Sit-In

Multiple groups are springing up on Facebook calling for protests to demand reforms, among them No to Silence, Baghdad Won't Be Kandahar, the Blue Revolution and one simply called Join US Soon for the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In in Baghdad, which initiated the small protest Friday in Tahrir Square.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

One of the new Facebook activists behind the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In group was so nervous about meeting a journalist that he changed the location three times and came accompanied by a bodybuilder cousin for protection.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

Multiple groups are springing up on Facebook calling for protests to demand reforms, among them No to Silence, Baghdad Won't Be Kandahar, the Blue Revolution and one simply called Join US Soon for the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In in Baghdad, which initiated the small protest Friday in Tahrir Square.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

One of the new Facebook activists behind the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In group was so nervous about meeting a journalist that he changed the location three times and came accompanied by a bodybuilder cousin for protection.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

One of the new Facebook activists behind the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In group was so nervous about meeting a journalist that he changed the location three times and came accompanied by a bodybuilder cousin for protection.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

Multiple groups are springing up on Facebook calling for protests to demand reforms, among them No to Silence, Baghdad Won't Be Kandahar, the Blue Revolution and one simply called Join US Soon for the Biggest Ever Youth Sit-In in Baghdad, which initiated the small protest Friday in Tahrir Square.

Egyptian revolution sparks protest movement in democratic Iraq Liz Sly 2011

Krosoczka (author/illustrator of the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, just optioned by Universal Studios with Amy Poehler attached to produce and star), Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture book, Sit-In) and Matt Phelan (author/illustrator of The Storm in the Barn).

2010 March 23 « educating alice 2010

Krosoczka (author/illustrator of the Lunch Lady graphic novel series, just optioned by Universal Studios with Amy Poehler attached to produce and star), Andrea Davis Pinkney and Brian Pinkney (author and illustrator of the New York Times bestselling picture book, Sit-In) and Matt Phelan (author/illustrator of The Storm in the Barn).

Think Future Panel Three: BEYOND TWILIGHT: WHAT’S HOT IN THE TEEN MARKET « educating alice 2010

Khomeini, as quoted in Kifner, “How a Sit-In Turned Into a Siege.”

Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010

I recommend "The Children" by David Halberstam for a life portrait of the participants in the first Sit-In at a Nashville lunch counter.

More Freedom The Year in Pictures 2008