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Original article is at: http://www.indybay.org/news/2006/04/1813993.php
First Casualty of Student Walk Outs!
jesheekah - [email protected]
Saturday, Apr. 08, 2006 at 12:26 PM
Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on
Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle
School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of
his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to
protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice
principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and
threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in
the student protests.
1st Walkout Death!
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NEWS CONFERENCE
Sunday, April 9, 2006
12:00 p.m.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church
710 S. Sultana Ave., Ontario, CA 91761
Louise Corales, whose 14 year-old son, Anthony Soltero, died on April
1 after committing suicide, will speak to the community and ask for a
prayer for her son this Sunday, following the 11:00 a.m. mass at Our
Lady of Guadalupe Church in Ontario, California.
Eighth grader Anthony Soltero shot himself through the head on
Thursday, March 30, after the assistant principal at De Anza Middle
School told him that he was going to prison for three years because of
his involvement as an organizer of the April 28 school walk-outs to
protest the anti-immigrant legislation in Washington. The vice
principal also forbade Anthony from attending graduation activities and
threatened to fine his mother for Anthonys truancy and participation in
the student protests.
Anthony was learning about the importance of civic duties and rights
in his eighth grade class. Ironically, he died because the vice
principal at his school threatened him for speaking out and exercising
those rights, Ms. Corales said today. I want to speak out to other
parents, whose children are attending the continuing protests this
week. We have to let the schools know that they cant punish our
children for exercising their rights.
Anthonys death is likely the first fatality arising from the protests
against the immigration legislation being considered in Washington,
D.C. Anthony, who was a very good student at De Anza Middle School in
the Ontario-Montclair School District, believed in justice and was
passionate about the immigration issue. He is survived by his mother,
Louise Corales, his father, a younger sister, and a baby brother.
Ms. Corales will speak to the community after mass on Sunday, April 9,
2006 at 12:00 p.m. at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. She will ask for a
prayer for Anthony, whose funeral and burial are scheduled for Monday,
April 10 in Long Beach, where he was born.
CONTACT: R. SAMUEL PAZ
(310) 410-2981
(310) 989-6815
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