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I was 14 years old! When a young offender helped. My teachers put me in an accelerated winds up in the news, his name stays under program. Ididn't have time to wallow in self wraps. No photographs are printed or broad- pity. You have to learn how to overcome cast, by law, because that person is a minor obstacles and keep going. You may only inch That's because he may have made a mistake, forward, but it's important to keep moving but his life is just getting started. Why didn't ahead. The nextyear, Iwas ready to face no I get the same protection? Q: Did you consider cashing in? mal life again. I switched schools Q: Before debuting on YouTube in 2006, the A: Every single talk show in North America original video had millions of Internet hits. wanted me as a guest I still have Jay Leno's Have you considered asking for financial itation. A Japanese show offered me a lotcompensation? of money. But why were they inviting me?A:No. That's part ofletting it go. Do I think They wanted to turn me into a circus act. it's fair that people are making money off Having your 15 minutes offame, when you've my video? No, But you have to learn to turn done something truly worthwhile, is one the page. thing When you earn it for something humili Q: Several high-profile cases of gyberbullying ating, that's entirely different. People were have occurred in the last few years.Has society making fun of me, of my appearance. The learned from them? video is, what, two minutes long? A bloA: If what happened to me in 2003 were to people drew condlusions about me from that happen again today, I can't help but hope that video. It's not something that you wattobe things would be different. For instance, Ihope associated with. Definitely not when you're that school authorities would be there to hel me through it. My parents had to turn to the STUDENTS CLIMBED ONTO TABLETOPS TO INSULT ME. PEOPLE MADE FUN OF MY PHYSICAL private sector to findservices tha hould have offered.I thinkthat, today,schools feel more responsibility for what happens on the web. Bill 56, which deals withschool bull APPEARANCE AND MYWEIGHT: udnteetoak themseves, Wouldyou All grown up: Overcome your shame and get help Raza tels young victins of cyberbullying the Internet? Would you say it in public Schools should offer a class on bullying. Q What message do you have for young vic my exams, so I wouldn' fail.I did the exams in a high school affiliated with the psychiatric unit of a hospital because it was the only quiet place we could find. That is what started the rumours about me being sent to a psychiatric ward. Afterwards, we wanted to know: could we sue the media to force them to stop show ing the video? What about suing the school which had failed in its responsibility to protect 14or 15 and trying to build your identity. No case, I wasn't exactly Mr. Popularity. I didn me? We settled on the idea that, by suing the matter how hard I tried toignore people tell have 350 friends. During the chaos,I lost the few who had uploaded the video, we'd send ing me to commit suicide, Icouldn't helpbut few that I had. I had no one but my parents A:First ofall, you"ll survive. You'll get through it. And you're not alone. You are surrounderd by people who love you. You have to overcome yourshame and get help.Ifyou'relucky enough to have parents who are there for you, speak with them. If not, look for help at school, among your teachers or your friends. In my feel worthless, like my life wasn't worth liv and my lawyers. But their presence was cru- they helped me to survive the hurricane Q: Many people on the Internet didn't agree ing. I never tried to commit suicide, btci was a very dark period for me. Without them, I'd have been swept away. A: The medka's story was that we were greedy. Q: During one online movment, 140,00 Q: Looking back, would you do anything Some said publicly that the people beingsuedpeople signed a petition asking George Lucas, differenily were the real victims. They reversed our roles. the man behind Star Wars, to cast you inA:I'm at peace with all of the decisions that It was crazy! I can't reveal the figures of the upcoming episode of the series. People even were made. Would I change the past, if I settlement, but none of us got rich. It didn't colected donations for you even coverourexpenses.The point was tosend A: I got an iPod, some video games and a today I'm happy with who I am. Through it a message that the media would understand. few Star Wars collectibles. I know that the a, I met good people. I opened myself to Q: Which was what? A: That people should behave more respon tions, but they were only drops in the ocean the product of good and bad experiences. sibly. In one case, a Quebec television chan of contempt that I faced. could? No.I wouldn't change a thing, because people who sent me gifts had good inten new ideas. I learned a lot about myself. I'm Obviously, ifyou were to tell me that it would looped the video while guests cmented Q:When did your life feel nornmal again?happen again, I wouldn't greet the news with on it. They gave my last name, my first name, A: Ihad a private tutor for my fourth year of overwhelming joy and happiness. But I my hometown and the name of my school. high school. Being outside of school really wouldn't look for ways to avoid it.
