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Official: Michael Jackson's name has been uncovered at Gardner School Auditorium

ASHTANGA, I think it was you who asked for donations for the kids at the school some pages back. Anyway I wanted to thank you because I sent them some money for school supplies, and the secretary at the school said they received it and was happy with the fan community. Thanks for giving that information. I will try to see if I can squeeze out some money from my limited cash and send it to the school at the beginning of each school year. This is now my ADOPTED SCHOOL!!
 
ivy said:
I was just at the Facebook page for this campaign at http://www.facebook.com/UncoverMJ

They have posted step by step pictures of uncovering of MJ's name. I was so moved by these pictures. I'll just post a few here, please visit their Facebook page for more

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Petrarose said:
ASHTANGA, I think it was you who asked for donations for the kids at the school some pages back. Anyway I wanted to thank you because I sent them some money for school supplies, and the secretary at the school said they received it and was happy with the fan community. Thanks for giving that information. I will try to see if I can squeeze out some money from my limited cash and send it to the school at the beginning of each school year. This is now my ADOPTED SCHOOL!!
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No..... I do not remember who posted and where it was posted, but I saw it too. :yes: Does anyone remember? :scratch:




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I think it was here:

Uncover Michael Jackson's Name (The Gardner St. School Issue Campaign)

Paypal Email Address (for school supplies):
MJsNameUncovered@gmail.com
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http://www.facebook.com/UncoverMJ?v=info
 
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<NYT_BYLINE>By IAN LOVETT

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</NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT><NYT_CORRECTION_TOP></NYT_CORRECTION_TOP>LOS ANGELES &#8212; Outside the chain-link fence of Gardner Street Elementary School, Gregory Son and Laura Uselton celebrated, snapping pictures of the silver &#8220;Michael Jackson Auditorium&#8221; sign that gleamed on the school&#8217;s stucco facade.

Mr. Jackson&#8217;s name had been hidden behind plywood boards since his arrest on child molesting charges seven years ago. But this month those boards were removed, and the school, which Mr. Jackson attended briefly, has become a place to commemorate the singer. Giddy fans have stenciled an image of his face onto the sidewalk and tied ribbons to the fence.
&#8220;We&#8217;ve been working for seven years to try to get the sign uncovered,&#8221; said Mr. Son, 32, dressed in a Michael Jackson shirt. &#8220;He did so much for that school. He deserved to have his name up there permanently.&#8221;
The uncovering of the sign is only the latest evidence of what may be a posthumous renaissance of the King of Pop. Immediately after his death from a prescription drug overdose in June 2009, Mr. Jackson&#8217;s music once again dominated the airwaves; a few months later, the movie about preparations for his final concert tour, &#8220;This Is It,&#8221; became the top box office draw. After years of rumors about financial trouble, Forbes magazine this month named Mr. Jackson the richest dead celebrity.


Mary Murphy, a senior lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, said support for uncovering the sign would have been unthinkable before his death.
&#8220;When Michael Jackson was going through the pedophilia charges and trial, people thought that his legacy would be these charges against him,&#8221; Ms. Murphy said. &#8220;It turns out that his music is going to be the legacy of his life.&#8221;
Mr. Jackson attended Gardner from 1969 to 1970 after his family moved to Los Angeles to record the Jackson Five&#8217;s debut album. When he returned in 1989 for the dedication of the auditorium in his honor, he was the most popular performer in the world.


In subsequent years, though, Mr. Jackson&#8217;s reputation was battered by multiple accusations of child molesting, a string of plastic surgeries that left him unrecognizable from his younger self and bizarre stunts like dangling his infant son off a balcony for paparazzi to photograph. After his arrest in 2003, many parents demanded the sign&#8217;s removal, school officials said.
Since Mr. Jackson&#8217;s death, however, school officials said they had received a groundswell of requests to uncover his name. The president of the school&#8217;s P.T.A. said that on parents&#8217; night, when the principal broached the subject, all 200 parents assembled were in favor of restoring the sign. Steve Zimmer, a Los Angeles Unified School District board member, said they had received no negative feedback from parents.


