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| 2018 March For Our Lives | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Mar 24 2018, 02:47 AM (92 Views) | |
| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 02:47 AM Post #1 |
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The Guardian: March for our Lives protests planned for 800 places across the world![]()
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 02:52 AM Post #2 |
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Links of Interest.... The Guardian: March For OUr Lives The Guardian: Parkland Students Edit Guardian U.S. Wikipedia: March For Our Lives |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:10 AM Post #3 |
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![]() ....a little after one month following the Parkland school shooting, students across the U.S. are marching on Washington D.C. and hundreds of other locations in a challenge to legislators over the issues of gun and school safety; we now join in the coverage.... (The Guardian) March for Our Lives: a rally for gun control Today in Washington DC and more than 830 places worldwide, people of all ages will come together to demand solutions to gun violence in America. Students who survived the school shooting last month in Parkland, Florida, sparked the event after 17 of their teachers and classmates were killed last month by a former student armed with an AR-15 rifle he had legally purchased. Parkland survivors will be at the vanguard of the demonstration in Washington, where more than 500,000 people are expected to protest, starting at noon. This week over a dozen journalism students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school, where the massacre took place, took over the Guardian US website, commissioning and writing pieces about the gun debate. They will be reporting live for us from Washington today. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:11 AM Post #4 |
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(The Guardian) The Guardian has been collaborating with the staff of the Eagle Eye, the school newspaper of Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, where a massacre last month led to today’s marches. On Friday, student editors took control of the Guardian’s website and published a series of articles, including their manifesto of demands, with a call to ban the sale of high velocity semi-automatic weapons, expand background checks, and raise the minimum purchase age of rifles to 21 high on the list. Members of the Eagle Eye’s editorial staff have travelled to Washington and will cover the march as special correspondents for the Guardian. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:16 AM Post #5 |
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![]() --Live scenes from the #MarchForOurLivesDC - Hundreds arrive hours ahead the official start time at noon (Eagle Eye MSD - 24 March 2018) ![]() --armed with pens, cameras, and ideas #MarchForOurLives (Nikihta Nookala, MSD '18 - 24 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:25 AM Post #6 |
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(The Guardian) It might seem strange for March For Our Lives protests to take place abroad, particularly in countries with much stricter gun control laws, but there are protests planned in at least 37 other countries. Those protests were organized by Americans based in those countries or by locals with connections to the US. Three Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school students attended the demonstration in Tel Aviv, where they were on spring break, according to the Times of Israel. One of the students, Eden Hebron, told the rally about seeing her close friend killed when her English classroom was attacked. “I am still in disbelief but I will not allow anyone else to see the things I saw, to prepare for your final seconds of life like I did,” Hebron told the rally. -Read more: https://www.timesofisrael.com/parkland-survivors-speak-at-tel-avivs-march-for-our-lives-rally/ |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:28 AM Post #7 |
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![]() (The Guardian) If marchers are hoping to take their message of gun reform directly to Donald Trump, they will be disappointed. The president has headed down to his Florida bolthole, Mar-a-Lago, for the weekend. He has no public events on his schedule and seems to be at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach. Trump has flip-flopped on gun control, proposing arming teachers while backing away from earlier support for raising age limits after meeting with senior figures from the National Rifle Association, the powerful US pro-gun lobby group. On Friday, however, the US justice department proposed rule changes that would effectively ban bump stocks, devices that allow semi-automatic weapons to fire like a machinegun. Bump stocks were used by Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock to kill 58 people in the deadliest mass shooting in recent US history. Trump has also proposed extreme risk protection orders, which would provide law enforcement and family members with a legal way to petition a court to temporarily remove an unstable person’s guns, and block them from buying new ones. In backing away from the proposal to raise the legal age to buy certain guns, Trump said part of the reason was that there was “not much political support (to put it mildly)” for the policy. That may be true in Congress, but recent polls of US adults have found that more than two-thirds of respondents favor raising the legal age to buy guns. Comprehensive background checks, which Trump is not backing despite earlier promising to do so, are even more popular. A recent Monmouth University poll found that 83% of Americans support requiring comprehensive background checks for all gun purchasers, including private sales between two individuals. Even among NRA members, 69% support comprehensive background checks, the poll found. That indicates opposition is largely confined to the leadership of the NRA and the Republican party. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:30 AM Post #8 |
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(The Guardian) At protests across the country, volunteers have set up voter registration booths. Many of these efforts are backed by HeadCount, a non-partisan voter registration group that installs voter registration drives at music festivals and concerts in the US. The group’s executive director, Andy Bernstein, told Billboard it was the first time the group has partnered with a march. “Hearing [student activist] Cameron Kasky and the powerful speech from [student activist] Emma Gonzalez on CNN, where she ended with a call for people to register to vote, made it obvious that it was time for HeadCount to engage,” Bernstein said. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:32 AM Post #9 |
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![]() --Excited to be at the #MarchForOurLives voter registration training with @votolatino. I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again It’s the power of the youth that will drive change in our country. (Yash Mori, Democrats Governors Association - 24 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:34 AM Post #10 |
