I’ve got to say, for me, that the most remarkable moment wasn’t meeting the President and handing over the letter. It was everything that had gone before that, the talking about it, the realizing that across the country there are all these people who are so invested in what’s going on and really are committed to making a difference and that once you give people data, they’re likely to stand up and join you.
Leah Anthony Libresco is a High School Presidential Scholar from New York. Today on Democracy NOW! she appeared to discuss her recent decision to use her achievement to full effect by speaking the truth to George W. Bush during an award ceremony with him.
She was joined in her courageous action by her fellow Scholar Mari Oye, and by almost 50 other Presidential Scholars.
Excerpts and exposition follow on the flip, but I encourage you to go to the link and read what these American patriots did. (h/t to Amy Goodman and Democracy NOW! for telling this story).