Good testimonial from one of the young organizers in texas today on Democracy Now (see http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/11/1426244): "JUAN GONZALEZ: Could you tell us a little bit about how you organized the student walkouts and how you got involved yourself? GUSTAVO JIMENEZ: Well, it all began on Sunday. Sunday morning, like around 9:00. I was actually on MySpace. Thats the website that was a real big help in getting the word out. And I seen a bulletin that a girl from L.A. had posted up; and it showed, you know, the march the rally that L.A. had and the hundreds of thousands of people that showed up. And it also had some sort of a slideshow. And it showed these pictures of, you know, the rally and migrant workers and everything. And I guess that that was the main thing that kind of got my attention and said, well, if California, you know, is trying so hard and people around the U.S. is trying so hard -- because you hear about the news, you know, people marching in other states -- and I said, well, we should try to do something here. And she had actually posted up a national walkout for Monday the 27th. And I guess usually when you see those type of things, you know, walkouts, nobody really does them; but on those, I guess, you know, its for a reason, its for a good cause. I decided to help out in any way that I could; and, I mean, immediately I had to call a best friend of mine, Miguel, and as soon as we called him, I mean, we spent the rest of the day just calling, texting people on their cell phones, emails, and by anywhere. We got some -- I had made some fliers, and I made some that same night. And, I mean, it was just a one-day thing that we hoped to try to get as many people as we could." Todd Davies *** email: davies@csli.stanford.edu Symbolic Systems Program *** phone: 1-650-723-4091 Stanford University *** fax: 1-650-723-5666 Stanford, CA, USA 94305-2150 *** web: www.stanford.edu/~davies