The signs. The crowds.
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“You could not see any end of the crowd, and you were pretty much stuck where you were until the end”, Fyffe said.
Naomi Wadler, 11, a student at George Mason Elementary School, who organized a school walkout at her school in Alexandria, Va., after the school shooting in Parkland, Fa., speaks during the “March for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control, Saturday, March 24, 2018, in Washington. Miami Heat guard Dwyane Wade and his wife, Gabrielle Union, donated $200,000 to help send kids to the march in Washington D.C. Oklahoma City Thunder forward Carmelo Anthony, who has become more socially active in his career, also helped pay to send more than 4,500 kids from Baltimore to the march in Washington, D.C.
“I think guns are dumb”. We are not supposed to as teachers, especially in high school, to ever touch our students. And most of all, we’re fed up because the solutions are so clear. Today we march, we fight, we roar.
Millions of people of all ages marched in the United States, and we saw a microcosmic example of the combined energy here on the Central Coast.
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Among the teen representatives who took center stage at the rally was Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s granddaughter Yolanda Renee King.
“It has had such a powerful impact on our community”, he said. But why was it different this time?
In his speech at the march, Cameron Kasky elaborated on those goals: “The people demand a law banning the sale of assault weapons”. Even as marchers shouted slogans and waved signs last Saturday, organizers were working the crowds, registering eligible voters, and encouraging those who will turn 18 before the mid-term congressional elections in the fall to get pre-registered.
As an aside, no one that I spoke to at the march was calling for confiscation, and not only because it’s a ridiculous proposition when you consider the practicalities. Their involvement has added urgency to the call for gun reform legislation.
Hundreds of thousands covered the streets of the nation’s capital Saturday to join the March For Our Lives. “I hope their voices will be heard”.
Secondly, these trained persons in the schools are going to be human. That’s a narrative, and a reality, that no politician should be able to ignore.
Demi Lovato also performed “Skyscraper” during the “March for Our Lives” rally in support of gun control in Washington D.C.
America is serious facing gun violence due to which celebrities and students have come together to start a march which is not ending anytime soon.
The Saturday march in Jackson provided a vignette of the new generation in MS and their hope for change. With crucial midterm elections coming this November, one could sense that this movement’s mission has shifted from rhetoric to action. Horrifying to every educated American. He said that these gun deaths are tied to the White House and American political leadership. Thoughts and prayers won’t cut it any more.
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Following a silence of 6 minutes and 20 seconds, to symbolise the amount of time it took gunman Nikolas Cruz to kill 17 people, Parkland survivor Emma Gonzalez said: ‘Since the time that I came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds.
