Regional Department of Education sent circulars to al schools, warning about social danger of this youth stream. The character of these circulars is exceptionally recommending. In the paper is confirmed: every Emo’s dream is to dye in the bath from blood loss after cutting of own vein on wrists. Because of that some of them have bands, hiding got wounds.” Typical appearance of Emo is also described: pink-black dress, bluish-black hair, black nails, pirsing.

A possible base for such circulars can be a letter of director of Federal Security Department in Novgorod area Oleg Hramov to Area Governor Valery Shanceff: the experts of Federal Security Department warn about teenagers’ suicide cases in other regions.
This circular of Department of Education didn’t any stir in Novgorod schools. Many school directors’ opinions are the same: there are representatives of this stream in every school, and everything what the teachers can do is having educational conversations with teenagers.

“We discussed this letter on teachers’ conference – the Director of Novgorod school N30 Lora Antonova said in the interview for “Independent Newspaper” – Now we have not any Emo admirer. Our pupils do not become Emo; Emos are only those teenagers, who come to our school from the others. One such girl learned last year. What do we do? We try to talk to them and are warring because they can sag other pupils.”

The director of the school N91 Igor Bogdanov also appreciates skeptic the effect of such prophylactic measures:” There are two or three of this stream representatives. We talk to them of course but they don’t react. The youth doesn’t react to grown ups’ talking – although we are Emos, fascists, scouts, pioneers. So to say, you are grown ups, you need to talk, so you may talk.”

Here are some more opinions from forums:

Alex, Sent Petersburg:”We had earlier something like that already… they called Hippy…or otherwise… (Punks, Rockers etc)
In my opinion Emos choose wrong name – it would be better to call pioneers or bears – so they’d have nothing for it. The suicide take place not only among Emos, it was also in pioneers’ époque. It is not a question of a belonging to some group, but of the concrete men’s mentality.”

Iren, Moscow: “I have Emo familiars. All of them are very alive, although they are already five years in stream. I think suicide theme is much exaggerated.”

Singel: “We have not to fight , but to watch by our own children. All my life I was a Metallist (and so I am now) and no one felt bad because of it, I was well up brought. I have also Emo familiars; they live quite and disturb nobody (some of them are already 25-26 years old). People choose a style and follow it, and I see nothing wrong in it till the style doesn’t harm to anyone.”

Alex, Sent Petersburg:” Now Federal Security Department as earlier starts to watch by youth subcultures (in face of Department of Education) so they have nothing to do, they called all enemies as friends? So is it? Long hair is to cut. Short hair is to grow, blonde is to become brunette, brunette to blonde, and what is red to do?

AmaZonka:” It seems to me when one likes something, but it’s to forbid, so this hobby will be demonstrated, this is what we run up at least. If Emos will be removed at schools they get somewhere to basements or garrets, so it will only worth.”

Pavel, Krasnodar: “I’m only for parents to pay more attention to their children at the difficult age. So the situation would be much better.”

In his speech, the deputy director of FBI John Pistol, has gave the following frightening information: “According to our estimations, MS13 already consists of almost 10 000 members, but the gang continues the strengthened recruitment, staking on pupils of secondary and higher schools”. Having heard it, two of our friends who has sons of 12 and 14 years old, have been shaken. We knew that their children learn Spanish, constantly listen to “Punk” and “Gothic” “noise” on their iPod and once they even told one of the girl-friends, the 12 years old girl, about a scene in Washington where Emo arose 20 years ago, and now, again revives, after oblivion.
Emo is a musical genre which units punk, gothic style and emotional hardcore. Emos are accused almost of everything – increasing of a children’s suicide, carrying black clothes, terrible black hair, shabby T-shirts with skulls, depression propagation and wrecking in music, thus stupid doctors even try to treat them, prescribing energizers. Emos are often exposed to sneers and intimidation by the coevals who don’t like their music. But Emos aren’t in need of friends, mobile phones and the Internet allow them to create world of their own and not to feel lonely themselves.

But there is another danger – Emo’s appearance attracts unnecessary attention. Among “Latinos” who appreciate cult of “courage”, the attack of Emo became a condition of joining to gang members. This custom is famous in Mexico, Texas, California here in Washington. Members of gang MS13 take initiation trough torment and outrage of captive Emo-boys and girls in the most awful way, thus the gang also consists of girls from 12 to 20 years old. Suddenly we have understood why suicides took the third place among death reasons of pupils in colleges. Let’s ask ourselves, what do we really know about our children’s life?

The teenage period is the most difficult turning point of our life. The child’s place and role in the world suddenly changes. It becomes difficult to come to understanding with their parents who do not understand them, do not know meaning of many words and expressions which are usual in the teenage society. Children one by one run into their problems.

