- NYMag – The Parkland Student Survivors Have Taken Over Media – “In the days leading up to this weekend’s March for Our Lives, the student survivors of the horrific school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, are everywhere. You can find them on magazine covers and major TV news and morning shows; you can read their op-eds and the newspapers they’ve guest-edited. These teens are leading a revolution, opposing gun violence and advocating for stricter gun-control laws with their #NeverAgain movement, and organizing this weekend’s nationwide protest. It’s only fitting that they’ve also taken over the media in the process…”
- Why They March: Four Best Friends From Parkland Explain Why The March Matters to Them – YouTube
- WaPo – Hundreds of thousands rally – March for Our Lives – in DC – with more than one million joining marches in cities around the country and the world
- The Guardian UK reports on the marches, the speeches, and the work ahead
- Also – Scarred by school shootings – More than 187,000 students have been exposed to gun violence at school since Columbine, The Washington Post found. Many are never the same “….Every day, threats send classrooms into lockdowns that can frighten students, even when they turn out to be false alarms. Thousands of schools conduct active-shooter drills in which kids as young as 4 hide in darkened closets and bathrooms from imaginary murderers. “It’s no longer the default that going to school is going to make you feel safe,” said Bruce D. Perry, a psychiatrist and one of the country’s leading experts on childhood trauma…”
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