The story of the protestor is the story of a hero. It’s no small wonder that Time named The Protestor it’s 2011 person of the year. Activism has, throughout history, been the impetus of change and progress towards equality. Bringing to light oppression and clamoring for the case of human rights, activism has been seen in everything from racial issues, gender issues, ecological issues, working conditions and spring break.

Yes. Spring break.

This is the story of the brave parents and students of Sartell, MN who are fighting to save spring break. The school board in this central MN town has decided to spread spring break out over the course of extended weedends in the late winter / early spring and these stalwart souls saw the grave injustice that is taking a week off from school and not eliminating it but spreading it around. These people realize the necessity for high school students to have spring break. They know how important it is for a young mind to do a beer bong at Senor Frog’s in Cancun. They know how character building it can be to ask Siri if morning after pills are over the counter in Orlando between dry heaves.

Much like Mahatma Ghandi, the good people of Sartell have taken civil disobedience as far as creating a facebook page and t shirts to raise awareness of their struggle.

"I Bet My Hunger Strike Will Get More Likes Than the British Army!"

From a declaration on one of their facebook pages (there’s more than one!) – “This is a group of outraged parents/students we are the majority in Sartell and we will not stand for the actions of our school board, we will oppose the decision of the school board, until they realize they have no right to take away the sacred [spring break],”

Keep fighting the good fight, people of Sartell. You know your cause is a noble one if the Beastie Boys wrote a song about it. Vox populi, vox dei.