&#8220;As we remember Mr. Jackson, we want to remember the musical genius and the contributions to our cultural landscape,&#8221; Mr. Zimmer said. &#8220;Having plywood covering up his name is not really showing that we&#8217;re making an effort to recognize the positive legacy.&#8221;

While Mr. Jackson&#8217;s legacy may have remained more controversial in other parts of the country, his affiliation with the school represents a point of pride for many parents here in Hollywood, where bus tours bring people from all over the world to see celebrity homes and hangouts.
The only resistance so far has come from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. &#8220;Already it&#8217;s extraordinarily hard for sexually violated kids to come forward,&#8221; said David Clohessy, the network&#8217;s director. &#8220;When we honor accused pedophiles, especially one as high-profile as Michael Jackson, it risks intimidating victims even more.&#8221;

Mr. Clohessy said his group had received more negative feedback on this issue than anything else it had done in 20 years.


At Gardner Street Elementary, which has a racially diverse student population, the school&#8217;s most famous former student has become an almost uniformly popular figure. A ceremony with the Jackson family at the school has been planned for December, after the sign, which still bears the dust of its seven years in hiding, has been polished.


Many students, especially the younger ones, do not understand why Mr. Jackson&#8217;s name was covered in the first place.
&#8220;Michael Jackson is the best singer in the world,&#8221; said Sean Kaplan, a fourth grader. &#8220;We like to sing &#8216;Thriller,&#8217; and we like to do his dance moves on his tippy toes.&#8221;


And with that, Sean moonwalked back toward the playground.
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CherubimII;3039358 said:
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<NYT_HEADLINE version="1.0" type=" ">Elementary School Reclaims Link to King of Pop</NYT_HEADLINE>

<NYT_BYLINE>By IAN LOVETT

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</NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT><NYT_CORRECTION_TOP></NYT_CORRECTION_TOP>LOS ANGELES — Outside the chain-link fence of Gardner Street Elementary School, Gregory Son and Laura Uselton celebrated, snapping pictures of the silver “Michael Jackson Auditorium” sign that gleamed on the school’s stucco facade.

Mr. Jackson’s name had been hidden behind plywood boards since his arrest on child molesting charges seven years ago. But this month those boards were removed, and the school, which Mr. Jackson attended briefly, has become a place to commemorate the singer. Giddy fans have stenciled an image of his face onto the sidewalk and tied ribbons to the fence.
“We’ve been working for seven years to try to get the sign uncovered,” said Mr. Son, 32, dressed in a Michael Jackson shirt. “He did so much for that school. He deserved to have his name up there permanently.”
The uncovering of the sign is only the latest evidence of what may be a posthumous renaissance of the King of Pop. Immediately after his death from a prescription drug overdose in June 2009, Mr. Jackson’s music once again dominated the airwaves; a few months later, the movie about preparations for his final concert tour, “This Is It,” became the top box office draw. After years of rumors about financial trouble, Forbes magazine this month named Mr. Jackson the richest dead celebrity.


Mary Murphy, a senior lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, said support for uncovering the sign would have been unthinkable before his death.
“When Michael Jackson was going through the pedophilia charges and trial, people thought that his legacy would be these charges against him,” Ms. Murphy said. “It turns out that his music is going to be the legacy of his life.”
Mr. Jackson attended Gardner from 1969 to 1970 after his family moved to Los Angeles to record the Jackson Five’s debut album. When he returned in 1989 for the dedication of the auditorium in his honor, he was the most popular performer in the world.


In subsequent years, though, Mr. Jackson’s reputation was battered by multiple accusations of child molesting, a string of plastic surgeries that left him unrecognizable from his younger self and bizarre stunts like dangling his infant son off a balcony for paparazzi to photograph. After his arrest in 2003, many parents demanded the sign’s removal, school officials said.
Since Mr. Jackson’s death, however, school officials said they had received a groundswell of requests to uncover his name. The president of the school’s P.T.A. said that on parents’ night, when the principal broached the subject, all 200 parents assembled were in favor of restoring the sign. Steve Zimmer, a Los Angeles Unified School District board member, said they had received no negative feedback from parents.


“As we remember Mr. Jackson, we want to remember the musical genius and the contributions to our cultural landscape,” Mr. Zimmer said. “Having plywood covering up his name is not really showing that we’re making an effort to recognize the positive legacy.”

While Mr. Jackson’s legacy may have remained more controversial in other parts of the country, his affiliation with the school represents a point of pride for many parents here in Hollywood, where bus tours bring people from all over the world to see celebrity homes and hangouts.
The only resistance so far has come from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “Already it’s extraordinarily hard for sexually violated kids to come forward,” said David Clohessy, the network’s director. “When we honor accused pedophiles, especially one as high-profile as Michael Jackson, it risks intimidating victims even more.”

