Justice Campaigners: Uncover Michael Jackson’s Name
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Michael’s name was covered as a result of his arrest in 2003. On acquittal his name was not uncovered. The Michael Jackson fans are campaigning to have his name uncovered.
Michael Jackson Auditorium Dedication (at his old school!)
ahmednat | 30 August 2006
Michael Jackson’s old School dedicates their Auditorium to him. His 6th grade teacher is the person who is shown doing this. Although I don’t know the exact year I know this is from during the ‘Bad’ era. At the end Michael and the children sing ‘We are the World’ .
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“Uncover Michael Jackson’s Name” (The Gardner St. School Issue Campaign)
maverickfromla | 15 April 2010
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Michael Jackson paid the music teacher’s salary at Gardner St. School, but they covered up his name on the school auditorium which they originally dedicated to him. He got acquitted, yet his name remains covered. He passed away, it’s still covered. It’s time to change that.
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IT’S THE “MICHAEL JACKSON AUDITORIUM”, not the AUDITORIUM. UNCOVER HIS NAME. Join the Uncover Michael Jackson’s Name Campaign on Facebook: http://bit.ly/UncoverMJFB We’ve made a standard letter to make it easy for you to email the authorities. Click here: http://bit.ly/UncoverMJ Send the email to one of the following (please make necessary changes): LA Superintendent: Ramon Cortines – superintendent@lausd.net // Gardner School Principal: ken.urbina@lausd.net
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Michael Jackson outside the Gardner School
Michael Jackson fans demand King of Pop’s name be restored; ‘Unmasked’ author announces documentary
March 18th, 2010 5:57 pm ET
March 18 – Michael Jackson fans who always believed in the King of Pop’s innocence regarding the child molestation charges are demanding that Michael Jackson’s name be restored, literally, at the Gardner Street school in Los Angeles. Coincidentally, this campaign is gaining momentum just as it was announced today that a documentary on Michael Jackson’s last days is being made by Ian Halperin, author of Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson.
When the Jacksons first moved to Los Angeles, Michael attended sixth grade at Gardner Street Elementary School on Hawthorn Avenue. In 1989, Gardner honored Jackson by naming the school auditorium the “Michael Jackson Auditorium”. Michael attended the dedication ceremony:
Sadly, in 2003, the school covered up Michael Jackson’s name after Jackson was accused of child sexual abuse. The sign outside the entrance to the auditorium was covered up after complaints from angry parents, leaving only the word “Auditorium.” It is still covered up to this day. The principal of the school, Kenneth Urbina, said last year that redisplaying Jackson’s name would most likely have to be the result of an outpouring of concern.
In the last few months, a group of Michael Jackson fans began a campaign to get Jackson’s name restored to the front of the auditorium. A Facebook page has been set up called “Uncover Michael Jackson’s Name (The Gardner St. School Issue Campaign).” The campaign organizers are asking people to send e-mails to the LA Superintendent, Ramon C. Cortines, requesting that Michael Jackson’s name be uncovered on the sign of the Gardner Street School Auditorium in Los Angeles, California.
Meanwhile, today it was reported that author Ian Halperin has made a new documentary on Michael Jackson based on his controversial book, Unmasked: The Final Years of Michael Jackson. Halperin, who has penned several celebrity tell-alls, published “Unmasked” in 2009 after Jackson’s death. While Halperin does offer many scandalous claims about the singer, the bulk of the book analyzes Jackson’s child molestation allegations concluding that the singer was definitely innocent.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/01/michael-jackson-school-co_n_521846.html
Fans Want Michael Jackson’s Name Back On LA School
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles school officials told Michael Jackson to beat it seven years ago. Now, fans of the late pop star want him back. Supporters have started a Facebook petition to have Jackson’s name restored to the auditorium of Gardner Street Elementary School. They want fans to download and sign a letter to the school district superintendent.
Jackson donated money to the Hollywood school and attended the naming ceremony in 1989. But school officials, acting on parental requests, covered up his name in 2003 after Jackson was arrested for investigation of child molestation.
