IS WILIAM REHNQUIST AN “EXCELLENT’’ ROLE MODEL FOR STUDENTS TO FOLLOW?

 

n      The Shorewood School District evidently thinks so, & plans to give him its first  “Award of Excellence” on Friday, September 14, 2001

 

-         Rehnquist not only helped stop the counting of votes in the November 2000 election, without showing any concern for the many African-American and other voters who were illegally not allowed to vote,

 

-         He also fought against a public accommodation law outlawing racial discrimination in Phoenix, and wrote that the U.S. Supreme Court should re-affirm the constitutionality of official racial segregation – a view unanimously rejected by the Court in 1954. He is anti-labor & he decried minimum wage and maximum hour laws as denying employer “freedom.”

 

PLEASE:

 

-         CALL the Shorewood School District & board members and ask that civil rights & labor supporters be given equal time & access, before Rehnquist speaks to the Shorewood High School students, so that the students can decide for themselves if his is an “excellent” example to follow. The District tel. is 963-6911, fax is 961-2950.  

 

-         JOIN in protesting his award by Shorewood, on Friday, September 14:

 

-            3- 4:30pm  by the Shorewood H. S. parking lot on Oakland south of Capital Drive

 

-          Ad hoc coalition Against Rehnquist Award including Shorewood High School students; the National Lawyers Guild – Milwaukee; National Organization for Women-Milwaukee; the Federation for Civic Action; Peace Action – WI; WI Chapter, Voter March; and the Angela Davis CopWatch