{"id":66,"date":"2016-01-25T09:34:07","date_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/?page_id=66"},"modified":"2016-01-25T09:34:07","modified_gmt":"2016-01-25T14:34:07","slug":"school-life-article-on-our-mlk-unitypeace-march","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/school-life-article-on-our-mlk-unitypeace-march\/","title":{"rendered":"School Life article on our MLK unity\/peace march"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student-led March \u201cJust The Start\u201d For Promoting Unity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Edsel Ford senior Cassandra Tapiam had her fill of news after watching coverage of \u00a0the Paris bombings when she made a vow.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was enough,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cI couldn\u2019t take it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Frustrated with images and reports that often portray a distorted and negative image of the city of Dearborn, Cassandra spoke with her teacher about ways to bring people together to show the diversity and unity of Dearborn.\u00a0 Turns out, students at Fordson and Dearborn High were on the same page.\u00a0 Students from all three schools met.\u00a0 The outcome of student meetings:\u00a0 #TheRealDearborn Peach March on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on January 18, 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to show that we have many type\u2019s of people in one city,\u201d said Cassandra.\u00a0 \u201cWe wanted to show we\u2019re able to come together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mission accomplished.<\/p>\n

Braving icy temperatures, more than 250 students from all of Dearborn\u2019s high schools came together to lead The Real Dearborn March.\u00a0 The students and their supporters marched along Michigan Ave. from Henry Ford Centennial Library to the Dearborn Administrative Center. City officials welcomed other community members into the building so that they could listen to speeches by the student organizers as well Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko and Mayor John B. O\u2019Reilly, Jr.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe march is over, but we are going to keep going with other community service initiatives,\u201d said Cassandra.\u00a0 \u201cWe have underclassmen in our group, so we won\u2019t stop The Real Dearborn group.\u00a0 We want to keep planning.\u201d<\/p>\n

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For now, Cassandra and others can look back to the march as the seed for a new student movement celebrating unity and diversity in Dearborn.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s all of us,\u201d said Edsel Ford student Denorah Jeffries.\u00a0 \u201cIt\u2019s blacks, whites, and we\u2019re all coming together\u00a0 to show that there is love here and everyone is appreciated.\u00a0 Doing it on Martin Luther King Day I think was very impactful because he stood for equality, he stood for everybody, he stood for love.\u00a0 That is something we are trying to push.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Students came together\u00a0 a few days before the peace march to make posters with quotes from Dr. King.\u00a0 John Paul Vaga was one of the students.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what you are because everyone (in Dearborn) is human,\u201d said John Paul.\u00a0 \u201cAnd to be human is to care.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Gadi Bzih summoning the lessons from Martin Luther King Jr. and generations past, shared this mantra:\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cWe need to make a change in this world.\u201d<\/p>\n

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(the next part will jump to page 12, though it\u2019s not listed on your thumbnail like that. I just decided to jump it to that page and include a few more pictures)<\/p>\n

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Event organizers who spoke at the event included Cassandra Tapia from Edsel Ford; Sultan Elhaj, Dearborn High; Jacob Gilman, Edsel Ford; Ghassan Ahmed, Edsel Ford; Omar Carcora, Fordson; and Claudia Hammoud, Divine Child.<\/p>\n

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Members of numerous Dearborn-based community groups also participated in the march including: Dearborn Allied War Veterans; Dearborn Area Chamber of Commerce; Dearborn Community Fund; Dearborn\/Dearborn Heights League of Women Voters; and the American Association of University Women.<\/p>\n

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Cassandra Tapia, Omar Carcora, Noor Alzuabidi, Ghassan Ahmed, Marwa Khalil, Claudia Hammoud, and Leslie Herrick contributed to this story<\/em><\/p>\n

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Caption for photos on front page:\u00a0 Students from Dearborn High, Edsel Ford, Fordson, and Divine Child unite for a peace march to show the world the real Dearborn.\u00a0 Photos: Leslie Herrick and Adrian Ljaljevic, School Life.<\/p>\n

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Caption for photos for the jump on page 12:\u00a0 Students, staff and community members organized at the new City Hall following the peace march.<\/p>\n

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Student-led March \u201cJust The Start\u201d For Promoting Unity   Edsel Ford senior Cassandra Tapiam had her fill of news after watching coverage of \u00a0the Paris bombings when she made a vow. \u201cIt was enough,\u201d she said.\u00a0 \u201cI couldn\u2019t take it.\u201d Frustrated with images and reports that often portray a distorted and negative image of the city of Dearborn, Cassandra spoke with her teacher about ways to bring people together to show the diversity and unity of Dearborn.\u00a0 Turns out, students at Fordson and Dearborn High were on the same page.\u00a0 Students from all three schools met.\u00a0 The outcome of student meetings:\u00a0 #TheRealDearborn Peach March on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on January 18, 2016. \u201cWe wanted to show that we have many type\u2019s of people in one city,\u201d said Cassandra.\u00a0 \u201cWe wanted to show we\u2019re able to come together.\u201d Mission accomplished. Braving icy temperatures, more than 250 students from all of Dearborn\u2019s high schools came together to lead The Real Dearborn March.\u00a0 The students and their supporters marched along Michigan Ave. from Henry Ford Centennial Library to the Dearborn Administrative Center. City officials welcomed other community members into the building so that they could listen to speeches by the student organizers as well Superintendent Dr. Glenn Maleyko and Mayor John B. O\u2019Reilly, Jr.   \u201cThe march is over, but we are going to keep going with other community service initiatives,\u201d said Cassandra.\u00a0 \u201cWe have underclassmen in our group, so we won\u2019t stop The Real Dearborn group.\u00a0 We want to keep Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1675,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-66","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1675"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/66\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/souweiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}