I was 14 years old! When a young offender helped. My teachers put me in an accelerated winds up in the news, his name stays under program. Ididn't have time to wallow in self wraps. No photographs are printed or broad- pity. You have to learn how to overcome cast, by law, because that person is a minor obstacles and keep going. You may only inch That's because he may have made a mistake, forward, but it's important to keep moving but his life is just getting started. Why didn't ahead. The nextyear, Iwas ready to face no I get the same protection? Q: Did you consider cashing in? mal life again. I switched schools Q: Before debuting on YouTube in 2006, the A: Every single talk show in North America original video had millions of Internet hits. wanted me as a guest I still have Jay Leno's Have you considered asking for financial itation. A Japanese show offered me a lotcompensation? of money. But why were they inviting me?A:No. That's part ofletting it go. Do I think They wanted to turn me into a circus act. it's fair that people are making money off Having your 15 minutes offame, when you've my video? No, But you have to learn to turn done something truly worthwhile, is one the page. thing When you earn it for something humili Q: Several high-profile cases of gyberbullying ating, that's entirely different. People were have occurred in the last few years.Has society making fun of me, of my appearance. The learned from them? video is, what, two minutes long? A bloA: If what happened to me in 2003 were to people drew condlusions about me from that happen again today, I can't help but hope that video. It's not something that you wattobe things would be different. For instance, Ihope associated with. Definitely not when you're that school authorities would be there to hel me through it. My parents had to turn to the STUDENTS CLIMBED ONTO TABLETOPS TO INSULT ME. PEOPLE MADE FUN OF MY PHYSICAL private sector to findservices tha hould have offered.I thinkthat, today,schools feel more responsibility for what happens on the web. Bill 56, which deals withschool bull APPEARANCE AND MYWEIGHT: udnteetoak themseves, Wouldyou All grown up: Overcome your shame and get help Raza tels young victins of cyberbullying the Internet? Would you say it in public Schools should offer a class on bullying. Q What message do you have for young vic my exams, so I wouldn' fail.I did the exams in a high school affiliated with the psychiatric unit of a hospital because it was the only quiet place we could find. That is what started the rumours about me being sent to a psychiatric ward. Afterwards, we wanted to know: could we sue the media to force them to stop show ing the video? What about suing the school which had failed in its responsibility to protect 14or 15 and trying to build your identity. No case, I wasn't exactly Mr. Popularity. I didn me? We settled on the idea that, by suing the matter how hard I tried toignore people tell have 350 friends. During the chaos,I lost the few who had uploaded the video, we'd send ing me to commit suicide, Icouldn't helpbut few that I had. I had no one but my parents A:First ofall, you"ll survive. You'll get through it. And you're not alone. You are surrounderd by people who love you. You have to overcome yourshame and get help.Ifyou'relucky enough to have parents who are there for you, speak with them. If not, look for help at school, among your teachers or your friends. In my feel worthless, like my life wasn't worth liv and my lawyers. But their presence was cru- they helped me to survive the hurricane Q: Many people on the Internet didn't agree ing. I never tried to commit suicide, btci was a very dark period for me. Without them, I'd have been swept away. A: The medka's story was that we were greedy. Q: During one online movment, 140,00 Q: Looking back, would you do anything Some said publicly that the people beingsuedpeople signed a petition asking George Lucas, differenily were the real victims. They reversed our roles. the man behind Star Wars, to cast you inA:I'm at peace with all of the decisions that It was crazy! I can't reveal the figures of the upcoming episode of the series. People even were made. Would I change the past, if I settlement, but none of us got rich. It didn't colected donations for you even coverourexpenses.The point was tosend A: I got an iPod, some video games and a today I'm happy with who I am. Through it a message that the media would understand. few Star Wars collectibles. I know that the a, I met good people. I opened myself to Q: Which was what? A: That people should behave more respon tions, but they were only drops in the ocean the product of good and bad experiences. sibly. In one case, a Quebec television chan of contempt that I faced. could? No.I wouldn't change a thing, because people who sent me gifts had good inten new ideas. I learned a lot about myself. I'm Obviously, ifyou were to tell me that it would looped the video while guests cmented Q:When did your life feel nornmal again?happen again, I wouldn't greet the news with on it. They gave my last name, my first name, A: Ihad a private tutor for my fourth year of overwhelming joy and happiness. But I my hometown and the name of my school. high school. Being outside of school really wouldn't look for ways to avoid it.

