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March 14, 2018 Student Walkouts
Topic Started: Mar 14 2018, 01:19 PM (68 Views)
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..across the country students are walking out of classes in a show of protest in the wake of February's Parkland school shooting....

(The Guardian) After the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida last month, students refused to accept the usual rote statements by politicians, and reinvigorated a nationwide movement to reduce gun violence.

Today, a month after the shooting, students across the country will step out of class for 17 minutes – one minute for each victim of the Parkland shooting. It represents a memorial for the lives lost to gun violence and a demand for more action from lawmakers.

Guardian reporters will be sending dispatches to our live blog from protests across the country, including Parkland, Florida, where the massacre took place; the school in Atlanta formerly attended by Martin Luther King; and a school across the river from the White House.

Demonstrations will take place at 10am local time, starting on the east coast and ending in Hawaii, six hours later.

Those participating have several demands. Among them, they want to:

• Ban assault weapons
• Require universal background checks before gun sales
• Reduce militarization of law enforcement

And for any readers thinking of protesting, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) published a one-page guide to student’s protest rights. Universities have said they won’t penalize college applications belonging to students who protest.
-Read more: https://www.aclu.org/sites/default/files/field_document/know_your_rights_for_students_and_free_speech.pdf
-Read more: https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/american-universities-say-they-wont-punish-students-for-protesting-gun-violence/4280509.html
-Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/13/walkout-wednesday-students-gun-control-protest
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--The walkout at Naomi and Carter’s school will last 18 minutes, with an extra minute added for Courtlin Arrington, who was shot at a school in Alabama. When African-American women are killed “their names aren’t remember, so I thought it was important to add,” Naomi said. (Lois Beckett, The Guardian - 14 March 2018)
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(The Guardian) Teenage students who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, and demanded action to curb gun violence in the US, have been sending messages of support to today’s protestors on Twitter...

--Good Luck, Stay Safe, and Kick B*tt to all those walking out of school today ! (Emma Gonzales, 14 March 2018)

--To all the students facing repercussion for walking out, your are on the right side of history. You are standing up for what you believe in, you are standing up for those who can’t anymore. We have a voice, we are demanding to be heard. Do not let anyone frighten you out of this. (Jose Igleais, 14 March 2018)

--To the students around the world who are taking leadership positions for themselves and are demanding action without being thrust right into it— Thank you. Your leadership is inspiring. The world will follow us in the right direction. #MarchForOurLives #NeverAgain (Cameron Kasky, 14 March 2018)
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--Students begin #WalkoutWednesday at Stoneman Douglas High School (Richard Luscombe, The Guardian - 14 March 2018)
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--Students at Booker T Washington High School in Atlanta talking a knee as part of the #NationalWalkoutDay protests. (Jamiles Lartey, The Guardian - 14 March 2018)
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(The Guardian) Reporters and students across the eastern part of the US are sharing scenes from school walkouts. At most of these schools, a moment of silence is being held for 17 minutes, one minute for each of the victims of the Parkland shooting.
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(The Guardian) Lawmakers debate gun violence prevention
The first round of protests have wrapped up, with students making their way back to class. The next wave will begin in about 30 minutes, when it’s 10am CT. Meanwhile, Lauren Gambino reports on the latest actions taking place in the nation’s capital: One month after the school massacre in Parkland, the Senate joins the debate around gun violence raging across the country.

The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding a three-panel hearing on Wednesday morning to discuss what went wrong and what might have prevented the tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School.

Florida senators Marco Rubio, a Republican, and Bill Nelson, a Democrat, as well as Ryan Petty, whose daughter Alaina died in the shooting, and Katherine Posada, a teacher at the high school, will testify during today’s hearing. Additionally, federal officials will also take questions from the panel.

In the audience, several members of the antiwar activist group Code Pink wore the color and carried signs that read “NRA out of schools” and “Teachers + Guns = Chaos”.
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--At Senate hearing re guns and schools we are here with our messages (Code Pink, 14 March 2018)
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(The Guardian) Young people talk part in the walkout at a rally on Pennsylvania Avenue outside the White House in Washington. Photograph: Michael Reynolds/EPA
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(The Guardian) Students display a banner outside the American School in London after taking part in the walkout which was attended by approximately 300 others Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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(The Guardian) Students walk out of Westglades Middle School in Parkland, Florida Photograph: Joe Skipper/Reuters
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(The Guardian) Demonstrators, ranging from small children to university students to teachers and parents, have shown their support for the protests in different ways. Some have walked out of class, while others link arms in the school hallway. At Cooper City High School in Florida, empty desks were arranged to memorialize the Parkland victims.
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--14 desks and 3 podiums stand empty at Cooper City High School in remembrance of the 17 dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. (Frank Guzman, WSVN Miami - 14 March 2018)
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--Our amazing BHS students stand with linked arms for a 17 min period of solidarity out of respect for Stoneman Douglas High School! What a stupendous show of support and truly beautiful behavior - impressive! #BPatriotProud #ENOUGH #MSDStrong (Admin. Rodriguez, Bennington H.S/ Binghamton NY - 14 March 2018)
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(The Guardian) Parkland Walkout
--Richard Luscombe, who has been covering the school shooting in Florida and its aftermath, reports from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school: At 10am, about 3,000 students poured into the school’s football field, where exactly one month ago many were running for their lives.

Principal Ty Thompson commended his students for their strength over the last few weeks and praised them for their #Never Again campaign for gun reform. “We are going to make change. It’s already started,” he told them.

There was silence as the song Shine played. “There were lots of emotions, many people were crying, we were thinking of the 17 we lost,” said Florence Yared, a junior.

Banners of support from all over the world partly obscured the freshman building where most of the victims died, and according to Yared gave the survivors a lift as they walked out of their classes.

Yared said the mood of the students this morning was reflective. “It’s weird to think about because in our heads we have this idea what school is, and it’s not now that same thing for anyone,” she said.

But, she said, that feeling contributed to determination she and her classmates felt about walking out and calling for changes to gun laws nationally. Last week, the Florida governor, Rick Scott, signed into a law a bill that armed some teachers and provided extra money for school security and mental health, while raising the age to buy firearms in Florida to 21.

“It’s a start but we need more,” Yared said. “There some things I don’t like about the bill, but there are other things that are good, like raising the age, a three-day waiting period, that’s a step in the right direction.”
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