Often, an arisen vital problem by teenager is so painful, that becoming Emo is the only way out for some of them. Sometimes the child gets thoughts about suicide. The part of suicide attempts occurs spontaneously and careful parents must in time notice guarding changes in behavior of the son or the daughter. Depression, deep sorrow, giving out of personal things is some of them. But, unfortunately, we happen are too busy to notice signs of an approaching trouble.

Someone advises to limit teenagers at home cruelly, the others, on the contrary, suggest to give them more “own space”. There is an opinion among adults that the unsuccessful teenage love affair doesn’t matter, forgetting, that at 15 it can become a main cause of the future tragedy.

And now we all six of us have understood, how stupid is to discuss world problems when we are not able to stop splash of children’s criminality and suicides even in our country. Is not it time for us to start to put in order our own “house”?

The first one took place at the beginning of March in the town Queretaro, where f group of aggressive tempered teenagers descended on some Emos directly on central square and beat them sharp. One week later the similar tragedy happened also in Mexico – the capital of Mexico. There a group of Emokids was cached and beat by a band of Punks and football fans at one of underground stations. The eye-witnesses also told about other incidents in Mexico and northern state Durango, connected with beating of Emos, but it hasn’t got an official confirmation.

Who are these sacrifices and why does everybody hate them? The reasons are the same, because Emos in Mexico are alike Emos in USA, Russia and other countries. A special dress, haircut, make up, depressive mood, suicide inclination (obviously exaggerated).

Schwartz thinks hatred of these subculture representatives in Mexico is reasoned by the following: Punks and Gots are sure that Emos with their being threaten existence of their subculture, and real homophobes are certain in Emokids’ untraditional sexual orientation, they are even followed for it: “I hate Emos!!! They aren’t man; they are stupid, they cry in any reason… My school is poisoned by them; I want to kill them all!”

It’s to mention Mexican Emos don’t suffer all misfortunes, hiding and crying in the corners. In Mexico and Guadalajara they organized some protest actions, attracting publicity’s attention to their troubles, calling for tolerantness of other subculture representatives.

The counteracting sides make clear their relations with help of straps beating each other. Because the straps are designed with rivets such blows can be dangerous. Beside the police protesting and aggressive crowd is also calmed down by monk-crishnaits, who are singing songs just in the center of the main square of Queretaro.

Yesterday she wrote in her E-mail that preceding concert Tilt Festival was to stop because of abusive shouts of drunken Emos. She urged her friends to support executors next time and if something happens «to press Emos so that they understand who is who and clear up. Emo (reduction from “emotional”), is a youth subculture, associating in the standard consciousness as melancholic and a dissatisfied kind of young men in black clothes. Emo is also sometimes defined, as symbiosis of “punks” and “gots”.

Mrs. Kirchbaum said that published words were taken from her letter and they don’t bind to anything, they were only for her friends. She insisted: she didn’t use any obscene words in her letter. As she said, she wanted to invite more positive mooded people, who could place grown impudent teenagers.

“Drunken hooligans were surely under 18, when it’s allowed to drink spirits, they were in aggressive mood.” She told. “We had to call the police; otherwise we didn’t felt ourselves in safety. In the future we have to choose another kind of influence for doing without any help of the police.

Mrs. Kirchbaum said she was sorry that she wrote this ill-starred letter, she thought Emos who lives in Canberra don’t consider it as an appeal to physical violence. She admitted that she used street slang, when she appealed her friends to sort out Emos; moreover she was surprised when her private correspondence was given publicity.

Last evening street musicians took part at the Festival in Garema Place for audience, which consisted of family pairs and office managers, walking in Civic. Mrs. Kirchbaum also was there, watching happened action from the sculpture “Silver Pillow”. Later she said that festival atmosphere was much better than on Wednesday, when the arrived police arrested some people.

Representative from the Green Party Ebony Bennett informed the publicity about Mrs. Kirchbaum begging pardon for her unconsidered sayings and the Greens aren’t going to refuse her in support. “Mrs. Kirchbaum is a successful young lady and a perfect candidate, she can reckon on our help.”- She said. “She send the letter to her friends asking them to come colorful dressed and to meet musicians with loud greetings.”

1. This Emokid fails unless Molotov’s cocktail, not which is to drink, but which is to burn the Revolution Fire.

2. Somebody is beaten on this photo. Only it’s not clear by Punks or by Emos. Most probably is the first way, according to general mood of the publicity. Only Punks seem to be strange.

3. General look of the protest action.

4. It looks like aggression goes in direction to the policemen.

5. Don’t beat Emos! They do nothing wrong to anybody.

New wave of Emo-groups’ accusing took place in British means of mass information after recent suicide act of an Emo-girl of 13, who was a fan of MCR. Later some newspapers began to name Emo-culture as “cult of suicide”, without thinking off real reasons of this movement.

The protest action takes place on the 31st of May in London – hundreds fans of My Chemical Romance and people who are not indifferent to Emo-culture gather in the center of the city in London Hyde Park.