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National QUEBEC Return of the 'Star Wars Kid' In an exclusive with L'actualité, Maclean's sister publication, Ghyslain Raza speaks for the first time with Jonathan Trudel about the infamous video TOHUNDREDS OF millions ofInternet users, Q: What do you remember about taping the the young man who sits before me in video? tury-old brick house in his hometownof A: I don't remember much about it. I made Trois-Rivières, Que., is the Star Wars Kid. Yes, the video in November 2002, when I was a that Star Wars Kid. At age 14,when Ghylain member of the school's television club. I'd Raza was a ninth-grader, attending private been working on a Star Wars parody with school at St.Joseph's Seminary, he videotaped other students for a school gala. One even- himselfedlumsily wielding a golf ball retriever, ing,while I was alone in the studio, I practised pretending that it was a light saber. A few the choreography.I used a golfball retriever classmates found his VHS cassette on a shelf, as a light saber. Most 14-year-old boys would atched the video, digitized it and distrib- do something similar in that situation, mayb uted it-without his knowledge or consentmore gracefully, but I was goofing around. I on the Internet file-sharing service Kazaa. left the tape on a shelf in the studio. I didn't The video wentviral. Overnight, the shy teen- think about hiding it. Who would take the ager's world collapsed. Bullying at school and trouble to watch it? on the web forced him to drop out ofschool.Q: When did you find out that it had been That happened 10 years ago. Since then, broadcast? rumours have circulated that Raza was cm A:One day, in the spring of 2003, Icame into mitted to a psychiatric hospital, died in an the studio and saw that someone had saved "IfI were you, I'd kill myself. I read that in accident and committed suicide. "Hundreds animage from my video as a computer desk French, in English and it was probably writ of erroneous reports about me are in the press top. I wondered how it got there. A friend ten in other languages, too. No one would and on the web-says the 25 yearold. The facts told me, "There's a v deo of you making the allow people to say that i a ii. Tel ng are that Raza graduated from law school at rounds. Didn't you know?" Everything went people to commit suicide is a crime. But on McGill University and plans to begin a mas downhill from there. I knew that I was in the Internet, there are no limits.I quickly ter's degree in law there this fall.Over the pasttrouble right away, because, well, it wasn't figured out that there was no point in read decade, he hasdedined hundreds of interview exactly a martial arts masterpiece. At that ing the stuff. It was poison. requests. A few years ago, he agreed to meet me point, the video had been watched mostly inQ:When did you tell your parents? for coffee. Then, a few months ago, he finally Quebec. But that didn't last. U.S. bloggers, A:Ididn't say anything at first. I was embar- agreed to an interview. Why? Raza says he's including Star Wars fans, started to circulate rassed! No kid wants to come home and say, been shaken by the recent spate of high-pro. People added special effects; soon, teDad, Mom, guess what's happening? The file cases of cyberbullying,some ofwhich have video had tens of millions of viewers. Then whole world is laughing at me." At a certain pushed their victims to commit suicide. He things spun completely out of control.point, I didn't have a choice. I told them hopes that speaking out about his experinceQ What were the repercussions at schooleverything. At the beginning, they couldn't will help young victims to weather the storm A: Everything rapidly degenerated. In the understand what was so special about the common room, students climbed onto table video. They soon learned why. Reporters from tops to insult me. Others mocked the video around the world started pestering me. My Q: Why did you stay silent for 10 years? A: Go back to May 2003, to the early weeks by exaggerating it. People made fun of my dad called the school, but the principal and after the video was posted on the