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12-Year-Old Middle School Student Speaks Out Against War

StoryMarch 14, 2003
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    Adults, college students and high schools students aren’t the only ones who are speaking out against war.

    12-year-old middle school student Charlotte Aldebron gave a speech to over 3,000 people at a peace rally in Maine last fall.

    Aldebron read her speech for Pacifica Radio producers Nathan Thompson and Sonali Kolhatkar, who included it as part of an audio documentary, “Children’s Voices on War and Peace.”

    • Charlotte Aldebron, 12-year-old Middle School student at Cunningham Middle School in Presque Isle, Maine.

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