The Facebook campaigners note that Jackson was acquitted of the charges and they want the name restored.
Jackson was 50 when he died in June
Controversy swirls around Michael Jackson coverage (Sept. 16, 2009)
Late pop star’s name once adorned auditorium on Gardner’s Hollywood campus, but was shielded following molestation claims. A petition demands that it be restored.
By ARIN MIKAILIAN, Staff Writer
Story Published: Sep 16, 2009 at 7:29 PM PDT
Story Updated: Aug 24, 2010 at 8:57 PM PDT
The months following Michael Jackson’s death saw a countless number of extravagant tributes to the late pop star, but one honor remains censored.
For the past several years, two placards have covered up Jackson’s name, which was once displayed atop the entrance to the auditorium at Gardner Elementary School in Hollywood.
It was originally a gift presented by the school to the pop star on Oct. 11, 1989. Jackson briefly attended the school in 1970 before moving onto private tutoring.
But in 2003, shortly after Jackson faced a second round of child molestation allegations, some parents in the community demanded his name be covered up — a demand that was satisfied by the school’s principal at the time, as well as the Los Angeles Unified School District.
For six years, the sign on the building has read simply, “Auditorium.” On paper — on playbills for school plays, for example — it is referred to as Gardner Street Elementary Auditorium.
A series of community meetings with parents resulted in the censoring of Jackson’s name, but current Principal Kenneth Urbina said there hasn’t been a similar effort to reverse the decision.
Following Jackson’s death on June 25, Urbina contacted LAUSD officials in anticipation of an outcry to uncover the pop star’s name, but learned there were no plans to do so.
“I just wanted to be a little ahead of the game. I was probably going to get some phone calls about this,” he said. “They called me and told me there’s no plans to uncover the name.”
In an e-mail, LAUSD spokeswoman Ellen Morgan confirmed to The Wave that “there are no current plans to uncover the name.”
Urbina said redisplaying Jackson’s name would most likely have to be the result of an outpouring of concern on par with that of six years ago. Until then, he plans to maintain a stance in step with the previously expressed concerns of parents.
“Parents consider school as a safe haven for children, a protector of children,” Urbina said. “When allegations like this come up, especially not for the first time … and so as a principal I can understand they did not want to have the association with somebody accused of that kind of crime. We always err on the side of safety when it comes to something like that.”
Some parents, however, are reconsidering their opposition to the display of Jackson’s name.
The mother of a Gardner fifth grader, Sonia Litz was among the parents who originally demanded that Jackson’s name be covered. She is now singing a different tune.
Litz said she changed her mind mainly because attention has shifted away from Jackson’s legal troubles in the months since his death.
“Personally, I don’t think it matters, because he’s passed on and people are looking into his music,” she said. “Everywhere I go, I don’t hear the bad parts, I just hear the good parts. Once in a while a parent might say those other things, but not as much as I’m hearing the good things about him.”
Urbina, on the other hand, believes more attention to Jackson’s personal troubles came as a result of a resurgence of interest in the pop star. “There’s still a lot of strong feelings about this,” he said. “I’ve got a feeling that sentiments might just come out the same way again.”
Outside of school administrators and parents, others are also paying attention to the matter. An online petition has been started by the Germany-based www.mjjsupport.com, directly aimed at having Jackson’s name uncovered.
More than 800 people have signed the petition so far, and the site’s webmaster called Gardner Elementary School’s actions “a sign of disrespect and intolerance.”
Starline Tours, one of Hollywood’s most well-known bus tours, stops by Gardner Street Elementary dozens of times every day and tour guides always point out where Jackson’s name used to be.
Fred Sapir, one of the company’s owners, said tourists always ask his drivers why the name is boarded up.
“His name is very, very important. He’s done a lot of things and lots of people really care for him,” Sapir said. “[Jackson’s name] shouldn’t be covered. … whatever has happened with him happened in the past.”