web. It was physical appearance and my weight. I was teachers didn't understand.They were reluc on the verge of going viral, when the New labelled the "Star Wars Kid." They didn't tant to get involved. So my father called the York Times decided to run a story about me. mean it as a compliment. It soon became police. There was nothing that they could do. That was the turning point. That's when impossible for me to attend classes. media worldwide decided that I was an inter Q: Wereyou aware o what peoplewere wrir Q: Getaln.yer orantat? national story. Reporters were knocking at ing about you on the Internet? mydoor,calling so often that we had to unplug A: At first, yes. I wasn't deliberately trying situation. We wanted someone to handle the the telephone. I figured that if I started to to find out, but I was a bit curious. What Imedia requests, which were overwhelming. give interviews, I would only make things saw was mean. It was violent. People were There was also the question of my education. worse. My fame was forced on me; I never telling me to commit suicide. I remember Icouldn't go to school anymore. The lawyers They advised us to get a lawyer. A: At first, we just wanted help to manage the them saying: "You're a pox on humanity"; helped us to find a place where I could wri
National QUEBEC Return of the 'Star Wars Kid' In an exclusive with L'actualité, Maclean's sister publication, Ghyslain Raza speaks for the first time with Jonathan Trudel about the infamous video TOHUNDREDS OF millions ofInternet users, Q: What do you remember about taping the the young man who sits before me in video? tury-old brick house in his hometownof A: I don't remember much about it. I made Trois-Rivières, Que., is the Star Wars Kid. Yes, the video in November 2002, when I was a that Star Wars Kid. At age 14,when Ghylain member of the school's television club. I'd Raza was a ninth-grader, attending private been working on a Star Wars parody with school at St.Joseph's Seminary, he videotaped other students for a school gala. One even- himselfedlumsily wielding a golf ball retriever, ing,while I was alone in the studio, I practised pretending that it was a light saber. A few the choreography.I used a golfball retriever classmates found his VHS cassette on a shelf, as a light saber. Most 14-year-old boys would atched the video, digitized it and distrib- do something similar in that situation, mayb uted it-without his knowledge or consentmore gracefully, but I was goofing around. I on the Internet file-sharing service Kazaa. left the tape on a shelf in the studio. I didn't The video wentviral. Overnight, the shy teen- think about hiding it. Who would take the ager's world collapsed. Bullying at school and trouble to watch it? on the web forced him to drop out ofschool.Q: When did you find out that it had been That happened 10 years ago. Since then, broadcast? rumours have circulated that Raza was cm A:One day, in the spring of 2003, Icame into mitted to a psychiatric hospital, died in an the studio and saw that someone had saved "IfI were you, I'd kill myself. I read that in accident and committed suicide. "Hundreds animage from my video as a computer desk French, in English and it was probably writ of erroneous reports about me are in the press top. I wondered how it got there. A friend ten in other languages, too. No one would and on the web-says the 25 yearold. The facts told me, "There's a v deo of you making the allow people to say that i a ii. Tel ng are that Raza graduated from law school at rounds. Didn't you know?" Everything went people to commit suicide is a crime. But on McGill University and plans to begin a mas downhill from there. I knew that I was in the Internet, there are no limits.I quickly ter's degree in law there this fall.Over the pasttrouble right away, because, well, it wasn't figured out that there was no point in read decade, he hasdedined hundreds of interview exactly a martial arts masterpiece. At that ing the stuff. It was poison. requests. A few years ago, he agreed to meet me point, the video had been watched mostly inQ:When did you tell your parents? for coffee. Then, a few months ago, he