Mr. Clohessy said his group had received more negative feedback on this issue than anything else it had done in 20 years.


At Gardner Street Elementary, which has a racially diverse student population, the school’s most famous former student has become an almost uniformly popular figure. A ceremony with the Jackson family at the school has been planned for December, after the sign, which still bears the dust of its seven years in hiding, has been polished.


Many students, especially the younger ones, do not understand why Mr. Jackson’s name was covered in the first place.
“Michael Jackson is the best singer in the world,” said Sean Kaplan, a fourth grader. “We like to sing ‘Thriller,’ and we like to do his dance moves on his tippy toes.”


And with that, Sean moonwalked back toward the playground.
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Cherubim, is the information correct: Michael being accused of "multiple accusations of child molestation" and dangling his child for the paparazzi to take pictures. I thought he had 2 greedy children accusing him and that he showed his child from the balcony to fans who asked to see him. I really cannot believe everything I read. These articles always have something positive and then a bunch of nonsense to appease the left.
 
I am so proud of this school. This school just finished a very important lesson for it's students. Gone is the presumption of guilt. And the most important lesson of all - the Golden Rule.
 
CherubimII;3039358 said:
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<NYT_HEADLINE version="1.0" type=" ">Elementary School Reclaims Link to King of Pop</NYT_HEADLINE>

<NYT_BYLINE>By IAN LOVETT

michael-popup.jpg


</NYT_BYLINE><NYT_TEXT><NYT_CORRECTION_TOP></NYT_CORRECTION_TOP>LOS ANGELES — Outside the chain-link fence of Gardner Street Elementary School, Gregory Son and Laura Uselton celebrated, snapping pictures of the silver “Michael Jackson Auditorium” sign that gleamed on the school’s stucco facade.

Mr. Jackson’s name had been hidden behind plywood boards since his arrest on child molesting charges seven years ago. But this month those boards were removed, and the school, which Mr. Jackson attended briefly, has become a place to commemorate the singer. Giddy fans have stenciled an image of his face onto the sidewalk and tied ribbons to the fence.
“We’ve been working for seven years to try to get the sign uncovered,” said Mr. Son, 32, dressed in a Michael Jackson shirt. “He did so much for that school. He deserved to have his name up there permanently.”
The uncovering of the sign is only the latest evidence of what may be a posthumous renaissance of the King of Pop. Immediately after his death from a prescription drug overdose in June 2009, Mr. Jackson’s music once again dominated the airwaves; a few months later, the movie about preparations for his final concert tour, “This Is It,” became the top box office draw. After years of rumors about financial trouble, Forbes magazine this month named Mr. Jackson the richest dead celebrity.


Mary Murphy, a senior lecturer at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at the University of Southern California, said support for uncovering the sign would have been unthinkable before his death.
“When Michael Jackson was going through the pedophilia charges and trial, people thought that his legacy would be these charges against him,” Ms. Murphy said. “It turns out that his music is going to be the legacy of his life.”
Mr. Jackson attended Gardner from 1969 to 1970 after his family moved to Los Angeles to record the Jackson Five’s debut album. When he returned in 1989 for the dedication of the auditorium in his honor, he was the most popular performer in the world.


In subsequent years, though, Mr. Jackson’s reputation was battered by multiple accusations of child molesting, a string of plastic surgeries that left him unrecognizable from his younger self and bizarre stunts like dangling his infant son off a balcony for paparazzi to photograph. After his arrest in 2003, many parents demanded the sign’s removal, school officials said.
Since Mr. Jackson’s death, however, school officials said they had received a groundswell of requests to uncover his name. The president of the school’s P.T.A. said that on parents’ night, when the principal broached the subject, all 200 parents assembled were in favor of restoring the sign. Steve Zimmer, a Los Angeles Unified School District board member, said they had received no negative feedback from parents.


“As we remember Mr. Jackson, we want to remember the musical genius and the contributions to our cultural landscape,” Mr. Zimmer said. “Having plywood covering up his name is not really showing that we’re making an effort to recognize the positive legacy.”

