Show The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday November 27 2003 — A17 Radical Cheerleaders cheer for change causes NEW YORK (AP) — They fight bombs with pompoms and kick high for conscious ness from all over North America when attended a convention in leaders meet to discuss the Ottawa Organizers expect Free Trade Area of the Ameri- about 1 (NX) cheerleaders to cas protest in Miami “It’s not just the same “ 1 Though all seem to share a 2 3 4 we don’t want your decidedly liberal bent each ' racist war” stuff that’s been ' cheerleading squad has a dif-around since the sixties" ferent approach Some sport Houston said coordinated uniforms (often in There are squads in red and black the unofficial Phoenix San Diego and anarchist team colors) and Ottawa and on several college shake pompoms fashioned ' Others are campuses with names like the from garbage-bag- s less organized Rocky Mountain Rebels and the Memphis Dirty Southern The New York squad numBelles Many have their own 'V bers about 25 ranging in age ' from Web sites featuring cheers Arielle to her Willner 42 and links to other activist mother Toby ' ' Most are groups Some like the New There’s even si man thp'ugh-'York cheerleaders' use Inter- net newsgroups and telephone'1 squads are generally female hot lines to organize practices The cheerleaders’ resich ' : arid ralliesii-io- ' extends beyond North Ameri- v ca: In 2000 O’Hara said !: It’s hard to' estimate the ""American activists started a number of radical cheerlead- ' 'i ing groups in the country cheerleading squad outside ' since nobody’s keeping track ' the International Monetary Fund meeting in Prague It Their largest gathering to date ' included women from all over was in 2001 when squads ' strjtions are planned for Nov 14-2- The Radical Cheerleaders a loose network of young most- ly female activists have put a new face on protest Using the same moves performed by a high school pep squad they've heckled for livable wages at an Alabama Taco Bell chanted anti-wrhymes on Boston Common and marched in the Saskatchewan v: : Pride Parade “We do for our fellow activists what cheerleaders do for sports players: we get peo- - : r ration struck alter ’ pie going” said Betsy Houston 24 of the New York City Radical Cheerleaders" ' two sisters from Miami — Aimee and Cara Jennings — who wanted women hi play a greater role at pretests Aimee Jennings who now lives in New York said inspi- an : ar - 1 twenty-somethin- Housten has cheered at the mayor's doorstep to demand ) I city wide recycling and at a ' burlesque club to raise money for a feminist bookstore Now her group is collecting anti- - ' globalization cheers for a trip to Miami where large demon- - gs : AP photo v Members of the New York squad-othe Radical Cheerleaders cheer as they march down Broadway during an Trade Organization rally Sept 13 in New York' 'Hie Radical Cheerleaders a loose network of young mostly female activists have put a new face on protest' f anti-Wor- ld Europe - ' “Now there are squads in Sweden London Warsaw and Ireland” said Emily O'Hara a founder of : the New York squad who is -- demonstra-- : tions at the 1406 Democratic National Convention in Chicago: “People were acting really goofy for the media but with no message” Jennings recalled “The people who had the bullhorn got to state the message and most them were boys"j ' Jennings sees cheerleaders 'as positive female role mod-- ! els ‘‘Cheerleaders are ath- leteS” she said “They’ re ' strong they work really V:- - 'v- Jim Lord executive director of the American Association known on the protest circuit of Cheerleading Coaches and ' ' Advisors as Mary Christmas :“If s in Memphis has no : becoming this new crazy thing : problem with the squads ' there" "Most people see cheer-' Those involved say radical leading as a very athletic and its with start cheerleading got empowering activity' he said V Ut 7:°0 zm OfSDO 3tro& Mom Bsnffrw ff&si f&ffuatftfflWQ v Walker Pedometer (Sportline Reg: 330) T SHIRTS FOR THE FIRST 2$: PEOPLE! 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