finally Quebec. But that didn't last. U.S. bloggers, A:Ididn't say anything at first. I was embar- agreed to an interview. Why? Raza says he's including Star Wars fans, started to circulate rassed! No kid wants to come home and say, been shaken by the recent spate of high-pro. People added special effects; soon, teDad, Mom, guess what's happening? The file cases of cyberbullying,some ofwhich have video had tens of millions of viewers. Then whole world is laughing at me." At a certain pushed their victims to commit suicide. He things spun completely out of control.point, I didn't have a choice. I told them hopes that speaking out about his experinceQ What were the repercussions at schooleverything. At the beginning, they couldn't will help young victims to weather the storm A: Everything rapidly degenerated. In the understand what was so special about the common room, students climbed onto table video. They soon learned why. Reporters from tops to insult me. Others mocked the video around the world started pestering me. My Q: Why did you stay silent for 10 years? A: Go back to May 2003, to the early weeks by exaggerating it. People made fun of my dad called the school, but the principal and after the video was posted on the web. It was physical appearance and my weight. I was teachers didn't understand.They were reluc on the verge of going viral, when the New labelled the "Star Wars Kid." They didn't tant to get involved. So my father called the York Times decided to run a story about me. mean it as a compliment. It soon became police. There was nothing that they could do. That was the turning point. That's when impossible for me to attend classes. media worldwide decided that I was an inter Q: Wereyou aware o what peoplewere wrir Q: Getaln.yer orantat? national story. Reporters were knocking at ing about you on the Internet? mydoor,calling so often that we had to unplug A: At first, yes. I wasn't deliberately trying situation. We wanted someone to handle the the telephone. I figured that if I started to to find out, but I was a bit curious. What Imedia requests, which were overwhelming. give interviews, I would only make things saw was mean. It was violent. People were There was also the question of my education. worse. My fame was forced on me; I never telling me to commit suicide. I remember Icouldn't go to school anymore. The lawyers They advised us to get a lawyer. A: At first, we just wanted help to manage the them saying: "You're a pox on humanity"; helped us to find a place where I could wri

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TH NEXT AUSTERITY MAY BE ZNLO WRECKING THE RECOVERY P38 DOESN'T WORK P2 KINDERGARTEN NEW NACLEAN'S HEDICAL BREAATHROUGH HOW LONG WILDYOU LIVE? The bullied Star Wars Kid breaks his silence P8 PLUS A conversation wih Conrad Black on his new American epic A revolutionary new test could actuialy gine you the answer Scott Feschuk on Google Gass ess
TH NEXT AUSTERITY MAY BE ZNLO WRECKING THE RECOVERY P38 DOESN'T WORK P2 KINDERGARTEN NEW NACLEAN'S HEDICAL BREAATHROUGH HOW LONG WILDYOU LIVE? The bullied Star Wars Kid breaks his silence P8 PLUS A conversation wih Conrad Black on his new American epic A revolutionary new test could actuialy gine you the answer Scott Feschuk on Google Gass ess

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SANTE VAINCRE LES SON NOUVEAU ALLERGIESCOMBAT ULIAN ASSANGE VACANCES UN SUPER-SENTIER EN GASPESIE STAR WARS KD brise le silenceEXCLUSIEE SURVIVRE A LA CYBER INTIMIDATION A 15 ANS, LE OUEBECOIS GHYSLAIN RAZA EST DEVENU LA PREMIERE VICTIME DINTIMIDATION A L'ÉCHELLE PLANÉTAIRE QUAND UNE VIDEO DE LUI SESTR A SON INSU SUR LE WEB. DOX ANS PLUS TARD, L PARLE EN EXCLUSIVITE A NOTRE JOURNALUSTE.
SANTE VAINCRE LES SON NOUVEAU ALLERGIESCOMBAT ULIAN ASSANGE VACANCES UN SUPER-SENTIER EN GASPESIE STAR WARS KD brise le silenceEXCLUSIEE SURVIVRE A LA CYBER INTIMIDATION A 15 ANS, LE OUEBECOIS GHYSLAIN RAZA EST DEVENU LA PREMIERE VICTIME DINTIMIDATION A L'ÉCHELLE PLANÉTAIRE QUAND UNE VIDEO DE LUI SESTR A SON INSU SUR LE WEB. DOX ANS PLUS TARD, L PARLE EN EXCLUSIVITE A NOTRE JOURNALUSTE.

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