The school reacted very positively to the whole experience. My own personal meditation as a symbol to others. Informing others about discrimination and internalized pain rage. In Oregon, anything goes.
People are complacent sometimes where privacy is respected and people are permissive.
It is really stunning when a group can get a wide enough participation. It is important to use your voice, and so this is not the only step, but it an important and large-scale one. There needs to be a stronger connection to other affected communities on the west coast, or at least in California because other people are silenced by political changes like Prop. 187 and 209. Both legislative acts attacked affirmative action, and I think there are repercussions and connections between LGBT people being silenced and the loss of protected civil rights for all women, and people of color. The Day of Silence was rather reflective, although since I was coordinating this last one, it was also rather hectic.