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<blockquote data-quote="Babagounj" data-source="post: 6129410" data-attributes="member: 12952">[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/29/brazil-fest-postponed-ice-fears/[/URL]The M.V. Mediation Center announced in a press release that the second Brazil Fest, also called Festo do Brazil in Portuguese, will be indefinitely postponed. It was originally scheduled to be held on Sunday, June 1, at the Ag Hall in West Tisbury. “Based on the trauma and uncertainty my students are suffering through, I believe what the government is doing constitutes psychological torture,” said Jonah Kaplan-Woolner, who teaches immigrant students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. “My students have missed significant chunks of school — during finals week — due to fear of their parents or themselves being plucked off the streets. Is that the goal? To intimidate, bully and traumatize teenagers whose only crime was being born in another country, or having parents who were? To deny them their constitutional right to a free quality education?”A tentative new date is on Oct. 12, which is Children’s Day in Brazil.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Babagounj, post: 6129410, member: 12952"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.mvtimes.com/2025/05/29/brazil-fest-postponed-ice-fears/[/URL] The M.V. Mediation Center announced in a press release that the second Brazil Fest, also called Festo do Brazil in Portuguese, will be indefinitely postponed. It was originally scheduled to be held on Sunday, June 1, at the Ag Hall in West Tisbury. “Based on the trauma and uncertainty my students are suffering through, I believe what the government is doing constitutes psychological torture,” said Jonah Kaplan-Woolner, who teaches immigrant students at Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School. “My students have missed significant chunks of school — during finals week — due to fear of their parents or themselves being plucked off the streets. Is that the goal? To intimidate, bully and traumatize teenagers whose only crime was being born in another country, or having parents who were? To deny them their constitutional right to a free quality education?” A tentative new date is on Oct. 12, which is Children’s Day in Brazil. [/QUOTE]

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