Take A Stand! Script.

Take A Stand!

An empowering performance written and performed by 

Pollard Middle School 8th graders 

based on oral histories from citizens of Chatham county, NC

Be a hero. Take a stand!

in association with EbzB Productions

www.ebzb.org

sponsored by Chatham County Arts Council

with funds from the North Carolina Arts Council

originally performed November10, 2011 

(c) ebzb productions

Take A Stand – Keynote Presentation.

Music: Stand By Me (Playing for Change)

1. Take A Stand!
2. It happens at school.
3. It happens at work.
4. It happens on the football field.
5. It happens in the military.
6. It happens on the playground
7. It happens at home.
8. It happens at church.
9. It happens everywhere.
10. Take A Stand!
11. It happens to girls.
12. It happens to boys.
13. It happens to adults.
14. It happens to children.
15. It happens to women.
16. It happens to men.
17. It happens to everyone.
18. Take A Stand!
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19. They want attention.
20. They want power.
21. They want control.
22. They want an audience.
23. They think it's cool.
24. People do hateful things for no other reason than it being a source of joy for them.
25. It's “fun” to be in the group.
26. They calm their own insecurities by picking on someone else.
27. They may be victims themselves.
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29. He was a Marine.
30. She had cerebral palsy.
31. He couldn't see.
32. She had a HUGE nose.
33. He was gay.
34. She wasn't part of the clique.
35. He was accused of cheating.
36. She didn't want to play in the orchestra.
37. He had AIDS.
38. She was hispanic.
39. He had to work on Christmas.
40. She had autism.
41. He was black.
42. She was the new kid.
43. He was small and a little different.
44. We are all different.
45. That's what makes us the same.
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47. Bully!
48. Mental anguish is as bad as physical pain.
49. It made me feel angry that they were treating her this way. She was much more.
50. Sometimes what others see is different from the truth.
51. They almost ended his military career.
52. They were jealous
53. They harassed her online.
54. I knew the truth. She was falsely accused.
55. Never make an eight year old mad!
56. They would say things behind his back.
57. They were pushing me into lockers.
58. They told me I sucked.
59. They excluded me.
60. They would put me down to make themselves feel good.
61. It was everywhere I turned. Online and in class.
62. I felt like I couldn't “Take A Stand!”

63. Be a hero.
64. Have courage.
65. We always stood up for each other.
66. We took up for each other.
67. If anybody confronted us about anything, we took each others side.
68. If my kids ever had trouble with a friend, I would help them out.
69. All it took was a little girl telling him to stop.
70. I said, “This is wrong.”
71. She probably doesn't even know I stood up for her.
72. Years later I saw him, and he thanked me.
73. It affected me in such a way that I felt like I needed to do something about it.
74. A co-worker stood up for me.
75. I was asked to speak at his funeral. People thanked me for standing up for him.
76. Stand up for yourself and for your friends, before it is too late.
77. Take A Stand!

78. Empower yourself.
79. Empower a friend.
80. Walk away from the bully.
81. Have more respect for each other.
82. Do not just stand there and do nothing. That makes you worse than the bully.
83. People can be biased. Get the facts.
84. There are kids that don't have a friend to stand up for them.
85. They need you.
86. Walk with the smaller kid.
87. Take A Stand!

88. Stand up for yourself.
89. Talk with confidence.
90. Ask them to stop.
91. Notify a friend or authority.
92. Direct eye contact.
93. Use your sense of humour.
94. Play it calm and cool.
95. Don't share information online or in an email.
96. Offer to talk to an authority on a victim's behalf.
97. Throw your shoulders back, stand up straight, look them in the eye.
98. Take A Stand.
    
    
99. Say, "Hey, knock it off, that's not cool."
100. Say, "C'mon, let's go." and get a couple of your friends to join you in taking a stand for the kid.
101. Tell your friends ahead of time: "I'm going to stick up for that kid. Will you do it with me?"
102. There are great people in this world. If you stand up for them, they'll stand up for you.
103. There is always someone there to help you.
104. They will need us and we will be there.
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106. The statistics are grim.
107. People who are bullied are depressed.
108. They suffer anxiety.
109. Some even consider suicide.
110. Some follow through.
111. But it gets better.
112. Until it does, we must be the heros.
113. We must speak for those who cannot speak for themselves.
114. We must stand up for those who cannot stand up for themselves.
115. We must Take A Stand.
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