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Poet urges students to 'resist' [US]:

Sonia Sanchez, the award-winning poet, activist and playwright, breezed into the library at Lincoln Middle School in East St. Louis Wednesday and delivered an impassioned plea to her audience to exercise their right to vote.

If Sanchez's pitch, made a day after Americans went to the polls, seemed poorly timed, consider her audience. The 45 eighth-graders who listened to Sanchez in rapt silence were too young to cast ballots for president on Tuesday, but Sanchez told them they stood to make a difference four or eight years from now. "If you remember only one thing I say today, remember this," she said. "When you come of age, you've got to get out and vote. This is your century and you have the right."

Sanchez was then escorted out the door by four men in dark suits and never heard from again...

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