While Mr. Jackson’s legacy may have remained more controversial in other parts of the country, his affiliation with the school represents a point of pride for many parents here in Hollywood, where bus tours bring people from all over the world to see celebrity homes and hangouts.
The only resistance so far has come from the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests. “Already it’s extraordinarily hard for sexually violated kids to come forward,” said David Clohessy, the network’s director. “When we honor accused pedophiles, especially one as high-profile as Michael Jackson, it risks intimidating victims even more.”

Mr. Clohessy said his group had received more negative feedback on this issue than anything else it had done in 20 years.


At Gardner Street Elementary, which has a racially diverse student population, the school’s most famous former student has become an almost uniformly popular figure. A ceremony with the Jackson family at the school has been planned for December, after the sign, which still bears the dust of its seven years in hiding, has been polished.


Many students, especially the younger ones, do not understand why Mr. Jackson’s name was covered in the first place.
“Michael Jackson is the best singer in the world,” said Sean Kaplan, a fourth grader. “We like to sing ‘Thriller,’ and we like to do his dance moves on his tippy toes.”


And with that, Sean moonwalked back toward the playground.
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Oh:cry::cry::cry:Michael ... u would be happy to know this.:cry::cry::cry:
 
AllForLove said:
Statement to the school board from award winning journalist for truth in journalism...
From Charles Thomson

The US constitution dictates that every American citizen has the right to a fair trial and that until proven guilty, every citizen is presumed innocent. This is a fundamental principle of American life and forms the very basis of the US legal system.

Michael Jackson was a US citizen, no different from any other. He had the same rights as any other citizen and when he was exonerated by a jury, he should have walked out of the courtroom with no stain on his character, just like any other US citizen.

But Michael Jackson wasn't treated like any other citizen - not before his trial, not during his trial and not after his trial.
The prosecution of Michael Jackson was one of the most frivolous wastes of taxpayer money and one of the most horrendous abuses of power in the history of California. In pursuing Jackson, Californian police officers breached the terms of their own search warrants, stole defense documents, conducted illegal raids, leaked sealed documents to the media, verbally abused Jackson in television interviews and were caught trying to plant fingerprint evidence during grand jury hearings. This was the dictionary definition of a malicious prosecution.

After Jackson was acquitted on the basis that the prosecution had no evidence and no compelling witnesses, that should have been the end of the matter. But a combination of manipulative propaganda released by the prosecution and shoddy reporting at the hands of the media meant that Jackson wasn't able to walk out of the Santa Maria courthouse with no stain on his character. He was denied this fundamental right. The continued censorship of Michael Jackson's name on the Gardner Street Auditorium is a continuation of this injustice.

Throughout this campaign, staff at Gardner Street School will have heard much about Jackson's charity work and his humanitarian efforts - but in a way, that is all irrelevant. It reads almost as a list of redeeming qualities, but this issue does not call for redeeming qualities. This issue is very simple. Michael Jackson was a US citizen, entitled to the same rights as any and every other US citizen. He was never proven guilty, ergo he was innocent. To continue covering Jackson's name on the Gardner Street Auditorium even after his acquittal is to strongly imply that he was a guilty man. This is unfair, unconstitutional and un-American.

Gardner Street School should decide to once again display Michael Jackson's name on its auditorium not on the basis of a petition or a list of humanitarian achievements - but simply because it is the right thing to do. The continued censorship of Jackson's name on the auditorium is a blow against everything that America is supposed to stand for, and a gesture of support for malicious prosecution, abuse of power and the erosion of civil liberties.

In brief, to uncover Jackson's name would be a gesture of support for everything the American justice system stands for. To continue censoring Jackson's name would be a gesture of support for everything which is wrong with the American justice system.
It is up to the staff of Gardner Street School to decide which of these values they wish to instil in their students.

Charles Thomson
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Thank God for people like Charles Thomson!!!


I just LOVE this video clip of Michael signing the chalkboard of his former classroom at Gardner St. Elementary.

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The following sentence ...

"To continue covering Jackson's name on the Gardner Street Auditorium even after his acquittal is to strongly imply that he was a guilty man.
This is unfair, unconstitutional and un-American. "

... is what made me speak out too about the continued INJUSTICE against Michael ... & I was told I was wrong & that the school had better things to worry about!!
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To all those who continued to speak out & fight for justice for Michael ... & eventually got his name rightfully uncovered ... I salute you!!

This is for you Sweet Angel ... because we love you more !!​
 
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