Teens Plea for SeaWorld to Free Captive Killer Whales David Kirby - TakePart
go to original December 15, 2013

Compelled by the new documentary to speak their minds, San Diego high schoolers want justice for SeaWorld's enslaved orcas.

The body blows just keep on coming for SeaWorld.

Two weeks after the anti-captivity documentary Blackfish premiered on CNN, elevating to the national discourse an issue that had typically been the purview of cetacean activists, students at Point Loma High School in San Diego produced a striking video response to the film, methodically laying out their indictment of keeping cetaceans in swimming pools for the delight of tourists. They have vowed not to return to the amusement park until whales and dolphins are retired from show business.

Titled "Dear SeaWorld," the video features articulate students taking turns speaking in front of an elegantly simple backdrop. It begins with the kids recounting their visits to SeaWorld San Diego, just three miles from their high school, and thanking the park for years of entertainment as they were growing up.

Then the narrative takes a big turn.

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