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![]() --Look for us in our yellow hats tomorrow at the March for Our Lives Milwaukee - we have important information to share with you about voter registration and upcoming elections! #BeAWisconsinVoter #MarchForOurLives #MarchForOurLivesMKE (LWV-Milwaukee County -- 23 March 2018) |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:36 AM Post #11 |
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![]() (The Guardian) The staff of the student newspaper of Marjory Stoneman Douglas in Parkland, Florida, where a massacre last month led to today’s marches, are covering the Washington march as special correspondents for the Guardian. Here are the Eagle Eye staff (above) planning for the march from their hotel room on Friday night... ![]() ...today, they huddled for a group hug before the march. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:37 AM Post #12 |
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(The Guardian) Parkland special correspondents Rebecca Schneid and Leni Steinhardt have been speaking to marchers in Washington. “My friends were murdered in school,” said Joey Mondelli, a senior in high school. “I have to be here for them. This can never happen.” "People underestimate our ability to organize as teenagers,” said 17-year-old Tyah Roberts. “We aren’t to be taken likely. We are a force to be reckoned with.” “What inspired me to make this poster was actually being angry at the world and then I realized that being angry at everyone isn’t going to change anything so I decided to go a different route,” said Taylor Allen, 20, from Parkland. “If you don’t think gun control will make a difference I’ll still give you a hug but hopefully we can come to an agreement.” |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:39 AM Post #13 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Our special correspondents from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas school newspaper have been speaking to Robert Runcie, school superintendent of their local area, Broward County. “I think the most important piece is how Stoneman Douglas students have driven and impacted a dawn of a national movement,” Runcie said. “I think this generation may prove to be the greatest generation.” Others have been explaining to the students why they are marching today. “It’s important for people to realize that we are all affected, our whole community was affected,” said 18-year-old Emily Malcom. “I’m marching for change, i’m marching for my whole community. Hopefully people will see that we won’t stop anytime soon.” "I think that legislatures should be aware that the next generation of voters is right in front of them so if they don’t want to promote change then we will vote for change,” said 15-year-old Jordan Khayyami, a student at MSD. “I am here to respect the 17 lives that were lost at my school on 14 February,” said Helena Denny. “I am here to fight in the name of the 100,000 victims, including students, parents, and teachers who die every year due to gun violence.” |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:40 AM Post #14 |
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![]() (The Guardian) Outside the brand new US embassy in London, hundreds of expats, study abroad students and allies stood in solidarity with today’s march. Holding placards painted with phrases such as “I’d rather my teachers had pencils,” the protestors chanted “Books not Bullets” and “Never again” while gathered on a grass embankment outside the embassy as police looked on. A minutes silence was held in honour of the victims of mass shootings. The solidarity rally was organised by three American students, Stephanie Thompson, Stephen Paduano and David Scollan, who are studying at the London School of Economics. In an interview for Mashable, Thompson said that her home state of Colorado has seen some of the most infamous mass shootings including the Aurora theatre shooting and the Columbine School shooting, adding that “most Americans have similar stories of their communities and lives being affected by this senseless violence”. “My frustration with inaction has just increased since being abroad,” said Thompson. “Since arriving in London six months ago there have been three mass shootings – Las Vegas, NV, Sutherland Springs, TX, and Parkland, FL.” This left her feeling “hopeless being far from home and not being able to change anything” but since Parkland things had shifted. Elsewhere in the UK, similar rallies are taking place in Edinburgh, Belfast, Newcastle, Dublin and Cork. |
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| Webster | Mar 24 2018, 11:41 AM Post #15 |
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(The Guardian) Meanwhile (Guardian correspondent) Richard Luscombe is in Parkland, Florida, at the scene of the shooting, where a march is also expected today. While classmates are rallying in Washington, thousands more Stoneman Douglas survivors, their families and supporters are among tens of thousands gathering in Parkland this morning to march to the scene of last month’s shooting. Officials have predicted that anywhere between 20,000 and 40,000 people will listen to the speeches from the amphitheatre at Pine Trails Park before walking the mile south to Stoneman Douglas high school. It’s an overwhelming number for a city with a population barely above 30,000, and the logistics of such an event have been a challenge. But to the students who have remained to march in honour of their 17 lost friends and teachers, there was never a question of being anywhere else. “Parkland is a family. And when our family is hurting, we all come together,” said Liam Kiernan, a 15-year-old MSD 10th grader. “We become stronger because we feel we’re all one person. “We all have that same desire of change because 17 lives were taken for no reason and we need to come together more than ever. This shows how much of a family we are.” Kiernan, 15, is walking with his father, and is hoping to link up with a number of his classmates. He says the mood inside the school since they returned to classes two weeks after the massacre has been sombre, but that students and teachers have been determined in the lead up to today. “Everybody has been been kind of solemn but everyone’s come together at the hardest of times, really showed strength and love,” he said. “It’s one of the hardest times of all of our lives, but we’re going to come together. Some of my teachers have gotten tattoos, they’ve been so amazing. You need all the help you can get.” The message from today, Kiernan says, is that the Parkland students will be heard. “What we want to tell everyone is we’re still here, we’re still resilient after everything that happened. Our message is we don’t want this to ever happen again. The first time should have been the last. We want to show the whole world that hey, we’re here, and this needs to stop. “At Columbine, they didn’t have the technology to get their voices heard. At Sandy Hook the victims were too young. In Parkland the kids have social media, instagram, snapchat, these new sources that they can come to and just speak and tell of what they’re feeling from their hearts. That has connected with a lot of the world, and everyone’s started listening because they can connect with these students that are hurting.” |
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