This from the Pulse of the Twin Cities:

On the afternoon of last March 19, following the big anti-war protest of the second anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, high school students from a dozen area schools crammed into the Loring Park Coffee House for a meeting of the newly-formed Youth Against War and Racism (YAWR).

An excited ninth grader from Bloomington suggested YAWR organize a walkout in April. After some discussion the group decided it was best to plan a walkout for the fall.

Seven months later, high school and college students from five cities across the country have formed YAWR chapters, including Boston, Mass., Oberlin, Ohio, and Seattle, Tacoma and Olympia, Wash. Other cities like Milwaukee and Madison, Wis., while not forming chapters thus far, have joined YAWR’s call to organize student walkouts on Nov. 2 (Bush’s “reelection