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High school clubs take on more activist roles
- 11-28-2011
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By Jill Tucker/San Francisco Chronicle
The Sequoia High School winter formal dance is coming up, and college applications are due at the end of the month. And then there's the nightly barrage of calculus, English, chemistry and history homework. But at lunch on a recent Wednesday, none of that was on the agenda for about two dozen students gathered in a classroom for a weekly meeting of the school's Human Trafficking Club. Their object is to support efforts to end trafficking and slavery. On the other side of the campus, another group of students, members of the Africause Club, was addressing the issue of Ugandan children forced to fight a bloody civil war. (more...)
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