Fascism Comes To Detroit - Oprah and Obama Are AWOL

The corporate gestapo sent the police to arrest teen mothers protesting the closing of their school - the only one in the nation specifically created to help teen mothers graduate from high school:

Approximately a dozen teachers, teen mothers and their children were arrested and taken away by Detroit police while staging a peaceful sit-in protest at the Catherine Ferguson Academy in Detroit on Friday April 15th. Eight students, along with their children and some faculty members of the Catherine Ferguson Academy of Detroit, MI began the sit-in at the end of the school day in protest to Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb’s announcement to close the school for pregnant and parenting teens. The decision to occupy was made after many other attempts by students, staff and supporters to have their voices heard by EFM Robert Bobb through letter writing and petition campaigns, to no avail.


The protestors were told by police that they were trespassing and the building needed to be closed. The peaceful occupiers refused to leave and many were brought out in handcuffs. It has been reported by local news that “Some struggled, some screamed, all were put in squad cars and hauled away", while many more protestors and supporters outside watched in shock. The students themselves say they did not resist arrest. One told local reporters, "We just stood there and they just arrested us one by one ."

Hey, this building has to be handed over to the for-profit charter school industry, so teen mothers trying to graduate high school be damned!

Take a look at the videos of this at the Daily Kos, then ask yourself, "Where is Oprah and Obama on this?"

Nowhere to be found.

You know why?

They're on the side of the corporate fascists and gestapo.

The selling off of America and the feudalization of the populace continues unabated.