fandomhigh | School Assembly, Friday Afternoon, The Auditorium

After watching the crowd gather and encouraging them to settle down long enough to listen to people talk, The Tick began to speak.

"Welcome, students and faculty, to our first assembly of the year! We'll be doing these to help impart something to our students. Give them advice, entertainment, and something worthwhile to do on a Friday afternoon!"

"Today you'll be getting advice from several speakers. They are motivational speakers, people who speak and give advice to help you better yourself! They are the tops in their individual fields, respective Everests, and this assemply is your sherpa, helping you scale that mountain to a better you!"

"Some of today's speakers are professional motivational speakers! Some are fellow students with some special advice! And one is a local business owner just looking to help out!"

"I think it's about time to let them do their jobs now. Please give the speakers your undivided attention and have some fun!"

[OOC: Each speaker will have their own thread, plus there will be a Q&A thread at the end of the post for them to ping into. Please wait to ask the speakers questions until the speakers have pinged in.

There are also a couple of general conversation threads for people who don't want to give their undivided attention. :)

Big thanks to all of the speakers!]

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"Hey, everyone. I'm here to talk to you about how you can make a difference in the world around you! Have you ever seen something that really sucked? A company that tested it's product on animals? A restaurant that sold baby seal burgers? A class that focused on kill....uh...a corporation that didn't recycle?"

"When you see injustice, it's natural to want to stop it, to change it. You can do that by protesting. Protesting allows your opinion to be heard in a public forum. You can mobilize the public around you, and hopefully influence the people in power to modify their behavior. There are a lot of different ways to protest, sit-in's, marches, public nudity, flag burning. Some are more likely to get you in trouble with The Man than others. I want to talk about two forms of protesting you can do."

"Petitioning is a way for a lot of people to request someone in power to make a change. You write up a statement or request and then have people sign who agree. Angela Chase used this form of protest earlier in the year to combat the gremlin massacre. Another way you can protest is to picket. You stand in front of where you don't want people to go and try to dissuade them from going in by using signs or chanting. A lot of union workers use this type of protest and it's very effective. First of all, not a lot of people want to cross picket lines and secondly, it's very visible so usually the people in charge have to respond."

"So, the next time you face injustice, remember that you can make a change..." Blair grinned and bounced. "...through protesting!"

Willow cheered and applauded for Blair's presentation.

Nadia still thought that Blair was entirely too into instant change through protesting, when she was pretty sure that it was supposed to be a slow process.

Ah well.

She applauded politely anyway.

Parker applauded, and wondered if she ought to start a Bail Blair Out Of Jail fund for the Damn the Man Club.

Pippi grinned and applauded for Blair.

He stuck to his convictions and she admired that.

They'd probably make him a martyr one day but such is life.

Jack clapped and whooped when Blair was finished.

He'd been very impressed by the suggestion of public nudity, and was wracking his brain to try and think of something to protest.

Alanna applauded and made a note to look up a nice psychiatrist for Blair.

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