie — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 14:20:00 EST

If you miss the A train, you'll find you've missed the quickest way to a beating, unlike this poor guy, who was tag-teamed by a group of teenage girls on the subway line last month. The Smoking Gun has the full video, which the Post snapped up into a neat little interactive race-baiting package! When the paper first posted the story, it included the detail that the victim was "a white male," without identifying the race of the the ladies laying into him. The story has since been changed—now it's a complete and total mystery as to which participant was what color. Um, unless you watch the video or something.